Some things show an awareness of what they are, and what they want to be; and some don’t.

All things that have life, have power. This means they can change things; and the things they can change are themselves and not themselves. All things that have life can be changed by themselves and not themselves.

Life is more life in proportion as the thing that has it knows what it is.

The independence of living things comes from the fact that the world had to become they; and when the world became they, the power or freedom of the world that much became theirs.