It’s only when caterpillarness is done
that one becomes a butterfly.
That again is part of this paradox.
You cannot rip away caterpillarness.
The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process
of which we have no control.
~~ Ram Dass, Be Here Now
Ram Dass / Richard Alpert;( April 6, 1931, born in a Jewish family) is an American spiritual teacher and author of the book – “Be Here Now” . He traveled IndiaIn in 1967 and visited guru Neem Karoli Baba who gave Alpert the name “Ram Dass”, which means “servant of God”.