The Light Knows Your True Name
The room is loud, and when your name cuts through the noise, your throat closes around the rehearsed script you've been carrying since breakfast. You stand there wearing the mask that says you are fine, while inside you are scrambling for a single true word.
But the light does not need your performance to see you; it already knows the name it called. You came from the light, the place where it generates itself, and that origin cannot be masked by a crowded room.
When you realize you have no answer ready, stop trying to manufacture one and simply stand in the silence of who you are. The script was never the point; your presence is.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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