When you see yourself as separate, words seem to matter much more than being. After all, being is passive, something we take for granted, while words run our lives, fill our heads, bring people together, and drive them apart. Yet all these words couldn’t exist without the silent intelligence inside every cell. The power that holds your body together, coordinating an infinite number of biological actions per second among hundreds of billions of cells, is more primal than thinking and using words.
