Live As If You Were a Butterfly

 Be light as floating on the first warm summer wind…

 

As truthful as the blue sky…

Flowing as everything in a juxtaposed One…

Live as serene as the silence of a mountain sunrise…

As bold as a sunset exploding color over a country road

As wise as a Taoist monk on a Chinese Countryside

And though this is an ephemeral life…

It will be as glorious as ancient stained-glass in a cathedral…

As meaningful as God’s whisper…

As kind as who you really are…

Be as translucent as the Glass Winged Butterfly

As gorgeous as a red autumn…

As delicate the first snowflake in fall

As perfect as unbridled imagination…

As flowing as a waning river…

As profound as Henry David Thoreau lost in the woods…

As divine as Mother Teresa codling the sick in Calcutta…

Poetic as Rabindranath Tagore in a teahouse in New Delia…

As enlightened as Gahil Gibran on a seaside in Lebanon…

Awe inspiring as Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be as playful as a pair of butterflies dancing over a field of sunflowers

And you may wakeup and wonder:I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man”— Chuang Tzu

Live as if you were a butterfly lighting gently upon this world

And you will live the perfect life

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”—Tagore