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 (1931-2019), Ram Dass was an American spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author. His best known book, Be Here Now (1971), has been described as "seminal".