“When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 1
“It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”
— Ram Dass, book Be Here Now
Source: Be Here Now
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