the terrifying silence after taking the mask off, where you realize you don't know who is left underneath

The Silence Where You Finally Breathe

The mask is down. The performance has stopped.

And now the house is quiet, filled only with a silence that feels like a stranger. You look inward and realize you do not recognize the face staring back.

You have spent so long being who the world needed that you forgot who you were before the first demand. But listen — the light does not require you to know your own name right now.

It only requires that you stop hiding. There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world.

Even if you cannot see it yet, it is there, waiting for you to stop performing and simply be. You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord.

That is your origin. Not the role you played today.

Not the script you memorized. You are a drop from the source, sent here not to act, but to shine.

The silence is not empty. It is the space where the real you finally gets to breathe.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas

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