The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.

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• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.827
• When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.820
• In every case, the process is straightforward, simple, and above all free: it allows the reality of the situation, the human needs, human joys, to find expression.claim0.812
  A summary generalization from the examples about the nature of living processes.
• Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.claim0.806
  Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
• Life is wholeness; life springs from wholeness.claim0.806
  Equates the core quality with wholeness, setting up the book’s argument about order.
• The goodness of the results is visible in the evident life and in the profound fact that unfolding generates an 'architecture'.claim0.803
  The dual validation of living process: life and the emergence of architectural order.
• A living process is always natural, similar to the best kind of natural process, but it goes deeper and includes additional centers that naive natural process may miss.claim0.802
  Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
• The life which appears is an attribute of space itself.claim0.798
  The final distillation of the chapter's argument, making life a fundamental property of matter/space.