Scientists speculate that even the people who lived during the New Stone Age (10,000B.C.E - 5,000B.C.E) believed that once a person died, their journey had not yet concluded. 250 million Hindus and 150 million Buddhists are brought up with an understanding of re-birth, which briefly means that our spirit is continuous and requires more than one physical life to attain to a state of purity . ...

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In his sonnet 65, he describes the force of time saying: "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,  How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, " He means that there is no way in which beauty can withstand the assaults of time and its ravages, even rocks which seem immune and strong; has to bend before the assaults of time. ...

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