We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain, We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, But we know that we rose and walked, that after a while We shall lie down again.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Human life is depicted as a brief journey between physical birth and death, with little memory of origins or ends.
- In plain terms
- We are born in pain, do not remember where we came from, and know we will eventually die.
- What can you take from it?
- Life is a short walk between birth and death that we mostly do not remember.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you think comes before birth?
- How does knowing life ends affect how you live?
Another view
It generalizes human experience without accounting for spiritual or different cultural views.
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