this is how a human being can change

This is how a human being can change:

There's a worm addicted to eating grape leaves.

SUDDENLY, he wakes up...

Call it grace, whatever, 

something wakes him,

and he's no longer a worm.

He's the entire vineyard,

And the orchard too,

The fruit, the trunks, a

Growing wisdom and joy

That doesn't need to devour.

- Rumi 

from The Illuminated Rumi