I wish for everyone, to light a candle in their hearts and lives.

Often, we prefer staying in the darkness. Sometimes, we even see living in the darkness as a virtue. Because, in the dark, we only see what we want to see. We like guiding ourselves and others in the way we want. In the light, we see the truth rather then what we want to see. And the truth, requires a great amount of care and responsibility.

“Some Hindus had brought an elephant for exhibition and placed it in a dark house. Crowds of people were going into that dark place to see the beat. Finding that ocular inspection was impossible, each visitor felt it with his palm in the darkness.
The palm of one fell on the trunk.
‘This creature is like a water-spout,’ he said.
The hand of another lighted on the elephant’s ear. To him the beat was evidently like a fan.
Another rubbed against its leg.
‘I found the elephant’s shape is like a pillar,’ he said.
Another laid his hand on its back.
‘Certainly this elephant was like a throne,’ he said.
The sensual eye is just like the palm of the hand. The palm has not the means of covering the whole of the best.” Rumi -Masnawi III: 1259-71