"If you have been able to assimilate what I have already said, you will now understand that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of - our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are, in the first place, weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and, secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain. We must strive to be utterly unselfish, as indeed all love should be. We must think of them and not of ourselves - not of what we wish or we feel, but solely of what is best for them and most helpful to their progress."
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