Episode 15

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25th Mar 2025

#15 - You Are Never Alone: Finding Quiet, Connection, and Peace with Gauranga Breathing

Breath deep and settle in with us for a day on a breezy hilltop in Mani, above Aeropoli, where furry friends, wildflowers, and old stone walls weave together with mantra meditation. We don’t have all the answers, but we do have our Gauranga breath, a little laughter, some meandering chats about finding your quiet spot (even if the road there is a bit of a detour and the dogs just show up unannounced), and a genuine wish to share every day’s small peace.

We talk through sacred names, stories from the road, and those lingering feelings of wanting connection and belonging. For anyone who’s ever felt left out or unsure, maybe needed a reminder you’re not alone, this is for you. No right way, just a little chanting, lots of grounding, sun on the face, and the gentle practice of showing up—with all the awkward pauses and missed turns included. Thanks for making space with us to breathe, chant, and maybe wobble your tail a bit.

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hello

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are we are we rolling again

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yes we're rolling again okay

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take three first take the thing fell over

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second take the the video shh

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turned off on its own so I'm Mark

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and I'm Maria and this is Juicy Magic on the daily

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I must stay and Harry Bolton

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I must stay and peace be with you and upon you

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thanks for tuning in

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what a lovely place to come and join us today where

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well hi there

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you wanna come over and say hello

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come on over there's a four legged

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there's a four there's two

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oh there's another one

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where did they come from we got some four legged

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friends that have come to join us

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very nice looking dogs oh

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very friendly they look like their relatives

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uh they've got sort of dirty brown blond hair

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well we'll see if they come over

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but that's the nice thing

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one thing I've noticed about using mantra meditation

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transcendental sound vibration

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or sacred yoga sounds is that no matter where you are

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noisy or quiet

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whether you're in the city or up here on the Hilltop

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where are we where are we today

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but where above a real bully

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so in a little place called Manny

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the district is called Manny

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it's bit of the wild

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it's almost like the Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland

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it's very uh there's lots of nice breezes

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it's hilly mountainous

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there's a lot of rock fences and olive Groves

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yeah and there's tourists only in summer or in the city

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haha

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and up here all we got are some nice

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furry friends

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who've joined us for a little sound vibration

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you guys ready for some garonga breathing

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just wag your tail if you want to do some garangga

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alright he wagged his tail so there you go

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so let's start with some garangga breathing

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garangga

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he whose body is more beautiful than molten gold

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it's the name of god it's a beautiful sound vibration

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and so just like surrounding yourself in a bubble

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inhaling

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thinking of the sound Gura angah four syllables

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and on the exhalation to the length of the breath

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singing saying uttering expressing

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chanting the name Gora Angah

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so we'll just do 10 we'll do 10 of these yeah why not

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um one more time

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go

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around

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ha ha they're chilling

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it's so nice to see how everybody relaxes around

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when we do this it's so nice

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gurgling always chills me out

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makes my mind feel very calm how about you

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it just empties everything I hear

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I remember one time when I did this

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and I was asked a question afterwards

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what do you need

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and I I just felt nothing haha yeah

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it's true when you have God you have everything

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so yeah uh

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start with the beginning first

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first things first

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and actually it's nice

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I find after doing this whatever state I'm in

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I'm in a better state after if I'm in an agitated state

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I get calmer if I'm in a sort of social state

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I get peaceful if I'm in a peaceful state

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I get full of joy full of freedom to be joyful

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to just be joyful right now

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right here

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just for being alive and being in a human form

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oh I was just thinking

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I was thinking some crazy things

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before we arrived

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I was a little bit stressed because there was ha ha ha

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of course I took a

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he took a road that we weren't supposed to take

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and he said oh

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this road is nice let's drive it

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and I'm like this is not the way

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this is not the the Google way

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and then a track

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a big tractor came down where we had to back

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back up but it was beautiful

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and then we ended up we were looking for a place to do

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but I had all these thoughts

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so no

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this is not right we have to go different way

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it's getting dark soon how do we get home

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blah blah

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we get takes all these pictures

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but now after the chanting

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when you were asking me what are you thinking

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there was nothing it was just

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it's all good it's all fine

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I'm so content

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I'm so surrounded by this warmth of something higher

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yeah so it's more

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it's not so much nothing it's more like replacing

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I mean nothing in my mind

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no thoughts of being agitated yes

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no thoughts that are disturbing me

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that's what and we we had a really nice audience today

