The Silence Where Your Soul Wakes
The house has gone quiet, and the silence is louder than the noise ever was. You have taken off the mask you wore all day, and now you stand in the gathering dark with no script, no director, and no one telling you what to do next.
It feels terrifying, this sudden absence of instruction, as if you might dissolve into the night without a command to hold you together. But listen — the silence is not emptiness.
It is the space where the light that lives inside you finally stops echoing other people's voices and begins to speak its own. You were never meant to be led forever; you were made to carry the lamp yourself.
The terrifying quiet is simply the sound of your own soul waking up to the fact that it already knows the way.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Luke
Verses
Luke 12:32
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