“A butterfly does not mourn the passing of its former caterpillar, nor a snake, the shedding of its former skin.”
“When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”
“Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.”
“Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?”