A butterfly does not wonder how it can stop being a caterpillar. It simply feels some feeling from within that tells it: isolate yourself in this cocoon and grow within it. It trusts that feeling. When it comes out, it is radiant and beautiful. All the little bug did was follow its nature. You are no different. Vironika Tugaleva
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If you were to ask yourself how you can stop being a caterpillar and become a butterfly, you would probably answer with one word: desire. You might then say that you need to want it enough and work hard enough to make it happen. You would be wrong. The truth is that the caterpillar and the butterfly are both guided by their own inner feeling.

The caterpillar wants to become a butterfly; it simply wants to feel joy. By utilizing simple thoughts about its life as a caterpillar, it can learn to ignore those thoughts and allow its nature as a butterfly to guide its actions. In this way, it can achieve something greater than itself without needing external influences or motivation.

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