cire perdue

Short Film | The Butterfly Circus

This is really something. Nick Vujicic is as he is in real life, that is not a film trick. This is so touching, it reminds me of many Baha'i ideas. "The more difficult the struggle, the more glorious the triumph." Oh how can we get people to believe this in this day of carpe diem mentalities? The answer is this movie, 20 minutes long.

arthra

Therefore, man must be the seeker after the Reality, and he will find that Reality in each of the Sanctified Souls. He must be fascinated and enraptured, and attracted to the divine bounty; he must be like the butterfly who is the lover of the light from whatever lamp it may shine, and like the nightingale who is the lover of the rose in whatever garden it may grow.

~ Abdu'l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 77

tonyfish58

Thanks for that it was a great watch and thought provoking

Cheers Tony

cire perdue

Yeshua is definitely a butterfly, I am still working on it compared to him. Hey, dude, I just called you a butterfly. Are we going to have to duke it out over this or can you handle it? Gee, I know lots of guys who want to be butterflies.
Is that why they used to chase crazy people with butterfly nets?

aidan

The greater the struggle,the more glorious the victory.In this life we are all in a cocoon waiting to become butterflies in the next life.

cire perdue

We do not have to wait to leave the cocoon. I feel like there is so much we can accomplish in this life. I feel that more than ever.

There is an interesting story that I heard when first in therapy. A person found a butterfly struggling to get out of its cocoon, so he helped the poor thing out, and it sat there, so he left. What he did not know was that the butterfly died where he left it, sadly deformed, never flying. The man had deprived the butterfly of the process it needed to force strength into its limbs and redistribute fluid. How we help others is very important. Are we crippling them or helping?

aidan

Interesting story from a therapist