The spaces that give our lives meaning, by Rohan Gunatillake
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
As Rohan prepares to sell his home, he guides us through a meditation on our mind’s capacity to hold memory, impart meaning, and attach emotions to everyday objects. Reflecting on the duality of emptiness and fullness in his house — where everything has been boxed up for the movers — Rohan invites us to explore this same dance between the substance and impermanence of the things that surround us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Rohan, here with a thrilling update. |
| 0:04.0 | We are launching a new and improved meditative story newsletter. |
| 0:08.8 | So now you can receive immersive first-person stories, meaningful reflection prompts and |
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| 0:19.8 | As one of our newsletter subscribers succinctly put it, our newsletter is a beautiful brain |
| 0:25.6 | break from the bustle that day can bring. |
| 0:29.0 | You can sign up for the next edition at meditativestory.com forwardslash subscribe that's meditativestory.com forward |
| 0:38.1 | slash subscribe. |
| 0:41.4 | Thank you for joining us for today's original meditation. |
| 0:45.3 | If you're looking for one of our classic stories, we invite you to visit the rest of our |
| 0:49.8 | library. |
| 0:55.4 | It's a beautiful house. |
| 0:59.1 | It looks like the kind of place you might see in magazines or on fancy Instagram accounts. |
| 1:06.7 | Modern Scandi, maybe Japanese vibes with Victorian era cobblestones outside the front door. |
| 1:15.3 | Inviting an interesting artwork, clean lines, surprising spaces. |
| 1:26.0 | It's also our house and it's never looked better, which is intentional, I guess, since |
| 1:33.7 | after 11 years here, we're selling it. |
| 1:39.8 | Just taken weeks of clearing out and touching up, and now that my wife Lucy and the kids |
| 1:46.0 | have gone down to her parents for the next week, I'm all set to host the viewings. |
| 1:55.5 | I end up doing 35, fitting them all around my existing work. |
| 2:02.6 | To be honest, it's exhausting, but it's also lovely to do. |
| 2:08.3 | And after a few show rounds and pretty good at it, I perfect the order of things to show. |
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