The life of a center—even in a simple door—depends on the configuration of component centers and the wider system of centers around it.

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• The life of any one center depends on the life of other centers and is a function of the whole configuration.claim0.892
  A fundamental assertion about the relational nature of life.
• The life of any given center depends on the whole field of centers in which this center exists.claim0.871
  Key global property of the field of centers, making it non-local and unlike classical fields.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.830
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.828
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• The life of a center is a phenomenon in which the center, like a window, makes contact with the plenum of absolute unity.claim0.828
  The definition of life in a center as contact with the absolute unity via tunneling.
• The vital centers which govern the life of a room are nearly invisible pieces of space which exist as centers, yet have no clear boundaries.claim0.817
  Describes the subtlety of room centers.
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.812
  A key insight about position and context.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.803
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.