“I can accept that the sea and the wind will indeed survive me and that eternity has no opinion of me whatsoever. Why for that matter should I care about eternity? My life is short only if I relate it to the vast sweep of time... Everything significant that I experience, all the wonderful things that happen in my life — meeting a lover, a caress on my skin, help in distress, eyes reflecting moonlight, sailing on the open sea, the joy a child inspires, a shiver in the face of beauty — all of it occurs beyond the bounds of time. Beauty is always the same, whether I meet it in the space of a second or in the course of a hundred years. And bliss occurs not just outside the bounds of time — it actually nullifies life's attachment to time.”