" This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge. "I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard," she told me. "In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously." Pointing through the window of the Hutt she said, "this tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness." Through that window she could see just one branch of a chestnut tree and on the branch were two blossoms. "I often talk to this tree," she said to me. I was startled and didn't quite know how to take her words. Was she Delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously I asked her if the tree applied. "Yes." What did it say to her? She answered, "it said to me, 'I am here- I am here- I am life, eternal life.'"