A Cloud Can Never Die

"The idea of annihilation is just an idea; you cannot annihilate anything.   The cloud has come from the water, the river, the ocean, the sunshine, the heat; the birth of a cloud is a new manifestation for before being a cloud the cloud has been many other things.  So to say that from here to here is being; and from here back is non-being and from here on is non-being... we believe from non-being we become being and that is a notion to be thrown away.  Our true nature is no death because nothing can be born from nothing and can become nothing at all.  This meditation, the practice of looking deeply will dissipate our fear, our despair."  ~Thich Nhat Hanh