Episode 24

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24th Apr 2025

#24 - A Juicy MagiK Sunday Reflection: Letting Go and the Gentle Power of Simple Offerings

A quiet Sunday sit-down under an old tree beside a small stone chapel. We share a simple practice for tender hearts, a little story about letting go of a storage container, and a soft kirtan you can chant with us. Offer a flower, a sip of water, a breath. Rest in the holy names.

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you tell me when you're ready to display this play

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oh it's playing already

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it's like always

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I always start and then you get ready and I'm like

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it's on already so Namaste

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Namaste

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the divine in me bows to the divinity within you

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or of the Lord in the heart within me

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I'm not the Lord in the heart

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but let's just say

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I bow to the Lord in the heart within you

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ha ha ha ha

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and I also humbled myself before the Lord in the heart

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in my own body

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I'm Mark and I'm Maria

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and this is to see magic on the daily

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and it's Sunday today so a nice little Sunday service

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and we have our guest star here behind us

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this beautiful

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even the roof is made out of stone

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and we are dedicated to visiting

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some of the nicest places on the planet

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and to spend some time with you

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and thanks for tuning in and turning on and dropping in

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and um

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thanks for your being time and energy

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and we hope that you're

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whatever you're going through today

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in whatever body you have

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that you're

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that you're doing okay

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I'm so relieved

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because today is the last day of the container sale

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ha ha for the last 10 days

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maybe you can explain

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for the last 10 days what we've been doing

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I had this container that I filled up with all my stuff

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in England

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because I couldn't let go

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of it two years ago almost

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almost in June yeah

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but I really feel like the last two years was

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getting ready

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to let go of all that stuff

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I remember two years ago in June

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helping her push all this stuff into this container and

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um it would have been so much

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I know now it would have been so much easier

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just to have people over and just give away things

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having the barn is a

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showroom that's how you call it right

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to have the barn as a showroom

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to have people see what I had back then

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it's so much more difficult to sell it

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out of the container yeah

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especially a little container in the middle of nowhere

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people anyway that I think the lesson is

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obviously there's legitimate time

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place and circumstance to have a storage container

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but if you don't have to get stuff into storage

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please don't you're just holding on to things yeah

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ultimately it might never take out anyway

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yeah and sometimes they get

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it so eroded and denuded and broken down

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by the time you try to sell them or get rid of them

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they're they're no longer really that usable for anyone

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it's not none of it's our stuff to begin with

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and obviously and but we were so lucky I

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I felt so guided and our prayers were heard

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because great people came by

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and the right people got the right things

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and we had some nice

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we always had a little offering before we went in

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a little incense yeah

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on our altar and then we had it burning

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and people would come and go ooh

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that smells really good and they were getting prasadam

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that's means the lord's mercy

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it's uh

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and we had all these curtains playing the whole time

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in the background yeah

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we had some nice chanting music going on

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very mellow in the background

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people would often tell it's not you

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sometimes people just want to hang out for longer

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cause we managed to make a beautiful the

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the holy names of god and

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and that's and the sacred yoga sound

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vibrations of transcendental mantra meditations

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they um

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all life forms can benefit

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everything that breathes praise is

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you know

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can hear and a field of wavelength and vibration

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so often people

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we made this amazing space out of this sort of

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it wasn't a dirt floor it was a concrete floor

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giant indoor container centre

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with these giant shipping containers all in there great

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really good uh

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business model if you wanna uh print print money

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a mailbox money every month but um oh

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we should make a video saying goodbye to the container

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tomorrow yeah

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yeah yeah tomorrow we leave

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but here we are on Sunday and you know

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it's not the age for elaborate temple worship

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and it's so easy in this age

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in the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says to Arjuna

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his disciple and friend if one

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offers me with love and devotion

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a little fruit some water

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a leaf a flower

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I will accept it and so here

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I'm just going to lean over

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there's one of my favorite flowers

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a dandelion

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and we can simply I thought it's a daisy

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that's a dandelion

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no I mean

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your favourite flower

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I thought your favourite flower is a daisy

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I love many flowers but we were thinking that

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thanks for reminding me

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because we've been to some of the biggest

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grandest epic cathedrals and stupas and and

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and met

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and mosques and temples and churches around the world

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but we often find our favorites are small

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quiet little timeless elegant

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small beautiful spaces of worship

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like this under a tree

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or in a beautiful little country village stone chapel

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which has probably been used for over 100 or 200 years

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and we keep coming back to this place

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there's a huge metal

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and all these beautiful cows here in their cast

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we can see them

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when we meditate let's

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let's maybe we'll meditate

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but we'll we'll

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one form of meditation is offering the Supreme Being

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that's funny it's like it

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obviously God owns everything