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we got two really nice dogs over there who are just

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they just came over

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and they were so happy to hang out with us

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you know

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and that we find that that we enjoy

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it's really nice

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wherever two or more gathered in my name

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there I am between them it's

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at the same time you can chant on your own

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and be connected to the supreme energy

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and supreme person but how nice to do it in nature uh

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to do it in quiet places if you have a chance

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even when I lived in some big cities

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I always found parks where I could do a little earthing

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grounding be barefoot on the ground

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expose my skin to uh some of my skin to sunlight

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really helps the circadian rhythm

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uh you'll find that

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if you do a little goranga in the morning

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and at night

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it's just a really nice way to start and end your day

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you can do it in the middle of the day too

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and if you're at work and you want to

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you know engage

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you can

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just put on your headphones and join us for 15 minutes

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if you like and do a little garonga meditation oh

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I should say something because some yesterday it's okay

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something something ha ha ha ha no

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yesterday we didn't publish a

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a podcast on the daily

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but I published something that I hadn't

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still in my pocket nice

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ha ha from Uncle Watt

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oh from Cambridge

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we published yeah

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we published yesterday

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a really nice Koranga meditation that we

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recorded in Uncle Watt

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that was one of my favorite moments there

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it was really mystical we had

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my mom was with us and she's

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she's like a force of nature

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you know the

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the Wolver the

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the the Tasmanian devil in the Bugs Bunny

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she's no

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it's not quite like I mean

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she's so sweet and cute but man

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I'm just impressed by how her life force is so strong

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she's almost 87

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and she's definitely in better shape than I am

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and she

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we would set her loose

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and she would just go and see everything

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and we would sit back find a place to meditate

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and we wanted to

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part of the journey of pilgrimage being going to Tirta

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going to holy places or on Tirta circumambulation

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was going into temples and stupas and dagobas

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and mosques and churches and cathedrals of nature

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to build a good foundation for our new life together

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and offer and

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and not just to keep it to ourselves

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it's really hard actually to be on camera

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we're not doing this for we're not monetizing this

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we're not we don't wanna do this for money or fame or

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we're not looking for a lot of likes or followers

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we just wanna share our day to day

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journey uh

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and share some transcendental sound with you today

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and also not all of us can at the moment

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you know

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we're very privileged to be able to have the free time

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resources we simplified our lives so we can do that

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we want to bring you

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our wonderful friends and community members

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to beautiful

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quiet places where we visit from Ireland to India to

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it was a lot harder to find quiet places in India

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though there was no quiet places in India

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oh my god oh

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what a place really was a

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even at night there was all the honking and hmm

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let's just say

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I feel incredibly grateful for places like Greece

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and the population here has become much older

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and so there's less people too

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and but everywhere you go

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wherever there's life

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there's a person with the right consciousness

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you can really feel that you're sort you meet

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you read about mystics and people that lived a

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more of a hermit hermit life

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they often had great engagement with the life forms

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around them the animals

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plants

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all the beautiful flowers the birds

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and just like up here on this hill

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along comes our wonderful friends over there

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kind of like Chewbacca from Star Wars you know

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the big dogs are cool

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they just got tails and they're hairy wait for the end

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I will take a we'll bring them in yes

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we've been wonderful friend like everywhere we've been

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no matter whether it was a bird landing near us

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or on us or

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being greeted by a little jumping spider

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in the morning

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that was keeping warm in her pile of clothing

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we've been never been alone the whole time

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you know so what's the title for today

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how to find your quiet

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could be also just being at home with the Lord

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wherever you go or being we're never alone

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maybe that's a message today or

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you know there are a lot of people struggling out there

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everyone's struggling with feelings of belonging

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or not belonging or feeling lonely

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connection purpose

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we've got all this technology

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and people are just yearning to connect

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and one way you can connect with someone

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who's always with you throughout all of your lives

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throughout all universes is the supreme person

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and he comes as the Lord in the heart

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the paramatma is here

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we hear him first before we see him

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that was my biggest trouble

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when I was meditating the old way

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mhuh and I

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I got into this wonderful void of divine source energy

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and I was swimming in this ocean

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I called it the ocean of love and mercy

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that's the Brahman Joti yeah

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yeah and it was just

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it was just heaven

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and but then at some point

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ha ha

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I always came back ha ha

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when I remember the first time

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and when you're gone for a few days

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you come back yeah

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I I come back and I

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wake up or I lie somewhere or I sit somewhere

