The unity is not merely a unity in the surface, in the appearance of things — it is a unity of the most fundamental kind, which goes to the raw reality and which has, when it occurs, a highly unexpected, sometimes rambling, sometimes ferocious, sometimes friendly, even sometimes absurdly crude or comfortable character.

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• What, physically, is this unity which seems to speak to us of I?question0.821
  Opening question of the chapter, seeking the physical nature of the experienced unity.
• Above all, this unity comes about because of some quality within. And it is here that the idea of the pervasive I, in every living center, begins to tell us something.claim0.820
  Beyond the properties, there is an inner essence (the I) that unifies the work.
• Unity ties everything together—including joy, happiness and laughter, but also including loss, death, and betrayal.claim0.811
  Core assertion that true unity necessarily encompasses all of life's experiences, thus contains inherent sadness.
• The wholeness is a real structure, something geometrically concrete, not merely a general appreciation for unity.claim0.810
  Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.803
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
• Color is an essential feature of reality; the unity of things (like a forest) is colored, not just structural.claim0.803
• Wholeness is a real structure, an actual 'thing' in itself, not merely a way of focusing on the gestalt.claim0.799
  Asserts the ontological reality of wholeness as a physical/mathematical structure.
• The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.795
  Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.