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To see wholeness as it is requires purity of mind, because thoughts, mental constructs, theories, ideas, and images all interfere with perception of wholeness and make it difficult to see.

A cognitive‑perceptual explanation drawn from the earlier HUGGINS & ALEXANDER experiment.

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The success of mystical tradition in creating life has a practical explanation: it helped the artist dissolve his images, constructs, and concepts, and focus on reality as it is—the structure of wholeness—enabling structure‑preserving steps.
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A mechanistic bridge between religious devotion and the process of Book 2; belief in God operated as a cognitive tool to see wholeness.

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To get wholeness, you must try instead to strive for a perfection where the things which matter less are left more rough, and the things which matter more are given deep attention.quote0.848
Core principle of wabi-to-sabi in building.
To get wholeness, you must strive for perfection where the things which matter less are left more rough, and the things which matter more are given deep attention.claim0.843
Roughness in non-essentials allows concentration on essentials.
The structure of wholeness, the more you encounter it, makes you more and more able to feel the reality and existence of the Ground.claim0.831
A person's own feeling of wholeness is the very best criterion for the wholeness of a thing he is trying to make.claim0.830
All wholeness, not just color, may be considered ultimately as a kind of light, communicating with the transcendent realm where pure unity exists.claim0.825
The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.820
Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
"Wholeness and feeling are two sides of a single reality."quote0.816
Concise formulation of the chapter's central identity claim between objective structure and subjective experience
Most educated people do not see the wholeness of the world around them; words and learning distort perception.claim0.814
Generalisation from the Radcliffe experiment, linking education to loss of holistic perception.