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.

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• The core of this necessary state of mind is that you make each building in a way which is a gift to God.claim0.892
  The central practical prescription of the chapter.
• 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.claim0.841
  Description of the ongoing practical application of the gift-to-God question 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.claim0.785
  The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.
• How can each of them put something of themselves into the building? And how can they together put their deep feeling into the building, so that it comes to life as one whole?question0.776
  Question about organizing craftsmen in a large project to achieve collective living structure.
• In order to make buildings by unfolding, it is necessary to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.claim0.776
  Connection between process, perception, and love.
• "Taking architecture seriously leads us to the proper treatment of tiny details, to an understanding of the unfolding whole, and to an understanding – mystical in part – of the entity that underpins that wholeness. The path of architecture thus leads inexorably towards a renewed understanding of God."concept0.775
  Alexander's late-life conclusion articulating architecture as path to God; Steenson uses this to ground her disagreement with his empirical universalism.
• When we experience this one, either in the act of building, or in the act of enjoying what someone else has built, we somehow ourselves come more closely into relation with the underlying ground-stuff of the universe.claim0.773
  The experience of living structure brings us closer to the ground.
• The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.claim0.773
  The separation of design and construction prevents life.