The Rooted Rock

I agree that all is animate in some way to some extent, life being dormant or implicit or explicit in all that is. Rumi said, "consciousness sleeps in minerals, dreams in plants, wakes up in animals, and becomes self-aware in humans," and I believe that is true of life. I think rock is a very subtle or primitive life, and people are advanced rock. I became aware of the aliveness in all when I became aware that all existence is one, and the one existence includes life. I don't believe life comes from no life. What helps me see and connect with the slow, deep life of the earth is my belief that life is fundamental and all the cosmos including earth is an expression of life. I don't believe life exists in beings, I believe that beings exist in and from life.

I have to agree with this. All things are life as even the atoms that make up the rocks or "inanimate" beings are moving with a life force. As far as if life exists in beings or beings exist in life, I need to ponder that more. Which came first? They just are.

Thank you for your response. I'm a believer that life came first, and beings are an expression of life. I believe the Life that came first is much different and greater than life as we know it, just as our vision is a small slice of all that is, and that Life always was.