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Richard Bach

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

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The caterpillar sees its transformation as a final, frightening event because it only understands its current form. In contrast, the master recognizes this change as a natural step toward becoming something entirely new and beautiful.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.