you that is what you want i can help during the last forty years i've been traveling around the world reporting on the customs and traditions that give meaning to our lives for those years i discovered that the ones that were most valuable to me were the ones that gave me a sense of inner peace and self knowledge couple of years ago i told a friend of mine that i was interested in taking a break from travelling around the outside world and wanted to make a trip to the inside find out more about my own feelings that they might relate to the universal themes of life he suggested that i take a look at the teachings of a man named prem prem who is also known as mirage he is originally from india and has been speaking to people around the world for about lasting happiness can only be found within you like most people i am interested in inner peace and self knowledge and as a journalist i am particularly skeptical of anybody who tries to show me how to find the spite of that cynicism i attended prem and i found his message to be timely and quite significant and quite entertaining and most surprisingly some of the things he said actually help me solve some problems that i was having with my family i want to point  that i am not a student of primer i am a journalist interested in his story and his message and he's very open about that he says that the things that he teaches are significant to some people but not to others i have seen interesting reality that there are people searching for better ways to live and teaching them that's the way i see teaching a better way to what i want to teach is not a bunch of ideas and not a bunch of i want to teach you to discover what you augured and it's a very different kind of teaching but you're teaching me that's what i feel or how about ways pleasantly surprised or you say about mirrors is now echoing in terms of my relationship with my children they'd ask me questions and then i'd like them talk  look at me like i didn't ask you to hold the mirror i ask you a question why are you holding the mirror and i'm saying yeah but keep looking and you will learn to look within you and when you do you will find you and i said they're  and i saw this on the news these couple got into us very serious situation and they had a g p s and they were just following the g p s of course if you look at the g p s you realize you're like hundred miles away from the nearest highway it's telling you that but it kept telling them turn left turn left turn left is confused whatever reason which was the other day somebody the g p s said turn left and there was a railway track there and they started turning on to the track it was just after the railway track that they needed to turn left getting lost is easy getting found is under doing all the things you did that got you lost and doing them you will find where you need something people argue that the search for peace requires the undoing of resentment and conflicting desire within you talk about the only thing that inner peace requires is that you get in touch inner place that's what it requires i mean let's let's take an analogy if i'm going to gas up my car i realize i'm driving along i see that is running on empty and i need gas what should i be doing driving to the gas station or oh well how about kicking the tires not going to be that helpful to you in the long run down the windows pleasant but not going to help there it is you need gas you need to get in touch with that inner place that's what's going to make the differen people might say you have to do this you have to do this you have to fix this you have to fix that do this do that no go with them feel that there was a wonderful psychologist experimental psychologist named skinner and he did an experiment where he had a box and there was a chicken in it and a bar and when the chicken hit the bar food would come down but the chicken didn't realize that it would dance around and do lots of different things and then accidentally hit the bar and the food would come there and it took the longest time for the chicken to understand that all the dancing and the jumping in the nodding was irrelevant concentrate on the bar perspective there is my responsibility there is my mortgage there is my bank loan there is my problems and there is me they don't disappear inner peace doesn't take away mortgages you can't go to a that's what's changed is it selfish to seek in your pieces self indulgent let me give you an analogy you're in the desert five six people talking and there happens to be this guy and he really is thirsty he's dying of thirst and from a distance he sees this group of people standing there so he crawls over there and when he comes over he says water water now is the selfish oh is he being rude the call for peace the call for joy the call for that feeling we have to be content to be fulfilled we turn the volume down on the outside because the volume is turned up so high we can't hear what we're trying to say to ourselves something inside has been crying out again and again and again and again you know i see so many people and yes they go to a party and they're standing up and they're dancing and they're doing this and they're doing that and then i see them sit down and have a quiet moment like what is it like coming home wonderful for me wonderful for me and wonderful for so many people to come home where we don't have to put a pretense on but there's nothing distracting we can be who we are be who we are that home also is like that on the inside where we can be we can be in peace w that's the reality where that's where the shining that peace that joy and how can you say or anyone say that it's a luxury when it's such a necessity let's hear what's going on inside turn that big volume down a little bit here what's being said there are wonderful things happening here some voice inside some feeling inside saying be content be if somebody gives you doing the same thing in the expect a different result they can be qualified as a little crazy a little mad so why am i telling you this and why do i find it fascinating this particular definition to keep doing the same thing and expect a that you do something different instead of looking for the solution on the  solutions that you need you need by design not by thought not by choice by design of a human being you need to be in peace peace not the kind of peace that is tied to something but the peace that is inherent in every human being every human being and i were talking every one piece that is there when we are asleep peace that is there when we are awake