Places have the capacity to deny us permission to be ourselves; even in our own apartments, we may not be able to attain the blissful state without the right adapted geometry.

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• Only the adaptation of all kinds of subtle minutiae in the environment allows the blissful state to emerge in us.claim0.810
  Key mechanism by which geometry influences well-being.
• The more you use the properties, the more you find they correspond to your feeling, giving permission to liberate your feeling.claim0.796
• The quality of living centers requires the positive-ness and thus the being-ness of each part that lies between two parts.claim0.785
  Claim that the spaces between elements must themselves be living centers.
• Within the dead structure of the normal 20th–21st-century environment, the blissful state is almost unattainable.claim0.781
  Contrast claim: modern dead structure prevents the state of deep belonging.
• It is only when surrounded, all around, by such living structure that we begin to feel ourselves whole.quote0.770
  Summation of the human effect of interlocking positive space and mass within a building.
• If the volume is congruent with the wholeness which existed previously in the city or on the land, a profound feeling can often come from its congruence.hypothesis0.769
  The predicted outcome of a good site-design process.
• Numinous places give a direct relationship between self and place, connecting us to all things and the universe.claim0.767
  Description of the core spiritual experience in architecture.
• People do not know—emotionally—how to please themselves. In part, they are prevented by society. And in part, they are prevented by themselves, by their inner thought police.claim0.766
  Diagnosis of why living structure is absent from the world: a failure of emotional knowledge enforced by social and internal constraints.