The Silence Is Not An Absence
The house is quiet now, and the silence inside your chest feels heavier than the dark outside. You speak, and the words hit nothing—no echo, no answer, just the hollow sound of your own voice returning to you.
It feels like you are praying to a wall, or worse, to no one at all. But listen closely to the stillness.
The silence is not an absence. It is a presence that has stopped shouting so you might finally hear the hum beneath the noise.
You came from the light, and that origin cannot be silenced by your inability to find the words. The light is not waiting for a performance; it is simply waiting with you in the gathering dark.
The echo was never the point—the connection was.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 50, Gospel of Thomas 24
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