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Once lit the fire is always burning · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

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  Speaker: Hi.
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  Speaker: To everything there is a season.
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  Speaker: For everything there is a rhyme and reason.
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  Speaker: Being here now, a bundle of miracles.
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  Speaker: At ease, calm.
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  Speaker: Visualize with me an orangey red glow across the horizon.
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  Speaker: This is you and me, settling in.
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  Speaker: Aware of the feelings of one's skin, of the texture of things in contact or close by, or just the breeze, or the heat emanating from our skin, all of these things at once.
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  Speaker: Smile, being alive, being thankful for our opportunity to live, being here now, present, cheerful, brave, curious as to where we're going today.
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  Speaker: Why?
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  Speaker: Who?
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  Speaker: What?
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  Speaker: When?
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  Speaker: Where?
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  Speaker: These are the six questions along with How numerated by Thomas Wilson in fifteen sixty.
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  Speaker: A rhetorician who figured out these were the questions to ask about any subject matter you are interested in learning about more.
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  Speaker: Use AI, use your Google search or your different search engines to ponder and have some answers supplied to what's on your mind.
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  Speaker: It's a good idea.
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  Speaker: Wanting to improve oneself, wanting to know, wanting to learn, being curious, being thankful for being alive, being humble in our realization of how much is going on simultaneously when we consider not only ourselves but everything beyond our own skin.
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  Speaker: Every facet of life and of natural processes occurring.
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  Speaker: From the sun and the moon and the stars and our world to the next curl of one's tongue upon your lips soothing them from being dry or scratching an itchy eye.
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  Speaker: Thinking how wide the panorama of this universe is.
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  Speaker: Being here now is enough, we don't have answers.
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  Speaker: It's understandable we don't know.
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  Speaker: It is infinite in every shape, way, or form.
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  Speaker: What do we know?
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  Speaker: What can we even attempt or hope to conceive?
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  Speaker: One thousandth of one percent of the electromagnetic spectrum of energy.
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  Speaker: Not much.
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  Speaker: One thousandth of one percent.
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  Speaker: Not much at all.
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  Speaker: But it's okay.
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  Speaker: We are here now and perceiving and amazed and in awe and feeling a sense of reverence for this incredible thing that we are part of.
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  Speaker: It is beyond a religion or a philosophy or a culture or a tradition.
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  Speaker: It is beyond this.
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  Speaker: They do not encapsulate what is.
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  Speaker: Remembering, increasing one's perspective, is a key in learning.
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  Speaker: The more data one has to consider, the better decision one can make.
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  Speaker: Being here now, a bundle of miracles formed on a planet called Earth over three billion years.
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  Speaker: A bundle of miracles.
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  Speaker: Having gone through a countless number of iterations between life as it began to looking, standing, man, mankind, homo sapiens, you, me.
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  Speaker: From that to this in three billion years.
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  Speaker: It wasn't a straight route.
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  Speaker: There have been five major extinctions on our planet already, where at least seventy-five percent of all life died, became extinct in these cataclysmic events.
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  Speaker: We go by what we've learned, what we've been taught, what we've been presented to by our societies, our cultures, our traditions.
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  Speaker: But this does not mean they are true.
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  Speaker: This does not mean anything other than what you yourself come to a conclusion about through your greater wisdom, experience, understanding, harmony, grace, receptivity, acceptance, compassion, kindness.
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  Speaker: We need all of these traits, these virtues, to help us open our own selves that we might pay better, more authentic attention to whom we are.
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  Speaker: Because it is also always evolving.
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  Speaker: So as much as you know whom you are in this moment now, in five minutes, you will not be the same person.
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  Speaker: It's impossible.
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  Speaker: You may have the same characteristics, you may be nearly identical in many, if not all, the ways that you and I can conceive, but whatever time span alone has become part of our conversation, this is a difference.
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  Speaker: The number of beats of one's heart, breath, etc.
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  Speaker: Everything is flexible and changing.
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  Speaker: Thinking about these things, the music's going on for another minute.
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  Speaker: Please ponder your being on your own.
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  Speaker: Be nice and smile.
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  Speaker: Be glad that you and I are awakening in this dawning of our Aquarian age.