Life arises mutually as a result of the way centers prop each other up; no one of them comes first.

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• Life comes directly from the wholeness; the degree of life arises from the way centers in the wholeness cohere to form a unity.claim0.846
  The fundamental thesis of the book: life is an emergent property of the structure of centers.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.836
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.834
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
• The degree of life of each center is correlated with the degree to which that center is a picture of the self, and this holds for all people, not just individuals.claim0.832
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.831
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.
• Centers which have life increase our own life because we ourselves are centers too; we feel more wholesome in the presence of things which have wholesomeness in themclaim0.820
  Describes a resonance mechanism between living centers in the world and the center that is the human self
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.818
• Each living center has life to the extent it is linked to other centers; likewise, sequences generating living centers are interdependent.claim0.812
  Establishes the necessity of the network of sequences.