At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.

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• To achieve living structure, one must prune and re-arrange until every single part, every part of every part, and every part between parts are all living centers.claim0.859
  Maxim for the demanding effort of genuinely center-based design.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.858
  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.
• When we follow the fundamental process, we try to make, at each step, a real living center.claim0.849
  Operational description of the fundamental process's intent.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.848
• Each building element in a living structure must itself be a powerful center - a living structure in itself.claim0.848
  Elements must have life individually to contribute to the whole.
• In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.846
  The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.
• The intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.claim0.838
  Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
• Each living center has life to the extent it is linked to other centers; likewise, sequences generating living centers are interdependent.claim0.837
  Establishes the necessity of the network of sequences.