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>>From the earliest days
that I could remember,

my mind was constantly capturingthe frame, the broad expanse

of sky and the mountains ofVermont that I grew up on,

watching the animals,
becoming part of nature.

But what I really wanted
to do was make films.

So off to the big
city I went to study

motion picture,
television, business.

The streets of New York
became my greatest coach

and my friends, myfamily, my best teachers.

I got very good at what I
wanted to do, very fast.

If you took a snapshot ofmy life, it looked perfect.

I had a lot of fun.

I won awards on MTV.

I directed music videosfor Grammy winning artists.

I made my firstindependent feature film.

I ran my own productioncompany and was fully immersed

in being a filmmaker.

I had a big home in
Manhattan, drove around

town in fancy cars.

I had supermodel girlfriendsto go with my super-sized ego.

I got into all the best
parties and hung out

with the coolest people.

But I wasn't satisfied.

There was something missing.

So I went to Hollywood,took it to the next level,

big movies, big stars.

Don't get me wrong, it
was a very good time.

And I really believed
this would be

the thing that
finally made me happy.

But it didn't.

>>No matter how big I did
it or how hard I tried,

something profound wasstill missing from my life.

And I didn't know what it was.

Then I began to wonder if
filmmaking was my gift.

Maybe I didn't
have any real gift.

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[thunder]

>>We incarnate on planetEarth not to receive anything

from the world whatsoever.

But we incarnate to release
the gifts, the talents,

the capacities, and thepowers that are within us.

People have a tendency tothink that the world owes them

something or that people
owe them something.

But in reality, as we evolve,as we become more conscious,

we discover that this lifeforce or this life presence

is seeking to become
conscious of itself

as us, according to
our unique pattern.

That unique pattern is our gift.

It is the way we get to expressthe life, the love, the beauty,

the joy, the intelligence,the order of the universe

as only we can do it.

So everyone, being
a unique emanation

of this presence,everyone being a singular

manifestation of
a cosmic destiny,

has not only one
gift but many ways

by which to release
this life energy.

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>>Even life, itself, is a gift.

But it comes with abeautiful wrapping paper.

And often, we don't
uncover the wrapping.

We are just caught up with thebeautiful, colored, glittery

wrapping paper.

We never to into the
depth of what life is.

So we need to unwrap the giftthat life has offered to us

and discover, really,
what is inside of us.

>>It is our unique way
of expressing love,

our unique way of
revealing creativity,

our unique way ofdownloading wisdom and beauty

and all of the
transcended qualities

that are everywhere present.

Some are more specific.

Some have a proclivitytowards doing that musically.

Some can do it vocally.

Some do it through architecture
or through healing.

But ultimately, as anindividual releases their gift,

they're actually
releasing the next stage

of their own evolution andactivating that same vibration

and frequency in others as well.

It's why we're here.

>>Well, everybody does
have a gift to give.

And the gift is the
essence of who they are.

The sun has to shine.

It's the nature of
the sun to do that.

It doesn't withhold its shining.

And it doesn't shine
to get feedback.

It just does it because
that's its nature.

And it's our nature to love.

It's our nature to
express ourselves.

It's our nature to give.

If we are from
that which is all,

then we contain all within us.

And we have some unique aspectof that allness that we are.

Just like nature
contains flowers

of many different varieties,we are all different varieties

of this god-consciousness that'smanifest in physical form.

Knowing that we come
from that and that we're

returning to that, we can'tbe anything less than that.

I mean we are literally
expressions of God.

>>You know, a lot
of times in life,

it's like you're liftedto the top of the mountain

for a moment, just to
show you what's there.

And then you have to go backto the bottom of the mountain

and you have to climb.

If you take away the
humanity of the journey,

you take away part of whatis, to me, most beautiful.

>>And in my own journey,
I was missing something,

the presence of which wouldmake a profound difference

in my life.

I was not present
to my own presence.

And I had no idea
that the fact that I

had no relationship with theclosest living woman, blood

relative, on the
planet to me, was

what was affecting
me so profoundly.

And then I realised I wasthe source of the fighting

in my family.

>>So I got a phone
call from my brother,

unexpectedly, because
we hadn't spoken

to each other for
quite a few years.

I don't even remember
exactly how long it was.

It just felt like forever.

Because we didn't like
each other at that time.

And our relationship was
toxic for each other.

>>I was in an emotional
war with my sister.

