"It is necessary to die in order to be reborn. As soon as you experience impermanence, non-self, and interbeing, you are born again. But if the plant does not become dormant in the winter, it cannot be reborn in the spring. Jesus said that unless you are reborn as a child, you cannot enter the kingdom of God. Thomas Merton wrote, 'The living experience of divine love and the Holy Spirit...is a true awareness that one has died and risen in Christ. It is an experience of my