Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.

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• Life comes directly from the wholeness; the degree of life arises from the way centers in the wholeness cohere to form a unity.claim0.883
  The fundamental thesis of the book: life is an emergent property of the structure of centers.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.876
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• Life is wholeness; life springs from wholeness.claim0.865
  Equates the core quality with wholeness, setting up the book’s argument about order.
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.862
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• The life of a center is a phenomenon in which the center, like a window, makes contact with the plenum of absolute unity.claim0.844
  The definition of life in a center as contact with the absolute unity via tunneling.
• 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 themclaim0.843
  Describes a resonance mechanism between living centers in the world and the center that is the human self
• The life of any given center depends on the whole field of centers in which this center exists.claim0.839
  Key global property of the field of centers, making it non-local and unlike classical fields.
• The wholeness of any portion of the world is the system of larger and smaller centers, their connection and overlap.claim0.836
  Definitional claim that clarifies how wholeness is constituted.