No. It is not being compared to anything, at least in your question.
It means that who ever made this metaphor is a Huge Trolling Noob
Hope is the yellow brick road to the city of Oz.
The darkness of a man's heart is simply the evil in all of us. The end of innocence is when we realize that we all are susceptible to that evil.
If it is possible for us to be with our massive body then we feel very much heavy and all around we see illuminance. That is, no darkness any where.
I believe you are referring to the salad bowl metaphor. This metaphor is used to describe the US quite a bit. Rather than being a melting pot, where all peoples of all backgrounds 'melt together' and assimilate, the US is now more often referred to as a salad bowl where everyone retains their culture, language, background, etc. but yet everyone is together much in the way a salad is.
When you stare into the void and the void stares back, it means that when you focus on emptiness or darkness, it can start to affect you or make you feel unsettled. It's a metaphor for the idea that what we give our attention to can have an impact on us.
Most of us accept the theory of Evolution. The story of Adam and Eve is a metaphor intended to remind us that we are all of one family.
all acids around us
Yes, "time is a thief" is a metaphor because it is comparing time to a thief, indicating that time can steal moments or opportunities from us without us realizing it.
When we switch on the light, we overcome darkness and we see what is available around us. Enlightenment is switching on the light within. How do you switch on the light within? How can you get enlightenment? It is by overcoming the darkness of ignorance. We are all enveloped in ignorance, the darkness. As long as there is darkness of ignorance, there can be no enlightenment. What should we do? Drop our ignorance. How do you drop ignorance? By realizing the truth. When we realize the truth and we overcome our ignorance, we reach that state of realization which is enlightenment. Once we are enlightened then we can see what we are within, we realize the truth, just as we overcome all the myths we have been taught.
Persephone is like a delicate spring flower emerging from the cold earth, representing both beauty and the cycle of life and death. Her journey into the underworld symbolizes the changing seasons and the balance between light and darkness in nature.
Sentinels of Hope and symbols of comfort. While all is storming the lighthouse remains steadfast to guide us safely ashore