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<v Speaker 1>You are in a library. The library is very old.

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<v Speaker 1>The library is very large. The library has the quality

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<v Speaker 1>of a place that has always been here, that will

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<v Speaker 1>always be here, that exists outside of time. The shelves

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<v Speaker 1>go up. The shelves go up further than you can see.

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<v Speaker 1>The shelves are made of dark wood, polished smooth by

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<v Speaker 1>years of hands reaching for books. The shelves are filled

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<v Speaker 1>with books. The staircase is the spine of the house.

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<v Speaker 1>The staircase connects all the rooms, all the floors, all

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<v Speaker 1>the moments that have ever been lived here. At the

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<v Speaker 1>end of the hallway you reach the window. Oh, the

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<v Speaker 1>window is large. The window is tall. Through the window,

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<v Speaker 1>you can see the garden. It is the same garden.

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<v Speaker 1>It is always the same garden. The garden is the

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<v Speaker 1>place you return to in dream after dream. But the

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<v Speaker 1>chair is there just in case, just in case you

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<v Speaker 1>change your mind, just in case you want somewhere to

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<v Speaker 1>rest that is not your pet. The chair is a

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<v Speaker 1>quiet promise that the room is generous with its comfort.

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<v Speaker 1>There is a window in the room. Through the window

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<v Speaker 1>you can see the night. The night is dark, but

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<v Speaker 1>the dark is not heavy. The dark is so The

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<v Speaker 1>book is closed. The book is waiting for someone to

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<v Speaker 1>read it. But the someone does not need to be you.

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<v Speaker 1>The room is for someone. The room is not for

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<v Speaker 1>you tonight. You only need to see it. You only

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<v Speaker 1>need to know it is there. You walk on. You

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<v Speaker 1>come to another door. This one is also open. Through

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<v Speaker 1>this door, you can see a sitting room. There is

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<v Speaker 1>a fireplace. The chairs hold the shape of the people

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<v Speaker 1>who have rested here. You sit in one of the chairs.

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<v Speaker 1>The chair receives you. The chair has been waiting for you.

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<v Speaker 1>The leather is cool at first, then warms to your body.

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<v Speaker 1>On the desk in front of you, there is an

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<v Speaker 1>open book. You do not remember opening it. The book

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<v Speaker 1>is open to a page with no words, only an image.

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<v Speaker 1>The image is of a window. You do not need

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<v Speaker 1>to read. You only need to hold the book. You

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<v Speaker 1>only need to feel its tape. You put the book back.

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<v Speaker 1>You pull another. This one is larger. This one is

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<v Speaker 1>bound in green. The pages are heavier. The pages are

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<v Speaker 1>edged in gold. You open it to a random page.

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<v Speaker 1>There is an illustration, a woodcut of a tree of

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<v Speaker 1>a figure walking beneath the tree of a sky full

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<v Speaker 1>of stars. The illustration is simple. Feel it steady, feel

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<v Speaker 1>it sure, You do not need to do anything about

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<v Speaker 1>your heart. Your heart knows what to do. Your heart

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<v Speaker 1>has been beating since before you were born. It will

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<v Speaker 1>beat long after this moment has passed. Trust it, Trust

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<v Speaker 1>it to keep going while you rest. Let your attention

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<v Speaker 1>sink to your belly. Let your belly soften, Let it

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<v Speaker 1>rise with thee in breath, Let it fall with the

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<v Speaker 1>out breath. Let your tongue rest against the roof of

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<v Speaker 1>your mouth, or curl softly at its bottom, whichever feels

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<v Speaker 1>more natural. Either way, the muscles of your face are

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<v Speaker 1>learning to release. Now, let your attention drift to the

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<v Speaker 1>back of your head, to the place where your head

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<v Speaker 1>meets the pillow. Feel the weight of your head being held,

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<v Speaker 1>Feel the pillow receiving you, feel the give, feel the support.

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<v Speaker 1>Your feet sink slightly into it as you walk. You

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<v Speaker 1>Rea chuck and pull a book from a shelf. The

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<v Speaker 1>book is small. The book is bound in soft brown leather.

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<v Speaker 1>The title on the spine is in gold, but you

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<v Speaker 1>cannot read the language. You open the book. The pages

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<v Speaker 1>are thin, the pages are creamy. The pages are filled

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<v Speaker 1>with words in a script you do not know, but

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<v Speaker 1>you do not need to know the words the quiet hums.

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<v Speaker 1>The quiet has a texture. The quiet is the texture

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<v Speaker 1>of centuries of words held in one place. There is

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<v Speaker 1>a smell in the library, the smell of paper, the

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<v Speaker 1>smell of leather, the smell of dust that is not unpleasant,

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<v Speaker 1>the kind of dust that means age, that means care,

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<v Speaker 1>that means books have lived here for a long time.

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<v Speaker 1>The light in the library comes from lamps set on

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<v Speaker 1>long wooden tables. The path winds gently between beds of

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<v Speaker 1>plants you cannot quite name. The plants are not exotic.

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<v Speaker 1>The plants are the kind of plants you might find

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<v Speaker 1>in any quiet garden, leafy, soft, varieded in their greens.

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<v Speaker 1>You walk the path slowly. You do not have to

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<v Speaker 1>reach any destination. You are walking because walking feels good.

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<v Speaker 1>The stones massage the soles of your feet. The air

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<v Speaker 1>is warm. The fireplace is not lit, but you can

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<v Speaker 1>imagine the fire. You can imagine the warmth. You can

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<v Speaker 1>imagine sitting in the chair beside it, reading, listening to

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<v Speaker 1>the rain. The sitting room is for winter evenings. The

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<v Speaker 1>sitting room is not for tonight. You walk on. You

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<v Speaker 1>come to a staircase. The staircase goes up the staircase

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<v Speaker 1>goes down. You do not need to take the staircase,

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<v Speaker 1>You only need to see it. But the garden does

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<v Speaker 1>not feel smaller. As you go deeper, the garden feels larger.

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<v Speaker 1>The garden seems to expand as you move through it,

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<v Speaker 1>the way a dream expands as you move through it.

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<v Speaker 1>The garden has no edges. The garden has no end.

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<v Speaker 1>There is always more garden. There is all