thing alone and that is peace and peace is not the absence i travel not because i like to travel i travel so i can say this what you're looking for is inside of you and you should be in peace from what has been traveling for forty years inspiring people around the world to find peace within one of the s so long when journo with montreal i go and i talk to people and i present them with the possibility of themselves discover the peace that lies within this is about you you feeling that it's about you  because you recognize how rich you american records and two world records i was about a half a second away from making olympic trials promoting into lifeguarding and that's what i want to do for the rest of my life you know i can hold my breath for two and a half minutes which has helped me with lifeguarding keeps me in shape or making a difference and you know saving people's lives and it keeps me motivated it keeps my void filled when i wake up and i go swim in the morning i just feel at peace i feel that harmony in our lives we need inspiration so that we can do those things that make the being alive these are the driving engines that are going to inspire me to enjoy m happened naturally in new york it was around you take notice a long time ago i was travelling through india they had packed a lunch for me and i was hungry had a great lunch in a car driving driving and then realised there was no water packed you know something's always forgotten out of the cooler if there are soft drinks in the cooler the bottle opener person's face he was a little farmer on the side of the road and by hand he was pulling the water up and watering his fields and we went up to him and said you think we could have some water and he said you know i don't know much of a house it's just a little hard but i've got some bread and i've got some pickles who would you like to come any and i looked at him and i said to myself who taught in these manners and then i realized it was an managed it was this beautiful sweet gift that everyone has been given called humanity don't understand the value of humanity to provide each other with dignity to provide each other that space to pursue happiness to pursue people who want to make a difference my hat's off to you i salute you because you want to make a difference and the fact that you can make a difference is absolutely that goodness has not died out that you want to make a difference you care i've definitely had certain certain experiences one reason was probably the most the most difficult decision i've ever had to make i was lifeguarding down in the harbor and i was on the rescue boat and i went to go check on a windsurfer and he was floating face up lifeless and i was like myself on the boat and you know i had pretty much no idea what to do i grabbed him but i couldn't pull him in the boat if i was by myself i couldn't get the boat and even if i did you know that was our life raft like what am i going to do in the water with them so i'm pretty much i got on the radio with one hand and called for backup but i knew  backup was going to take at least five minutes to get there so it was it was a difficult decision and i was just holding him for five minutes waiting for somebody else to get there not being able to do anything and the fire department of getting there and bringing him they were able to find a pulse on and we're already getting back up holes but he'd been out for so long last i heard he was still in a coma i thought that i did the best i could and and you know we're faced with the difficult decisions every day and is it was  hard but you know it just makes me stronger that i know that i can do this job and it furthers my passion for for being a lifeguard because i know i can do this and i know i can make a difference i'm not sure what my purpose in life is i know there are certain things that can be purposeful in my life for example lifeguarding i feel i'm really contributing to the community and for the public safety and some people could classify that as having a purpose i just love to do it success comes from your heart as peace comes from your heart not from here not from your you must understand what miss is for news can teach you how to cook this can teach you how to drive this can teach you how to fly this can teach you how to ride a bike but the true fulfillment my name is preston walker and i am a musician i guess i pretty much been playing music at least this this semester in school at all times of the day that i'm not in class or studying everything that happens that i do is done on a on a background of with the background of music for me and when i listen to or play music that is coming from an emotional place it just is like it's a higher feeling it's like it's a different in a better way so that's usually what leads me to sit down at the piano or on guitar is just is just like a feeling that i feel like i need to get somehow harness and like put into an understandable thing a lot of my writing is based on trying to me trying to understand my world  i mean i've been listening to my dad play various classical and jazz arrangements since i was in the womb like i just it's been always been a part of my life family is like something that is just like unchanging unchanging we amazing such a consistent source of love which is a very you know or a just emotion in general so that's almost like a go to place the most common inspiration the last time i played a live show is that there's at the whiskey a go go with this band that i'm in now alphabet and like when we started playing it was like it was there was something around like here up to my face in like actually inside my body that was just like it must have been adrenaline it's not an original i mean i'm sure like his adrenaline rush like but it