"If you are poet, you will see clearly that there isa cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper...If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. Without sunshine, the forest cannot grow...And if we continue to look, we can seek the logger who cut the tree and brought it to the mill to be transformed into paper...We cannot point out one thing that is not here-time, space, the earth, the rain, the minerals in the soil, the sunshine, the cloud, the river, the heat...As thin as this sheet of paper is, it contains everything in the universe in it."
Thinh Nhat Hanh Peace Is Every Step pp. 95-96
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