We had not spoken in years.

We hadn't really communicatedsince our mother had died.

And if you put us
in a room together,

there was going to be an allout verbal and, at some point,

physical fight.

>>And I got the phone
call, surprisingly,

because truthfully,
at that point,

I wasn't going tocommunicate with him anymore.

>>I finally was able to let goof all the issues that I had

and call my sister.

>>He called.

And I said, Dad OK?

Is Tata OK?

And at that point,
that's who we had

left in our life,
my brother and I.

>>She hadn't heard me crysince our mother died.

So the first thing
she said was who died?

I said nobody's dead.

Dad's not dead, no, grandpa, no.

>>But I want to talk to you.

And I said, well, I don't reallywant to talk to you, at all.

And he said, I really
want to talk to you.

It's important.

I need to ask your forgiveness.

>>I said something's died.

I said what has
died is the anger

within my own soul towardsyou, which was really

anger towards myself for
having abandoned you,

as your bigger brother.

>>And that just stunned me.

And I didn't even
know what to do

with that, because it wasthe last thing I was ever

expecting, ever, was for mybrother to call me and say,

can you ever forgive me?

All I ever wanted
was to say, yes.

So of course, immediately, Isaid, yes, and what's going on?

And I love you, Demian.

And he said, I love you, too.

And I'm really, really
sorry for everything.

>>And I told her,
in that moment,

I said, from today forth, Iwill never, ever, ever raise

my voice to you again.

From now and until
the day I die,

when you want to know what thatbright light on your shoulder

is, it's your brother,baby, and I got your back.

>>And that was like the
happiest day of my life

that I had experienced
to that day.

Because my life had
just been going away.

Everything that I thoughtwas solid and real

in life kept leaving.

And so I said, yes.

And we cried on the phone,together, for a long time.

And I'll never forget it.

>>And the power of thatmoment, the vibrational shift

in energy, between my sister,Shajen Joy, and her brother,

Demian, was so profound thatthat vibration permeated out

into our entire family.

And our entire family
stopped fighting.

>>And I just wanted tobe there, with my brother

and be in the forgivenesswith him, and be together.

And he said, let's be a family.

I want to be connected.

And I was like, yes.

I want to be connected, too.

I've been waiting.

And I'm so excited.

And that then began
another life for me,

which was a life of beingconnected to my family.

>>I realized that I hadeverything within my being

that it took to eliminate
anger in my world.

And if I could do
that there, then it

was possible that I could expandthat realm of consciousness

to the next realm.

And if I could
take it from there

and expand it to the world,what would be possible?

[DRUMS, CHANTING, TIBETAN INSTRUMENTS]

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>>We've all heard ask
and you shall receive.

Seek and ye shall find.

Knock and the door
shall be opened.

This is a law.

The universe is always
seeking to wake us up.

It's always broadcasting
what's within us,

the powers that are within us,the gifts that are within us.

If we ask the question,we've now become receptive.

>>Why do I want
to be a filmmaker?

Why do I want to
travel the world

and create stories about
the human existence?

And I answered that question.

Because I ultimately
believe that

it is possible to
reach the entire planet

through the process
of being a filmmaker.

And now realizing that I dohave an extraordinary gift,

I want to share it.

I want to make a difference.

>>Well if an individual reallywants to discover their gift,

they have to ask, what istrying to express through me?

What gift is trying to emerge?

What power is trying to becomeconscious of itself as me?

Many people aren't
asking that question.

They're just asking,
how can I avoid pain,

how can I get more
stuff, how can I fit in

to the society in
which I'm living, how

can I become successful?

And perhaps their
model of success

is something that's
been handed down

to them by a high tech, lowtouch, consumer driven society.

But when you ask, howcould I become more myself,

how can I share my gifts, howcould I activate my potential?

Now you begin to activate thespiritual faculties within you

that allow you to
hear the inaudible

and to ultimately
see the invisible.

Because you're pullingyourself out of the world.

You're pulling yourselfinto an interior awareness

of a broadcast that's
always being given.

We're guided not by the world.

We are guided by our heart.

We're guided by our
soul's desire to unfold.

>>I remember growing up feelinglike I didn't belong this

on this planet, like
I was an anomaly.

And I remember feeling justso alone and so disconnected

and so sad.

And then that escalated toa point of feeling angry,

like something had to shift,something had to change.

And from that space is
where I began to search.

