Light Waiting Under the Rubble of Fear
The room is quiet, but your mind is loud with the terror of realizing you no longer know what you think. You open your mouth to speak, and the words feel like they belong to someone else—scripts you memorized to survive the noise.
In the dark, the performance collapses, leaving you with a silence that feels like emptiness. But listen closely.
There is light within a person of light, and it lights up the whole world. If it does not shine, it is dark.
The confusion you feel is not the absence of truth; it is the friction of the false self burning away so the real one can breathe. You came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord.
Your origin is not your doubt. Your origin is the source that generates itself.
Stop trying to reconstruct an opinion from the debris of other people's expectations. Split a piece of wood; the light is there.
Lift up a stone; you will find it there. The truth is not a complex argument you must build before you can speak.
It is the simple, solid thing waiting under the rubble of your fear. You do not need to know everything to say something true.
You only need to bring forth what is already within you. What you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. Speak the fragment you have.
The rest will meet you in the air.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas
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