What is my real body?

"I can lose my hands, and still live.

I can lose my legs and still live.

I can lose my eyes and still live.

I can lose my hair, eyebrows, nose, arms and many other things and still live.

But if I lose the air I die.

If I lose the sun I die.

If I lose the earth I die.

If I lose the water I die.

If I lose the plants and animals I die.

All of these things are more a part of me, more essential to my every breath, than is my so-called body.

What is my real body?"

• Jack D. Forbes