I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night.For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move! – Mehmet Murat Ildan.If only they knew, they can do it at any time and in countless ways. The butterfly said to the sun, “They can’t stop talking about my transformation.When I look at it, I not only see a winged beauty, but I also see a strong beauty. I think that positivity, real positivity, is like the butterflies.Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.A great beginning is sometimes at the point of what you thought would be the end of everything.It’s said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted. For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. Similarly, when we go through a practice of meditation and prayer, we loosen our egoic grip on a sense of self that is separate from the Whole and become vehicles of the emergent evolutionary paradigm of love, peace, compassion, wisdom, harmony, and oneness that seeks expression on the planet. When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly.Somehow we’re going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don’t come suddenly. When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons.There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life.It shows us how empowering change can be. It is the shortest phase of their lives, but it holds the greatest importance. They burst from their cocoons in a blaze of colors and become utterly extraordinary. And then, one day, the unexpected happens. They live most of their lives being completely ordinary. Butterflies are nature’s tragic heroes.When, within our souls and psyches, we are made aware of a safe but insistent drumbeat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal, and may you feel happy in your lives. To keep the faith as everything around you changes. A butterfly symbolizes the acceptance of each new phase in life.Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists.If only they knew, they could do it at any time and in countless ways. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
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