Christopher Alexander - “Which Has More Life?” Questions
This is extracted from Christopher Alexander's, The Nature of Order. I added the numbering.
- What is the next step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole?
- Which of the two seems to generate a greater feeling of life in me?
- Which of the two makes me more aware of my own life?
- Which of the two induces a greater harmony in me, in my body and in my mind?
- Which of the two makes me feel a greater wholesomeness in myself?
- Considering my self as a whole that embraces all my dimensions and many internal opposites, I then ask which of the two is more like my best self, or which of the two seems more like a picture of my eternal self?
- Which of the two makes me feel devotion, or inspires devotion in me?
- Which of the two makes me more aware of God, or makes me feel closer to God?
- When I try to observe the expanding and contracting of my humanity, which of the two causes a greater expansion of my humanity?
- Which of the two has more feeling in it or, more accurately, which of the two makes me experience a deeper feeling of unity in myself?