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True beauty is the quality of being in touch with the I. A structure with true beauty is something in which we cannot avoid seeing God.

Definition linking true beauty to the visibility of the transcendent self or divine in a made thing.

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True Beauty
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The quality of being in touch with the I; beauty so deep that it makes God visible and which 20th-century design systematically avoided.

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In the 20th century there has been something almost like a taboo against seeing the I, or true beauty, or God.
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Historical diagnosis: modern architects and designers systematically avoided true beauty because it struck a nerve they could not tolerate.
To please yourself, you may have to make a thing in which God is visible.
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The troubling consequence of true self-pleasing: it produces beauty so deep it reveals the divine, which makes modern people uncomfortable.

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True simplicity — the thing which is truly whole — leaves the nothing undisturbed, quiet, like a lake.claim0.767
Poetic statement of the Ground-clearing nature of true simplicity.
What pleasing yourself truly IS, is the process in which we create living structure.claim0.763
The culminating identity claim: the act of true self-pleasing and the creation of living structure are one and the same process.
"The true landscape of architecture is the landscape of people nourished, satisfied, living a full life, being happy, a landscape that shows that happiness derived from the surroundings."quote0.761
A central statement of the chapter: the judgment of architecture rests on its actual performance in nourishing the human spirit.
A thing which is well-made, and beautiful … will always be isomorphic to nothingness — it will have the same structure as emptiness.claim0.751
The ultimate simplicity: living forms share the structure of the Void.
It is when this happens that we may sometimes feel ourselves to be in the presence of true life, true value.claim0.748
The experience of encountering a work where the I shines through is an encounter with genuine life.
The things which people truly and deeply like are precisely those things which have the mirror-of-the-self property to a very high degree.claim0.745
A strong identification of real liking with the mirror-of-the-self criterion.
The wholeness is a real structure, something geometrically concrete, not merely a general appreciation for unity.claim0.745
Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
True spirituality in a building is achieved when there is a balance of perfection and roughness — wabi-to-sabi.claim0.745
The essence requires allowing roughness for the sake of essential beauty.