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Shining more Brightly · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:00
  Speaker: Good morning.
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  Speaker: We all want to be our best selves.
• 0:04
  Speaker: We all want to shine the brightest in our own minds for our own sense of satisfaction.
• 0:11
  Speaker: I'm sure through our own thinking that this would be shared by others.
• 0:16
  Speaker: If it's making us happy, then it's going to make others happy.
• 0:22
  Speaker: We want to do the best we can.
• 0:26
  Speaker: We want to improve ourselves.
• 0:28
  Speaker: This is the basis of all human activity, be it to feed oneself or whatever other more lofty goals one might have, one shares with themselves, one creates, one develops.
• 0:44
  Speaker: How do we go about moving from this concept A to creating it B?
• 0:56
  Speaker: How do we do this?
• 0:59
  Speaker: Certainly being more attentive to what we're attempting to accomplish is critical.
• 1:07
  Speaker: We need to practice and familiarize ourselves with what it is we're talking about, what we're thinking about, hoping to accomplish.
• 1:19
  Speaker: It is time spent.
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  Speaker: It is an investment of one's being, of one's time, of oneself.
• 1:27
  Speaker: Into one's goals, one's pursuits, what one wants to accomplish, one hopes to be, come, be.
• 1:41
  Speaker: How wide, how far, how high are one's aspirations?
• 1:51
  Speaker: How what?
• 1:55
  Speaker: When, where, who, why?
• 1:58
  Speaker: Have these goals been set to where they are?
• 2:02
  Speaker: What are we doing on a daily basis, on an hour-by-hour basis?
• 2:13
  Speaker: Or even more specifically, on a moment-by-moment basis, in moving ourselves ahead towards where we are here now, seeing ourselves as bundles of miracles, and having enough sense of perspective to have a sense of humility, a sense of awe at what we're a part of, of the depth that we are contemplating, being, being thankful to even have a part at all.
• 3:09
  Speaker: This is an opportunity presenting itself in a moment.
• 3:16
  Speaker: Enjoy it and breathe and smile, and in one's greater awareness, remembering our warmth emanating from our bodies, the textures of our skin, of our hair, of our clothes, of the breezes, of other objects or other people or animals, a pet, being cognizant with a touch of humility, gratitude, grace for our place in this universe we are here now, bundles of miracles, and know it.
• 4:06
  Speaker: Every moment of every day, everything is changing.
• 4:13
  Speaker: There is nothing remaining the same.
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  Speaker: What level of awareness do we wish to maintain?
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  Speaker: Is the greatest question one can frame.
• 4:29
  Speaker: We are here now.
• 4:33
  Speaker: This is connotating a gathering of senses, focus, concentration.
• 4:42
  Speaker: This is what we're calling out.
• 4:45
  Speaker: We are here now, bundles of miracles, humbled, in the immensity of creation, thankful for our opportunity.
• 5:04
  Speaker: Of concentration and focus.
• 5:28
  Speaker: This is practice, this is mindful meditation, this is what it is.
• 5:33
  Speaker: This is utilizing one's moments in a positive and self-improving manner.
• 5:42
  Speaker: Period.
• 5:43
  Speaker: It is what it is.
• 5:45
  Speaker: How we proceed, how we allow ourselves to be, are the continuation of this discussion.
• 6:02
  Speaker: What is the best we can do is be singing this song of awareness all day long.
• 6:17
  Speaker: I am here now, a bundle of miracles.
• 6:23
  Speaker: Humbled in the immensity of creation, thankful.
• 6:34
  Speaker: When we have this opportunity presented to us in a moment, all other pursuits begin to pale.
• 6:48
  Speaker: When we again realize our own majesty, doing this all day, this practice.
• 7:00
  Speaker: Help me facilitate moment by moment my recollection, my memory of this changing, flowing environment we find ourselves in, shimmering in the ecstasy of being alive, one's whole body sparkling with life energy.
• 7:41
  Speaker: This is us glowing, flowing, growing with our practice, determination, our discipline, our desire.
• 7:56
  Speaker: Must be this way for us to succeed.
• 8:04
  Speaker: It is consistency.
• 8:08
  Speaker: One keeps the fire stoked, the wood burning, one's internal flame.
• 8:18
  Speaker: Drink water, eat food, breathe deeply and long, exercise, remembering whom we are.
• 8:35
  Speaker: The music continues for another minute.
• 8:39
  Speaker: Linger, singing one's own song, one's uniqueness. namaste