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When I eat, eat. When I walk, walk. I am trying to find those aspects of sight, sound, smell, the sandwich eaten on the back of the truck, the sun's rays on the bedroom floor, which will illuminate existence.

Closing passage invoking Basho as the spiritual model for finding essential centers that illuminate eternal life

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Eternal Life in Centers
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The quality sought in pattern selection — that certain centers illuminate existence and bring people in touch with their eternal life, like Basho's poetry

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When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.772
Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.
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.claim0.769
Alexander equates the faintly glowing quality with an immanent God shining through matter.
When we find out the things we really like, we are also more in touch with all that is.claim0.765
Final point suggesting that deep liking connects us with universal reality.
The more it is alive, the more it seems faintly to shine.claim0.760
Alexander's introspective observation about the qualitative appearance of life in things.
"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?"quote0.757
The prompt Alexander uses in visionary interviews to draw out authentic, universal visions from individuals
When you are done, if you have reached what you aim for, you feel the impact of its 'presence.' This is how architecture comes about.claim0.756
Defines the experiential criterion — felt presence — as the endpoint and definition of successful architecture
The I—that blazing one—is something which I reach only to the extent that I experience, and make manifest, my feeling.claim0.751
Access to the deepest self is dependent on the maker expressing their own feeling, not intellectual concepts.
Almost every person experiences the making of wholeness, like food.claim0.751
Generalization from personal and student experience.