You Are the Source, Not the Echo
The morning asks you to wear a face that fits the room. You laugh, and then you hear it played back—a stranger's voice, sharp and unfamiliar, vibrating from a screen.
For a second, you do not recognize the person who made that sound. You feel like an actor who forgot their lines, standing behind a mask that suddenly feels too heavy.
But listen. The light does not need your voice to sound a certain way to be real.
There is a truth living inside you that no recording can capture. It was there before the laughter, and it remains after the silence.
You are not the echo you fear. You are the source.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
John 1:14
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