The Cycling Poet

You don’t “make” the butterfly. You ARE the butterfly …

“Do you believe that the person of your heart loves you?”

“Yes, I think so.”

“But why isn’t she here?”

“I don’t know … I’ve opened all the doors.”

“No, you haven’t.”

“What?”

“One isn’t quite open yet.”

“Which one?”

“The door to your heart.”

“Ohhh … but I’ve lost the key … I’ve been looking everywhere.”

“No, you can’t lose the key. It’s not outside of you. YOU are the key.”

“What do you mean?”

“The person of your heart is not outside of you. She is waiting for you inside your heart. You have to trust. It’s not your heart that will break, if that’s what you’re afraid of. You have to break the shell around your heart and trust in the unseen to experience what you’re looking for. Right now, you can’t see what’s waiting for you behind those walls you’ve built so you can grow. But if you really want to feel what it’s like to fly, you can’t stay in the shell. Otherwise you will forever remain the caterpillar. You have to take the next step to remember that you already are the person you always wanted to be. The one who is loved, fulfilled, content, safe and secure …”

“I know. I saw that and felt it in my imagination. And it felt so real … I thought it was the dream of a caterpillar. Of someone with delusions, imagining they were a butterfly …”

“He must trust his imagination and remain in it in order to become the butterfly which always lived inside of him. He must transform himself in order to experience this new reality. The caterpillar senses that it too is a butterfly. But it has been so busy wrapping itself in layers to protect itself. Behind the shell, the new self sleeps. Eventually, the caterpillar steps back from its old identity and makes room for its new self. Because deep down, it simply knows that a completely different reality is waiting for it to experience …”

“So I imagine I’m like the butterfly and trust in the invisible until I’m ready to crack the shell?”

“Yes.”

“That’s it?”

“That’s it.”

“That sounds too good to be true.”

“No, it’s exactly that. This quote is the belief you need to leave behind. You have been unconsciously programmed to experience hardship, lack and failure. But this is just one possible reality to experience of the infinite all. Now you need to consciously familiarize yourself with the unfamiliar if you want to experience the opposite. Things will change instantly and you will perceive them very quickly. In the stillness of the shell, you learn to be. Doing less, being more in yourself. When you understand this and really start BEING in the moment, where everything you seek is available for you to choose – then you are free and you will fly high …”