The Light Inside Does Not Keep Score
The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with the replay of every glance and every silence. You are convinced that everyone you met today is secretly disgusted by you, tallying your failures in the dark.
But the light inside you does not keep score, and it certainly does not hate you for being human. There is light within a person of light, and it shines regardless of the shadows you imagine in other minds.
You have been looking for rejection in every corner, but the truth is already hidden inside you, waiting to be seen. Stop trying to read the minds of people who are asleep, and start remembering the name the light calls you when no one else is watching.
The gathering dark cannot convince you of a lie that the morning will dissolve.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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