Ok, so I get asked all the time why I have so many butterflies around me, why the butterfly is my business logo and generally why I like them so much... well the butterfly is my personal metaphor. Here it is from my perspective.....................
A butterfly starts out as a little worm-like creature; a catarpillar. And while it may still be cute and fun to play with, it's not all that interesting. It's perspective is limited to what is right in front of it. It seems to be living only to eat and sleep. But somewhere inside of it, it works hard to sustain its life because it knows something important is going to happen to it. So it crawls and climbs to eat and sleep, all the while being careful to stay out of the way of predators.
Then when it is tired of living this way and has matured enough to feel another way calling it.......the caterpillar cocoons itself up in a safe place to "digest" its' life thus far and to process the information it has collected. It goes deep within itself to find its true Spirit which lives at its core. Then, after some time of introspection and rest, it re-emerges as this new creature...with bright beautiful colors and of all things....wings!
It takes flight and realizes there is a whole new world to see. Bouncing and flying from flower to flower....branch to branch, it sees so much more than what is right in front of its nose now! Even though they are the same being, the butterfly has a completely different perspective than the caterpillar.
Now with wonderful new opportunities and adventures before it, the butterfly is filled with gratitude and faith. It knows that being what it was, has made it what it is.
2 comments:
As it is with you. I love your new blog and know that many will benefit from your deep insights and personal revelations!!!
Love you,
KK
Look at your own mind for a few minutes. Thoughts arise without any reason, without any connection, swept along by the chaos of every moment. We are the victims of the unpredictability of our minds. Our lives seem to live us, to possess their own momentum, to carry us away. In the end we feel we have no choice or control over it.
The realization of the constancy of change is the only thing we can hold on to. What can be more unpredictable than our own thoughts and emotions? Do we have any idea what we’re going to think or feel next? Examine a thought. It comes, it stays, and it goes. The past is past. The future is not yet with us. Our present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past.
The only thing we really have is now.
It is only when we believe things to be permanent that we shut off the possibility of learning from change. If we shut off this possibility we become closed and we become grasping. Grasping is the source of all of our problems.
Learning to live is learning to let go.
My best,
Bud
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