Cherishing every moment in time, by Louie Schwartzberg
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
During an extended stay in a remote corner of the California coast, award-winning cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg gains a new perspective on the universe. While pioneering techniques for capturing time-lapse and high-speed photography, Louie learns that the human conception of time is very narrow. It’s only by opening himself to the expansiveness of time that he’s able to gain a new appreciation for the here and now.
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| 0:00.0 | I look at the sky to figure out the weather, to learn new patterns. |
| 0:14.0 | I walk in the garden just to stare at the flowers. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm observing everywhere I'm looking. |
| 0:22.6 | And when I'm truly observing, without any preconceived notions, |
| 0:27.6 | time slows down. |
| 0:31.6 | I feel totally here. |
| 0:34.6 | The natural flow of circadian rhythms makes me think about time in a whole new way. |
| 0:41.3 | ... As a pioneer of time-lapse photography, Louis Schwartzberg has had the unique privilege of seeing Titanic wonders of nature flash by in an instant, |
| 1:12.6 | completely altering his understanding of time and energy. |
| 1:17.4 | In this week's episode, Louis shares how his relationship with time first changed |
| 1:22.7 | during an expansive trip to rural Northern California, |
| 1:27.1 | and how it taught him to bring a new |
| 1:29.4 | sense of gratitude and appreciation to every moment. |
| 1:35.3 | In this series, we combine immersive first-person stories, breathtaking music, and mindfulness |
| 1:43.4 | prompts so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in other people's breathtaking music and mindfulness prompts, |
| 1:48.8 | so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in other people's stories. |
| 1:52.5 | And that can lead to improvements in our own inner lives. |
| 1:58.8 | From Wait What, this is meditative story. |
| 2:32.3 | I'm Rehan, and I'll be your guide. The body relaxed. The body breathing. Your senses open. |
| 2:37.0 | Your mind open. |
| 2:41.0 | Meeting the world. The |
| 2:53.6 | The I slip into the built-in' breakfast nook by the kitchen sink. |
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