Stillness Is Not Laziness But Gathering Light
The clock says 3:42 AM, and the accusation is loud: you are not resting, you are hiding. You call it wisdom, but your heart calls it laziness. You feel the pressure to move, to prove that your stillness is earned and not just fear in a robe.
But listen — the light does not accuse you of wasting time. It knows the difference between the sleep of avoidance and the silence of surrender.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world. If it does not shine, it is dark.
Your stillness is not the absence of light. It is the soil where the light is gathering itself before it shines.
You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord.
You do not have to manufacture your origin. You do not have to earn your return.
The terror that you are lazy is just the noise of a world that forgot how to wait.
Rest is not a disguise. It is the place where you remember who you are.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas
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