I also fall in love with my metaphors.

This happens because it is easier to remember a rule, than to understand the causation factors within the relationships from which we learned them and for which they are meant to represent.

Teachers use metaphors to create fictitious "safe" examples that we can relate to.
We get lazy, and we fall in love with the metaphors. We remember the rules even when we do not understand or have not experienced the actual events they represent.

All the great spiritual works began like this, even though the masters told us not to pass judgement and to accept reality. We still compare peoples behaviour to an "ideal", we still still compare reality to a "better version" in our imagination.

We cling to the rules even more, when we do not have enough experience to understand them enough to no longer need them.

Religious teachers are like this, they dont understand reality or nature, so they just repeat the rules as in
"the book". This gets people killed.

We still outsource responsibility to a "perfect" being
Perfect being would be a state of "being" awake, aware, and able to move with ease in an environment of understanding based on experience, rather than memorised rules from a book.