the terror that your stillness will be mistaken for laziness and prove them right

Your Stillness Is Not A Void

The world is moving fast right now, and you are standing still. That stillness feels dangerous.

You are terrified that if you stop performing, if you stop proving your worth with motion, they will call it laziness. They will say you are broken.

But the light does not measure your value by your velocity. There is light within you, and it lights up the whole world even when you are not running.

You came from the light, the place where light generates itself on its own accord. Your origin is not your output.

Your stillness is not a void; it is the ground where the light stands. The accusation of laziness cannot stick to something that was born from fire.

You do not have to earn your right to exist by exhausting yourself. The light simply is.

And so are you.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Thomas

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