Creation has taken a different path. It has progressed to ever more delicate, complex, and differentiated forms of life and is now striving to unite these extremely varied forms into a unified whole. So today we find manifold variety in the animate world. At the first glance we can clearly distinguish between the physical forms of plants, animals, and human beings. At all times and all places life consists in individuals serving one another and building creative, living relationships.
Life is community.
There is no other life. But then we go from one puzzle to another as we ponder how any consciousness of unity can prevail in such a complicated body. To grasp all this is impossible. All we know is that no matter how complex the processes within the various organs may be, the body has vital energy and capacity to function because they are linked by one pervading consciousness into one unified organism.