Unity ties everything together—including joy, happiness and laughter, but also including loss, death, and betrayal.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• The unity is not merely a unity in the surface, in the appearance of things — it is a unity of the most fundamental kind, which goes to the raw reality and which has, when it occurs, a highly unexpected, sometimes rambling, sometimes ferocious, sometimes friendly, even sometimes absurdly crude or comfortable character.claim0.811
  True unity is not about conventional beauty but about a raw, messy, everyday reality that resonates deeply.
• Above all, this unity comes about because of some quality within. And it is here that the idea of the pervasive I, in every living center, begins to tell us something.claim0.801
  Beyond the properties, there is an inner essence (the I) that unifies the work.
• Understanding the connection between objective life in a thing and deep-seated happiness is capable of healing the rift between objective and subjective created since the 17th centuryclaim0.796
  Frames Alexander's project as a post-Cartesian philosophical revolution
• ECHOES and NOT-SEPARATENESS are two of the properties which most strongly tie things together, and create this inner unity in them.claim0.794
  Two specific properties from the 15 Properties framework are identified as primary drivers of felt unity.
• All wholeness, not just color, may be considered ultimately as a kind of light, communicating with the transcendent realm where pure unity exists.claim0.785
• If the unfolding of wholeness is correctly followed, then every part becomes unique.hypothesis0.778
  Prediction that adherence to the proper process guarantees uniqueness.
• "Wholeness and feeling are two sides of a single reality."quote0.777
  Concise formulation of the chapter's central identity claim between objective structure and subjective experience
• When they make things which have life and living centers in them, they experience satisfaction and healing; when they fail, they feel dejected, dull, even dead.claim0.777