Life comes directly from the wholeness; the degree of life arises from the way centers in the wholeness cohere to form a unity.

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• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.883
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.
• Life is wholeness; life springs from wholeness.claim0.853
  Equates the core quality with wholeness, setting up the book’s argument about order.
• Life arises mutually as a result of the way centers prop each other up; no one of them comes first.claim0.846
  The conjuring trick of life from dead matter.
• 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.claim0.840
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
• The relation between a person's own wholeness and the wholeness of things in their environment is a direct consequence of the nature of wholeness itself.claim0.839
• Degree of life varies with relative configuration of surrounding centers, not absolute properties.claim0.839
• The degree of life is not merely a distinction between beautiful and ugly things but is detectable in every corner of the world.claim0.833
  Broadens the scope of life from aesthetics to a fundamental property.
• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.823
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness