Become as Children
If you return to being as a child, you will reach enlightenment. Children are still not split*. Therefore, you have to give up your learned behavior, stop your play-acting and take off your mask. Your outside must resemble your inside. You must disengage yourself from all that is considered normal, from all spuriousness and dishonesty. Because the difference in tension between the inside and the outside causes your emotions. If the inside and outside coincide, you have reached apatheia. The feminine woman and the masculine man are products of culture and their behavior is taught and false. The only difference between man and woman is gender+, the rest is learned frill and is on the outside. True man is himself. You see, but differently; you feel, but differently; you walk, but differently; you look the same, but you are different. Then, your inside equals your outside.
– derived from The Gospel of Thomas, #22 Elucidation
* Is this perhaps why the c*v*d overlords are now going after our children with such fervency? To split them? Confuse them? Separate them from their Spirit before they possess the capacity to question “authority”?
+ Of which there are ONLY TWO