Yoda, in some wierd reference to eastern philosophy i suppose, states that;
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. [emphasis mine]
I’m having trouble understanding this disdain for the »crude« matter. I’m rather leaning toward Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s view;
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people in the street and say, have you heard this?
Indeed we are »luminous« beings — just by living, we produce and emit heat as infra-red light. But there’s no »force«, no »soul« trapped inside us. We are our »shells«.