Thich Nhat Hanh

"To be really means to inter-be. Just as a flower relies on the sunshine, on the cloud, on the earth in order to be, so it is with all of us. None of us can be by ourselves alone. Interbeing is the teaching of the Buddha that everything is made by and made up of everything else. If we return everything to its source, there's nothing left anymore. If we return the sunshine to the sun, the water to the cloud, the soil to the earth, then there can no longer be any flower. A flower is made only of non-flower elements. That is why we say a flower is empty of self, it's empty of a separate self. It's full of everything and empty of a separate self. We are empty, and we are made of the cosmos. Looking at one person, we can see the whole cosmos and all our ancestors. In each person, we can see the air, water, journeys, joys, and sorrows that have come before us. We contain all information needed for the understanding of the cosmos. If we can see the nature of interbeing, then we will suffer much less and we will understand why it is important to be in community". - Thich Nhat Hanh