To please yourself, you may have to make a thing in which God is visible.

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• In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.822
  The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.
• Is it even permissible, today, to please yourself?question0.818
  Question raised by the bridge example about whether contemporary society allows genuine self-pleasing.
• Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.claim0.818
  Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
• Making something that truly pleases requires hundreds of subtle judgments, each extracting what pleases more within the whole.claim0.807
  From the West Dean experience: the north wall alone required approximately 500 such judgments.
• If we can only learn how to please ourselves, that prescription by itself will always create living structure.hypothesis0.801
  The conditional claim that true self-pleasing is sufficient for generating living structure in all cases.
• The message that one must please oneself, perfectly, in order to reach God, was exactly the message of St. Francis.claim0.798
  Alexander's reinterpretation of St. Francis: pleasing God and pleasing oneself truly are the same thing.
• Pleasing Yourselfconcept0.796
  The core prescription of the chapter: making what truly pleases you at the deepest level, which Alexander argues is the key to creating all living structure and the path to the I.
• To make a thing which is one, I myself, the maker, must become one with the world.claim0.786
  The maker's self-transformation as a prerequisite for creating unity.