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Muggle Tales: patient soul · Muggle Snuggle: A Boring Harry Potter Podcast to make you Sleep

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  Speaker 1: For a while in the library the hours between midnight
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  Speaker 1: and dawn are marked not by the movement of the
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  Speaker 1: clock there is no clock in the library clocks are
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  Speaker 1: for people who need to be somewhere and no one
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  Speaker 1: in the library needs to be anywhere but by the
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  Speaker 1: movement of the candles The candles in the library change
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  Speaker 1: color as the night progresses, moving through a spectrum that
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  Speaker 1: has no name, from the deep violet of midnight to
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  Speaker 1: the pale gold of dawn, passing through shades of blue
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  Speaker 1: and green and amber and rose along the way. Each
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  Speaker 1: color is associated with a particular quality of sleep, a
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  Speaker 1: particular depth of rest, a particular kind of dream. The
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  Speaker 1: deep violet of midnight is the color of the first sleep,
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  Speaker 1: the sleep that comes when you first lie down, when
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  Speaker 1: the body is tired but the mind is still active,
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  Speaker 1: when thoughts still drift across the surface of consciousness, like
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  Speaker 1: clouds across the surface of a lake this is the
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  Speaker 1: shallowest sleep, the most wakeful sleep, the sleep that is
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  Speaker 1: still close to waking, still aware of the room around it,
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  Speaker 1: still listening for the sounds of the night. the creak
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  Speaker 1: of the house, the whisper of the wind, the distant
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  Speaker 1: rumble of traffic that is the sound of the world
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  Speaker 1: still moving while you are still. The blue that follows
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  Speaker 1: midnight is the color of the second sleep, the sleep
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  Speaker 1: that comes when the body has settled and the mind
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  Speaker 1: has quieted and the thoughts have stopped drifting and have
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  Speaker 1: sunk gently to the bottom of the lake where they rest,
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  Speaker 1: undisturbed like stones on a riverbed. This is the sleep
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  Speaker 1: of surrender, the sleep that says, I am not in control.
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  Speaker 1: I do not need to be in control. I am held.
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  Speaker 1: I am safe. I can let go. The green that
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  Speaker 1: follows blue is the color of the third sleep, the
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  Speaker 1: deepest sleep. The sleep that comes in the small hours,
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  Speaker 1: when the body is so still and the mind is
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  Speaker 1: so quiet that you could not tell from the outside
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  Speaker 1: whether you are asleep or dead. Except for the breathing,
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  Speaker 1: which continues, steady as a heartbeat constant as a star,
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  Speaker 1: because the body does not need your permission to keep
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  Speaker 1: you alive. It does not need your attention. It does
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  Speaker 1: not need your effort. It simply does it. the way
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  Speaker 1: the heart beats, the way the lungs breathe, the way
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  Speaker 1: the world turns, without being asked, without being reminded, without
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  Speaker 1: being pushed. This is the sleep where the deepest dreams happen,
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  Speaker 1: not the dreams that replay the events of the day
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  Speaker 1: or work through anxieties or process emotions. Those dreams happen
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  Speaker 1: in the earlier sleeps, the shallower sleeps, the sleeps that
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  Speaker 1: are still close to waking. This dream, the dream of
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  Speaker 1: the third sleep, the dream of the green candle, the
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  Speaker 1: dream of the deepest part of the night, is a
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  Speaker 1: different kind of dream entirely. It is a dream of
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  Speaker 1: the self, a dream of the soul, a dream of
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  Speaker 1: the part of you that exists beyond the body. beyond
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  Speaker 1: the mind, beyond the personality, beyond the name and the
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  Speaker 1: history and the habits and the preferences and the fears
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  Speaker 1: and the hopes and the stories you tell yourself about
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  Speaker 1: who you are. In this dream, you are not anyone.
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  Speaker 1: You are not anything. You are simply a point of
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  Speaker 1: awareness in a vast, dark, warm, silent space. And the
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  Speaker 1: space is not empty but full and full of the
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  Speaker 1: presence of everything, full of the love of the universe,
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  Speaker 1: full of the quiet, patient, unceasing attention that the universe
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  Speaker 1: pays to itself, which is the same attention it pays
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  Speaker 1: to you, because you are part of it, because you
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  Speaker 1: are made of the same stuff, because you are, in
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  Speaker 1: the most literal and most profound sense of the word,
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  Speaker 1: made of stars. The Green Candle Burns Low the sleep deepens,
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  Speaker 1: the dream deepens, the silence deepens. And in the silence,
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  Speaker 1: you hear something, not a sound, not a voice, not music,
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  Speaker 1: something deeper than sound, deeper than voice, deeper than music,
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  Speaker 1: something that is the source of all sound, the source
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  Speaker 1: of all voice, the source of all music. something that
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  Speaker 1: has been there since the beginning and will be there
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  Speaker 1: until the end and is there now, in this moment,
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  Speaker 1: in this sleep, in this dream, in the deepest part
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  Speaker 1: of you, in the deepest part of the library, in
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  Speaker 1: the deepest part of the night. You cannot name it.
