How may this apparent contradiction [Japanese love of asymmetry vs. importance of symmetry] be reconciled?

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• Even when a room contains major asymmetry, the composition of space will be such as to create a combination of locally symmetric centers.claim0.721
  How asymmetry can still be alive.
• The great beauty of Japan, in traditional times, came from an understanding that human life is most beautiful, when many things are a little small.quote0.719
  Alexander's aesthetic principle explaining the appeal of the intimate scale.
• Can we identify any general, operational rule which we can follow, which would tell us whether to make a particular robe symmetrical or asymmetrical, or a particular design symmetrical or asymmetrical?question0.715
  The crux problem of symmetry balance in design.
• Overall symmetry in a system, by itself, is not a strong source of life or wholeness; local symmetries create coherence while overall symmetry is often naive and even brutalclaim0.710
  Claim distinguishing the deadening effect of large-scale neoclassicist symmetry from the vitalizing effect of numerous overlapping local symmetries
• If we follow the unfolding process faithfully, we shall nearly always get this characteristic appearance (syncopated balance of symmetries and asymmetries).hypothesis0.710
  Prediction about the geometric outcome of a proper living process.
• asymmetryconcept0.710
  Deliberate off-balance that creates dynamic tension, as opposed to closed, symmetrical harmonies.
• Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.claim0.708
  Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
• In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.707
  Connection between process, attention, and love.