The I—that blazing one—is something which I reach only to the extent that I experience, and make manifest, my feeling.

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

• When this is achieved, or touched, to the extent that it is achieved, then, that is what I mean by reaching and touching the I, the blazing one.claim0.871
  The final definition: achieving sadness in a work is the act of touching the I.
• The I (the blazing one)concept0.836
  The inner source of all being, which shines out from every part of a unified work; reaching it is the ultimate aim of making.
• The I is at once the most personal, intimate thing and a single universal entity — it is personal-of-you and of-me but there is only one of it.claim0.825
  The three qualities of the I: personal, one, suffused with relatedness.
• There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.817
  Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
• The I or ground is a real thing, something which exists in the world, perhaps attached to matter, and forms a necessary substratum to all that exists.claim0.789
• The I, in some form, exists.claim0.780
  Minimal conclusion that at least one of the two versions of the I-hypothesis must be true.
• We see only one I, the same I, shining out from every part.quote0.780
  The closing line of the chapter, summarizing the thesis that true unity reveals a single self in every part of the work.
• Blazing Oneconcept0.777
  The pure unity beyond the veil, the blazing furnace of intense light, glimpsed when a living center opens a window.