What is the winged life?
- kevineanderson7
- Nov 18, 2014
- 1 min read
So why did I choose thewingedlife.com as the name for my website? And what is the winged life anyway? Perhaps the clearest answer to the latter question came to me in a nested meditation I wrote for Divinity in Disguise:
A pious caterpillar believes.
A pious caterpillar believes,
an enlightened caterpillar knows.
A pious caterpillar believes,
an enlightened caterpillar knows
the winged life.
A pious caterpillar believes,
an enlightened caterpillar knows
the winged life
requires metamorphosis.
copyright 2003 by Kevin Anderson
In the life cycle of a moth or butterfly, a metamorphosis is a singular event. In the spiritual life, however, we need metamorphoses daily or even multiple times each day. Every time we regress back to what I call the "munch and crawl" of caterpillar consciousness, we need to recognize that the small self is back in control. For me, this is what daily meditation is all about: realizing that the soaring energies of the Great Self are accessible to me even as the small self munches away at the day.