When is has fully formed, the butterfly is ready to breakout of the chrysalis, to become free of what contains it. Without the effort required to do that, it would not develop the strength to open its wings and fly. It would die without having taken flight and the world never to see its beauty. The challenge of breaking free is integral to its transformation.

As it is for us: to break free of the conditioning that encases us in suffering is challenging. To let go of the behaviours, beliefs, opinions, values and judgements with regard to how we see ourselves and the world around us, is not always easy.

But it is worth it! Because to do so, is to know what it is to be free. Free of anxiety, worry, stress, fear, anger and all the other disturbing mental-emotional reactions to life. Free in the realisation that we have nothing to attain, achieve or become – that the peaceful joy of our true, divine nature, had just become obscured by the deluded perception of ‘I am.…’, the chrysalis of separation.

Just as the butterfly is, we are reborn into the world to experience it all anew - from moment to moment.