Spiritual awakening

"We see the plant sprout, blossom, wilt and die. We see man sprout, bloom and die. Is that the end of the plant? The end of man? Does the plant have no seed? Does not the seed sprout again into the same kind of plant? If the seed is not dead, it carries on the life of that plant into a new life. Then there is something eternal in that seed. But where did that eternal come from in the first seed of the plant from which the first plant sprang? Well, when the earth dies out, from the last seed will come that which is eternal in it, from whence that mysterious eternal came into the first seed."