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<v Speaker 1>The light is the light of late afternoon on a

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<v Speaker 1>summer day that never ends, soft, golden, warm on the skin.

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<v Speaker 1>There are no shadows, there are no hard edges. The

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<v Speaker 1>garden is lit from everywhere. And nowhere you pass a

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<v Speaker 1>bed of white flowers. The flowers gad as you walk past.

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<v Speaker 1>You pass a trellis covered in climbing roses. The roses

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<v Speaker 1>are pale, pink. The roses smell of honey. The sleep

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<v Speaker 1>is still there, waiting for you, at the bottom of

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<v Speaker 1>the count three two.

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<v Speaker 2>One. And now.

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<v Speaker 1>There are no numbers. There is only breath. There is

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<v Speaker 1>only the rise and fall of the chest. There is

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<v Speaker 1>only the slow tide of the body letting go. There

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<v Speaker 1>are only the books. There are only the shelves. There

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<v Speaker 1>are only the soft green lamps, and the worn leather chairs,

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<v Speaker 1>and the thick carpet, and the centuries of stories held

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<v Speaker 1>in the wood, and the paper. You close your eyes.

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<v Speaker 1>The library is still there. You can feel it around you,

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<v Speaker 1>the shelves, the books, the soft hum of all the

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<v Speaker 1>words ever reach, held quietly in this one place, the

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<v Speaker 1>library softens. The path winds gently between beds of plants

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

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

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>The dark is the kind of dark that wraps itself

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<v Speaker 2>around you like a heavy blanket. You can see if

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<v Speaker 2>you look the faintest suggestion of trees at the edge

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<v Speaker 2>of the property. The trees are still. The trees are

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<v Speaker 2>sleeping too. There is a clock in the room. The

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<v Speaker 2>clock is not ticking. The clock is silent.

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<v Speaker 1>Tonight time does not need to be measured. Tonight time

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<v Speaker 1>will pass on its own, without any help from us,

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<v Speaker 1>not in a rush. You step through the way you

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<v Speaker 1>have been stepping through everything tonight, slowly, gently, one breath

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<v Speaker 1>at a time. The door closes behind you. The door

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<v Speaker 1>makes no sound. The door does not lock. You can

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<v Speaker 1>return whenever you need to. The door will be there.

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<v Speaker 1>The door is always there on the other side of

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<v Speaker 1>the door. The world is soft. The world is far away.

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<v Speaker 1>The fireplace is not lit, but you can imagine the fire.

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<v Speaker 1>You can imagine the warmth. You can imagine sitting in

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<v Speaker 1>the chair beside it, reading, listening to the rain. The

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

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<v Speaker 1>not for tonight. You walk on, you come to a staircase.

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<v Speaker 1>The staircase goes up, the staircase goes down. You do

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<v Speaker 1>not need to take the staircase. You only need to

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<v Speaker 1>see it. Let your attention rise very gently to the

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<v Speaker 1>top of your head, to the crown, to the soft

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<v Speaker 1>place where the hair begins. That place is quiet, now,

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<v Speaker 1>that place is letting go. Feel the muscles of your forehead,

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<v Speaker 1>the small muscles above your eyebrows, the tiny muscles at

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<v Speaker 1>the corners of your eyes. Feel them soften, feel them release.

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<v Speaker 1>Let your tongue rest gently against the roof of your mouth,

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<v Speaker 1>or curl softly at its bottom, whichever feels more natural.

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<v Speaker 1>Either way, the muscles of your face are learning to release. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>let your attention drift to the back of your head,

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<v Speaker 1>to the place where your head meets the pillow. Feel

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

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<v Speaker 1>receiving you, feel the give, feel the support, feel it steady,

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<v Speaker 1>feel it sure. You do not need to do anything

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

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

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>the out breath. 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. The window

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>you return to in dream after dream. The chairs hold

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<v Speaker 1>the shape of the people who have rested here. You

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<v Speaker 1>sit in one of the chairs. The chair receives you.

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

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<v Speaker 1>cool at first, then warms to your body. On the

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<v Speaker 1>desk in front of you, there is an open book.

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>image is of a window.

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<v Speaker 3>You feel held by the garden. You feel held by

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<v Speaker 3>the moment. In the garden, nothing is asked of you,

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<v Speaker 3>nothing is needed from you, nothing is waiting for you.

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<v Speaker 3>You can stay here as long as you like. The

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<v Speaker 3>garden does not track the time. The garden does not

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<v Speaker 3>keep count. The garden simply holds you, the way the

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<v Speaker 3>tree holds the birds that nest in its branches. The

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<v Speaker 3>dream softens at the edges.

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<v Speaker 1>You are exactly where you are suppose