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<v Speaker 1>In the garden there are places to sit. There is

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<v Speaker 1>a stone bench half covered in moss. There is a

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<v Speaker 1>wooden chair beneath an arbor. There is a low wall

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<v Speaker 1>at the garden's edge where you could sit and look

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<v Speaker 1>out over the rest of the garden. You do not

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<v Speaker 1>need to sit, but the garden offers these places. The

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<v Speaker 1>garden is generous with its rest. The light in the

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<v Speaker 1>garden does not change. The light is always the same.

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<v Speaker 1>You feel held by the garden. You feel held by

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<v Speaker 1>the moment. In the garden. Nothing is asked of you,

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<v Speaker 1>nothing is needed from you, nothing is waiting for you.

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<v Speaker 1>You can stay here as long as you like. The

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<v Speaker 1>garden does not track the time. The garden does not

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<v Speaker 1>keep count. The garden simply holds you, the way the

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<v Speaker 1>tree holds the birds that nest in its branches. The

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<v Speaker 1>dream softens at the edges. There are only the books.

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

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<v Speaker 1>green lamps, and the worn leather chairs, and the thick carpet,

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<v Speaker 1>and the centuries of stories held in the wood, and

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<v Speaker 1>the paper. You close your eyes, the library is still there.

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<v Speaker 1>You can feel it around you, the shelves, the books,

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<v Speaker 1>the soft hum of all the world it's ever written,

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<v Speaker 1>Held quietly in this one place, the library softens. The

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<v Speaker 1>body is doing its work. The body knows how to rest.

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<v Speaker 1>The body is resting right now. You are resting right now,

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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 to night, slowly, gently, one

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>can 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>Feel it steady, feel it sure. You do not need

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

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<v Speaker 1>to do. Your heart has been beating since before you

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<v Speaker 1>were born. It will beat long after this moment has passed.

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>with the out breath. Your head does not need to

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<v Speaker 1>do anything tonight except rest. Let your attention come to

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<v Speaker 1>your neck, to the muscles along the sides of your throat,

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<v Speaker 1>to the small muscles at the base of your skull.

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<v Speaker 1>Feel them length, then feel them soften. They have been

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<v Speaker 1>holding your head up all day. Tonight they are allowed

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<v Speaker 1>to rest. Let your shoulders drop, Let them drop toward

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<v Speaker 1>the bed, Let them settle. The lamp has a soft

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<v Speaker 1>fabric shade. The lamp is the kind of lamp that

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<v Speaker 1>gives the kind of light you would want if you

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<v Speaker 1>were reading a book late at night. But tonight, the

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<v Speaker 1>lamp is off tonight. The only light in the room

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<v Speaker 1>is the light from the window. The light from the

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<v Speaker 1>window is the light of the moon. The room is quiet.

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<v Speaker 1>The room is patient. The room is waiting for you

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<v Speaker 1>to settle in. You do not need to open the

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<v Speaker 1>closed ones. You do not need to enter the open ones.

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<v Speaker 1>You only need to walk the hallway. You only need

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<v Speaker 1>to feel the wood under your feet, feel the light

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<v Speaker 1>on your face, feel the quiet of the house. You walk.

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<v Speaker 1>Your footsteps echo softly. The echo is gentle. Let the

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<v Speaker 1>breath leave the way a leaf leaves a branch, not pushed,

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<v Speaker 1>not pulled, just released. Breathe in count to four, one

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<v Speaker 1>two three four. Breathe out count to six one two, three, four,

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<v Speaker 1>five six. The outbreath is longer than the inbreath. The

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<v Speaker 1>outbreath is the one that calms. The outbreath is the

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<v Speaker 1>one that tells the body it is safe. The outbreath

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<v Speaker 1>is the one that invites sleep. You are loved by

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<v Speaker 1>this moment. You are enough, You have always been enough,

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<v Speaker 1>You will always be enough. Let these truths settle. Let

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<v Speaker 1>them sink into your chest, Let them sink into your belly,

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<v Speaker 1>Let them sink into your bones. Let them be there

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<v Speaker 1>when you wake, Let them be there in the morning.

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<v Speaker 1>The illustration is beautiful. You look at it for a

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<v Speaker 1>long time. You do not read the words. You do

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<v Speaker 1>not need to. You put the book back, You walk on.

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<v Speaker 1>There are reading desks in the library, long wooden desks

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<v Speaker 1>with green shaded lamps. There are soft chairs beside some

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<v Speaker 1>of the desks. The chairs are leather. The chairs are

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<v Speaker 1>worn soft by years of readers sitting in them. The

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<v Speaker 1>world will still be there in the morning, but it

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<v Speaker 1>does not need you tonight. On the other side of

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<v Speaker 1>the door, the body rests. The body is heavy. The

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<v Speaker 1>body is warm. The body is held by the bed.

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<v Speaker 1>The body is held by the blankets. The body is

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<v Speaker 1>held by the night. On the other side of the door,

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<v Speaker 1>the breath slows. The breath becomes almost nothing. The breath

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<v Speaker 1>becomes the smallest rise and fall. You are exactly where

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<v Speaker 1>you are supposed to be, in this bed, in this breath,

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<v Speaker 1>in this moment, you are allowed to rest. Rest is

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<v Speaker 1>not laziness. Rest is not weakness. Rest is the foundation

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<v Speaker 1>of everything else. Without rest, nothing works. With rest, everything

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<v Speaker 1>becomes possible. You are worthy of this sleep.