Hafiz isn't simply telling you that you have worth—he's suggesting that loneliness itself distorts your perception, making you unable to recognize what's already true about yourself. The "astonishing light" isn't something to be built or earned; it's obscured, like a lamp in a fog. When a friend keeps calling you during a difficult season, often what they're really doing is serving as a mirror, reflecting back the competence and dignity you've temporarily stopped seeing in yourself. That gap between how lost we feel and how we actually appear to those who love us—that's where Hafiz's ache lives.