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International Day of Peace: Peace Starts Within...Part 4 2026 · Good News To Go: Peace, Love & HOPE

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Speaker 1: Namaste, New York City. The light in me sees the
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Speaker 1: light in all of you. I am your host, Yogini Jema.
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Speaker 1: And this begins OM's Peace Starts Within. OM is an
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Speaker 1: invitation to.
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Speaker 2: Remember who you are.
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Speaker 1: And in that remembering, to recognize the interconnectedness of all things. Today,
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Speaker 1: as we honor the United Nations International Day of Peace,
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Speaker 1: we gather around one of humanity's greatest possibilities, peace, peace
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Speaker 1: within ourselves, between people, within our communities, and peace with
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Speaker 1: Mother Earth. As leaders from around the world gather here
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Speaker 1: in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, conversations
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Speaker 1: will take place about our shared future. And here in
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Speaker 1: Times Square, Om brings another question into that global conversation.
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Speaker 1: What is the consciousness from which we create that future?
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Speaker 1: Because behind every decision that shapes our world, there is
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Speaker 1: a human being. And the world we create together is
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Speaker 1: inseparable from the state from which we meet it. This
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Speaker 1: is why our message today is simple. Peace starts within.
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Speaker 1: And over the next two and a half hours, we
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Speaker 1: are going to explore what that truly means through ancient
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Speaker 1: wisdom and modern science, through voices working within our global
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Speaker 1: institutions and organizations creating new ways for us to gather
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Speaker 1: across the world in greater connection and shared intention. We
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Speaker 1: will experience the power of art and creativity and be
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Speaker 1: inspired by places consciously choosing peace as a way forward.
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Speaker 1: And we'll discover how even the way we play can
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Speaker 1: be in greater harmony with Mother Earth and throughout it all, music.
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Speaker 1: At OM, we honor the extraordinary power of music to
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Speaker 1: bring us together, to move us beyond words and into
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Speaker 1: a shared experience. because today we don't simply want to
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Speaker 1: talk about peace.
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Speaker 2: We're here to experience it.
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Speaker 1: At the heart of OM is a growing collective we
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Speaker 1: call OM-bassadors, people from many different walks of life who
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Speaker 1: have said yes to this invitation to remember and who
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Speaker 1: are bringing that remembrance into the way they live and
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Speaker 1: the work that they offer to the world.
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Speaker 2: The remarkable human.
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Speaker 1: Beings you will meet today on this stage are part
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Speaker 1: of this growing community, each bringing their own unique expression
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Speaker 1: of how we can live, create, embody.
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Speaker 2: Peace in the world.
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Speaker 1: And in each of them is a reminder that every
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Speaker 1: one of us has a part to play. Peace can
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Speaker 1: be expressed in so many different ways. And when those
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Speaker 1: individual expressions come together peace becomes collective. Imagine the world
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Speaker 1: we can create when peace is the consciousness from which
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Speaker 1: we meet one another, make our choices, and shape our future.
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Speaker 1: That is where peace starts within, becomes something greater than ourselves.
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Speaker 1: And so here, in Times Square, let us begin by
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Speaker 1: experiencing it right here, And now, I invite all of you,
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Speaker 1: wherever you are, to come into stillness. Whether you're standing
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Speaker 1: or whether you're sitting, let the body settle into stillness.
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Speaker 1: And for just two minutes, gently close the eyes. For
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Speaker 1: a moment, for a moment, just take in all the
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Speaker 1: sounds of the environment, the horns, the voices, the music,
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Speaker 1: the chatter, the movement. Spend a moment and just become
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Speaker 1: familiar with each sound. And now bring your awareness to
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Speaker 1: the whole body. Try to see within the mind the
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Speaker 1: whole body. In one glimpse, in one flash, try and
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Speaker 1: see the whole body within the mind. And now bring
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Speaker 1: your awareness to the natural breath. go deep, deep inside
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Speaker 1: of yourself as you follow the natural breath. As you inhale,
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Speaker 1: feel the natural expansion of the body. As you exhale,
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Speaker 1: feel the contraction and release. Inhaling, the body expands Exhaling,
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Speaker 1: the body releases and relaxes. Feel this natural expansion and
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Speaker 1: relaxation with every breath. And now become aware of this
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Speaker 1: shift into relaxation within the body. Feel the heartbeat.
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Speaker 2: It is slower. Feel the breath. It is deeper. Become
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Speaker 2: aware of the mind.
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Speaker 1: It is more still. Feel the state of calm and
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Speaker 1: peace within. Even here, in the middle of all of
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Speaker 1: this movement and all of this noise, we just met
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Speaker 1: together at a place of peace within. And if we
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Speaker 1: can do this here, we can do it anywhere. Gently
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Speaker 1: open the eyes. And from this place of peace, I
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Speaker 1: invite all of us to receive the wisdom of the
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Speaker 1: old ways. It is my honor to welcome spiritual leader
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Speaker 1: and wisdom keeper, Lex St. Onge, who is here to
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Speaker 1: bless this gathering with a prayer and song of peace.
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Speaker 2: Say now.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so put that up here.
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Speaker 4: Hello, everybody.
