You Are the Space Where Light Lives
The sun is rising, and with it comes the terrifying quiet of the mask coming off. You are afraid that if you stop performing, if you finally let the silence settle, you will find nothing inside but emptiness.
That the actor has left the stage and no one is home. But listen — the kingdom is not a role you play for an audience.
It is already inside you, waiting to be recognized. You do not have to create a self to fill the silence.
You only have to stop hiding the one that is already there. The light was there before the first performance, and it remains when the curtain falls.
You are not the act. You are the space where the light lives.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas
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