I Am Life

It is life that is the reality and the mystery. Life is vastly different from mere chemic matter fluxing in high modes of notion. Life persists. Life is the thread of fire that persists through all the modes of matter. I know. I am life. I have lived ten thousand generations. I have lived millions of years. I have possessed many bodies.

Darrell Standing The Star Rover (1915) by Jack London

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Context: After his first journeys out of his body, Standing argues that life, not matter, is what is real.

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Source: Chapter XII

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