Just what is a center? What does it really mean for a center to come to life? What is the intrinsic meaning of the character of its 'life'?

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• What is it? What is this thing which happens as space comes to life? What is the life of a center, which then multiplies and blossoms to form the life of buildings, ornaments ... and perhaps even the life of living things?question0.853
  The fundamental unanswered question about the nature of life in space that the chapter addresses.
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.813
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.809
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.807
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
• What, then, is a center?question0.805
  Question posed after describing the plenum, answered by the window metaphor.
• The life of a center is a phenomenon in which the center, like a window, makes contact with the plenum of absolute unity.claim0.803
  The definition of life in a center as contact with the absolute unity via tunneling.
• What exactly is a center?question0.798
  The fundamental question about the nature of centers, addressed through recursive definition.
• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.792
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.