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Such is our ignorance that we weep when one man, who is weary with age, escapes from his body, and we perform a dismal ceremony of lament when another man, tired with sickness, separates himself from it. We pretend to believe in God, in a Mind infinitely wise, and yet we have not learned to accept death as a wise event in nature and one as proper as birth. These cults which seek to perpetuate earthly life thereby question the divine wisdom and reveal their own materialistic and egoistic attachments.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 1 : The Laws of Nature > # 67