Flames cling to their source of fuel in order to keep the fire burning. Likewise, in the human world, everything that radiates light or love is dependent upon something else. Through these dependencies we discover that everything is related, each thing to the other. Discovery of your own dependency on others is the key which unlocks the door to your true place in the world. No woman is an island.
But fire is also a symbol of liberation -- crackling little molecules flying away from home. Paradoxically, by clinging to what is right and proper, we gain inner freedom.
