The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.

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• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.829
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
• 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.claim0.827
  Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.
• When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.822
• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.821
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
• When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.819
• The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.818
  Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.
• When something works, or is functional, its space is awakened to a very high degree. It becomes alive. The space itself becomes alive.claim0.818
  Core thesis of the chapter: function is an awakening of the spatial medium.
• When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.818