What is Your Light?

Peter Gower instructed his craftsmen, saying: "Everyone has their own light. If you want to see it you can't. The darkness is dark. Now what is your light?"

Before anyone could speak, he answered himself: "The storeroom. The gate."

Then he said, "It would be better to have nothing than to have something good."
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