"Cooking at its most primal is not consciously instructed labor but a flowing, attentive reverie."

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• The art of making something living is sought again and again, avidly — it is like food.claim0.766
• Thinking about creation in this way, brutal and too-decisive though it may seem, is the process by which the guts of a thing, its valuable force, is made.claim0.754
  Final claim: the brutal geometric process is what gives anything its essential force and value
• But even so, although it is the most naked and forceful artistic act, this too must be seen as an unfolding which uses nothing but the fundamental process.claim0.751
  Reconciles the brutal imposition with the unfolding paradigm — it is still the fundamental process, just at its most forceful
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.747
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.claim0.737
• We hypothesize that a similar 'brutal' and purely geometric process always occurs somewhere in other kinds of unfolding that generate living order — in poetry, dance, social structure, planning, and family relationships.hypothesis0.737
  Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
• Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.claim0.736
  Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
• 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.claim0.734
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.