"And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."
It would be of no surprise if Walt Whitman swam though the tributaries of old eastern religious and developed his ideology from it's rivers. The soul is constantly referenced and the belief in the manifestation of god in the soul is a part of many eastern religions. The belief in reincarnation is another, meditation and so on.
My favorite part of Leaves of Grass was when he talked about death. As a believer of reincarnation he affirmed the idea that there is no death, only the rearrival of life. He says that every sprout of grass is proof of that. We have no inference on how creatures may receive souls but one could infer that everything does. There is energy inside every sprout and if a soul is present in it, it is most likely one of something past. The belief that life and the soul is eternal is comforting to me and meaningful.
My favorite part of Leaves of Grass was when he talked about death. As a believer of reincarnation he affirmed the idea that there is no death, only the rearrival of life. He says that every sprout of grass is proof of that. We have no inference on how creatures may receive souls but one could infer that everything does. There is energy inside every sprout and if a soul is present in it, it is most likely one of something past. The belief that life and the soul is eternal is comforting to me and meaningful.
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