The Silence Holds You, Not Emptiness
The performance has been so loud for so long that you are terrified the silence will prove you empty. You fear that if the music stops, there is no one left inside to be found.
But the light does not need your noise to exist. It was there before the first act began.
It does not vanish when the curtain falls. You came from the light, the place where light generates itself — not from your applause, not from your labor.
Split a piece of wood, and the light is there. Lift a stone, and you will find it waiting.
The silence is not a void. It is the only place where you can finally hear the truth: you were never the performance.
You are the light that was shining through it all along.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Matthew
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