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Speaker 5: Can you hear me?
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Speaker 6: Yes, we're good.
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Speaker 3: As a spiritual leader in a native tribe... Can you
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Speaker 3: hear me?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 7: Check, check, check, check, check, check.
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Speaker 3: Check, check, check, check, check, check.
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Speaker 8: Let me look.
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Speaker 9: What's that?
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Speaker 3: One, two, one, two, one, two.
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Speaker 10: Hello?
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Speaker 11: There it goes.
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Speaker 3: All right, we got it. We got it, we're good.
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Speaker 12: So.
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Speaker 3: When we're speaking to crowds from a Native American aspect, yeah,
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Speaker 3: get that one out of there, I guess.
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Speaker 14: Okay.
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Speaker 3: We talk about our life way and how we push
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Speaker 3: through the world in body. Our bodies show the eyes, ears, nose, hands,
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Speaker 3: feet of our grandmothers and grandfathers before us. They were
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Speaker 3: successful people or you wouldn't be here right now. I'd
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Speaker 3: be talking to somebody else. So I honor you, each
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Speaker 3: and every one individually. I honor your ancestors for being
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Speaker 3: powerful enough to get you here all this way. And
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Speaker 3: if you're ever feeling lonely or down, look in the
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Speaker 3: mirror at your face, because it's really not yours. It's
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Speaker 3: a composite of all those who came before you, those
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Speaker 3: grandmothers and grandfathers that pushed through time that allowed you
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Speaker 3: to be here. Take your strength from knowing that they
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Speaker 3: ran from dire wolf, packs, saber tooth tigers, elephants everything
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Speaker 3: they had to do to get their children safe through
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Speaker 3: the long nights of winter food for the year healthy
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Speaker 3: protected from other people that may have done them harm
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Speaker 3: every one of you is an amazing success story amazing
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Speaker 3: so when i look at each of you or i
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Speaker 3: meet you on the street or i see you i
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Speaker 3: see all those ancestors behind you and they all tell
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Speaker 3: me the same thing Remind them who they are, how
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Speaker 3: powerful they are, and how we're with them always. As
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Speaker 3: a scientist, sometimes I'll swab someone's cheek and send their
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Speaker 3: DNA away because the smallest piece of them has the
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Speaker 3: maps of all the places their ancestors have ever been.
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Speaker 3: And you're made up of billions of these maps. So
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Speaker 3: how powerful are you? I don't like weakness. I don't
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Speaker 3: like people saying, oh, feel sorry for me. I'm sad
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Speaker 3: on this and that. You're so lucky to be in
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Speaker 3: body and you only are here for such a small
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Speaker 3: amount of time. So represent those grandmothers and grandfathers faces
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Speaker 3: that you see in the mirror. I love you all.
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Speaker 3: I love New York. This is amazing. I come from
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Speaker 3: the forest. I haven't been here since 1988. I've been
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Speaker 3: in the forest since then. So it's a different kind
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Speaker 3: of forest. And there's a different kind of animal people here.
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Speaker 3: But I feel you. I feel every one of you.
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Speaker 3: What we breathe out is carbon dioxide. That's what the
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Speaker 3: plants and forests breathe in. What they breathe out is oxygen.
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Speaker 3: That's what we breathe in. Without us, the forest dies.
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Speaker 3: Without the forest, we die. So how connected are we
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Speaker 3: to this world? I'm going to share with you a
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Speaker 3: musical instrument I made 30 years ago called a wandsauce.
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Speaker 3: It's made out of an elderberry tree, and it just
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Speaker 3: has some designs on it that made me happy. I've
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Speaker 3: used it forever, and a lot of the elders that
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Speaker 3: I played with at Shrine Science are gone, but I'm here,
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Speaker 3: and they told me, take it to the people. I'm
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Speaker 3: going to play an old instrument, very old, and I'm
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Speaker 3: going to sing a couple very old songs. So thank
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Speaker 3: you for being here with me and passing through time together.
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Speaker 9: Ayahna, ayahna, halanaha, amimano te heyo e, amimemo te heyo e, ayahna, ayahna, halanaha,
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Speaker 9: amimano te heyo e, Amimemote he yo'e. Ayahna, ayahna halanaha.
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Speaker 8: Amimanote he yo'e. Amimemote he yo'e. Ayahna, ayahna, lanaha, amimano
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Speaker 8: te heyo e, amimemo te heyo e, ayahna, ayahna, lanaha, e.
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Speaker 3: The next song I'm going to sing you is, there
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Speaker 3: was a woman who lived on San Nicolas Island and
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Speaker 3: she was the last one of her people. They call
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Speaker 3: her the lone woman of San Nicolas Island. She was
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Speaker 3: picked up by Spain and brought to the mainland and
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Speaker 3: she had an island fox pet and they left her
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Speaker 3: pet on the island and they took her and the
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Speaker 3: food wasn't very good and she died. While she was
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Speaker 3: alive and on the trip over, she spoke to an
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Speaker 3: old man named Kitsa Powet. And she sang a song
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Speaker 3: to him. And this is her song.
