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The Catterpillar Metaphor

Dec 06, 2006 12:58 PM
by carlosaveline


Dear Friends, 

"Would a caterpillar be happy to die if it knew that in this way it would become a beautiful butterfly? Would we be prepared to venture past our everyday consciousness if we knew of the wondrous worlds beyond? Let us imagine a caterpillar, its vision confined to the surface of a leaf, its world encompassed by the nearby foliage. The caterpillar knows nothing of the wider universe of the tree and its network of roots and branches, much less the seasons that control its growth. They exist in a dimension the caterpillar cannot imagine. The same applies to us."

See all of this article by Roza Rialkkenen and Andre Rooke at 

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/55-05-6/oc-rr-ar.htm . 

It is in the current issue of the magazine "Sunrise". 

Regards,  Carlos. 


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