I had like this
inner knowing that I

was destined for more thanwhat was showing up in my life.

I just hadn't trusted it before.

So I started tuning
in to that and asking

questions, deep questions.

Who am I?

Like who am I really?

And what's my purpose here?

And then I noticed that when Iasked disempowering questions,

like why is this happening tome, I would experience pain.

But when I asked thosehigher vibrational questions,

like what am I grateful for,
you know, who do I love,

or how can I serve, amazingopportunities would come

and amazing gifts
would be revealed.

So it was from that
receptive place

that began with a question.

The quality of our
lives is directly

proportionate to the qualityof the questions that we ask.

We create as we speak.

>>The closer I am onto
the frequency of what

I'm supposed to be doing,the more perfect life

is, the more synchronisticthings happen, the more

love and laughter I experience,and the more fun I have.

>>The only way that thehighest good can manifest,

through our life
experience, is when

we are delving into
this radio station

that this gift resides in.

>>What most of us
do, unfortunately,

because of the way we're
educated, by our parents

and by school and
by the military,

is we lose touch
with that essence.

And then you end up at the topof the ladder, 50 years later,

only to discover you
have the ladder leaning

against a long wall.

You've wasted your life.

Not to discover
your gift is to die

with the music inside of you.

>>If we don't give the gift,we're killing ourselves.

We are atrophying our heartand our soul and living life

on a survival level, which hasa tremendous amount of anxiety,

fear.

Fear-based living leads
to terrible decisions,

destruction, hurt, anger.

Long lasting happiness
can only come

when we're sharing our gift.

>>And if you're
holding that gift back,

then what you're
asking is you're

asking the world, the
other people in it,

to hold their gifts
back from you.

So you don't get to participatein this magnificent life

that we all have.

You're holding back.

The more you give
your gift, the more

that you participate and makea difference in the world,

the more the world willmake a difference for you.

>>So very practically, we haveto wake up every single day

asking, what's trying
to emerge in me today?

What gift is trying toactivate itself in me today?

What power is trying tobecome itself in me today?

And if the question
is sincere enough

and the love is real
enough, the universe

will reveal its secrets to us.

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>>When you start
off on your path,

one of the very first
things you notice

is that the biggestobstacle you have is you.

For me, I definitely hada flash of transformation.

I had the big breakthrough
moment with my sister.

I popped into a new world.

Suddenly, I felt alive.

I felt connected to everything.

I could see, touch,
smell, hear things

I could never perceive
before and marveled

at the wonders of
life and suddenly

thought I knew
something about nature

and god and the divine spirit.

And then I experienced
the unveiling

of a system of
harmonious principles,

eight distinct,universal, spiritual laws,

all working together in aunified field of consciousness.

They were coming in fast--
receptivity, intention,

interaction, feedback,
vibration, gratitude,

compassion, and unity.

And for a brief moment,
I glimpsed infinity,

and it all became clear.

And in this space, every badhabit and overblown piece

of my ego came rushing
back in to fill

the void of the newspace I had just created.

It was like I was
back to square one--

or worse, because now I knewthat unified field existed.

If I wanted this
transformation to last,

I was going to have to earn it.

I was going to have
to work for it.

I was going to have to go afterit like my life depended on it.

And to me, it did.

My friend, Chet
Holmes, introduced me

to Michael and SydneyCresci, two incredible people

who would change
my life forever.

They were hosting a symposiumon consciousness, attended

by authors,
motivational speakers,

and transformational leadersfrom around the world.

They had come together toembark on an epic journey

into the frontier of what ispossible in personal growth,

and how each of us to make adifference in our own lives

and on the planet.

They shared from their heartsa lifetime worth of knowledge.

I knew I was ready.

I was ready for something.

But I was totallyunprepared for the adventure

that was about to begin.

>>The human mind really createseverything that happens to you.

It looks like it's beencreated by something out there.

But it isn't.

It's being created
inside your head.

What you pay attention to, whatyou decide to pay attention to

has a huge effect on
what happens to you

and what you create
in your life.

You're creating your
own reality by deciding

what to pay attention
to for instance.

What most people don't getis that that is a choice.

>>We live in a universeof infinite possibilities

that responds to the
power of our thoughts.

Our neurology, like ournervous system and our brain,

can't take in infinite
possibilities.

It's like way too
much information.

It would be like trying todownload the whole internet.