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Speaker 6: Toki, toki, ya hame mana. Toki, toki. Toki, toki, ya
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Speaker 6: hame mana. Toki, toki, ya hame mana.
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Speaker 15: Welechima. Welechima. Welechima.
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Speaker 6: Toki, toki, aha, mimena. Toki, toki, aha, mimena.
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Speaker 15: Welechima.
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Speaker 8: Welechima.
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Speaker 3: This is all about Peace Day, and I have a
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Speaker 3: daughter in the Navy. And I love her very much, Annabella.
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Speaker 3: And she's out there keeping us safe. She was stationed
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Speaker 3: in the Middle East for a while. And there's a
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Speaker 3: song that I always think about when I think about
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Speaker 3: her being away.
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Speaker 5: And it.
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Speaker 3: Goes, let's see. I'll be home for Christmas if only
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Speaker 3: in my dreams.
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Speaker 16: I love you, Annabella.
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Speaker 7: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, everybody.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Rex, for that beautiful offering. And now it
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Speaker 1: is my honor to introduce you to the Earth Elders,
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Speaker 1: an indigenous-led council from all continents who have united due
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Speaker 1: to shared.
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Speaker 2: Prophecies in these times of turning.
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Speaker 1: They are calling us to unite and showing us there
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Speaker 1: is another way. Their forthcoming film, Earth Elders, brings that
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Speaker 1: message to life following the elders from their ancestral territories.
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Speaker 2: Across the world to global gatherings.
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Speaker 1: The film brings their knowledge and leadership into conversation with governments, institutions,
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Speaker 1: and humanity at large. It is a story of remembrance, guardianship,
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Speaker 1: and a growing movement to protect the earth for generations
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Speaker 1: to come.
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Speaker 17: It was about 13,500 years ago when there was greater
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Speaker 17: biological and cultural diversity. When we all lived in harmony.
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Speaker 17: But some brothers and sisters started to deviate from the path.
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Speaker 17: And instead of taking care of life, they started to
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Speaker 17: take life. And now we are in a chaotic world.
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Speaker 17: This time that we are living in is very important.
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Speaker 17: There is a fundamental principle for humans. And that is
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Speaker 17: the principle of love.
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Speaker 18: What drives me to continue the work that I am doing,
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Speaker 18: mainly the defense of water.
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Speaker 14: Now with the extractive minerals, all this is being contaminated.
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Speaker 10: One of the great forgetting that I often encounter is
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Speaker 10: the great forgetting of.
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Speaker 16: The grandmother continent, which is the continent of Africa.
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Speaker 10: And it is the forgetting that that is the continent
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Speaker 10: where we all come from.
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Speaker 19: Everything we are going through has already been given this
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Speaker 19: vision in medicine. But we also have the vision that
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Speaker 19: we are going to overcome this struggle.
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Speaker 14: The eagle and condor, from my tradition, this prophecy, speaks
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Speaker 14: to the age that we're living in now, which is
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Speaker 14: the age of unification. Up until now, for many thousands
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Speaker 14: of years, we have been living in an age of separation,
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Speaker 14: which initially was something positive to cultivate diversity. This age
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Speaker 14: of separation was prophesied to end. At the end of
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Speaker 14: this age of separation, conflict would come, the age of
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Speaker 14: unity and unification, where all opposites will come together and
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Speaker 14: merge as one.
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Speaker 17: We are in a key moment, and in this key moment,
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Speaker 17: the world is watching us. It is already being recognized
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Speaker 17: that the peoples and the nations of origin We have
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Speaker 17: that wisdom to bring harmony, peace and collective dignity to
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Speaker 17: the peoples. Brothers and sisters, we are back. They are
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Speaker 17: listening to us.
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Speaker 1: Look out for the release of earth elders later this year.
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Speaker 1: There is something powerful in the wisdom that has endured
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Speaker 1: through generations held by those who have continued to remember.
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Speaker 1: And perhaps one of the greatest opportunities before us is
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Speaker 1: to ensure that that wisdom is not only honored but
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Speaker 1: carried forward. Bringing that possibility into the work of our
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Speaker 1: world is Rebecca Irby, an educator, peace builder, and co-founder
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Speaker 1: and president of the PEAK Institute, a global organization with
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Speaker 1: United Nations consultative status. She was also part of the
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Speaker 1: 2017 ICAN team, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Today, Her
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Speaker 1: work continues within the UN global community, including through the
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Speaker 1: new co-NGO, formerly known as Congo, where one of the
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Speaker 1: areas she is helping to advance is the integration of
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Speaker 1: indigenous knowledge and wisdom.
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Speaker 2: Into how we educate and prepare future generations.
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Speaker 1: As the United Nations General Assembly brings world leaders together
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Speaker 1: here in New York, Rebecca reminds us that the rooms
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Speaker 1: where policy is shaped matter, and so do spaces like
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Speaker 1: this one.
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Speaker 2: Please welcome Rebecca Irby.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 20: Good evening, New York. Look around. Really look around. We're standing, sitting,
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Speaker 20: being in one of the loudest places on earth. So
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Speaker 20: before we talk about peace out there, I want to
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Speaker 20: begin right here with us for a moment.
