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To make a thing which is one, I myself, the maker, must become one with the world.

The maker's self-transformation as a prerequisite for creating unity.

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Not-Separateness
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The property that a living whole is at one with the world, not separate from it; the center melts into its surroundings, the boundary is fragmented or incomplete, and there is a profound connection rather than isolation—perhaps the most important property of all

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Everything you make must be a being.quote0.845
A core directive from Book 4, p. 95, quoted to define the essence of living process in large buildings.
Whatever you make must be a being.quote0.828
The compressed, capsule-form instruction summarizing the fundamental process; a motto for the chapter.
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.claim0.796
Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.791
The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.787
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.
A world constructed in the most personal and individual fashion, made by people following their true I, will be — in the most public, objective, universal sense — functional, adequate, and harmonious.claim0.786
Alexander's paradoxical conclusion that the most personally authentic making produces the most universally livable world.
To please yourself, you may have to make a thing in which God is visible.claim0.786
The troubling consequence of true self-pleasing: it produces beauty so deep it reveals the divine, which makes modern people uncomfortable.
Each person is nourished, made more whole, by making something which has life.claim0.784