The great beauty of Japan, in traditional times, came from an understanding that human life is most beautiful, when many things are a little small.

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• The great works of traditional art were most often created in a context where the maker was trying to become one with God or lose themselves in the ground.claim0.786
  A summary of the reported intentions of historical craftsmen.
• The making of life, the making of beauty, has a profound interaction with our happiness, affecting well-being for days.claim0.780
• Why does the making of life, the making of beauty, have such a profound interaction with our life, with our own happiness?question0.772
• When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.771
• A flower is one of the most perfect fields of centers that occur in nature, which explains why flowers are universally experienced as beautifulclaim0.766
  Explains universal aesthetic response to flowers via field-of-centers theory
• Darwin's familiar 'Forms Most Beautiful' are just a tiny region of an astronomically large space of possible beings.claim0.763
  Assertion that natural species are a minuscule subset of possible agents.
• It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.762
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.760
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.