I'm reading a pretty good book now by Elaine Pagels called Beyond Belief - The Secret Gospel of Thomas.

It's an interesting read as she's comparing and contrasting the Thomas gospel with MML & J (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John).

Even though it's not really an 'accepted' gospel, according to most Christian theology, as a Unitarian, I really pretty much like it.

According to Thomas:

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

According to Pagels, the strength of this saying is that it does not tell us what to believe but challenges us to discover what lies hidden within ourselves; and, with a shock of recognition, I realized that this prespective seemed to me self-evidently true.

I agree.