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There is an empirical way in which we can help ourselves to find out what we really like from the heart. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find what we really like, and it is by no means automatic to be in touch with it. It takes effort, hard work, and personal enlightenment to understand it and to feel it.

Fifth point introducing the empirical test and the personal growth required.

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mirror of the self test
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A method introduced in Book 1 where observers compare their feeling of self with the life in a candidate thing; Alexander claims it correlates with observed life in thousands of centers.

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The more accurate we are about what we really like, in the sense of liking from the heart, the more we find out that we agree with other people about what these things are.claim0.865
Assertion of convergence among deep personal preferences.
When we find out the things we really like, we are also more in touch with all that is.claim0.847
Final point suggesting that deep liking connects us with universal reality.
Somehow, the experience of real liking has to do with self. As we find out which things awaken real liking in ourselves, we find ourselves more in touch than before with our own selves.claim0.819
Linking real liking to self-discovery.
The reasons for the existence of this deep liking are mysterious, not obvious. To plumb them we shall have to examine the nature of things - even, ultimately, the nature of matter itself - very carefully. Nevertheless the reasons are empirical. We may determine, empirically, to what extent a thing has the ability to rouse this deep liking in us.claim0.810
Assertion of the empirical but mysterious basis of deep liking.
The things we like from the heart make us feel wholesome when we are near them.claim0.809
First numbered assertion about deep liking.
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.claim0.804
A summary generalization from the examples about the nature of living processes.
"[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.803
Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
It is only when you finally are personal, when you really put your humanness into the things you make, that you genuinely reach the wholeness.claim0.801