"Before heaven and earth, there was something nebulous, silent, isolated, unchanging and alone, devoid, the Mother of All Things. I do not know its name. I call it Tao."

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• "There was the hills, and there was me. And we wasn't separate no more. We was one thing. And that one thing was holy."concept0.766
  Steinbeck's Casy from Grapes of Wrath; Alexander uses to exemplify non-technical, sacred relationship to land that morphogenesis should recover.
• "There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and that THIS — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture."quote0.752
  Closing statement of the Mid-Book Appendix identifying the I as the foundation of both matter and architecture.
• There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and this — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture.claim0.747
  The final, most radical claim of the chapter: the I is not a metaphor but the actual foundation of material reality.
• The quality without a name, when it appears in things, people, in a moment, in an event, is God.quote0.746
  The direct identification of the quality with God, central to the chapter.
• What we call 'life' is a general condition which exists, to some degree or other, in every part of space: brick, stone, grass, river, painting, building, daffodil, human being, forest, city.quote0.740
  Verbatim statement of the fundamental hypothesis, defining the scope of life.
• Casy's soliloquy: 'There was the hills, and there was me. And we wasn't separate no more. We was one thing. And that one thing was holy.'concept0.740
• "Newton didn't invent two terms—gravity (for terrestrial objects falling) and perhaps shmavity (for the moon)—because it would have lost out on the much more powerful unification."concept0.738
  Analogy supporting TAME as unifying framework, contrasting fragmented categorical thinking with powerful conceptual consolidation.
• The absence of life we recognize as a familiar problem of the past century comes about because the processes which create objects, artifacts, buildings, neighborhoods, agriculture, forests, towns, roads, bridges - nearly all fail to have the character of unfolding wholeness.claim0.737
  Diagnosis of modern lifelessness.