Death is but crossing the world as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be sad to die, yet their friendship and society are, in thebest sense, ever present, because immortal.

William Penn, More Fruits of Solitude

All it takes is for this text to be quoted in a book and suddenly the whole Quaker community goes bonkers! Every one is excited - a Quaker quoted in a really popular tome.

You can also read this quote in the new Harry Potter novel, as well as Quaker Faith and Practice, which is where, no doubt, you were thinking that you had read it before.

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