The core of every living center is the self—this 'I'.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Every living center may be distinguished as living, to the degree that it is a picture of the eternal self.claim0.838
  Central proposition from Book 1 that grounds the beings model.
• 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.claim0.830
  Foundational assertion about user-centered origin of living structure.
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.818
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• The core of a living process—whether a building is large or small—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 homequote0.810
  Concise statement of the people-centered foundation of living process.
• Living structure—the field of centers—really is a mirror of the human heart.claim0.810
  The structural correspondence between the objective field of centers and the subjective human self.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.809
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.807
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.
• 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.claim0.806
  Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.