This is a deep mystery, but the capacity for self-awareness is related to the gift of God-consciousness. When God breathed upon our ancestors, animate creatures formed from the dust of the earth, they became human, which is to say they possessed the capacity to contemplate their own existence, seek intimacy with their Creator, and bear the divine image within creation. The impulse to seek after God is intrinsic to human nature and is perhaps our most human instinct. Humans are the God-marked, God-obsessed being.