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  Speaker 1: Names are for things and this is not a thing.
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  Speaker 1: It is a presence. It is the presence of the
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  Speaker 1: library itself, dreaming, breathing, holding, watching, waiting. It is the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the books, dreaming on their shelves, breathing their slow,
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  Speaker 1: tide-like breath, emanating their soft, warm glow. It is the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the librarian. burning her candle, watching over the
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  Speaker 1: sleeping world with eyes that are dark as midnight and
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  Speaker 1: warm as sunlight and old as the first story ever told.
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  Speaker 1: And it is the presence of you. You sleeping. You dreaming.
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  Speaker 1: You breathing. You being held by the library, by the books,
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  Speaker 1: by the librarian, by the castle, by the world, by
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  Speaker 1: the universe. by the same force that holds the stars
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  Speaker 1: in their places, and the tides in their courses, and
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  Speaker 1: the seasons in their cycles, and the atoms in their configurations.
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  Speaker 1: and the stories in their shawls, and the dreams in
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  Speaker 1: their sleepers, and the sleepers in their beds, and the
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  Speaker 1: beds in their rooms, and the rooms in their houses,
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  Speaker 1: and the houses in their streets, and the streets in
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  Speaker 1: their cities, and the cities in their countries, and the
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  Speaker 1: countries in their continents, and the continents in their world,
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  Speaker 1: and the world in its universe, and the universe in
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  Speaker 1: its silence. You are held. You are known. You are
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  Speaker 1: part of something vast and ancient and kind. The green
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  Speaker 1: candle flickers. Not because the wind has reached it. There
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  Speaker 1: is no wind in the library, not at this depth,
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  Speaker 1: not at this hour. It flickers because the dream is changing.
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  Speaker 1: The third sleep is ending. The fourth sleep is beginning.
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  Speaker 1: And the fourth sleep has its own color, which is
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  Speaker 1: not green, but something beyond green, something that has no name,
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  Speaker 1: because it has never been seen by waking eyes, something
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  Speaker 1: that can only be seen in sleep, in the deepest sleep,
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  Speaker 1: in the sleep that comes just before dawn, when the
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  Speaker 1: body has been resting for hours and the mind has
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  Speaker 1: been quiet for hours. and the soul has been dreaming
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  Speaker 1: for hours, and the whole person, body, mind, soul, spirit, heart,
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  Speaker 1: is as close to the earth, as close to the silence,
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  Speaker 1: as close to the source of all things as it
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  Speaker 1: ever gets, and the closeness is not a reaching but
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  Speaker 1: a falling, not an effort but a release. Not a doing,
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  Speaker 1: but a being. And the being is good. And the
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  Speaker 1: goodness is the oldest feeling in the world. And the
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  Speaker 1: oldest feeling in the world is the first story. And
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  Speaker 1: the first story is the only story. And the only
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  Speaker 1: story is this. You are held. The fourth sleek comes.
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  Speaker 1: In the deepest part of the library. In the silence.
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  Speaker 1: That is not silence, but presence. In the darkness. That
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  Speaker 1: is not darkness, but depth. There is a whisper. It
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  Speaker 1: is not a human whisper. It is not the whisper
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  Speaker 1: of a person. Or a book. Or a candle. Or
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  Speaker 1: a dream. It is the whisper of the library itself.
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  Speaker 1: the accumulated, concentrated, distilled whisper of 700 years of holding stories,
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  Speaker 1: 700 years of keeping dreams safe, 700 years of watching
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  Speaker 1: over sleepers and breathers and readers and dreamers, and all
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  Speaker 1: the tired, beautiful, complicated people who have found their way
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  Speaker 1: to this place, in this castle, in this world, and
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  Speaker 1: have sat down in the chair and and held the cup,
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  Speaker 1: and opened the book, and closed their eyes, and let
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  Speaker 1: the library do what libraries do, which is to hold
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  Speaker 1: the world.