The Silence Is An Invitation Not Accusation
The door closes. The last voice fades.
And suddenly, the silence rushes in so fast it feels like a physical weight, pressing against your chest. You are convinced that if anyone looked closely now, they would see the emptiness where your personality used to be.
That the performance is over, and there is nothing left underneath but a hollow room. But listen — the silence is not an accusation.
It is an invitation. The light does not need your noise to know you are there.
It was there before you spoke a single word, and it remains when the last echo dies. You are not the mask you wore today.
You are the quiet space where the light lives.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
John 14:18
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