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When the man's wife died, his friend came to the house. To his surprise he found the man sitting on his knees, making up a song.

"After all," said the friend, "she lived with you, brought up your 
children, grew old with you. That you should not cry for her is bad 
enough, but to let your friends find you playing music and making up songs --that is 
going too far!"

"You don't understand me," said the man. "When she died, I was in very sad, 
as any man well might be. But soon, thinking about what had happened, I 
told myself that in death no strange new thing happens to us. In the 
beginning, we don't have life and we don't have form. 
We are all together. Then a 
time came when things changed, and we had form, and then we had life.  And now another change has brought death. For not only the world 
 but man's being has its times of change like the changes of the year, from cold to warm to cold.  If someone is tired and has gone to lie down,
 we do not chase him with shouting and crying. The one I have lost 
has lain down to sleep for a while in the Great Inner Room. To break in 
upon her rest with the noise of crying would but show that I knew 
nothing of world's way. That is why I stopped crying and began to make music."

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