The Light Behind the Blank Face
You caught your reflection in the dark shop window just now. The smile you wore for the meeting, for the commute, for the polite greetings—it had slipped away while you were walking, leaving a face you didn't recognize.
Blank. Hollow.
Like a mask that fell off and left nothing underneath. But the blankness is not emptiness.
It is the quiet space where the performance ends and the real you begins. The light does not need your smile to find you.
It lives in the silence behind the expression. You are not the face you show the world.
You are the light that sees through the mask.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
John 1:9
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