Lantern

 If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way.

~ Nichiren

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I like this concept. However, if the person whose lantern you light immediately swats at you and knocks your lantern out of your hand and it falls on the ground and the light goes out and then walks off in the opposite direction from where you were headed, this is not true.

But what are the chances of that?

(pause)

Now that I think about it, what are the chances you are going to encounter someone with a lantern instead of someone using the flashlight on their cell phone?

Life is full of fascinating questions.