Transfer of Light

Keep this thought in mind through your travels. We are all born with an inner flame that radiates heat and warmth. We can control how we use it and we can control the intensity in which it burns. Left alone it will react in the same manner as any flame; eventually it will go out. It might live a relatively long and luminous life, or it may extinguish prematurely. But for one reason or another, the flame will go out. We have a choice how we use our flame in life. We can keep it close and keep ourselves warm, and use it to light the path before us. These are perfectly acceptable uses of our flame. But, as I said, at some point the flame will die. And at the end of the day, you have one single source of heat and light, which lived its life and passed on. What is left as a result? Cold? Darkness? What did that flame leave behind?

The other choice that we can make is to use our flame to light and heat others. We can transfer our heat and light elsewhere. We can share what we have to make something else a little brighter and a little warmer. Doing so doesn’t weaken the power of our own flame. In fact, the combined forces of our flames provides a much stronger source which is capable of doing far greater things than a single flame ever could.

Will our flame still go out? Of course it will. But not before it spreads a tremendous amount of warmth, light and energy to others. With a little luck others will continue the transfer to someone else as well, all adding to a more powerful, more united, and more bountiful source.

It’s your flame, you decide what you want to do with it.