When expressed outwardly, it manifests as enthusiasm, whereas a merely aware existence manifests only as apathy, half-hearted reactions, or indifference. When experienced in the inner Self, life reveals itself as divine joy and bliss. Divine consciousness is the true life which enlightens human minds. That consciousness is only dimly manifested in people of little spiritual awareness. Nevertheless, God's presence is in them also, for it is everywhere.
Theologians err in their claim that only human beings have souls.
Everything even things that, to human perception, seem inanimate has a soul, at least in the inchoate sense of being a dim manifestation of divine consciousness. The divine presence is not, however, manifested equally in all things. Just as human beings are more vitally aware than are the rocks, so great saints, who are spiritually awake in cosmic consciousness, manifest awareness more dynamically than ordinary human beings, who are spiritually asleep, dreaming themselves to be limited by their individual egos. I am the silver light of the moon and the golden light of the sun. I am the manliness of men.