The Light Lives in the Silence
The ceiling is your theater tonight, and you are rehearsing a conversation that will never happen. You perfect the words, you sharpen the defense, you win the argument in the dark.
But the light does not live in the script you wrote. It lives in the silence between the lines.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world—even this quiet, tangled room. You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord, not from the worry that keeps you awake.
The version of you that speaks perfectly is not the real one; the real one is the one who is tired enough to stop. The loop breaks not when you find the right words, but when you remember you were never meant to carry them alone.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, Gospel of Thomas 50
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