The Light Waits for the Real You
The day ends, and the armor finally drops. Someone asks what you really think, and your mind goes blank.
Not because you have nothing to say, but because you have spent so long apologizing for your own existence that you've forgotten who lives underneath the sorrys. You are exhausted from editing yourself before you even speak.
But listen — the light does not need your performance. It does not need the perfect answer.
It is waiting for the real one. There is a voice inside you that has never apologized, a child of true Humanity that exists within you, untouched by the need to please.
Follow it. The silence isn't emptiness; it is the space where the mask falls away so the actual you can finally breathe.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary, Sophia of Jesus Christ
Verses
Gospel of Mary 9:4-5, Sophia of Jesus Christ 106:9-14
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