Moving beyond a vision of the Self as a persistent thing, toward a process philosophy, allows us to see change and growth with anticipation rather than fear.

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• In each step of a living process one must be able to feel, ahead of time, the feeling which will later exist in the finished object, without yet knowing its form in detail.claim0.807
• Awareness that living process will change our means of production entirely is only beginning to sink in.claim0.801
  Visionary statement about the transformative potential of adopting step-by-step process.
• The living process can be steered by the extent to which it has deep feeling in it.claim0.798
• Possibly the most basic and necessary feature of any living process is the fact that it goes gradually.claim0.794
  Core thesis of the chapter: gradual, step-by-step progression is the bedrock of life.
• Processes compatible with current professional norms spread more easily than deeply living transformative ones.claim0.793
  Inferred from the co-housing vs. Alexander's own housing process contrast.
• The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.793
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• Living processes are by nature morphogenetic; they are aimed at creating positive space and making form coherent.claim0.792
  Core definition of living process as intentionally form-creating, in contrast to fragmented modern processes.
• The core of a living process is that it comes from people, from their inner desires—and genuinely does so; that it meets their archetypal core, and thereby makes them feel at home.claim0.792
  Foundational assertion about user-centered origin of living structure.