How Does One Become A Butterfly?

Posted on June 28, 2008 
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As written & posted March 17, 2007 on my old wordpress blog.
I almost didn’t repost this over here, it just doesn’t feel complete - I think I got most of my ideas expressed, but then left out the most important part about the false self which we believe is dying never existed anyhow - it isn’t who we are. Anyhow -that’s another post for another day. Enjoy.
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“How does one become a butterfly” she asked pensively
“You must want to fly so much you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
“You mean die?”
“Yes and no,” he answered. “What looks like you will die, but what’s really you will still live”
—–From Hope For The Flowers

Change is a difficult thing. Sometimes, when we decide to change ourselves, our beliefs, and our lives, it feels as though a part of us is dying. So it must be, as we leave the past behind us and set out on a new course and embrace the “Now”.

It is inevitable when we choose to let go, that we feel as though we are losing ourselves, losing site of who we “ARE”, yet we are not. We are simply letting go of who we used to be, and doing so, we free ourselves to embrace the endless possibilities of “NOW”.

The only way to free ourselves is to die to ourselves. It is part of the metamorphosis, part of the beautiful awakening.

Discovering this empowering secret, this secret that YOU create your reality, this truth that the entirety of your life experience is of your own choosing, is like being given a beautiful set of wings and the gift of flight. We are no longer held back by our old beliefs in victimization and powerlessness - we are free to fly.

Take up your wings and fly with me.

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