If You Like Butterflies Please Don't Do This

​There's a saying “If you like butterflies you don’t go around stepping on caterpillars.” 

With what’s going on in our country at the moment with all of the divisiveness it’s easy to point fingers at others views or actions and not consider anything deeper.

When we are in pain we do hurtful things. There is no way around this. 
In order to live well we must come to a place where we are no longer suffering. 

When we look at what people do (or even at what we do) and judge them (or ourself)  as bad it's similar to seeing a caterpillar - and only seeing a caterpillar. 

​Eyes turned inward see the butterfly in every caterpillar.
It is already so - at the very same time it is becoming so.

Sometimes it takes some time
for us to shed enough layers of our 'cocoon'
in order for the warmth of What Already Is to be revealed.