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Speaker 2: Let's be still. Feel your feet.
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Speaker 20: Your hands on the ground beneath you. Let's take a
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Speaker 20: breath together. Breathe in slowly through your mouth, through your nose. Inhale.
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Speaker 20: Hold for just a moment. And now exhale slowly throughout
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Speaker 20: your breath. Let's do it once more. Breathe in.
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Speaker 2: Hold.
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Speaker 20: This time, let it out with a sigh. Listen. And
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Speaker 20: this time, understand in this space where it is the
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Speaker 20: loudest place on earth, we just breathe together. And maybe
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Speaker 20: peace begins like this, with breath within us. But it
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Speaker 20: can't end there, because peace is also community. Peace becomes
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Speaker 20: real between us. And peace becomes powerful when we learn
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Speaker 20: how to move together. Just across the city, world leaders
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Speaker 20: are gathering at the United Nations. The United Nations itself
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Speaker 20: is changing. Our institutions are changing. And in many ways,
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Speaker 20: the world we have known is shifting beneath our feet.
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Speaker 20: And that can frighten us, or it can invite us.
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Speaker 20: Invite us to ask, what do we want to build now?
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Speaker 20: And maybe even more importantly, How do we learn to
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Speaker 20: move together? The first words of the United Nations Charter
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Speaker 20: are not we the governments. They are not we the privileged.
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Speaker 20: They are we the peoples. That means us. That means you.
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Speaker 20: And us has to mean.
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Speaker 2: All of us.
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Speaker 20: For someone living through war tonight, Peace may simply mean
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Speaker 20: knowing their family will be safe tomorrow. For someone whose
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Speaker 20: community has always been brought in after decisions are made,
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Speaker 20: peace means having a voice while the future is still
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Speaker 20: being decided. Because communities are not footnotes. Young people are
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Speaker 20: not simply the leaders of some distant future. And the
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Speaker 20: people closest to challenges are not.
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Speaker 2: Problems to be solved. They are the knowledge holders.
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Speaker 20: They are creators. They are builders of solutions. That, too,
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Speaker 20: is peace. Years ago, speaking at the United Nations about
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Speaker 20: nuclear weapons, I talked about systems as trees. We keep
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Speaker 20: cutting off branches, war, racism, poverty, violence, environmental destruction. But
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Speaker 20: if we never deal with the roots that keep producing
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Speaker 20: those branches, Another one simply grows back. But tonight, I
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Speaker 20: want to turn that image around because if destructive systems
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Speaker 20: have roots, peace has seeds. Seeds of dignity, justice, belonging, listening, love, joy.
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Speaker 20: Those seeds already exist, and our job is to make
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Speaker 20: room for them, to plant them, to protect them, to
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Speaker 20: nourish them, and to help them take root. This year's
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Speaker 20: International Day of Peace calls us to invest in peace
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Speaker 20: for everyone, everywhere, every day. And I keep thinking about
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Speaker 20: that word, invest. What if we invest in peace with
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Speaker 20: the same intentions we invest in economies, institutions, and technologies?
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Speaker 20: What if we invest our intentions, our attention, our courage,
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Speaker 20: our creativity, our relationships, our joy? What if we insist
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Speaker 20: and invest in our ability to listen before we decide
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Speaker 20: to see another human, not as a problem to be solved,
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Speaker 20: but as someone who carries the wisdom we so desperately need.
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Speaker 20: Because investing in peace is not something reserved for diplomats.
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Speaker 20: We invest in peace every time we make room for
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Speaker 20: someone to be heard every time we choose curiosity over
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Speaker 20: fear every time we gather around love and joy and
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Speaker 20: remember we belong to one another and sometimes peace is
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Speaker 20: choosing hope when everything and everyone around us tells us
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Speaker 20: not to. I have spent much of my life around
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Speaker 20: people who were told, that will never happen. You're so naive.
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Speaker 20: That's way too idealistic. Systems will never change. But again
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Speaker 20: and again, I have watched people find one another, organize,
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Speaker 20: imagine something different, and move. what everyone believed and thought
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Speaker 20: could not be moved. So I've learned something and I
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Speaker 20: share this with you with conviction. There is no one
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Speaker 20: coming to save us. There is no one coming to
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Speaker 20: save us. And I say that with tremendous hope because
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Speaker 20: we were never supposed to outsource our humanity.
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Speaker 2: The power is already here.
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Speaker 20: It is in people, it is in communities, in artists,
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Speaker 20: in young people, in elders, in every person who decides
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Speaker 20: that someone else's dignity matters.
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Speaker 2: As much as their own.
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Speaker 20: And right here, right now, tonight, that is the power
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Speaker 20: of we. So the question is not, who is gonna
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Speaker 20: fix the world? The question is, What will we build
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Speaker 20: together that none of us could have built alone? And
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Speaker 20: that is why, tonight, I love that we are answering
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Speaker 20: this question with music. Because before we share language, we
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Speaker 20: can share rhythm. Before we agree on anything, we can resonate.
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Speaker 20: Sound moves through all of us. And when different notes
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Speaker 20: come together, they don't lose what makes them distinct.
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Speaker 2: They create something that.
