The life of any one center depends on the life of other centers and is a function of the whole configuration.

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• 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.claim0.892
  Generalization from the door examples.
• The life of a center is a phenomenon in which the center, like a window, makes contact with the plenum of absolute unity.claim0.855
  The definition of life in a center as contact with the absolute unity via tunneling.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.853
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• Degree of life varies with relative configuration of surrounding centers, not absolute properties.claim0.841
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.840
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.835
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.
• A structure gets its life according to the density and intensity of centers which have been formed in it.claim0.832
  The fourth key idea, summarizing the basis of living structure.
• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.830
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.