Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
Subject: The Caterpillars and the Butterfly Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:54 pm
Received this link in a newsletter today. Thought you all might like it.
http://www.infinitebeing.com/0506/butterflies.htm
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There lived in a beautiful garden, large numbers of a particular creature who crawled about, eating the vegetation, perceiving themselves on the one hand as being superior to all the other creatures in the garden and yet on the other hand perceiving themselves as lowly, wretched and unworthy of being loved. They had many mythologies and squabbled endlessly about whose mythology was the only right one and this caused many rifts, divisions and schisms between them.
One day, a beautiful butterfly came into their presence, soaring in the sunlight, reflecting magnificent rainbow colors from his wings; so much so that he was seen as the Light of the World. Wherever he went he attracted followers, who marveled at his magnificence and the wonders he performed in their midst. He spoke in a way they had never heard before. He told them that not only was he the light but that they also were the light; that the wonders he performed, they also would perform - and even greater things - if only they could believe; that he was their brother and that they also were, in reality, beautiful butterflies, capable of soaring in the light and creating magnificent rainbow effects; that they need not concern themselves with all their mythologies and divisions and they would find all that would entirely suffice them was to love the Creator and to love each other as much as they loved themselves.
Annie
Betty Fasig Five Star Member
Number of posts : 4334 Registration date : 2008-06-12 Age : 81 Location : Duette, Florida
Subject: Re: The Caterpillars and the Butterfly Sun Sep 23, 2012 4:04 pm
Dear Annie.
I believe.
Love,
Betty
dkchristi Five Star Member
Number of posts : 8594 Registration date : 2008-12-29 Location : Florida
Subject: Re: The Caterpillars and the Butterfly Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:18 pm
Reminds me of a delightful little allegory, Hope for the Flowers. I'll bet you all would enjoy it.
Abe F. March Five Star Member
Number of posts : 10768 Registration date : 2008-01-26 Age : 85 Location : Germany
Subject: Re: The Caterpillars and the Butterfly Mon Sep 24, 2012 12:27 am
Many are still Catepillars and have not yet evolved. Some don't want to evolve. Why would they want to craw when they could fly?
alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
Subject: Re: The Caterpillars and the Butterfly Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:25 am
Abe F. March wrote:
Many are still Catepillars and have not yet evolved. Some don't want to evolve. Why would they want to craw when they could fly?
Because their experience of life has been such that they do not believe they can.
Quote :
There are miracles in life I must achieve But first I know it starts inside of me R. Kelly
Ann
dkchristi Five Star Member
Number of posts : 8594 Registration date : 2008-12-29 Location : Florida
Subject: Re: The Caterpillars and the Butterfly Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:03 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOfJ4oXElqo
A child illustrates and tells the story of Hope for the Flowers, written in 1972.