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Speaker 20: No one could create alone, harmony. And maybe that, that
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Speaker 20: is peace too. So tonight, let this music be more
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Speaker 20: than entertainment. Let it be a rehearsal, a rehearsal for listening, connecting, belonging,
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Speaker 20: for learning how to move together, a rehearsal for the
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Speaker 20: world we are trying to build. Let Times Square Feel
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Speaker 20: something tonight. And if you believe this, say these words
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Speaker 20: with me. We are still here. We are still here.
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Speaker 20: We are still here. We are still imagining. We are
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Speaker 20: still choosing one another. We are building. And we are
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Speaker 20: not waiting for peace to arrive. We are practicing it,
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Speaker 20: we are investing in it, right here, right now, with
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Speaker 20: one another. Peace starts within, and the future, the future
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Speaker 20: belongs to we. Welcome, everybody, let's make some noise!
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Speaker 7: Woo!
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Rebecca.
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Speaker 1: Imagine what becomes possible when the peace.
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Speaker 1: Imagine what becomes possible when the peace we cultivate within
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Speaker 1: becomes part of how we show up in the world,
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Speaker 1: when our spiritual life and our working life are no
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Speaker 1: longer separate, but begin to inform one another. Alyssa Herman
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Speaker 1: has spent much of her life walking between these worlds.
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Speaker 1: She has served as managing director, COO, and executive vice
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Speaker 1: president at some of Wall Street's leading financial institutions, including
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Speaker 1: Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and Bank of America, while devoting an
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Speaker 1: equally important part of her life to personal transformation. Today,
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Speaker 1: her work sits at the intersection of human potential and
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Speaker 1: artificial intelligence, exploring how we harness the possibilities of AI
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Speaker 1: while bringing greater consciousness and humanity into the future of leadership.
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Speaker 1: Because as technologies become increasingly capable, what we cultivate in
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Speaker 1: the human being using it becomes more important, not less.
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Speaker 1: And Alyssa brings from that very modern frontier into one of.
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Speaker 2: Our most ancient practices, mantra. In the yogic tradition, mantra
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Speaker 2: is an ancient science of sound.
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Speaker 1: The sounds of Sanskrit have long been understood to carry
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Speaker 1: particular vibration and correspond with energetic centers within the body.
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Speaker 1: As Alyssa shares mantras of peace, protection, and trust, I
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Speaker 1: invite you to all simply receive the sound. Notice where
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Speaker 1: you feel it, what shifts within the body, breath, and mind.
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Speaker 1: You don't need to understand the words. Simply allow the
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Speaker 1: mantra to become an experience. Please welcome Alyssa Herman.
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Speaker 2: Hello, everybody.
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Speaker 21: Happy International Day of Peace. And happy birthday, Joel Kretz.
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Speaker 21: Thank you for all of your support and work to
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Speaker 21: make today possible with Michelle and Maria and Om. So
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Speaker 21: grateful to be here with all of you. What a
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Speaker 21: moment this is to be standing here in the heart
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Speaker 21: of Times Square with each and every one of you,
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Speaker 21: and feeling like we're surrounded by so much positive energy.
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Speaker 17: You feel it?
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Speaker 2: You feel it? I do too. This is just blissful.
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Speaker 21: And, you know, we're celebrating something that each and every
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Speaker 21: one of us has the power to create, and that
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Speaker 21: is peace. And we all know that it's a choice.
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Speaker 21: We can make it every single moment of every single day.
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Speaker 21: My name is Alyssa Herman, and for the last 30 years,
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Speaker 21: I have been an executive change maker on Wall Street,
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Speaker 21: jiving very large-scale transformations in some of the largest financial institutions.
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Speaker 21: And now I'm going to be advising these very institutions
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Speaker 21: on how to rethink and reimagine their operating models and
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Speaker 21: their workflows as it pertains to the advent of AI
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Speaker 21: and how to automate. But in doing so, it's extremely
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Speaker 21: important that everyone keep in mind the role of the
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Speaker 21: human and the power of the human to do things
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Speaker 21: that AI will never be able to do, like innovate,
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Speaker 21: come up with really brand new ideas, not derivative ideas,
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Speaker 21: and to lead from the heart with thought leaders who
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Speaker 21: are really conscious, who understand that it's not only about
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Speaker 21: the bottom line, it's about seeing the value in people
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Speaker 21: who shine. And I have spent many years in parallel
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Speaker 21: to this corporate existence, really doing the inner work and
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Speaker 21: the transformation work inside. I spent several years practicing Qigong
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Speaker 21: with a Qigong master, really learning how to breathe and
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Speaker 21: breathe into my body and feel. and stumbled into Ayurveda
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Speaker 21: and learned so much about what makes us connect and
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Speaker 21: what life is really about, just from learning how the
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Speaker 21: different asanas and yoga and food we eat and how
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Speaker 21: everything that surrounds us is yoga. And I stumbled then
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Speaker 21: into kundalini yoga, and that's where I fell in love
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Speaker 21: with mantra and sound and vibration And that led me
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Speaker 21: to start playing the gong and then the sound bowls.
