writes the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, “the cloud will change into rain or snow or ice. If you look deeply into the rain, you can see the cloud. The cloud is not lost; it is transformed into rain, and the rain is transformed into grass and the grass into cows and then to milk and then into the ice cream you eat.” The cloud did not die. It was always in the universe in one way or another. In a similar way, the transcendent experience helped Janeen see that she, too, would always be in the universe in one way or another—which is why, when the time came, it was okay for her to stop breathing.
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