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Gender: Female
Status: Single
Age: 30
Sign: Virgo

City: Portland
State: Oregon
Country: US
Signup Date: 9/5/2007
Friday, December 07, 2007 
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Caterpillars... the original sensory deprivation tank?
"The caterpillar encases itself within itself and is forced into this dark, small area, where it can't be distracted by anything. No longer can the sun and the rain enter its world. It is alone in the darkness, wrapped in what it has spun from inside, and shielded from any distractions.

So it is with us. True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form.

Even then, the caterpillar must shed one last attachment- to the dark, cramped space it has gotten use to, a new form of comfort- and begin breaking through the barrrier of self in which it has wrapped itself. It doesn't have a clue what lies beyond, but it responds to this higher calling anyway. This last struggle effects the final transfromation. If a human helps the butterfly break throught the cocoon, the butterfly will never fly. Only by finding the strength to break free of that last attachment can this delicate being, with a body so light and fragile that a breath could seemingly kill it, fly beautifull and free.

Similarly, only once we let go of all we know, including all our self-centered concerns, and break free of the cocoons we spin around ourselves to shut out the world can we become the truly beutiful beings we are meant to be."

~Julia Butterfly Hill
12:26 AM
 
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