Just as a piece of paper is the fruit, the combination of many elements that can be called non-paper elements, the individual is made of non-individual elements. If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud there will be no water; without water, the trees can not grow; and without trees you cannot make paper. So the cloud is in here. The existance of this page is dependent on the existence of a cloud. Paper and cloud are so close. Let us think of other things, like sunshine. Sunshine is very important becasue the forest cannot grow without sunshine, and we humans cannot grow without sunshine.

- Thich Nhat Hanh