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Speaker 21: And I studied sound with Jonathan Goldman and then later
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Speaker 21: also became an executive coach. So though these two worlds
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Speaker 21: might seem quite disparate, corporate, yoga, but actually they're quite similar.
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Speaker 21: It's all about transformation. And what I discovered is that
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Speaker 21: the outer world is just a reflection of the inner world.
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Speaker 21: And when we change inside and we do the work,
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Speaker 21: we see that work reflected in the outside. And we
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Speaker 21: all have the power to do this, when we release
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Speaker 21: resistance and the need to react to every situation, when
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Speaker 21: we loosen the grip that we have and that need
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Speaker 21: for control and attachment to expected outcomes, and we just
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Speaker 21: go inside and we find that neutral spot, that place
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Speaker 21: of samadhi, and we just see that no judgment is
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Speaker 21: needed and that everything that we have and everything that
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Speaker 21: we need we have inside. That's where peace resides. And
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Speaker 21: today I'm going to be chanting three mantras. The first,
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Speaker 21: there are three kundalini mantras and as Yogini Jema said,
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Speaker 21: mantra is a mind tool. It's an instrument, it's sound.
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Speaker 21: It's a vibration. So more than the literal words and
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Speaker 21: what their meaning is, I ask that you all just
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Speaker 21: close your eyes and feel the vibration of the sound.
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Speaker 21: And if you feel so moved, please join in. The
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Speaker 21: mantras are repeated, so over time you may learn them.
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Speaker 21: It doesn't really matter the words. I just feel the vibration.
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Speaker 17: And join me in.
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Speaker 2: The vibration. Thank you.
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Speaker 21: The first mantra is a mantra of peace.
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Speaker 22: Sat Narayan Waheguru Hari Narayan Sat Naam Sat Narayan Waheguru
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Speaker 22: Hari Narayan Sat Naam Sat Narayan Vaheguru.
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Speaker 13: Hari Narayan Satnam Peace Sat Narayan Vaheguru Hari Narayan Satnam
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Speaker 13: Join me Sat Narayan Vaheguru Hare Narayan Satnam Sat Narayan
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Speaker 13: Oha Hey Guru Hare Narayan Satnam Sat Narayan Oha Hey
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Speaker 13: Guru Hare Narayan Satnam Sat Narayan Vaheguru Hari Narayan Satnam
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Speaker 13: Sat Narayan Vaheguru Hari Narayan Satnam Find that peace inside.
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Speaker 13: Sat Narayan Vaheguru The next mantra I will do is
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Speaker 13: the protection mantra, the Mangalacharan.
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Speaker 2: Please join me.
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Speaker 10: Good day.
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Speaker 22: Good day.
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Speaker 23: Good day.
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Speaker 10: Siddhi Gurudev Namah.
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Speaker 23: Aum Gurudev Namah Juga Gudei na mei Sat Gudei na
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Speaker 23: mei Siddhi Gurudei.
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Speaker 2: Vei na mei Good day to me.
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Speaker 13: Good day to me.
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Speaker 22: Good day to me.
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Speaker 13: Good day to me.
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Speaker 23: Protection.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 21: And the last mantra I will do is a mantra
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Speaker 21: for trust, which each and every one of us knows
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Speaker 21: there's something greater.
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Speaker 2: We're all interconnected.
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Speaker 21: Let's trust in our ability to co-create peace together. Let's
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Speaker 21: trust in that possibility.
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Speaker 24: Apsahayi hoa satchadar satchadoa Had, had, had Apsahayi hoa satchadar
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Speaker 24: satchadoa Had, had, had Up to high hoa Such a dar.
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Speaker 11: Such a doa Hard, hard, hard.
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Speaker 2: Join me.
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Speaker 11: Up to high hoa Such a dar Sacha doha har
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Speaker 11: har har.
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Speaker 24: Aksa hai hoa Sacha dar Sacha doha har har har
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Speaker 24: Sai Hoa.
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Speaker 18: Sajjadah Sajjadoa Har.
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Speaker 2: Har Har Thank you. Thank you, Alyssa.
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Speaker 7: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: There is an extraordinary power in what can happen when
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Speaker 1: people around the world come together at the same moment,
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Speaker 1: united by a shared intention. For decades, Chris Decker has
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Speaker 1: been creating those moments. A visionary leader in global music, culture,
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Speaker 1: and ecological activism, Chris is the founder of Earth Dance,
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Speaker 1: one of the largest synchronized global peace events in the world. Today,
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Speaker 1: As co-founder of Origin, he continues to explore how music, community, consciousness,
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Speaker 1: and our relationship with the Earth can bring humanity together
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Speaker 1: in new ways. His work invites us to imagine what
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Speaker 1: becomes possible when we move beyond our individual experience and
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Speaker 1: gather in greater connection and coherence. Please welcome Chris Decker.
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Speaker 16: Thank you, everyone. It's so great to be here in
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Speaker 16: beautiful New York City. I flew in from Australia just
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Speaker 16: a few days ago to be with you all here
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Speaker 16: on the International Day of Peace. So what an amazing place.
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Speaker 16: And I'm here to invite you all to an event.
