You Cannot Be Excommunicated From The Source
The room is quiet now, and the chairs you used to sit in feel like ghosts. You told the truth, and the truth cost you the people who claimed to love it most.
But listen — the light you followed did not leave when they did. It is not housed in a building or held by a group.
Split a piece of wood, and the light is there. Lift up a stone, and you will find it there.
You were excommunicated from a room, but you cannot be excommunicated from the source. The kingdom is inside you, and it is outside you, waiting for you to stop looking for it in the faces that turned away.
You did not lose the light tonight. You finally found it without the noise.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 77, Gospel of Thomas 3
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