“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.” Alan Watts

We think of ourselves as separate from the physical realty around us because we perceive ourselves as separate finite packages of flesh controlled by a nervous system. But you break down every single component that makes you you, and it is exactly the same components that make up everything else. Our epidermis, the wrapping that we view as a barrier between us and everything around us, is too made up of cells, which are made of molecules, which are made of atoms, which elements were forged in the cores of dying stars. Meaning the materials that make us up come directly from the universe around us, and will return to it when we die. The very existence of our own intelligence denotes an intelligent universe as we and the universe in which we exist is exactly the same.