Do you seek spiritually to shine or to illuminate the path for others?

I once attended a boys scouts camp-out for our son. They held this wonderful ceremony, where a group of us parents stood around in a circle holding a candle. Then the scoutmaster lit his own candle and walked over to our circle to light my candle. I then lit the candle of the person next to me, and he did the same, and so on. Before you knew it, there was this huge circle of light in the middle of the desert. I learned that you just need one person to trigger the beginning of light, this quest for knowledge, as it were, but ultimately for that knowledge to start working, there has to be some divine intervention in this somewhere. I do believe that our collective thought process is a basic requirement, which feeds on this illumination. Like darkness seeking light. I have had many such "masters" in my life who triggered this process for me, taught and illuminated my path, and still continue to do so. In our son's boy scouts program we called these people our, "Akila."