WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:04.799
<v Speaker 1>There are only the books. There are only the shelves.

2
00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:11.800
<v Speaker 1>There are only the soft green lamps, and the worn

3
00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:18.920
<v Speaker 1>leather chairs, and the thick carpet, and the centuries of

4
00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:25.679
<v Speaker 1>stories held in the wood, and the paper. You close

5
00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:32.079
<v Speaker 1>your eyes, the library is still there. You can feel

6
00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:39.359
<v Speaker 1>it around you, the shelves, the books, the soft hum

7
00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:45.000
<v Speaker 1>of all the words ever written, held quietly in this

8
00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:53.240
<v Speaker 1>one place. The library softens, the book is closed. The

9
00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:57.159
<v Speaker 1>book is waiting for someone to read it. But the

10
00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:01.240
<v Speaker 1>some one does not need to be you. The room

11
00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:05.359
<v Speaker 1>is for someone. The room is not for you tonight.

12
00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.840
<v Speaker 1>You only need to see it. You only need to

13
00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:14.560
<v Speaker 1>know it is there. You walk on. You come to

14
00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:20.040
<v Speaker 1>another door. This one is also open. Through this door,

15
00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:24.200
<v Speaker 1>you can see a sitting room. There is a fireplace.

16
00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:28.760
<v Speaker 1>Not in a rush. You step through the way you

17
00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:35.560
<v Speaker 1>have been stepping through everything to night, slowly, gently, one

18
00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:41.400
<v Speaker 1>breath at a time. The door closes behind you. The

19
00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:46.079
<v Speaker 1>door makes no sound. The door does not lock. You

20
00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:50.439
<v Speaker 1>can return whenever you need to. The door will be there.

21
00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:55.159
<v Speaker 1>The door is always there. On the other side of

22
00:01:55.200 --> 00:02:00.640
<v Speaker 1>the door. The world is soft. The world is far away.

23
00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:06.719
<v Speaker 1>The lamp has a soft fabric shade. The lamp is

24
00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.120
<v Speaker 1>the kind of lamp that gives the kind of light

25
00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:11.919
<v Speaker 1>you would want if you were reading a book late

26
00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:17.800
<v Speaker 1>at night. But tonight, the lamp is off. Tonight. The

27
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:21.120
<v Speaker 1>only light in the room is the light from the window.

28
00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.039
<v Speaker 1>The light from the window is the light of the moon.

29
00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:30.639
<v Speaker 1>The room is quiet. The room is patient. The room

30
00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:35.400
<v Speaker 1>is waiting for you to settle in. The grass is

31
00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:41.120
<v Speaker 1>the green of new growth. In the center of the circle,

32
00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:47.080
<v Speaker 1>there is a single tree, and the tree is old.

33
00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:54.360
<v Speaker 1>The tree is large. The tree's branches spread wide, making

34
00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:59.520
<v Speaker 1>a canopy of leaves that filters the light into dappled

35
00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:06.280
<v Speaker 1>patterns on the grass. You sit beneath the tree. You

36
00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:12.919
<v Speaker 1>lean against the trunk. The trunk is solid, The trunk

37
00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:18.280
<v Speaker 1>is warm from the sun. You feel held by the tree.

38
00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:25.919
<v Speaker 2>You do not need to solve anything tonight. You do

39
00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:31.240
<v Speaker 2>not need to figure anything out. You do not need

40
00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:38.000
<v Speaker 2>to plan. You do not need to worry. You only

41
00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:44.840
<v Speaker 2>need to breathe. You only need to let go. Your

42
00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:50.560
<v Speaker 2>body knows how to sleep. Your body has known since

43
00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:58.199
<v Speaker 2>you are born. Your body remembers. Your body knows the way.

44
00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:07.240
<v Speaker 2>Trust your body, let your body lead. Your mind is

45
00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:14.599
<v Speaker 2>allowed to wander. The illustration is beautiful. You look at

46
00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:20.040
<v Speaker 2>it for a long time. You do not read the words,

47
00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:25.399
<v Speaker 2>You do not need to. You put the book back,

48
00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:32.000
<v Speaker 2>you walk on. There are reading desks in the library,

49
00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:39.480
<v Speaker 2>long wooden desks with green shaded lamps. There are soft

50
00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:45.079
<v Speaker 2>chairs beside some of the desks. The chairs are leather.

