What we get from such a process is a system of centers which is elaborated by other centers, in which each center is connected upward, downward, and sideways to myriad other centers, in which the centers bolster and intensify one another. What we get, then, is a particular kind of structure in which all the centers—gradually—take on this encrusted, dense, structured character of being made of other centers.

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• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.825
  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.
• The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.825
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.816
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• You can only get the profound multiple structure of centers by unfolding each bit from the previous state, allowing the next layer of structure to appear from the previously established layers.claim0.810
  Explains why time and sequence are essential for generated complexity.
• The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.806
  The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
• When centers are being created, a high proportion of them are locally symmetrical; living process is, in part, a process of creating local symmetries.claim0.805
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.799
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.794
  Focus on anything else yields something else.