"Stones are living beings. Since the entire universe is alive with
the life of God, stones are also alive, which means they are
capable of joy and even thought. You will say that since, unlike
plants, they haven’t been given an etheric body, much less an
astral or mental one, they are unable to think or experience
joy. It’s true, stones do not have an etheric body or an astral
or mental body, and if we’ve placed them at the foot of the
evolutionary ladder it’s because their spiritual being is so
distant from them there’s no communication between them. Stones
are the receptacle for a spiritual being, but as yet this
spiritual being has not entered into them sufficiently for them
to be enlivened.
So, what is it within the stone that thinks and rejoices? It is
the spirit above, not the stone itself. When you move or break
stones they rejoice, because they feel they are about to
participate in the construction of something new."

omraam mikhael aivanhov