Drop the Act and Enter
Your hand freezes on the doorknob because the person they expect is not the person who woke up inside this house. You stand on the threshold, terrified that the mask will slip the moment you turn the key.
But the light does not live in the performance you built for them. It lives in the quiet, unobserved truth of who you are right now.
Thomas says the kingdom is inside you and outside you, waiting for you to know yourself before you can be known. You do not have to drag the old version through the door with you.
The light is already there, sitting in the room, waiting for you to drop the act and simply enter.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas 3, Thomas 77
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