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these Truths are Self Evident · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:09
  Speaker: We are so lucky to be thriving upon this world, to be hearing these words, any words, your own words, of course, most importantly, reflecting upon our own beings, mindful meditation, each of us uniquely in a sea of energy, some of which we are presently breathing, no matter where, thinking about our history of evolution.
• 0:39
  Speaker: How many lives, how many generations does your history embody?
• 0:52
  Speaker: How many children, how many wives, how many husbands have arrived and left this world to have us find ourselves here today, whatever day this is for you, whatever time, and we, as a species, reach this evolutionary threshold of cognizance three hundred thousand years ago?
• 1:25
  Speaker: What does this mean?
• 1:27
  Speaker: How does time fly?
• 1:30
  Speaker: How are we thinking?
• 1:32
  Speaker: Is it just a linear progression or do we rise and subside?
• 1:39
  Speaker: What's going on?
• 1:41
  Speaker: What do we know?
• 1:44
  Speaker: We don't know very much if six hundred years ago we were thinking the world was flat.
• 1:51
  Speaker: One need acquire a sense of humility to fathom this in which we find ourselves.
• 2:02
  Speaker: Less than two hundred years ago, men, women, children were being enslaved.
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  Speaker: Enslaved human beings, cousins, one by another, even one's own kind, not necessarily whites and blacks, but blacks on blacks and whites on whites, and every color in between.
• 2:25
  Speaker: We have an ignoble history of wrongs, as well, we have many accomplishments of rights.
• 2:34
  Speaker: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is proclaimed in the American Constitution, in our declarations of our independence and of forming a new kind of government.
• 2:51
  Speaker: These words again Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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  Speaker: This is around seventeen seventy eight something.
• 3:03
  Speaker: Were people still being enslaved after this date?
• 3:07
  Speaker: Yes.
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  Speaker: Were Indians being more or less exterminated after this date?
• 3:16
  Speaker: Yes.
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  Speaker: I'm not disparaging.
• 3:20
  Speaker: Take this as an experience, not a right or a wrong.
• 3:24
  Speaker: Be a witness what has been an ongoing evolutionary trait of man as we have increased the scope of our knowledge, of our abilities, our capabilities.
• 3:41
  Speaker: And yet we come from this path.
• 3:44
  Speaker: We come from animals eating animals to survive, to protect.
• 3:50
  Speaker: And we have carried this tradition, these habits, these traits to these current circumstances, but they no longer apply as much as they have in our past history...
• 4:07
  Speaker: helping us understand our past and our traditions, where they have been right and where they have been wrong.
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  Speaker: This is, as often is heard, the beginning of mankind's Aquarian age.
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  Speaker: It is here you and I have been born.
• 4:29
  Speaker: Each has a responsibility to all.
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  Speaker: Simple, kind, gentle, possible.
• 4:45
  Speaker: Being here now, comfortable, postured, environment, aware, allowing the warmth to permeate your mind.
• 5:00
  Speaker: Feeling the roots of one's hair everywhere, the cilia, on your arms and legs in the hair on your head.
• 5:10
  Speaker: Feeling your skin.
• 5:14
  Speaker: Feeling the moisture if it's warm.
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  Speaker: Feeling the air if it's cold.
• 5:21
  Speaker: Being aware of one's pulse beneath the skin.
• 5:26
  Speaker: Do you find your pulse easily?
• 5:29
  Speaker: You can, if you practice.
• 5:32
  Speaker: I have learned.
• 5:34
  Speaker: As a beginner, I couldn't feel my pulse at all.
• 5:37
  Speaker: My pulse, of course, was there.
• 5:40
  Speaker: I would hurriedly touch a pulse point and reassure myself.
• 5:46
  Speaker: Nothing wrong with this.
• 5:48
  Speaker: You learn quickly, humankind.
• 5:51
  Speaker: Remembering your pulse, your thermal energy, the tingling sensations of your skin, the texture surrounding you, the air, or the feel of something on your feet.
