Animism
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 4:3.b: "Revisit the alternatives -- providence or atoms -- and the many indications that the universe..."
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 4:40: "Think always of the universe as one living creature, comprising one substance and one soul:..."
- Carl Jung, Synchronicity, Forerunners to the Idea of Synchronicity 3.927: "According to Theophrastus (371-288 BC) the suprasensuous and the sensuous are joined by a bond..."
- Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology, Monadology 56: "Now this interconnection, relationship, or this adaptation of all things to each particular one, and..."
- Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology, Monadology 61: "And compounds are in this respect analogous with [symbolisent avec] simple substances. For all is..."
Animism is the worldview that non-human entities, including animals, plants, and often even inanimate objects or phenomena, possess a spiritual essence.