You Are the Source, Not the Echo
The day is ending, and the armor comes off. You hear your own voice on the recording, and it sounds like a stranger.
Like an imposter wearing your name. That disconnect is not a lie; it is the friction of the old self trying to speak a truth it hasn't fully claimed yet.
But there is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world. You did not choose this voice; it chose you.
The origin of what you speak is not your performance, but the place where the light came into being on its own accord. You are not the echo; you are the source.
The recording captures the stumble, but it cannot capture the root. The voice that feels like yours is just the vessel; the one speaking through it has always been home.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas
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