Why does the making of life, the making of beauty, have such a profound interaction with our life, with our own happiness?

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• When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.809
• The making of a living world cannot be separated from each person's search for the true self.claim0.793
  The enigmatic conclusion that the most personal, inward search yields the most public, functional harmony.
• We become happy in the presence of deep wholeness; a building with life creates a comforting and profound wholesomeness in those who enter itclaim0.784
  Grounds the practical importance of wholeness in buildings via its effect on human happiness
• Each person is nourished, made more whole, by making something which has life.claim0.783
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.774
• We also feel wholesome when we are making these things. As we make them, and after making them, we feel whole in ourselves, healed, and right with the world.claim0.774
  Second assertion linking creative activity with personal healing.
• The aesthetics of our own actions are already a natural part of the rich experience of our lives.concept0.772
  Opening claim establishing process aesthetics as pervasive human experience, motivating study of process arts.
• When you make a beautiful thing, you feel happy for days; when you make something ugly, you may be depressed for days.claim0.772