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To get wholeness, you must try instead to strive for a perfection where the things which matter less are left more rough, and the things which matter more are given deep attention.

Core principle of wabi-to-sabi in building.

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How Living Process Generates The Process Of Construction
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Chapter 15 of Vol. 3, arguing that the living quality of buildings depends on a process of making that allows continuous feedback and adaptation.

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To get wholeness, you must strive for perfection where the things which matter less are left more rough, and the things which matter more are given deep attention.claim0.973
Roughness in non-essentials allows concentration on essentials.
To see wholeness as it is requires purity of mind, because thoughts, mental constructs, theories, ideas, and images all interfere with perception of wholeness and make it difficult to see.claim0.848
A cognitive‑perceptual explanation drawn from the earlier HUGGINS & ALEXANDER experiment.
A person's own feeling of wholeness is the very best criterion for the wholeness of a thing he is trying to make.claim0.838
It is only when you finally are personal, when you really put your humanness into the things you make, that you genuinely reach the wholeness.claim0.833
The structure of wholeness, the more you encounter it, makes you more and more able to feel the reality and existence of the Ground.claim0.820
When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.809
paying attention to the wholenessconcept0.804
The act of seeing and feeling the entire field of centers at a place, which Alexander equates with love of life.
My method requires that we focus on the inner reality of the observer's feeling of wholesomeness as well.claim0.804
Description of the new method's core.