November 1

【作者】Eileen Caddy
【翻譯】熊倩涵
【編輯】顏士寶

There is no strain or stress in nature. A seed goes through its full cycle; it does not have to do anything; it just has to allow it all to happen. All you have to do is to allow it all to happen. Why not let yourself be transformed into a glorious butterfly? Come out of that chrysalis, that confined space, out of the restrictions of your mortal mind and ideas. When a snake changes its skin, it slowly wriggles out of its old one and leaves it behind to wither away and disintegrate. A crab outgrows its shell as it grows and expands, and grows a bigger, more beautiful one. A bird cracks open its shell and emerges completely transformed. It is free, free, free! That is what is waiting to happen to you. A new freedom, a new joy, a whole new world is waiting to open those old restrictive ways, thoughts and ideas, and be transformed.

　　在大自然中是沒有緊張和壓力的。一顆種籽完成它的整個循環，它不需要去做任何事，它只需讓一切發生。

　　所有我要做的只是讓一切發生。為什麼不讓我自己被轉化為一隻旖旎的蝴蝶呢？從那蠶蛹中出來，那被限制的空間，從我那凡人的意念與思維的限制中出來。

　　當一條蛇蛻皮時，它緩慢地從舊皮中蠕動出來，拋開它，讓它枯萎分解。一隻螃蟹在它長大與擴展時，會衝破它的殼，然後長出更大、更美的殼。一隻小鳥衝出它的殼，然後以全新的姿態出現。它是自由、自由、自由的！這就是等待著在我身上發生的事情。

　　一個新的自由，一個新的喜悅，一個全新的世界在等待著為我敞開，當我願意從舊有的限制的方式、想法和思維中出來，並被轉化時。