There is a phrase in Indonesian culture for objects that people believe possess an individual essence or soul: rasa hidup. Rasa means "feeling of" and hidup means "life." The feeling of life. I think many people share this intuition about supposedly insentient objects. Children seem to naturally see the world with this orientation, and I can clearly remember knowing the essential truth of rasa hidup about many objects in my own childhood, a conviction I have never really abandoned.
— Peter Levitt, Fingerpainting on the Moon