Stop Building on Foundations You Didn't Choose
The afternoon sun is high, and the mask you wear feels heavier than it did at dawn. You are living a life built from other people's blueprints, performing a version of yourself that fits their expectations but starves your soul.
You have become a stranger in your own skin, walking a road that leads nowhere you actually want to go. But listen — the light that lives inside you was not placed there to illuminate someone else's path.
It was sent to light up the world through your specific, unrepeatable existence. You came from the light, and you belong to that origin, not to the roles you play for an audience.
Stop trying to build a house on a foundation you did not choose. The only life that can save you is the one you have been too afraid to bring forth.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
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