The Nature of Order

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Not Separateness
What Not Separateness means, quite simply, is that we experience a living
whole as being at one with the world, and not separate from it—according to
its degree of wholeness.
This is, finally, perhaps the most important property of all. In my
experiments with shapes and buildings, I have discovered that the other
fourteen ways in which centers come to life, will make a center which is
compact, beautiful, determined, subtle—but, without this fifteenth property,
are still often somehow strangely separate, cut off from what lies around it,
lonely, awkward in its loneliness, too brittle, too sharp, perhaps too well
delineated—above all too egocentric, because it shouts “Look at me, look at
me, look how beautiful I am.”
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
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