Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
-Jalaluddin Rumi
Metaphor
Surely some revelation is at hand.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
-Jalaluddin Rumi
Metaphor 
Interesting about walking out of your house like a shepherd because I have recently challenged myself to decide before I go out, how I will be, instead of reacting to the inevitable agendas, pushes and pulls and nets as Ram Dass presents: “People will throw out their nets. If you get caught, that’s your problem.” I find people far to eager to throw their
aversions at you but not their affections.
It is a mystery, because we see positive examples of personal responsibility all around us every day. We see people making a difference for children, pets, and the needy, etc. Sometimes the ones who help are children, pets, and the needy. Maybe society believes these have to be the exceptions, so they can be “heroes.” There must be some way to get society to own and believe in its essential goodness.
Why is it that it’s so hard these days, in our culture, to grasp the reality that a world of goodness and peace is the product of our individual choices and acts? Because so few of us are oracles or wizards, we can only do what we can do, but so few of us do even that.