What Butterflies Know about Manifesting

An Excerpt from Hop, Skip, Jump by  Marney K. Makridakis

Perhaps there is no better symbol for transformation and manifestation than the butterfly and its process of moving from caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly. Butterflies are often used as a symbol to show the “payoff” of hard work: “Look how hard the caterpillar has to work, and as a result, it becomes a butterfly.” Why is being a butterfly any more special than being a caterpillar? Why is an hour of meditating any more sacred than an hour of washing the dishes? Why is five minutes of blowing bubbles with a child more playful than five minutes of organizing your weekly receipts? It doesn’t have to be. Play is a state of mind.

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A person who studies butterflies is called a lepidopterologist. I am not a lepidopterologist, primarily because I am not able to pronounce it, but also because I have not studied all things butterfly. So I’m not an expert. Yet I’d like to think that a caterpillar, when building its cocoon, is not necessarily “working hard,” but ...

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