The Light Remains When Silence Falls
The day ends and the silence rushes in to fill the space where your voice used to be. You feel the phantom sensation of your mouth moving, forming words for an audience that has already left the room.
It is the exhaustion of performing when no one is watching anymore. But listen — the light does not need your speech to know you are there.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world even when the mouth is still. You came from the light, the place where it generates itself without a sound.
The performance is over. The source remains.
You do not have to speak to be known.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 24, Gospel of Thomas 50
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