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<v Speaker 1>Hussle, study us. There is an hour somewhere near the

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<v Speaker 1>start of your morning that does not yet ask anything

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<v Speaker 1>of you. It is small, it is steady. It rests

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<v Speaker 1>beside you, the way an old friend rests in a

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<v Speaker 1>chair across the room, not needing your attention, simply being near.

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<v Speaker 1>Notice if you can, what the light is doing right now.

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<v Speaker 1>It is moving across the surface of your day, the

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<v Speaker 1>way a hand moves across still water, gently, without urgency,

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<v Speaker 1>leaving the soddest trace. You do not have to chase it.

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<v Speaker 1>You do not have to follow it. You only need

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<v Speaker 1>to let it land. Take a breath. Let the breath

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<v Speaker 1>have its own shape. Don't shape it, don't count it.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't try to make it slow or deep or meaningful.

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<v Speaker 1>The breath knows what it is doing. Your only job

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<v Speaker 1>is to allow it. This is the hour that holds

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<v Speaker 1>you lightly. It does not grip, It does not demand.

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<v Speaker 1>It does not keep a record of you yesterday or

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<v Speaker 1>you tomorrow. It simply rests beside you, asking for nothing,

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<v Speaker 1>offering every thing. The world outside is already beginning to

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<v Speaker 1>want things from you. Your phone will want you, your

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<v Speaker 1>inbox will want you. The voices of people you love

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<v Speaker 1>will want you. The errands and the obligations, and the

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<v Speaker 1>soft obligations that don't even feel like obligations. Yet they

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<v Speaker 1>will all want you in their turn. But here, in

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<v Speaker 1>this hour, nothing wants you nothing Paull's The whole morning

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<v Speaker 1>is a field, and you are standing at the edge

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<v Speaker 1>of it. And the field is saying you don't have

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<v Speaker 1>to walk yet, you can stand. You can simply be standing.

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<v Speaker 1>Notice the weight of your body in this moment. Notice

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<v Speaker 1>where you are resting, whether it is a chair or

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<v Speaker 1>a bed, or a floor or the inside of your

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<v Speaker 1>own breath. Something is holding you. You are being held.

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<v Speaker 1>There is a kind of quiet that doesn't fix anything,

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't teach you anything, it doesn't heal you. It

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<v Speaker 1>is the quiet that simply accompanies you, the quiet that says,

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<v Speaker 1>I am here. You are not alone in the start

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<v Speaker 1>of the day. Let that quiet be enough. Take another breath,

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<v Speaker 1>in another. Don't count them, don't name them, just let

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<v Speaker 1>them happen. Your morning whinne CON's in ennist will be

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<v Speaker 1>busy enough. There will be words to speak and words

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<v Speaker 1>to listen for. There will be doors to open and

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<v Speaker 1>doors to close. There will be the small decisions that

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<v Speaker 1>nobody sees what to wear, what to eat, how to

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<v Speaker 1>begin the first conversation, whether to laugh early or to wait.

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<v Speaker 1>There will be all of this, But for now, before

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<v Speaker 1>the day asks, you are given something rare. You are

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<v Speaker 1>given a pause, A pause that is not lazy, a

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<v Speaker 1>pause that is not avoid a pause that is the

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<v Speaker 1>gentle authority of a beginning that hasn't begun. This is

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<v Speaker 1>the soft skill of an unhurried morning, to let the

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<v Speaker 1>morning be morning before it becomes your day. And there

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<v Speaker 1>is something else here, something quieter. Still, there is the

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<v Speaker 1>realization that you have survived every morning up into this one.

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<v Speaker 1>You have opened your eyes ten thousand times, and each

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<v Speaker 1>time the world waited for you. The world did not

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<v Speaker 1>move without you. The world was patient. The world will

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<v Speaker 1>be patient again today. You do not have to be

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<v Speaker 1>efficient at waking up. You do not have to bring

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<v Speaker 1>You can rise the way the sun rises, softly, by degrees,

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<v Speaker 1>with the sky changing behind you, without your effort. Let

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<v Speaker 1>this be your permission. You are allowed a slow morning.

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<v Speaker 1>You are allowed to sit for five more minutes and

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<v Speaker 1>listen to nothing. You are allowed to not yet know

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<v Speaker 1>what the day is for. You are allowed to feel

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<v Speaker 1>the cup of warm something in your hand without yet

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<v Speaker 1>drinking it, just to feel that warmth, just to know

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<v Speaker 1>it is there. The morning has its own pace you

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<v Speaker 1>are allowed to match. Notice gently the sounds around you,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever they are, the hum of a building, the voice

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<v Speaker 1>of a street, the particular silence of a house that

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<v Speaker 1>is still sleeping. Birds if there are birds, cars if

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<v Speaker 1>there are cars, your own breath, if there is nothing else.

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<v Speaker 1>None of these sounds is asking anything of you. They

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<v Speaker 1>are simply the floor of the day being laid down,

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<v Speaker 1>plank by plank, sound by sound before you walk on it.

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<v Speaker 1>You are not behind, You are not late. The hour

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<v Speaker 1>you are in right now. This hour has all always

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<v Speaker 1>belonged to you. It was here before your alarm, It

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<v Speaker 1>will be here after your first task. It is the

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<v Speaker 1>quiet rim around the day, the soft padding between the

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<v Speaker 1>night and the noise. Take one more breath, and let

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<v Speaker 1>this breath be a thank you, not to anyone in particular,

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<v Speaker 1>just to the morning itself, to the light, to the air,

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<v Speaker 1>to the fact that you are here, awake, in a

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<v Speaker 1>body that is breathing without your help, in a day

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<v Speaker 1>that is not yet begun. Thank you morning, Thank you

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<v Speaker 1>for waiting, Thank you for being the hour that holds

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<v Speaker 1>me lightly when you are ready, and only when you

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<v Speaker 1>are ready, let the day find you. Open your eyes,

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<v Speaker 1>feel the weight of your feet if they are near

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<v Speaker 1>the floor, Feel the chair beneath you, feel the air

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<v Speaker 1>on your skin, and begin slowly in your own time.

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<v Speaker 1>This is your morning, this is your quiet morning, and

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<v Speaker 1>it is holding you still