If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way
Interpretation
Helping others will ultimately benefit yourself.
This quote suggests that by helping others, such as providing guidance or support, you also gain clarity and brightness in your own life. It's a reminder that acts of kindness and support create a ripple effect, benefiting both the giver and the receiver.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about community service to inspire people to volunteer.
Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.
Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.
He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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