51
00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:51.600
<v Speaker 2>The chairs are worn soft by years of readers sitting

52
00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:52.439
<v Speaker 2>in them.

53
00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:59.639
<v Speaker 1>The quiet hums. The quiet has a texture. The quiet

54
00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:04.000
<v Speaker 1>is the texture of centuries of words held in one place.

55
00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:10.040
<v Speaker 1>There is a smell in the library, the smell of paper,

56
00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:15.759
<v Speaker 1>the smell of leather, the smell of dust that is

57
00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:21.759
<v Speaker 1>not unpleasant, the kind of dust that means age, that

58
00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:26.639
<v Speaker 1>means care, that means books have lived here for a

59
00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:32.839
<v Speaker 1>long time. The light in the library comes from lamps

60
00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:40.319
<v Speaker 1>set on long wooden tables. The shelves fade, the lamps dim,

61
00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:49.439
<v Speaker 1>The chair dissolves into the feeling of being held. The

62
00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:54.279
<v Speaker 1>dream becomes the sense of being in a place that

63
00:05:54.439 --> 00:06:02.600
<v Speaker 1>is vast and quiet and kind. The walls are painted

64
00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:07.199
<v Speaker 1>a color that has no name, a color that lives

65
00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:12.920
<v Speaker 1>somewhere between cream and pale rose, a color that holds

66
00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:17.879
<v Speaker 1>the light without reflecting it back too sharply. There is

67
00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:21.360
<v Speaker 1>a chair in the corner of the room, a chair

68
00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:25.839
<v Speaker 1>with arms. The chair is upholstered in a fabric that

69
00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:31.079
<v Speaker 1>is soft and worn and welcoming. You are not going

70
00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:34.480
<v Speaker 1>to sit in the chair tonight. You are not going

71
00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:39.240
<v Speaker 1>to need it. You do not need to read. You

72
00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:44.839
<v Speaker 1>only need to hold the book. You only need to

73
00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:51.920
<v Speaker 1>feel it's ape. You put the book back. You pull another.

74
00:06:53.759 --> 00:07:01.160
<v Speaker 1>This one is larger. This one is bad in green.

75
00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:09.399
<v Speaker 1>The pages are heavier, the pages are edged in gold.

76
00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:17.839
<v Speaker 1>You open it to a random page. There is an illustration,

77
00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:25.680
<v Speaker 1>a woodcut of a tree, of a figure walking beneath

78
00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:35.360
<v Speaker 1>the tree, of a sky full of stars. The illustration

79
00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:41.959
<v Speaker 1>is simple. You are almost there. You are at the door.

80
00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:47.680
<v Speaker 1>The door of sleep is just ahead of you. The

81
00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:52.959
<v Speaker 1>door is open. The door has been open all along.

82
00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:59.000
<v Speaker 1>The door has been waiting for you to arrive. Through

83
00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:04.279
<v Speaker 1>the door. There is only rest through the door. There

84
00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:08.439
<v Speaker 1>is only the slow tide of the body letting go

85
00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:14.920
<v Speaker 1>through the door. There is only the quiet dark, the

86
00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:22.399
<v Speaker 1>safe dark, the kind dark you step through, not all

87
00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:28.399
<v Speaker 1>at once. The feel the weight of your belly, feel

88
00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:34.120
<v Speaker 1>the warmth of your belly. The belly is the soft

89
00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:40.279
<v Speaker 1>center of you. The belly is where you hold your feelings.

90
00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:47.200
<v Speaker 1>Let it be soft, tonight, Let it be safe. Feel

91
00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:54.480
<v Speaker 1>your hips, Feel your hips heavy on the bed, Feel

92
00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.960
<v Speaker 1>the bones of your pelvis resting into the mattress.