So what we do and
how our mind works

is that it sorts through
infinite possibilities,

and it picks up just
a tiny little bit.

So it sorts and sifts,
and, in that process,

it deletes some thingsthen makes generalizations.

And that tiny little
bit that we pick up

is what harmonizes with
our deepest beliefs

and our values and
our programming.

>>There have been
many conversations

in the recent years about whatyou focus on, you attract,

and what happens in
your life is because

of what you think about.

And that is absolutely true.

What happens after we
think about something

is a certain energy is created.

And it is created
not only in our body

but in our personal
space, in our reality.

And a certain reality thenunfolds because of thoughts

and beliefs that
we hold in place.

>>What you think
about comes about.

Right?

What is your main,
dominant thoughtform?

That tells you who
you're going to become.

If you want to know who you'regoing to be five years from now

or five minutes
from now, tell me

what your dominant
thoughtform is,

and I'll tell you
where you are moving

or how you're staying stagnant.

>>Most people are not
directing their mind

in an intentional way.

It's running on autopilot.

So the person whose
life is not working

is unconsciously
and unintentionally

thinking in a certain way.

And that thinking
then directly leads

to a certain result in life.

And because they don't
see the connection,

they continue to do it.

>>People sabotage themselvesa lot with negative thinking.

When people are feeling
angry or depressed,

it's usually because they'rethinking about something

in the past, something thatthey have no control over.

And when you are in
the present, that's

where you do have control overyour thoughts, your actions,

how you're feeling.

And to get that there's
that shift inside.

Because when you're
feeling negative,

you're doing that to yourself.

It's a thought that comesdown and creates that feeling.

>>We get in our own way,because we hold past memories,

we hold onto regrets.

We had people that tell us,you're never going to make it.

Whatever it is, we've
all had experiences.

So what we need to do tobe happy is let those go.

Let the past go.

Release what is stoppingus from our own happiness.

>>A lot of people live
their entire lives

at the effect of
everything around them.

They don't see their
life as something

that they can make happen.

They see their life assomething that happens to them.

>>Any time you catchyourself blaming, justifying

your actions, making
someone else wrong,

or trying to be
right, or defending,

these are examples
that illuminate

that you're in effect.

And you can't
discover your gifts

when you're on the effectside of the equation

because you're not reallypresent to your power.

>>I wanted to be accomplished,and I wanted to be successful.

Even though I had a
little secret, which

was that I really
wanted to be a mother,

and I really wanted
to get married,

and I really wanted
to have a family.

But I thought I couldn't havethat life and my career, too.

I thought that I
was going to have

to choose one or the other.

I was conflicted.

And I felt paralyzed.

>>In the Webster's
Dictionary, it

says consciousness means tobe aware of what we are doing

and why.

And if you're not aware,
you can't make choices.

If you're not aware
of what you're

doing in the moment
and the impact

that's having, we
don't have choices.

If you're not aware that yousay something you contract,

you don't have a choice
to do it differently.

If you don't notice that youdid that and it fills you up,

you don't have a choice
to keep doing it.

It was just an accident.

So you can't get better at it.

You can't make it a practice.

You have to be
aware it's a choice,

or you can't make the choice.

>>And then I remembered
every moment is a gift.

And that's why it's
called the present.

As soon as I
realized that, I saw

that everything that I wantedwas right in front of me.

So I gave myselfpermission to choose both.

>>When people
develop the awareness

to look inside the
mind and notice

that, when I believe this,certain things happen, I

feel a certain way, I
behave a certain way,

I attract certain peopleand situations into my life.

Once people get clear on
that and exercise choice

at each of these junctures, theworld starts to unfold for you.

>>You know, the veryinteresting thing about our mind

is when our mind is calm andcollected and it's focused,

it gets enormous
energy, enormous power

of manifesting its
own intentions.

And human nature is such, youcan't but look for something.

The quest is very natural to adeveloped mind, the human mind.

We want to know things.

We want to know how things are.

So to know what is
this is science.

And to know who am
I is spirituality.

And they're so complimentary

>>In order to change reactivethought to proactive thought,

you first have to become
aware of your thoughts.

Because if you watch
your thoughts for long,

you start to notice, all
day long, these thoughts

are just coming.

And you realize
you're watching them.

They're not you.

They're just-- a part
of you is creating them,

called your mind and your ego.

And as you begin to see the fearand the doubt and the judgments

and just watch it neutrally,it almost becomes comical.

