Article by Stefanie Johnson

There are magical places that exist within each one of us, inside our minds, hearts, and souls. By visiting these places, we can tap into the infinite and bring peace and abundance into our lives.

 

Each journey will be unique, as we are unique, so you may want to have a notebook and pen nearby to record your experience afterward. You may choose to have another person read the meditation to you so you may experience it more fully.      

 

Find a comfortable place, close your eyes, open your mind, and prepare yourself to travel within.

 

This week, let’s explore The Great Library together.  In the library, you will find guidance and understanding, and the answers to questions you have been holding within you. 

 

You find yourself climbing a spiral staircase, your hand gliding along a graceful golden guardrail. Everything around you is light, bright, and airy.  You feel the same … weightless and free except for a yearning to see what wonders await you at the top of the stairs.

 

Everything is beautiful, and you are full of joy.  Even the stairs you are climbing are beautiful.  They are white and somewhat pearlescent, tiny glints of rainbow shifting beneath your feet as you climb. You almost get the sense that you are climbing endlessly through the iridescent chambers of a giant seashell, part of the flawless, exquisite symmetry that only nature can create.

 

The stairs do come to an end and you reach the top … and what stands before you is a massive doorway carved into the lovely white.  The door is silver with an elaborate gold pattern, with a sense of the ancient about it.  The pattern depicted on the door is a magnificent golden tree, with branches that reach to the heavens and knotted roots that wrap around the edges of the doorframe.  There are many fruits among the gold-edged boughs, and these fruits are glistening like gems of every imaginable color.  Twisted in the roots are tiny intricate flowers, their delicate petals also carved from precious stones.

 

You reach out and touch a piece of the pattern (Which part draws you?   A certain gem of fruit?  A specific flower petal?).  It’s warm beneath your hand, and almost feels alive.  Then the door begins to glow, and slowly opens before you.

 

You enter the room that has been opened to you.  You’re curious and excited to discover what’s in the room.

 

The room is huge … larger than any room you have ever seen before.  It’s filled with bookshelves that are so tall they reach up and up to a ceiling so high you can only begin to see pieces of it.  There are millions of books on those shelves - every book that has ever been written, or ever will be written, is contained in this great library.  The stories, knowledge, and dreams of an entire world are spread out before you. 

 

There is a specific book for you here.  It’s a book that calls to you, a book that contains the answer to a very specific question you’ve been asking.  You feel drawn to a specific book on a specific shelf.  You search through the forest of shelves until you come to it.  You know, too, that the book you seek on the very top shelf.

 

Luckily there is a golden ladder attached to the case, and you begin to climb it.  The ladder stretches up … up, to that point so high you can’t see, and you wonder if you can reach the top.

 

You’ve climbed much on this journey already, but you don’t want to stop. The answer is so close.

 

That is the nature of every journey … within and without, for true wisdom is not something that is simply handed to you.  It is something you actively seek out.  It may be a world away, or just a breath. There’s no way of knowing until you’ve taken the journey.

 

You take a deep breath, look up the golden ladder, and climb.  And climb.

 

There isn’t any ceiling that you can see.  The forest of books seems to stretch up into infinity itself. You don’t even see walls around you anymore - instead you are in the sky, with clouds swirling at your wrists and ankles, floating listlessly through the gaps in the cases.  When you look below you, you can’t see the floor anymore, just a carpet of clouds.

 

It’s a little frightening, but it’s beautiful too, especially since it is dawn.  Everything around you is soft, pale colors.  It’s the beginning of a new day, and you’re determined to live it with the knowledge you seek.

 

At last you come to it- the book that you’ve been looking for.  You reach out for it, and the leather bound spine seems to pull toward your hand.  You take the book out of the shelf and open it … search for the message within … the message that’s meant only for you (What does it look like?  How large is it?  Does it have any illustrations or words on the cover?).

 

The pages of the book are blank except for one.  Written on the center of the page, in lovely swirling letters, is a message for you.

 

Look at it.  Read it closely.  What does it say?

 

The meaning may not be immediately obvious, but it will come to you.  Even after you open your eyes and come back down to earth, remember its words.

 

Remember that the book is there for you, whenever you need its guidance.  You only must be willing to undertake the journey.

 

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.”
-E. M. Forster

 

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