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When we reach the innocence of the child where we only please ourselves, that is the closest we can ever come to the egoless state in which we see the structure perfectly.

The equation of childlike making with the perfect perception required for structure-preserving transformation.

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If we reach the innocence of the child where we only please ourselves, then we will achieve the egoless state in which we see structure perfectly and make the perfect structure-preserving response.
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Conditional claim linking childlike self-pleasing to flawless perception and action.

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Structure-Preserving Transformations
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Chapter 2 of Volume 2 of The Nature of Order, introducing structure-preserving transformations as the mechanism by which living structure arises naturally through unfolding wholeness.
Childlike Innocence
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The state of pure, unselfconscious making where one pleases oneself absolutely, free from rules and concepts—the closest we can come to the egoless state.
Egoless State
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The state in which one sees the structure perfectly and makes the perfect structure-preserving response; paradoxically reached through the deeply personal act of pleasing oneself.

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How can we become egoless by indulging our personal pleasure?
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The apparent paradox: the 'it' can only be found by being egoless, yet the prescription is to please yourself.

Related by similarity (8)

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People do not know—emotionally—how to please themselves. In part, they are prevented by society. And in part, they are prevented by themselves, by their inner thought police.claim0.806
Diagnosis of why living structure is absent from the world: a failure of emotional knowledge enforced by social and internal constraints.
Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.claim0.789
Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
It is only when you finally are truly personal, when you really put your humanness into the things you make, that you genuinely reach the objective living structure.claim0.784
The paradox that the most personal act yields the most objective, impersonal result.
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.claim0.780
It is only when surrounded, all around, by such living structure that we begin to feel ourselves whole.quote0.775
Summation of the human effect of interlocking positive space and mass within a building.
If we can only learn how to please ourselves, that prescription by itself will always create living structure.hypothesis0.773
The conditional claim that true self-pleasing is sufficient for generating living structure in all cases.
The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.claim0.772
Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.
"only the true brings us into a free relationship with that which concerns us from out of its essence"concept0.770
Heidegger's prescription for free relationship to technology; foundational to authors' ethics of care-based technology engagement.