The art of making something living is sought again and again, avidly — it is like food.

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• Art is not a trivial or interesting practice but something utterly fundamental to our human existence and to the nature of things as they areclaim0.809
  Stakes a strong normative claim about the role of art in light of the person-stuff thesis
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.808
• Each person is nourished, made more whole, by making something which has life.claim0.796
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.792
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
• When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.791
• A living process always creates something unique at every point, respecting the uniqueness of every person and every place.claim0.791
• When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.787
• The great works of traditional art were most often created in a context where the maker was trying to become one with God or lose themselves in the ground.claim0.785
  A summary of the reported intentions of historical craftsmen.