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Speaker 16: It's a global event that's happening October 17th, just a
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Speaker 16: month from today. And the event is called Origin.
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Speaker 8: Origin.
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Speaker 16: And the idea behind Origin is that what if we
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Speaker 16: could take a day out, if planet Earth and everybody
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Speaker 16: around the world could take a day out to actually
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Speaker 16: celebrate the universal truth that we all share a common origin,
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Speaker 16: all of humanity, regardless of color, regardless of what religion.
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Speaker 16: We all come from the same source. We are all
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Speaker 16: homo sapien. We are all humans. We are all one tribe, actually.
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Speaker 16: So that's the concept. October 17th, around the world. You
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Speaker 16: don't have to go anywhere or buy a ticket to
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Speaker 16: any event. It's a global, synchronized event. You just have
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Speaker 16: to bring your friends and family together at the simplest level,
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Speaker 16: sign up, and your light joins the global map. So far,
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Speaker 16: we have around... 3,500 satellite events. People around the world
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Speaker 16: have signed up to commit to this day. We have
51:43
Speaker 16: about 100 plus public events as well happening all around
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Speaker 16: the world. 75 countries are now participating. So we're making
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Speaker 16: an invitation to all of you to please, please join.
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Speaker 16: It's very, very simple. It's ourorigin.earth. And the sort of theme,
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Speaker 16: if you like, of Origin is we are catalyzing a
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Speaker 16: cultural shift from doom to bloom. And I'm sure you know,
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Speaker 16: in your feeds, in your social media, on the news,
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Speaker 16: there is so much doom being presented to us. Everything
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Speaker 16: feels like it's collapsing. Political systems are collapsing. Governments are
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Speaker 16: attacking their own people.
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Speaker 15: Hello.
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Speaker 16: We're having chaos around the world. We're seeing mountains fall
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Speaker 16: in Nepal. We're seeing people fighting each other, countries fighting
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Speaker 16: each other. But actually, this breakdown is leading to a breakthrough.
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Speaker 16: We're actually breaking through and we need to come together
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Speaker 16: more than ever as communities, more than ever as one
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Speaker 16: human population. We need to come together and celebrate the
52:51
Speaker 16: fact that what it's going to take is collaboration, not separation.
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Speaker 16: This old paradigm narrative of us and them. We have
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Speaker 16: to put that aside and come together and collaborate to
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Speaker 16: build a new earth. I build a new Earth for
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Speaker 16: our children. So the highlight or the climax of the
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Speaker 16: Origin event is a synchronized global moment. And what we
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Speaker 16: did was the last few months, we went around the
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Speaker 16: world with this incredible filmmaker, Deborah Anderson, who filmed First
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Speaker 16: Nation elders in 15 different tribes, in all these different
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Speaker 16: countries around the world, starting with New Zealand, right across
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Speaker 16: the world, Asia, Africa, Americas. And we asked the elders
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Speaker 16: a simple question. Can you share a few lines from
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Speaker 16: a prayer from your culture for Mother Earth? So we
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Speaker 16: grabbed a few lines from each elder and we wove
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Speaker 16: it together into one beautiful prayer. So on October 17th,
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Speaker 16: At 12 p.m. San Francisco time, 3 p.m. New York time,
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Speaker 16: and all the other time zones across the world, the
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Speaker 16: whole world will synchronize and will listen to this prayer.
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Speaker 16: And people will be tuning in to this prayer, starting
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Speaker 16: with the indigenous wisdom keepers of this world. And then
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Speaker 16: it will go into the next stage. The next invitation
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Speaker 16: is to put your hands on the earth. And if
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Speaker 16: you're in a block of flats, hold a pot plant,
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Speaker 16: hold a piece of nature and make your own affirmation for.
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Speaker 12: A new earth.
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Speaker 16: And then it's going to go into an anthem for
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Speaker 16: global unity. So we put the word out to artists
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Speaker 16: across the world from all different musical traditions. We had
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Speaker 16: 40 artists come together and create this anthem. So imagine from...
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Speaker 16: this prayer for Mother Earth into a moment of your
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Speaker 16: own connection, a moment of your own stillness into this anthem.
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Speaker 16: Hopefully everybody will be dancing around the world at the
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Speaker 16: same time. So that's the invitation for you all. You
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Speaker 16: can sign up on ourorigin.earth, ourorigin.earth, and just check it
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Speaker 16: out and sign up. It's very simple. You don't have
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Speaker 16: to do anything as I was mentioning. And today, for
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Speaker 16: the first time, we're really, really excited. This is the
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Speaker 16: first public launch of the anthem for Global Unity. We
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Speaker 16: haven't shown it to anyone yet. It literally is just
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Speaker 16: hot off the press, and it made it right in
55:21
Speaker 16: time for this moment in Times Square. So two of
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Speaker 16: the artists who were most grateful to join the anthem
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Speaker 16: was Edward Ellington Jr. and April Ellington, who are the
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Speaker 16: son and daughter of Duke Ellington, the famous legendary jazz
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Speaker 16: artist Duke Ellington from New York City. They joined the
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Speaker 16: anthem with such passion and such energy. So we asked
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Speaker 16: them to come today, to be with us today, to
55:49
Speaker 16: cut the ribbon, if you like, to launch the anthem
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Speaker 16: for you all today in Times Square. So please give
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Speaker 16: them a big round of applause.
