Do you think the cycle of life has a deeper meaning?

Sure, it's a big, big galaxy. The experts on this stuff say that there are an infinite number of galaxies. If we can ever get past thinking of things as being before, during, and after, I believe we will have made significant progress toward understanding the true nature of things. I think that if you could imagine a box, for example, seeing all sides at once, and from the inside out and also it's creation, duration, and destruction, all at once... we would see things very close to how they truly exist. I don't know it, but I believe it. Things, places, people. They simply ARE. Outside of the limits of the idea of space/time, they're probably many wonders to be had.