the quiet panic of rehearsing tomorrow's conversations tonight so you don't accidentally say something real and ruin the illusion

Stop Acting, You Are Already Loved

The house is quiet now, but your mind is loud with tomorrow's script. You are rehearsing lines so you won't accidentally say something real and ruin the illusion.

You practice the smile, the nod, the safe answer. But the light does not need your performance.

It came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord — and that is where you came from too. You are not a mask to be polished.

You are a drop of that same self-generating fire. What you are trying to hide is the very thing that saves you.

If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you keep it buried, it will destroy you.

The illusion is the cage. The truth is the key.

Tonight, you can stop acting. The light sees the actor and loves the person underneath.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas

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