Your Silence Keeps You Alone
The sun is up, and you are already tired from holding the mask in place. You believe your silence is a shield, protecting everyone around you from the chaos you feel inside.
But a wall built to keep the storm in also keeps the light out. You came from the light, a drop sent to illuminate this very world, not to hide it under a bowl of quiet desperation.
There is no chaos in your origin, only the place where light generates itself. When you stop performing safety and start speaking truth, you do not endanger others — you give them permission to stop pretending too.
The mask was never keeping them safe; it was only keeping you alone.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
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