☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: Never Cease Seeing
The person you are matters more than where you go.
Your 3-Part Micro Morning Routine
1. 🧘 Morning Contemplation
🎧 You can find the audio version of this morning’s contemplation below.
Good morning.
Invisible Cities is a novel by Italo Calvino that was first published in 1972 and takes the form of a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and the explorer Marco Polo.
Polo provides the emperor with short descriptions of fictitious cities, with the descriptions doubling as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, and the human experience in general.
Describing the city of Phyllis, Polo points out the joy of its many unique features and its variety of different bridges, windows, and pavements. “At every point the city offers surprises to your view,” he says. “Happy the man who has Phyllis before his eyes each day and who never ceases seeing the things it contains.”
Polo goes on to warn, however, that as you spend more time in Phyllis, the city starts to fade before your eyes.
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