O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
From a little spark may burst a flame.
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.
I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.