The Lamp

 Become a lamp.  That is, become a light for others.  That is what a lamp is supposed to do.  You would think it silly if you lit a lamp and then hid it.  It would lose its purpose, its power.  For whom are you supposed to be a light?  You become a light for those who are still in the darkness you used to know so well.  And you don’t really know your own darkness until you become a light for yourself and then for others.  People in recovery know this.  They have risen up from the hell of their own powerless life.  Meditation helps us to see our own darkness and then the light in that darkness.