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.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity
I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.
Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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