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Speaker 5: Good evening, New York. My sister and I were very
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Speaker 5: honored to be part of this project, the Origin Anthem.
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Speaker 5: And the message behind it, as you will see, this
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Speaker 5: is actually the world premiere of the video of the recording.
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Speaker 5: Artists in this video are represented by 30 different countries.
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Speaker 5: And my sister and I have been on tour, so
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Speaker 5: we did part of the recording in Los Angeles and
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Speaker 5: part of it here in New York. But we just
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Speaker 5: wanted to share with you It's our responsibility to take
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Speaker 5: care of the gift that we have of this planet,
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Speaker 5: the resources that it brings, and just be kind to
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Speaker 5: each other. That's all that is required. You have the rules,
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Speaker 5: let's go.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, New York.
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Speaker 25: How's everybody feeling this afternoon, this early evening? United Nations
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Speaker 25: International Peace Day. We have all gathered here of one accord.
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Speaker 25: We are here, as my brother mentioned, to present the
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Speaker 25: most amazing composition, Origin Anthem. And as Edward mentioned, it
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Speaker 25: is our responsibility. We must, our world is in a
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Speaker 25: state of flux. Now is the time. It's not the
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Speaker 25: wave of the future, it's the right here, the right now,
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Speaker 25: to reconnect with nature, our earth, one another, be kind
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Speaker 25: to each other, love one another, and take care of
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Speaker 25: our earth. And everybody, find peace in your heart. And
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Speaker 25: we wanna make sure that everybody lets everybody else know
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Speaker 25: that may not be here to make sure to join
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Speaker 25: our Origin.Earth and the Origin Anthem.
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Speaker 14: And we are.
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Speaker 25: So honored, so pleased to be a part of this project.
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Speaker 25: And this is just the beginning. We're planting the seed
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Speaker 25: and now we must nurture our land and watch it grow.
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Speaker 5: Also, I want to share with you the writers of
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Speaker 5: this composition, Mr. Aaron Abelman and Mr. Chris Decker. And
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Speaker 5: we do love you madly.
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Speaker 25: Amen.
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Speaker 5: Enjoy the Origin Anthem.
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Speaker 7: One moon, one sun. Blessings, brothers, sisters. Called to come.
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Speaker 4: Call to come Gathering.
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Speaker 7: Flowers for our world.
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Speaker 12: It's in the way we dance and it's in the
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Speaker 12: way we pray. It's in the.
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Speaker 16: Seeds we're planting.
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Speaker 7: It's in the way we play.
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Speaker 2: Father, the wisdom of the elders.
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Speaker 7: Will keep us strong. The sacred knowledge from our ancestral songs.
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Speaker 12: We're going to find our way.
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Speaker 7: To get back to our origin.
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Speaker 12: We're gonna find our way. We claim our new life begins. Origin, origin,
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Speaker 12: where harmony began.
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Speaker 7: Every heart, every voice, rising once again.
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Speaker 26: Yeah, feel it all to return back to our origin.
1:00:09
Speaker 7: We are one, we are love, a new life shall begin.
1:00:13
Speaker 7: The moment's yet to come. Every river, tree, and mountain
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Speaker 7: is our own Ancient echoes in the wind.
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Speaker 4: It's a brand new road, trading roots to the past,
1:00:53
Speaker 4: one human family connected at last, unity, peace, let the
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Speaker 4: healing begin, wake the fire, spark the light from within,
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Speaker 4: no walls between us when the world is new, look
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Speaker 4: back to our origins, ain't root renewed, send out a wave,
1:01:05
Speaker 4: let compassion deploy, cover the earth in unstoppable joy.
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Speaker 12: It's in the way we gather Our stories show the.
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Speaker 26: Way It's in the way we matter Each and.
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Speaker 7: Every day It's in.
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Speaker 12: The dreams of children Leading us along Singing the melody
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Speaker 12: of our.
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Speaker 5: New ancient song We're.
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Speaker 3: Gonna find our.
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Speaker 7: Way To get back to our origin We're gonna.
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Speaker 26: Find the harmony began. Every heart, every voice, rising once again. Yeah,
1:01:49
Speaker 26: feel the heart to return back to our origin. We
1:01:52
Speaker 26: are one, we are one, never shall be. We're gonna
1:01:54
Speaker 26: find our way. We're gonna find our way.
1:02:17
Speaker 16: Let's go.
1:02:17
Speaker 26: We're going to find our way.
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Speaker 7: Thanks, everyone.
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Speaker 16: It's so wonderful to be here with you all to
1:02:28
Speaker 16: watch this song publicly for the first time. So please
1:02:31
Speaker 16: sign up. It's going to take all of us to
1:02:34
Speaker 16: create a healthy, new, thriving world. So please sign up
1:02:37
Speaker 16: to Our Origin, ourorigin.earth, and we'll see you. Thanks so much.
1:02:45
Speaker 1: Thank you, Chris and Origin, for all that you do.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.