Here is something that might surprise a person who wishes to learn a lesson from nature; what St Ignatius of Loyola has recommended to a person in search of God's will in his/her life, is very much the same as the journey of a butterfly, who starts its journey from being an egg, caterpillar after being hatched, pupa and then a full-fledged butterfly. The four stages could be likened to that of the four weeks of the Spiritual Exercises of the great master.
What we shall try in the forthcoming Blogs is to capture the spirit of St Ignatius as far as it applies to the butterfly, who for all practical purposes represents all that is noble and beautiful in the world. Therefore it is a journey in companionship with the butterfly, and perhaps we shall find that the butterfly will have many things to share with us.
The human beings can never boast about their superiority, when it comes to common sense and wisdom; perhaps the nature around us is ample evidence that the birds and animals are far more wiser than us, the mortals. After all, how do we estimate the wisdom of a person; it is not so much in the knowledge acquisition, but in being satisfied with what they have learned from life. Thus the butterfly may give us medicine for the thousand maladies that haunt the human world. Are we ready to embark on this journey?
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