was just like what is going on right now like there is something happening that i don't know like i don't know what it means but this is amazing and i just it was like i need i was burst like i just the feeling of being a part of that music and where that's happening and i'm looking at the audience and i'm just i feel like i said there's something like brewing inside i guess i don't want to centuries of like inside my soul and i'm just like i just want to like rain i just wanna rain that on people i just wanted to like shower down on people what is a guitar what is a flute what is a drum you hear somebody play flute and if they don't have that passion it will not be expressed if there is frustration then the frustration is what is going to come for the passion to happen for this life to be a representative of that passion the passion has to be inside you have to be in touch with that beauty that is inside of you but the question really is do you as a human being on the face of this earth for a limited period of time have peace in  imagine if you will a guitar the most exquisite wood but no strings but can you do in this guitar you can play it like a drum hit somebody over the head use it as a table let's see what would i could you do with this guitar you can sit on it if it's not too delicate you could definitely beat out a rhythm if somebody was trying to steal your luggage you could hear them over the head well basically you can do anything you want to do with this guitar anything you want to do with this guitar same one if it doesn't have the strings that's the thing you can do everything else you can do but for everything else this wasn't made it was made to be play and that's how it is that without peace we can do all the other things but in no way is that what we were made for is that the reason that we are here for is that not our potential to experience so far had the strings of course could you play the guitar if it didn't look all shiny of course because it's a beauty its purpose gets completed when that twain of the perfectly tuned strings and the fingers incredible part in the most incredible part is enjoying that that is something that takes place inside of you you are the machine that can enjoy i'm still a small dave and i've been an art teacher for forty some years and an artist and i've just retired my early beginnings were actually near james bay where we had no roads or anything into that town i came from a remote area and gradually moved south i think a combination of living in those kinds of remote areas near nature that first of all that touched me deeply and then every summer my mom and dad would send me down to auto wanted to stay with my grandparents so they would take me to museums and art galleries that had a profound effect on care when i finally did graduate and get my degrees i began teaching us in an art teacher or so i had hundreds of children all the time not shoulder and young people mainly at a community college and that became really fulfilling for me to see not only was i working and developing my dream i was passing on to them a love of who they were already and that they if they could get in touch with their own center they could develop something unique to themselves and so i think i'm part of the human race and what i'm doing here exercising my freedom in this particular part of the world is i get to the freedom to paint and to say what i think and i guess i want to give back i want to give something so i see two sides of it i see that it doesn't matter at all and the other side is it matters a great deal i just live between the right on the edge of both there's a great satisfaction in to doing that because not only have you had these ephemeral thoughts but now you've created form from them that's fun i would think people who build buildings must have this great photographers who create a great picture and develop it must have this feeling of wow i did that and the more they do it the more exciting it is the be exciting isn't the word that must be satisfying that they're completing some reason for their being here i guess i think in a child like way that the more of those moments i have would be fulfillment but it could be that it just takes one maybe it'll just be before i leave this world that i have a great moment of fulfillment and that would be enough i will not want to leave the planet till i know more about that so maybe that's part of my quest is to to learn to be open to us the potential to light and limited amounts of that's the possibility the possibility one lit lam so not only that it is possible but it begins with you the search within you in your heart about the possibility of peace you have to take that first step and that first step is to begin you have access to you to your heart because it is in the  the heart that lies the tarnished that will lead you to the well thirsty can understand the value of water hungry can understand the value of food and you need to feel that thirst in your life that dwells inside of you your life your existence means something to you that is important we see all the bad things that happen to us because we are alive and we fail to see the goodness of this breath coming inside of us we obviously see all the needs and all the problems that we have in our life but we do not see the beauty the joy that it means to be alive look within you and find your cursed look with didn't you and find your quest look within you and find what it is that you won that's what you got to get and not from looking outside will you find only when you really and truly learn to turn you even begin to see in the right direction and if you want to begin your search then search no more find because what you're looking for has an address and in english it's in three letters y o