for forty years aspiring people around the world to find peace within one of the asks along with joran on the dock elsewhere montreal i go and i talk to people and i present them with the possibility of themselves is that inner peace the possibility of experiencing peace even with all the turmoil and so i'm quite excited to be here today and to listen to the addresses that are going to happen later on you very much indeed the first vice president of the european parliament the honorable gianni patel that we've received letters of support from well wishers from many places including the president of the republic from the president of the italian parliament and emillio colombo former president of the european parliament and in this chamber today we have to say besides the many many distinguished people who are listening in the two c figures the vice president is doing so much to drive through thinking about european couper values around peace and of course we have prem robot the internationally respected  of peace and is that not the most wonderful country that you could be ambassador to be ambassador for peace he has dedicated his entire life to this topic  is peace possible why why do we not know that peace inherently exists in the heart of every single human being why are we asking can this happen of course it can happen but then the question becomes why isn't it happening so i am a simple person and i would like to take a little time today to introduce to you something very very simple not complicated not complex because sometimes we don't need new ideas sometimes all we need is to be reminded of what we already know because somewhere in our formulas somewhere in our trying to figure it out we have forgotten the most fundamental things who should be in the middle of humanity sometimes we forget those fundamental things that we are human beings that human beings belong in the middle of the humanity not formulas not ideas because when i travel when i go places this is what i see i see not people being addressed but formulas being addr when a baby cries does the mother say you're not supposed to cry until the next three minutes this is wrong no she gets up and a this is who we are we want other people to think of us as being kind you know what because kindness is nice because every human being on the face of this earth is your neighbor why because there is no other neighbor out there not on the moon not on the venus not for billions and billions and billions and billions of miles you don't have a neighbor all of them are in this place called  somebody had asked me once what democracy was and i said democracy is a few serving many politician but i am a human being who holds very close to his heart the fundamental principles and the possibility of peace on this  whatever happens peace needs to be given a chance to flourish that's the only thing we haven't tried my god we've tried everything else and what is just now at this point is just a repeat the only thing we haven't tried is to give peace a cha and of course people ask where is peace what is peace absence of  no war happens because people lost respect for each other idea as principals definitions rules became more important than people that war and not only inflicts you physically but the war will inflict you mentally peace is in the heart of human beings not in the minds of human being so i have only put to you a simple fact and the simple fact is contentment is not that far away from you peace is not that far from you never has been never will be and peace is not a luxury the process of peace is not of creation but of discovery we share the stime on this planet is incumbent upon us do you use our resources intelligence and the goodness of our hearts to bring forth peace on this planet earth can overcome any obstacle and no obstacle is big enough in front of our resolve and our determination we have invested in the past and we have invested in the future it is time to invest in the present because you may not know this that's where you will hang out the most not in the future not in the  it is the investment of knowledge that is going to fundamentally affect the future generations the seeds we sow now is the crop of the next season i'm not fighting for you and i'm not fighting for me i'm fighting for us all of us on this planet one day at a time one person at a time picking making that resolve for peace is what's going to change the face of humanity when human beings have properly been placed in their place where they belong right now they're at the bottom they don't belong there they belong at the top and the song sued our existence once again to be well to feel well because we are well thank education does not begin necessarily in an institution it began long before you ever go to school you start learning and hopefully hopefully you keep learning after you have graduated from those institutions one time i was looking up this word called ignorance ignorance is one of those words a lot of people like to pleat i are meaner and i'm ignorant but actually it turns out that one of the root words for ignorance is to ignore and when we ignore the obvious that's when ignorance really comes in sometimes the agenda becomes to fill you with information and that information contained does not necessarily refer to you as a human being the institutions need to focus because that's what they do there's that period of time in our lives where we focus on that education in such a way that we will continue to learn we will continue to grow the biggest draw that these institutions can play for peace is to try to put us in touch with our so that process of peace understanding will continue to unfold for us no long after we have left the walls of the sacred institution