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and he doesn't need anything from us

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what he wants is our love and our devotion

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because he knows it's what will make us happiest

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but just like a child can

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sometimes go into the yard of the parent

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pick a flower

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and bring it inside and offer it to his mom or

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dad or her mom or dad or parent or guardian with love

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and the parent or guardian goes

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oh thank you

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it's their flower to begin with

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but just like that this is God's flower

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and God's energy and God's creation

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but we can offer back to him simple things with love

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so you can just take a flower or a cup of water

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and Gita also Christian says

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I am the taste of water you know

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and these simple elegant

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timeless and although I love orchids

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I tend to gravitate more towards daisies

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and black eyed Susans and dandelions

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because I love them and they grow everywhere

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and they're just

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equally as beautiful as the most exotic and

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and rare of plants

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so on this Sunday

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we offer this little flower to Krishna

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we say please

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dear Lord

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although I'm most fallen and

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although I have many faults

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please overlook them

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and please accept this small offering to you

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through the Grace of your holy names

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Copala Kalinga Ramana

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Adana Mohana

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or as the Shepherd boy

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David sings in the house of David on Prime Adonai Elohi

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so many names throughout all the universes

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in all the different languages

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all referring to the same Supreme

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person God so many beautiful names for God

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so please um

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let's let's do a little garongga

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shall we

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I was just thinking I woke up and the birds

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started singing

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and it felt like all the birds are singing God's names

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at the same time in their language

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one of my favourite teachers Gurudass

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he always said he was quoting Psalm 1:50

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we just saw Psalm 1:50 uh

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at a little church in Chichester

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where there's a beautiful Mark Chagall

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one of my favorite artists

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he did a lot of beautiful work in the churches

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and stained glass windows

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there's a quote from Psalm 1:50 there

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and Gurudas used to always say

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everything that breathes praises the Lord

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and doesn't it just

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so let's praise the Lord yeah

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we're gonna do maybe five nice gora or wanna do 10

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let's do 10 let's do 10 go

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go raaunga let's do 12 let's do 13

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13 moons in the year it's a nice

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nice magic number

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uh is that okay

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yeah so go Ra angah go Ra angah

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he whose body is more beautiful than molten gold

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refers to the spring person

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rock

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on

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go

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around

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5 more times

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thinking the sound go wrong as you breathe in

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one more time

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so nice

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after a day of just lots of people coming and going

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and selling stuff and letting go of 20 30

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40 years of of stuff collected and saved over time

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we all do that

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it's really great to go through

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it was difficult in the beginning

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I was really slow in the beginning

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but it got easier and easier

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and you remember the times when I was like

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Aah ha ha ha ha ha ha

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yes I do

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ha ha

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ha ha ha

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I'm like Aah

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and in those times what

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it didn't go wrong

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to help a little girl on her breathing

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yes and that's when we sat down and we

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we did some korangas and then I was like

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I'm so sorry I'm

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I'm empathic and I I would feel her stress

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and I would get a little stressed

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and then we would come out to little places

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little places in the woods or nearby

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or even just the side of the road in the van

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just do some garonga breathing

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yeah so obviously

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we thank you for helping us because by else

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offering this and doing it

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we're also getting the benefit and it's beautiful

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everyone

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all of life benefits

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everything gets to hear this beautiful

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transcendental sound

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vibration which descends from the non material world

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doesn't require I don't have to

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my knees hurt and I can't put my leg over my head

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like ha ha yoga

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and I don't have to go up and down

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and try to be a yogic flyer

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or try to you know

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do some advanced mystic process

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I can just relax and let the

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let the medicine do its work

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strong medicine and uh

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and thank you to all of our

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our teachers who have encouraged us along this path

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to Haribul

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praise the praise the name of the Lord

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yeah thank you

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we see that in the Bible and the Quran and

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and so many scriptures the Torah

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the New Testament of course

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the Vedas and the Srimad Bhagavatam of course

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Chaitanya Nucherimeda Bhagavad Gita

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yeah

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I was a couple times I was quite desperate and I was

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in my heart I was crying out

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please help me

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and it was so nice when you're really desperate

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and my heart was aching I

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I really felt coming down

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this mercy and this Grace is coming down to you and

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and I just calmed down

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and I knew everything will be alright

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so and everything is gonna be alright ha ha ha yeah

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and now my pockets are full of many

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many British pounds

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that we can spend in the next two weeks on our travels

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so we would love to take you with us to our travels to

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we say

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we say hello to our new friends Gore

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um um

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Margaret and Norman and Norman hey hey

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this is just the day

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this is the same day of the last that we saw you two

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so thank you for coming out

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and we know that the

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all the things you guys have are gonna

