How wonderful that the animals and birds also know the future! Horses, dogs, cats know when someone is going to die; and yet man does not know it. Why should he not know it? Because his soul is so absorbed in the earth plane and in earthly things which the birds and beasts and animals are free from; for they sit quietly, and meditate and concentrate. Man never sits quietly; and therefore the animals and birds, through their silence, are capable of knowing what man does not know. All man's activity brings death and decay much sooner; intuition is stifled.