peace that is there when we are in the middle of the greatest turmoil not a result of something not a consequence of some just because you turned off your stereo and you closed your windows and you turned off the air conditioning now it's quiet and peaceful no no a peace that always there even when that air conditioning was running even when there is a war on the outside something quiet and beautiful on the inside i don't explain to people what their feelings like you have to feel and once you feel it then you will have the common reference necessary peace within yourself to be in that harmony not the harmony outside that's impossible because so much is changing but inside you are very very still it's like a huge wheel and the outermost part of that we was turning the fastest and as you go in slows down slows down slows down slows down to the very center it's barely moving what a wonderful image the outside of the wheel spinning around like mad and the center quieted and still exactly isn't everybody looking for the same thing today the sad thing is that when somebody says peace it doesn't mean the same thing it should it should be as common as saying thirsty oh but one thing i always find very fascinating it doesn't matter which part of the world you go to you may not know the language but if you personally you can communicate you can go like this you can go like this if you're hungry exactly you can go like this because it's common it's common peace should be common expression not different versions of it because it is real and it is within every single human being be true to exist there is more to me than what i've thought about there's more to me than what i have thought was there yes ok second question i am war important than the sum of all my success and failure i am more important than the sum of all of my success and failure second point so i've answered yes to those two third if you question most importantly am i ready to be fulfilled am i ready to be fulfilled am i ready to make the commitment for what i must do to achieve to achieve if you don't accept the possibility that peace is inside a few how can you ask the question do i want to be fulfilled if you don't accept the fact that you are more important than all the things that happen around you what is fulfillment what can fulfillment mean to you but only after you have answered yes to those t then asked the third question do i want to be fulfilled and if that one comes up yes i can question is can you be fulfilled every single day of your life and the answer to that is today going to use the resources of today and the resources that are with and me to fulfill myself priority number one yes i will do this yes i will do this yes i have to go there yes i have to go there yes i have to do this yes i have to talk to this person yes i have to buy this yes i have to sell this yes i have to do this but today i will also also fulfill myself today i will experience i understand i it doesn't matter where i go which country what culture the cursed to be happy to be content is exactly the same we are all so different and yet so how do you see that and people things that they say when they hear the message that within you is something very profound very beautiful it isn't like ha but it's like i know i know that isn't that incredible you're telling them something new and they're going no this isn't new i have known that that there is something so profound inside one of the most fundamental things is do i or do i not understand that within me there is something waiting to be discovered there is more to me then i realize there is more to you than you ever thought us that within me there is a treasure worth more than all the money in this world that there is a most beautiful scene more beautiful than anything i can imagine and if i can make cept that  on my way to understanding with that piece and wonder if i get to the center of the real how do i deal with the people around me or what's going to happen to friends acquaintances business associates who aren't at the center of the real west are going to have a life you will have just one difference only one and that difference is you will be at the center  you are life peaceful you have found your treasure when you become rich you become rich when you quench your thirst you no longer need that water so much fear comes in what will happen if i get inner peace about will i become a vegetable and this is what a lot of people think oh i'll have to wear you know clothes like a monk or allowed to live on a mountain you know and i won't be able to see my child and i won't be able to do this and i'll no no you see the it's like being in a very dark place and it's really dark and you're wondering gee i wish i had a flashlight and then you remember well you know what i thought i had a flashlight i want to wear put it and it's in your pocket and it's already on what about our peace outside peace is relative inside peace is always there oh even  when that hurricane is coming that peace is there so the real answer to the craziness on the front page of the newspaper has enough people within a place look at them look at them find it feel it enjoy it live it like it love this that i talk about is the very fundamental thing that is and the first and the desire for it is the fundamental and the question is do you understand how fundamental that first how fundamental your need is to be in peace this is all about backtracking and figuring it out you came in this world all you wanted to do was be happy were and indeed that's who we are the process is just to start and then the attraction to find the peace falls in place and whether people call it search people lot of people call it search i don't call it search i just call it being attracted attracted so what did i take away from these interviews the first point was that each person is unique and we should try to appreciate our uniqueness and not spend our lives trying to be anyone else that logic is important but so is what we feel too often we try to reason our way through life when we might be better off responding to our feelings inner peace and happiness or feelings and perhaps most important for me the answer to almost all of our questions are inside us pay attention to what you feel is an old saying we enter the world empty handed and that's the way we live  a slightly different take on that he says we may enter the world empty handed but we have the opportunity to leave it with a sense of self knowledge an inner peace so that's like my journey might just be beginning certainly hope so