Life: 'Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Death transforms life into something that feeds an eternal and vast existence.
- In plain terms
- Death turns life into food for eternity.
- What can you take from it?
- Death serves a larger purpose in the cycle of existence.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What happens to life after death?
- How do you view the cycle of existence?
Another view
It uses a metaphor that reduces human life to mere biological fuel.
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