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Taking No Thing for Granted · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:00
  Speaker: Good morning.
• 0:01
  Speaker: Whom do we think we are?
• 0:15
  Speaker: What are we talking about?
• 0:20
  Speaker: Taking nothing for granted is what this is all about.
• 0:24
  Speaker: When one remembers something, what are we doing?
• 0:26
  Speaker: We're not taking for granted.
• 0:28
  Speaker: We're actually paying attention to something we desire to think about.
• 0:34
  Speaker: Remember whom we are.
• 0:37
  Speaker: Bundles of miracles.
• 0:39
  Speaker: This goal in and of itself is a harbinger of a better understanding of our universe, which we are part of.
• 0:49
  Speaker: We are in the womb of creation.
• 0:52
  Speaker: Remember.
• 0:55
  Speaker: This is what mindful meditation is.
• 0:57
  Speaker: This is what all forms of meditation are.
• 1:00
  Speaker: This is what all higher acts of thinking allude to and lean toward.
• 1:07
  Speaker: Let me read you something I saw this morning.
• 1:10
  Speaker: "Within man is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related.
• 1:30
  Speaker: The eternal one." This is a poem written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who lived from 1803 until 1882.
• 1:46
  Speaker: From " the Over Soul" is the title of the treatise that he's made here.
• 1:56
  Speaker: Within man is the soul of the whole.
• 2:00
  Speaker: We say the same thing.
• 2:02
  Speaker: The wise silence, the universal beauty, for sure, to which every part and particle is equally related.
• 2:14
  Speaker: The eternal one.
• 2:17
  Speaker: It's a unique way of saying his thoughts.
• 2:22
  Speaker: And we share more or less, or I share more or less the same thoughts as this gentleman.
• 2:30
  Speaker: And quite possibly similar thoughts to the way that you think.
• 2:37
  Speaker: In reading Seneca, Socrates, Plato, many of those recorded to have made writings, phrases available to the future, have said the same thing.
• 2:53
  Speaker: All of the greatest religions allude to something similar.
• 2:59
  Speaker: What does this say then about us?
• 3:02
  Speaker: The homogeneity of our being, of the way we think, of the way we create paths for ourselves, for our questioning, analysis.
• 3:17
  Speaker: Remembering is key.
• 3:20
  Speaker: When one awakens in the morning, what a great accomplishment to do is firstly, be thankful.
• 3:30
  Speaker: Recite your meaningful phrases to help lift oneself from one's bed.
• 3:39
  Speaker: Not that one needs it, one is adding to the vitality, perspective, possibilities of one's day.
• 3:51
  Speaker: This is what's occurring when we meet our time with wisdom, with accumulating experience.
• 4:00
  Speaker: We take our helm and rudder and steer forth into our futures, cascading upon us in each, every moment of time better, more aware, more aware of the possibilities or potential for distractions, attractions, diversions, understanding, kindness, compassion, differences.
• 4:32
  Speaker: This is what we're talking about.
• 4:35
  Speaker: Seeing wider and farther, acknowledging every human being as one's family member, one's cousin, with understanding, humility, grace, appreciation for the diversity of the flowering of mankind.
• 4:59
  Speaker: It's incredible what's gone on, what's going on, what we have found.
• 5:06
  Speaker: We should be cherishing all cultures, traditions, customs, bettering them where it makes sense, no question, but yet celebrating how we have learned and gathered and gained over the millennium, say for the last twenty thousand years, what I like to call the Aquarian age.
• 5:32
  Speaker: Look what we've accomplished.
• 5:34
  Speaker: Today more than ever, we are the stewards of our world.
• 5:39
  Speaker: We need to continue our aspirations for more virtue and awareness of what we're doing.
• 5:47
  Speaker: Does this not make sense?
• 5:50
  Speaker: Common sense for all being here now, bundles of miracles, finding a sense of compassion and grace, finding a sense of humility and awe, finding a sense of gratitude for just being alive.
• 6:18
  Speaker: Have a wonderful day.
• 6:21
  Speaker: Namaste.