I bow to the ground in gratitude for the life and work of the monumental spiritual leader and paragon of peace Thich Nhat Hahn, whose bodily form passed at the age of 95.

His words, his actions, his earth-walking, gentle, fearless, poetic presence, have been extraordinary teachers to me and countless others. He transformed philosophy into poetry, complexity into profundity.

Many years ago, when first reading Being Peace, I came across this indelible sentence: "Interbeing: If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper."

He breathed with the world.