You Are the Vessel, Not the Output
The afternoon hums with the noise of things getting done, and you feel that if your hands stop moving, you will simply cease to be. You are running on the fear that your worth is a wage you must earn every hour, or else vanish into the silence.
But there is a light inside you that was there before you achieved a single thing, and it will be there after the work is forgotten. It does not flicker when you rest.
It does not dim when you are still. You are not the output.
You are the vessel. The terror says you must produce to exist — the truth says you already are.
Stop. The light is not tired.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 1:4-5, Thomas 24
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