Why do centers arise at all? Why do centers become more intense or more alive?

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• Centers become most intense when the centers they are made of help each other.claim0.835
  The condition for maximum life in a center.
• Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.828
  The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.824
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• I believe that these properties arise because they are the principal ways in which centers can be strengthened by other centers.quote0.822
  The central insight of the chapter: the fifteen properties all reduce to ways centers help each other
• Centers which have life increase our own life because we ourselves are centers too; we feel more wholesome in the presence of things which have wholesomeness in themclaim0.819
  Describes a resonance mechanism between living centers in the world and the center that is the human self
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.813
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.809
  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.
• Life arises mutually as a result of the way centers prop each other up; no one of them comes first.claim0.809
  The conjuring trick of life from dead matter.