In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The influence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet, time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.