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I'm so happy they ended it with them

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it's so

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it's good to know that what you love one

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one at one time is appreciated and ungratefully

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and it's not in vain and it's not just thrown out

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but it's it's creating joy

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I think

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the thing that gave me the most was to know that

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some of the things will still keep giving joy yeah

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and then and actually

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everything was still in good enough shape

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cause

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it was only two years ago that we put it into storage

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yeah that it was all usable still

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and people were giving a whole box to a pub that

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a young couple that bought a pub in there

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you know they

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they need kitchen stuff and a young lady came

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who had moved back from Australia

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hi Amy hi Amy and she uh

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went through all the clothes that we couldn't take

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and was so happy and yes

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she was just like do you have something warm and cold

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and we're approaching Easter and it's wonderful

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Christ's message was you know

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give what you have to the poor and follow me

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and that's a very advanced state to the

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of the nine steps of devotional service

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giving all to the Lord is step 9

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it's the first three Shravanam Kirtinavishnasharma

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hearing repeating and remembering

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and then worshipping and offering

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the first five steps

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any person can participate

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and even anyone that's most fallen or even in the

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in the scripture it says even if you're a beginner

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if you just faithfully hear and repeat

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these transcendental absolute truths that you can

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you don't need to hold back

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you can you can offer this up to others

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and give them something really valuable

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the ultimate in value

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which is the truth

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which will set you free so whether your knees hurt

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or you're out for talk photographing nature

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you can do these lovely sound vibrations like go Ra

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anga

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you can do it at home

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you can do it while you're walking outside

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and you're holding hands

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or by yourself with your kids or with your dog

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they will get the benefit

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just like that little dog this morning

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we were getting a we're getting a hot beverage in the

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in a muffin this morning at the local pub

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and then this little dog came over

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it was the pub dog and every time that he came over

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he kept saying Haribo

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Haribo

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Krishna Haribo

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he kept you know the ears go up

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yes wherever there's life there's a person

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and that person is just as hungry for mercy as you are

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as I am

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we're all in need of the shelter and mercy

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and it's a long journey home

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but yeah so we're saying hi

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ball to all the creatures and persons out there

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in all the bodies across the universe

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yep one of my favourite Beatles

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Leon McCartney songs

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where I first heard Jai Guru Deva Om

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my first

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one of my first mantras I Learned at age 3 or 2

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even at a very very young age

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I was already hearing and repeating

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not just transdental sound vibrations

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but material sounds but

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I was very fortunate that the Beatles

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had been interested in these things

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and yeah we all visit George Harrison

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we're going to visit his his

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manner tit and hurst manner

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which he donated to one of our teachers

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his divine Grace AC Baktivant Swami Pravod Guru gave

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thank you Bach to George

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how often do we listen to my sweet Lord in the car

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my favorite song or peace on earth or yeah

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so many of his lovely songs

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especially from his first two albums

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living in the Material World and All Things Must Pass

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yeah well let's wrap it up for today and we'll yeah

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we we we

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we have one more day here in this area

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and then we had to uh

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a miniature version of Mont Saint Michel in Cornwall

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known as Saint David Saint Michael

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oh I'm sorry Saint Michael on the mount isn't it

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Saint Michael's Mount

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yes probably

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what she said Saint Michael's Mount

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a small version of Mont Saint Michel

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there's seven of these places

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we've been to the one near in Ireland

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off the coast called Michael Skeel yeah

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then now the one in England

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and we've been to the one in France

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there's one in Greece one in Italy

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and one in Israel and somewhere along the way

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maybe one in Turkey

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I'm not sure we aim to visit all seven of them

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so come on join us please like share follow subscribe

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if you wanna if you have any questions

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we have the we don't wanna do the comments in the

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in the social media

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so you can go to our juicy magic J U

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I c y m a g I k dot com and get onto the agora

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the meeting place yeah

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the agora

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it's a Greek word for marketplace or meeting place yeah

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we're not gonna have conversations

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we're not selling anything there

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but it's a place to gather and so come

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come and come join our website and and

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and uh

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and if you have any questions send it them to us there

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and uh

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I hope that you enjoy this little video

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from this beautiful

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incredibly quiet peaceful serene

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place yeah thank God

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so have a wonderful Sunday

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and if we seem a bit loopy on our next Sunday

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we're going to try to do a

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three and a half day water fast

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from Friday Black Friday

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horrible Friday through to Easter Monday yeah

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and to meditate on I haven't done that in a while

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meditate on Christ's incredible

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forgiveness

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and his example during his horrible persecution

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and yeah so let's see how we will do

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so we say may peace be with you and upon you

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Harry Ball and I must say

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Harry Ball from all of us here at Juicy Magic yeah

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bye

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