within that is what you want i can help during the last forty years i've been traveling around the world bordering on the customs and traditions to give meaning to our lives during those years i discovered that the ones that were most valuable to me were the ones that gave me a sense of inner peace 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 and 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 who is also known as neeraj he is originally from india and has been speaking to people around the world for about thirty happiness can only be found within you like most people i'm interested in inner peace and self knowledge as a journalist i am particularly skeptical of anybody who tries to show me how to find the spite of that cynicism i attended t lectures by 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 out that i am not a student of prem or what 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 others  reality this is a possibility it is simple it is beautiful it is profound and my words don't mean anything till you have found it yourself my conversations with prem were taped over the course of several months in malibu california we talked about his life my life and what is going on in the world today what makes people happy what makes us sad and how one can choose to live when people come to  what they expect i don't really know what they expect i guess some people calm and it's like enlighten me away i can't do that what i expect to do is to come and speak from my heart that's all like spite of myself to be real to be gentle is a central message or a series of messages that you tend to give during each of these my central messages you are alive congratulations you are alive now let's begin with that you know we don't have to create a curriculum that's not necessary let's just begin with congratulations you are alive what more needs to be said do you know what that means probably not what does it really very fortunate to be alive where is my gratitude that likes us i'm unique do i really see myself as this unique being this new unique individual or am i so busy so busy trying to be like everyone else what else to teach what else is there is there more this is a short but intense discussion it should be that but if you can understand that you were waiting for this day that every day that will come in your life you have been waiting for that  and if you can understand  then you will not judge this day by what happened  will judge this day by what do you were able to dig out of this day it's a lot easier to to sit there and wonder what's to happen tomorrow want to know the future wait it will come to you it's headed your way have patience we don't have patience we want to know what's going to happen tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow's never going to come because every time tomorrow starts to come it becomes today today we're not interested because today is dedicated to tomorrow pay attention to what you're saying can hear even more than that because today comes in this moment called now tension in this moment called now and you will understand what you are all about look at the river and if you were to journey up that river and keep going and keep going and keep going keep going you'll get one point we never any faster never drop and all drop come together and form this mighty mighty river looking at the river can't mighty power in this world and a humble drop how do you begin to learn about yourself you know all our lives we try to reason reason reason logic so many people are living in that reason so many people are completely indulging themselves every day well now i have done this so i must be ok now i can do this so i must be ok but you know there's something more than reason and that is feeling feeling is far far more important than reason let me give you an analogy the other day i was watching sudden he does something he takes his finger dips it in the sauce and takes it and i'm sitting there going ha what does it taste like because you just put this thing together and it's incredible i can see that i can reason that much but what does it really taste like i don't know so if in a way we start to look at the reason in the same fashion that we reason so many things but what is it really like what is it really like experience what is it really like to feel to feel and when i start to acknowledge in my life this one valuable tool that i have been given which is i can feel i don't have to reason everything i can feel to then you start to enter in the realm of self knowledge because that's what self knowledge is going to be it's going to be a feeling peace is a feeling happiness is a feeling do you think a world has gotten shown noisy that we can't hear what's inside are listening and not only listening to it but we're sometimes passionate about and it's like oh yeah i just love the sound of the freeway running by my window you know god forbid something happens and all the traffic stops and it's just dead quiet and that sometimes to people is very scary i look at a child there is something that the child is getting feeling that is incredible and i can only relate to it because i have felt that when i was young myself  it's fun do you think that when we're young we are in better touch with ourself things are that complicated things are a little simpler the volume hasn't been turned up on all the noise outside it's a little easier to go with the flow sort of to say to say to oneself i like this i want to feel that i want to enjoy this and that feeling and that enjoyment is enough the world can wait i feel it's very easy for people to get lost in the noise of the world just that where you were describing it how do you find your way back stop reasoning start feeling it's not like disasters and the noise doesn't once in a while get turned up even for that top but they have a way of feeling this feels good right now i'll go with this this is good enough this is right certain things definitely need explanation and certain things science can never explain to you why a sunrise looks so beautiful there's no scientific explanation fact that you have a lot of hydrogen out there the fact that you have the earth's reflection makes all the colors and all that yes why does it look beautiful