When we find out the things we really like, we are also more in touch with all that is.

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• The more accurate we are about what we really like, in the sense of liking from the heart, the more we find out that we agree with other people about what these things are.claim0.868
  Assertion of convergence among deep personal preferences.
• There is an empirical way in which we can help ourselves to find out what we really like from the heart. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find what we really like, and it is by no means automatic to be in touch with it. It takes effort, hard work, and personal enlightenment to understand it and to feel it.claim0.847
  Fifth point introducing the empirical test and the personal growth required.
• When we experience this one, either in the act of building, or in the act of enjoying what someone else has built, we somehow ourselves come more closely into relation with the underlying ground-stuff of the universe.claim0.811
  The experience of living structure brings us closer to the ground.
• What is truly liked may be different from what is apparently liked; this is a matter of judgment and knowledge, not opinion.claim0.803
  The epistemological distinction crucial to the argument.
• Making something that truly pleases requires hundreds of subtle judgments, each extracting what pleases more within the whole.claim0.793
  From the West Dean experience: the north wall alone required approximately 500 such judgments.
• When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.792
• It is only when you finally are personal, when you really put your humanness into the things you make, that you genuinely reach the wholeness.claim0.791
• It is when this happens that we may sometimes feel ourselves to be in the presence of true life, true value.claim0.791
  The experience of encountering a work where the I shines through is an encounter with genuine life.