Eternity

 ”Nothing ceases to exist- there is no example of this in nature.. There is an entire mass of things that cannot rationally be explained. There are newborn thoughts that have not yet found form. How foolish to deny the existence of the soul. After all, that a life has begun, as it can be demonstrated that the atoms of life or the spirt of life must continue to exist after the body’s death. But of what does exist, this characteristic of holding a body together, causing matter to change and develop, this spirt of life.

I felt it as a sensual delight that I should become one with- become this earth which is forever radiated by the sun in a constant ferment and which lives- lives and which will grow plants from my decaying body- trees and flowers- and the sun will warm them and I will exist in them- and nothing will perish- and that is eternity”
-Edvard Munch