why now that you've raised that issue i've seen hundreds of sunsets i've enjoyed them i've never understood why will i walk to the end of a pier to see a sunset why do we do that because the beauty is within you calling out to you to appreciate to  that what the heart yearns for that is what i am all about what you are all about seems that is so little in the world that reminds us to do pick up the newspaper issues like this and never discussed they seem to push you away from yourself because the reasoning comes and i'm going to think logically out of this well i'm not putting down logic we all need but then you have to know where you get off it's like going to your friend's house for dinner you are going to take the car to the dining room the cars going to go maybe to the dry way to the front porch it's going to stop and you're going to get out and go in the house with i don't know the difference and where how far is reasoning going to take me and where i need to begin our association with the words with the names become prevalent we forget what what is this about and the same thing happens with the word peace peace theirs it's a feeling so anyway i can tell when my feeling or accurate as opposed to force you will know if you know how to trust in your self if you're going to sit there and get caught between reasoning and feeling there you are touching the object that maybe what's written on the subject is caution red hot do not touch you bring your hand closer and closer and you feel no heat and you're going back it says do not touch there's something wrong here it's saying it's hot so comparative you know it's like let me compare my success your success where do i stand in relationship to you all of a sudden it becomes like a big chess game where you're looking at it and you're going what is the relationship of the night to the pawn to the bishop to the queen to the castle and you're looking at all these what does threaten what does not threaten life is not a chess game life is this beautiful  is a flower that needs to be admired life is this beautiful fresh water welling from the spring that needs to be drunk and the thirst quenching life is offering not a challenge but a jo the reality is that the breath comes in the reality is that you have a heart the reality is that you have this place in you which wants t the reality is that you want to be full the reality is that you pick joy over sorrow the reality is that you pick light over darkness the reality is that you pick clarity over a doubt that's the reality that's here you will given no coaching what so  but here to discover my goodness i am thirsty because for so long i didn't think i was thirsty for so long i just went around saying i'm me i've got turn within and drink from the fresh spring that well from with him and quench the thirst not just a little thirst but quench the thirst like it has never been questioned before this outside world and you and i are travelers in it but there is an inside world that you know much better than i do for so many people our homes a building four walls and all of that but there is another home that is the where you exist to enjoy where you exist to rest to rest rest from all the crazy noise rest from all the crazy things that happen during a spammer for days to come home and to rest here sleep means something else doesn't mean to close the eyes but to open their arms to the inner world to troll open that back door and walk into this garden a garden that is so meticulous a garden that is so perfect where every believe dances in the cool breeze one thing about the inner world one thing about the inner journey that is incredibly fascinating  is never the same never ever the same why i said this landscape inside is infinite is infinite and a little bit of a turn and you see something else we are human beings we need to feel we need to understand we need to l most lovable that most lovable is within  excuse me this is not luxury this is necessity i have my wife and two daughters in my family and they like to w sometimes so i many times in the evening i heard them take their shoes off and go nice to come permanently in your life every single day needs to be when someone comes and listens to you and learns they give you an extraordinary thing hours of their life that they will never recover and i feel the same way if someone should stand and watch as one of my television programs what an extraordinary gift our time is the most valuable thing we have don't waste it and so much of our time actually goes and trying to fix when it should be invested invested in us in that peace in that joy because every moment should feel like it has whatever it had to offer all of it has been extracted out of it that is an art and if we get good at that art then that is the day we know we can live then that is the moment we begin to feel alive brehm's boyhood home is in northern india we recently traveled there after being away for nearly twenty and how magical it was and happy to say it's still it's still and i remembered so many things it was just one of those beautiful blue sky day warm breeze that's what i always remember and i was so thankful that what that feeling was to be back i had always carried it within me because it was within me the whole drama the whole beauty of being alive was within me regardless of where i went in this must be nice to be in a physical environment which feels like the center of the wheel when it is within you wherever you go like a snail you carry your house with you i spent a lot of years sailing ocean sailing crossing the atlantic sailing in waters i didn't know dangerous places and when the storm comes that sense that you have a center that you know a safe place in  call it soul call it whatever it is but the bigger the storm on the outside the more important my center was my inner peace not only for the things i had to do during that storm but for the signal i sent to everybody else on the craft you're going to be ok i'm ok we'll all be ok so i need to prepare the no matter what happens today doesn't just slip away and if i can begin to prepare for today and if i can prepare for tomorrow perhaps i can get enough insight into preparation that i can prepare for this li so this life too doesn't just slip away