A poem says: 

If you wish for light in your life, 

Be a star in someone's night. 

It may seem too fanciful, overly romantic, but there is a deep and practical meaning in the poet's proposal. 

When we choose to illuminate someone's night, when we commit to helping, to selfless solidarity, we naturally bring light to our own path. 

Curious? Mysterious? No, it is an immutable part of the universal law. Laws that we are still learning to understand. 

Love is a universal law, and the ways in which this law operates are dazzling. 

Everything was created out of love and for love. The deviations, oppositions, and turbulences we see in our days are merely anomalies along the way. 

Soon, they return to their fundamental state, to balance, precisely through the action of the higher laws. 

Within this perspective, let's consider a simple example: 

We are in a dark room. The absence of light forces us to grope around. Often, we lack understanding and awareness of what is close to us. 

A lamp is lit. No matter how dim, a new reality is revealed. We perceive much more than before. Some of us can even walk through the room without stumbling or hurting ourselves. 

Let us learn to be grateful to those who serve as these luminous beacons in our lives, for they make a difference in our journey.   

Now, let's see the scene from another perspective: that of the lamp itself. 

When it is turned on, almost instantly it brightens the environment. However, keener eyes will notice one detail: the very first surface that is illuminated is, in fact, the lamp itself. 

Human eyes may not catch this, the lamp itself may not perceive it, but in practice, this is what happens: it illuminates itself before lighting up the outside world. 

It is a simple example, a humble attempt to grasp the grandeur of the Creator and His laws, yet it offers us a way to understand what happens every time we choose to be a star, to be a lamp. 

We first illuminate ourselves whenever we strive to brighten a brother's path, whenever our compassionate heart enters someone's darkness, bringing even the faintest glimmer of light. 

So, let us be a lamp, let us be a star, let us be any little light we can, and we will see the transformation that just a few bright rays can make in our own inner world. 

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In the saying Without charity, there is no salvation we can clearly understand the proposal of being a star. 

When we practice charity, we give of ourselves, we are benevolent, indulgent, and we forgive. We cast light upon our neighbor. 

However, let us also note that by doing good, by cultivating indulgence and forgiveness, we are also saving ourselves. 

To save oneself is a figure of speech that represents the idea of self-illumination, of self-conquest. 

Love acts in all directions, which is why it is a universal law. 

By loving, we cultivate self-love, and by nurturing these two fundamental forms of love, we radiate love to the Creator. 

Thus: 

If you wish for light in your life, 

Be a star in someone's night. 

Spiritist Moment Team,with a citation from the poem
 Sê Estrela by Andrey Cechelero, from the book
 O Essencial e o Invisível, published by Immortality Books.
February 26.2025