• 6:06
  Speaker: Allowing one's mind to be open and receptive, following whatever essence of ambiance one is finding themselves in.
• 6:19
  Speaker: Listening, feeling, smelling, tasting, thinking, seeing, intently.
• 6:29
  Speaker: All at the same time.
• 6:33
  Speaker: Being open, receptive.
• 6:36
  Speaker: Remembering, as much as we are individuals, with our own life experiences, our uniqueness, our individuality, we are ninety-nine point six percent the same.
• 6:53
  Speaker: Our DNA, our blueprints, our software is almost identical.
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  Speaker: It is in this four-tenths of a percent where individuality and uniqueness we find and comprehend.
• 7:09
  Speaker: So the question gets to be how do you want to live one's life?
• 7:15
  Speaker: Who are you?
• 7:16
  Speaker: What do you want to become as each moment passes?
• 7:21
  Speaker: What are we setting up before ourselves as goals, accomplishments we want to create for ourselves?
• 7:30
  Speaker: You are here, so you already have something in common with me because my goals are self-realization.
• 7:38
  Speaker: And anyone listening to a podcast like this is on the same journey.
• 7:45
  Speaker: Wanting to improve oneself, being open-minded, being a witness as much as possible, and learning to increase the amount of time that one spends in a more objective or witnessing position.
• 8:03
  Speaker: How are you viewing the moments as they are cascading by?
• 8:09
  Speaker: Sixty in every minute, thirty-six hundred in every hour, eighty-six thousand, four hundred moments comprise each of our days.
• 8:24
  Speaker: It's a lot.
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  Speaker: A lot's going along.
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  Speaker: A lot can be accomplished.
• 8:31
  Speaker: Or a lot can keep us down.
• 8:35
  Speaker: If we are continually negative, then what is our time filled with?
• 8:41
  Speaker: What are the moments leaning towards?
• 8:43
  Speaker: Common sense.
• 8:45
  Speaker: Virtuosity is important.
• 8:48
  Speaker: For all reasons one can determine, one can consider, to be more patient, to be more understanding, kind, generous, thoughtful, compassionate, having empathy, being objective, being a witness, being determined, being effervescent, being persistent, being honest, being authentic.
• 9:25
  Speaker: How are we going to learn if we're not honest to ourselves?
• 9:31
  Speaker: How are you going to receive positive transmissions from your deeper mind, from your soul?
• 9:39
  Speaker: If you are not receptive to the messages in the first place, or a bundle of miracles, then what are you?
• 9:50
  Speaker: You're not paying attention to what's actually real, what's actually true.
• 9:58
  Speaker: We have been led to believe many things, all of which may or may not be true.
• 10:06
  Speaker: I suggest humbly there are half-truths and sometimes outright lies.
• 10:13
  Speaker: This is the way that governments and other institutions maintain their own integrity or exemplify a lack of it.
• 10:27
  Speaker: At the same token, it is not just the governments nor other institutions which have their sense of self-righteousness on the line.
• 10:45
  Speaker: It is individuals allow this confluence to occur when knowledge is ignored, even though it personifies the need of change, of better reasoning, of being more objective, then institutions need and will follow.
• 11:11
  Speaker: The forms of governments worldwide that we are involved with today.
• 11:18
  Speaker: For that matter, all our institutions, social, civil, religious, spiritual, are new machinations of humankind.
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  Speaker: They are not from forever.
• 11:32
  Speaker: They are hundreds of years old, sometimes a few thousand.
• 11:37
  Speaker: Being a witness, being here now, looking at everything with a sense of mindfulness and authenticity as a student of and a participant in the Aquarian age.
• 11:59
  Speaker: Being aware we are all bundles of miracles.
• 12:08
  Speaker: Humble, when we are thinking and remembering, realizing we are bundles of miracles on a long and thankfully prosperous evolutionary trail.
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  Speaker: Thankful.
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  Speaker: We can even think to have this discussion.