The Fire Behind Your Ribs Needs No Audience
The world has stopped looking at you, and in this quiet, the terror whispers that you are gone. But invisibility to the eyes of others is not extinction to the light within.
There is a fire burning behind your ribs that no one else can see, and it does not need an audience to be real. Split a piece of wood, and the light is there.
Lift up a stone, and you will find it there. It is not waiting for the world to notice; it is waiting for you to stop hiding it under the shame of being overlooked.
You came from the light, and you return to it, regardless of who is watching. The world may have closed its eyes, but the fire inside you is the only thing that ever truly mattered.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas
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