Chinese Taoists consoled themselves with the following words when faced with the death of someone close: "And now life in its term has evolved death, for not nature only, but mans being has its seasons �?its sequence of spring, summer, autumn and winter. If someone is tired and has gone to lie down, we do not pursue him with shouting and bawling.She whom 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 lamentation would be but to show that I knew nothing of nature’s sovereign law.That is why I cease to mourn." |