the terror that if you stop performing, the person underneath is nothing but hollow space

The Light Beneath the Mask

The house is quiet now, and the mask has finally slipped. You stare into the dark, terrified that if you stop performing, there is nothing underneath but hollow space.

But listen — the light does not need your performance to exist. It was there before you learned to pretend.

It is there now, in the silence. You are not the hollow space you fear.

You are the vessel holding the immeasurable light. The performance was just the noise; the stillness is where the truth lives.

You do not have to be anything to be held. Just be.

The light is already enough.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, John

Verses

Thomas 77, John 1:14

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