Your comment reminds me of a fable. There’s a a man watching a butterfly hatch out of it’s coccoon and he’s mesmerised by its stunning beauty.

The next year, he comes across a coccoon and it’s fallen and wedged beneath a pile of stones that are weighing down on it. There’s no way the butterfly is going to hatch out of that coccoon. He worries about the butterfly and wants to help.

But instead of limiting his intervention to just moving the stones away, he gets a knife and cuts the coccoon open and is disappointed to see the butterfly is pale and insipid with no colour.

The moral of the story is that the butterfly earned its beauty through the effort it put into its own transformation.

I always loved that story – thanks for reminding me of it!

Applying yourself to the changes that you want to make is the first step; cracking on and doing something about those changes is step two. The right people with the right motivations can help you with these things, but ultimately, it is up to each one of us as individuals to do what needs to be done.

The reward of the change is so much greater if you know that you are the one that made it happen…

“An ongoing meditation of the miraculous” – I love this! It’s insightful on a number of levels.

Thanks for dropping by Robin.

And building on your excellent thoughts, work is in itself miraculous.

What I mean is, so much is possible in any spectrum of life with the concentrated application of our efforts.

I’m constantly amazed by the fruits of sustained and dedicated application.

Work, for me, has always been ‘an ongoing meditation of the miraculous’.

I hope this makes sense to you.

Best of life, Robin
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