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and however nice that place is I

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I had tears in my eyes because I

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I thought I'm I'm back

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ha ha I don't wanna come back here

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ha ha and I felt lonely and I felt lost

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and there was something missing

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but now when we're chanting I

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I I'm not alone anymore

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yeah and the truth

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it's wonderful that's beautiful

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Maria that I think many people can relate that we

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even if we spent a couple of years no

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I don't have to leave I can stay here yeah

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we've got we've got work to do

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we you know

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the the soul by nature is active

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and so we actually

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we earn for activity and relationship

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so even if we enter into the Nirvana or Nirvana

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or there's many names for the same

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the effulgence like the Halo of God

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it's just the beginning and so

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we all want we're all seeking for

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we're all seeking the perfect person

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we're all seeking shelter

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we look forward in this world

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this is like a a strange facsimile

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it's like a bad NFT

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it's not the real thing it's like a

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like a bad NFT

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a board ape or whatever those things were

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um those are

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they're not fake but they're just very copyable

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it's just an image it's just an image

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this is a bad race it's a reflection of the

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of the transcendental realm

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yeah I think about these flowers here

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the way they just offer themselves up

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you know

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I think that's

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if we simplify things

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it's not actually that hard to cultivate

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or begin to cultivate a warm

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sincere relationship with the supreme friend

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in our hearts

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then externally too with others

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with him directly if we're so advanced and it's

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it's never ending the the the way up is down actually

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you know we don't have to elevate ourselves we can

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I found I was always trying really hard to be the best

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at school or hockey

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or whatever it was

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I was always trying to elevate myself

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and looking back

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not always but sometimes

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I think it was really a defense mechanism or fear

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that I wasn't enough

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and when I started to come more into this process

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in the 90s the night 1999

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and it was more formally introduced to me

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so much to it so many nectarean scriptures

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and practices and processes and community

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that it's still it's still taking time

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it may take a very long time

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it's as long as we want we're in

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we're we have free choice to lean in or lean away

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to accept or reject to a certain degree the truth

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the absolute truth as it is

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not as we wish or want it to be and once we

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once I started to surrender more

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I could relax more into my simple

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simple

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it's almost like a simpleton

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I might uh

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maybe I have a very low I Q who knows

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but um no don't say that no

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I just you know

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in the past through the ascending process

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I was always feeling like it had to get more and more

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complicated and more and more

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we recently were on the phone with a friend

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and it was just like so people are so busy

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they're trying six different things

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they're doing this process

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this thing

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this design human design and this thing that thing

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if you do too much you do nothing right

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yeah it's like digging so many holes in the ground

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open to hit water

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and there's the water is like 6 feet down

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you can't just dig 100 holes that are one foot deep

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so if if you've ever struggled with meditation

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or wanted to yearn for something more

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just give the Goranga a try

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it's really quite give Goranga a try

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not the give Goranga a try it's a person

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more beautiful body

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his body is more beautiful than molten gold

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it's hard to describe but it's beautiful and

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it's not hard to describe

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but it is sometimes words are inadequate

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and if you just try you know

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we have lots of friends whose parents

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or friends of parents are leaving their bodies

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and you don't know when that time is coming

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and um why not start a practice

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that's really doable and easy to do

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you can do it on your own anywhere

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you don't have to do it really loud

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you know

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you have to make a big show of it if you're a bit shy

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you don't want to attract attention to yourself

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which is actually a nice quality

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you just do it quietly you know

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we love doing it everywhere we go

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it's kind of the highlight of the day hey

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where are we gonna do some garonga breathing

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and then share it with you

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thanks for thank you for being out there

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thanks for being you

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there's no one like you in the whole universe

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there's no one like me in the whole universe

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we're all eternally

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living entities eternal living entities

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we all have a very unique

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we're all distinct

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and yet very similar at the same time

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so maybe Garonga will help you relax more into your

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natural self as well

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which is it's not very heavy to carry that

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it's not a mask or a title or some complicated

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uniform you gotta put on

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should I show them the dogs

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oh yeah

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let's show you so thanks for coming today Namaste

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welcome to our world here and it's not ours

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but welcome to the world we're in Greece

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and thanks for sharing some time with us

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peace be with you and upon you and Ray is gonna

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I showed a view too

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gonna take the nice view and show us

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our friends that came to join us today see you tomorrow

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they're so chilled and relaxed now hmm

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so are we ha ha

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are we yeah

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