Never believe the cocoon is your world, it may help shape you, but your future lies far beyond where it hangs from a limb. Look at what you believe, anything, then pretend it isn't true. What happens to you?
What was true for the caterpillar lies far beneath the flight of the butterfly. Let go of the pre-fab answers to questions, make new answers and the questions will also change their meaning.
I'm talking about moving between worlds. One is square and the other round. It is about how we change things to fit into our preconceived ideas or knowledge base and that we can never truly understand the other place until we experience it completely. To do that we must leave our old world behind. Square world things won't fit into the round and vice versa
Who you be is more important than what you believe. Your mind is a collection of words, we think in our language. The body doesn't know words it works on feelings. It changes the entire dynamic when we experience things as they are and not as the words we define them by
Meaning is more than that, it is a collection of other concepts that we associate with an item. What if nothing had a name, and just was? Would you treat something differently if it wasn't a tree or it wasn't a flower? What if you only saw the shape or color, felt the texture, smelled the fragrance and heard only the sound vibrations it makes? With words come values: Male / Female, Plant / Animal, Adult / Child. Yet nothing is exactly as it is named. We aren't and neither is anything else around us.
Does it have to be within our selves? Isn't that the point of meditation, to get to the place beyond words? Simply perceive things in their own nature not through the filter of vocabulary. This is part of losing the self.