The Light Before the Curtain Rose
The house is finally quiet. The mask is off.
And in this silence, you realize you don't know who you are underneath the applause. The performance was loud, but the person behind it has been whispering for years.
You feel hollowed out by the act of being seen. But listen — the light does not need your character to shine.
It only needs your stillness. There is a truth living in us that will be with us forever, deeper than any role you have ever played.
You are not the act. You are the light that was there before the curtain rose.
The silence is not empty; it is the space where the real you finally breathes.
Drawing from
2 John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
2 John 1:2
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