You Are the Light Seeing Itself
The afternoon light hits the glass just wrong, turning the window into a mirror, and for a heartbeat, the face staring back feels like a stranger's. You see the exhaustion, the mask you've been wearing since morning, and you wonder who is actually behind the eyes.
But the light does not depend on your recognition to exist. It was there before you looked, and it remains even when you fail to see it.
You are not the reflection that fades when the sun moves; you are the light that makes the reflection possible at all. The stranger in the glass is just a shadow; the real you is the one doing the seeing.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 8:12, Gospel of Thomas 77
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