"Close your eyes and tell me what you see. Imagine that it is wonderful in your own terms. You didn't know that it was there... What is it that you found?"

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• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.778
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• To please yourself, you may have to make a thing in which God is visible.claim0.777
  The troubling consequence of true self-pleasing: it produces beauty so deep it reveals the divine, which makes modern people uncomfortable.
• When we find out the things we really like, we are also more in touch with all that is.claim0.770
  Final point suggesting that deep liking connects us with universal reality.
• I am seeing God, the glowing of all things, shining out from that old brick wall, or from that bush, or from that face, or from the flowers in a vase.claim0.766
  Alexander equates the faintly glowing quality with an immanent God shining through matter.
• There is an empirical way in which we can help ourselves to find out what we really like from the heart. Nevertheless, it is not easy to find what we really like, and it is by no means automatic to be in touch with it. It takes effort, hard work, and personal enlightenment to understand it and to feel it.claim0.766
  Fifth point introducing the empirical test and the personal growth required.
• When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.766
  Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.
• A thing is beautiful to the extent that it reveals this one.claim0.766
  Definition of beauty as revelation of the I.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.765
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem