The core of this necessary state of mind is that you make each building in a way which is a gift to God.

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• The reason why I must try and make the building as a gift to God is that this state of mind is the only one which reliably keeps me concentrated on what is.claim0.892
  The practical function of the religious attitude in making.
• I believe it is a necessary state of mind, without which it is not possible to reach the purity of structure needed to create a living thing.claim0.844
  The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.808
  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.
• At every step in the 10,000 steps during the making of a building, I am always asking which of the things that I can do next is the one which will be the best gift to God.claim0.806
  Description of the ongoing practical application of the gift-to-God question in making.
• IN A BUILDING WHICH HAS LIFE, WHATEVER IS MADE IS ALWAYS THE SIMPLEST THING CONSISTENT WITH ITS NECESSITIES OF FEELING AND WITH THE CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS ATTENTION TO FEELING WHILE IT EVOLVES INTO FORM. THIS, I THINK, IS THE CLOSEST I CAN COME TO DESCRIBING THE CORE OF ARCHITECTURE.quote0.800
  The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
• 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 homequote0.800
  Concise statement of the people-centered foundation of living process.
• The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.788
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.786
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.