As the Eternity Opens

Sunset over the Winter Forest, 1881, by Heinrich Gogarten (German, 1850-1911)

“The ephemeral spectator of an eternal spectacle, man raises his eyes a moment to the sky, then shuts them forever; yet during that brief moment granted him, from every point of the sky, from every limit of the universe, a consoling beam is cast from each world and meets his gaze to tell him that there is indeed a connection between infinity and him, and that he is part of eternity.”

Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Around my Room