And then you realizeyou're not your thoughts.

You can observe your thoughts.

And once you get to that
place-- I have a mind,

but I'm not my mind,
I have an intellect,

but I'm not my intellect, I'mthis pure center of awareness

and choice-- now I see Ican choose the thoughts that

will take where I want to go.

I can choose the thoughts thatwill support my dreams, that

will uplift me and my
family and humanity.

Then you become intentionalwith your thoughts.

>>If you have a dominant
thoughtform that's

dysfunctional, all
you've got to do

is think a little bit
better thought, then

a little bit better
thought, then

a little bit better thought.

And you start to change.

It's a very small,
slight change.

But little changes
are big changes.

>>You can do something that'snot resourceful, over and over,

as long as you do
it unconsciously.

But if you do it withawareness, really watching,

knowing where it's going,
if it's not resourceful,

you cannot keep doing it.

>>You have to spend some timeto release the conditioning

that you've been given.

It's not an overnight process.

Research shows it takes 30 daysof uninterrupted discipline

to get a new habit
into your life.

And that can be a new
habit of thinking,

a new habit of behavior,like flossing your teeth.

It can be a new
paradigm you believe in.

And so if you hold
this new thought,

if you do this new exercise,whatever it might be,

to reclaim the
essence of who you are

and release all the negativeblocks that you've taken on

over the years,
then you naturally

step into who you are.

You naturally express your gift.

This is not hard.

It's easy.

>>A veil had been lifted.

I could see that I hadnever truly chosen my life.

I had been living
out of alignment

with the spiritual
laws of the universe.

Just behind the surface
of physical reality,

the laws are alwaysflowing, always creating,

always interacting.

I had to learn to focus myintention to connect with them.

I started to realize that who Iam is an emerging possibility.

There was an entire,
new direction

that my life was taking, and Iwas just beginning to sense it.

In the darkness of
night, one candle

can be seen from miles away.

It was time for me to
light my own candle.

I, myself, have been
on a consistent journey

to uncover who I am, to getin touch with who I'm being.

I think I've walked the planetfor a long time as a very

arrogant and self-centeredand righteous ass.

And now that I know
that, I'm experiencing

a little bit of
freedom around it.

So that has definitely
been the first step.

The next step is to actually--is to actively seek out

people and places
and masters of being,

if you will, that can
coach me into a higher

level of understanding
and consciousness,

to be more present
to the gifts that

are available in everymoment, every waking hour,

and to breathe more.

I've been breathing a lot more.

Breathe.

>>Then you want to
discover the gift

that nature has given to you.

First thing is we must
stop blaming ourself.

Self-blame is the biggestobstruction for one

to recognize one's gift.

>>It'll stop you
every time from being

able to live the life thatyou were meant to live.

It's thoughts like,
who do I think I am?

I'm not beautiful enough.

I'm not smart enough.

I'm not rich enough.

I'm not educated enough.

I'm not the right color.

When you let those thingsdrive your life, they do.

>>There's a reason why somepeople can't figure out

what they want.

And it's because, when
they were growing up,

their parents never let themdecide on what they wanted.

Every time they were aboutto decide on something they

wanted, their parents
would jump in and say,

no, no, no, you don't want that.

You want this.

Or you can't have that,
but you can have this.

And they never allowed the childto experiment on small things,

with wanting things, seeingwhat happens when you get them

and seeing, perhaps
experimenting,

with different ways
of getting them.

And so when they grow up,they have no confidence.

They don't trust theirown wanter, you might say.

Because they've never used it.

Because every time theydecided to want something,

somebody told them it waswrong or they couldn't have it

or there was some
reason no, no, no.

You don't want to
do it that way.

>>Some people never get intothat passionate experience

and know that
that's it for them.

Because we find a
lot of people take

on a life that's not theirown, at which they can never

succeed.

And what we mean by that
is they take on the life

that their parents
planned for them,

or they rebel against
the life their parents

planned for them, dependingon their persuasion.

By the way, it's not their life.

Or they took on a life
that the church decreed

for them or the politic
decreed for them.

They've never
really got in touch

with their own experience.

>>We all have very
different abilities.

We have very different talents.

We have very different gifts.

And most school systems aredesigned to ignore them.

But the problem is, with
the education system,

is that it's a system.

And it's a system that's
based on the principles

of manufacturing
and industrialism.

The idea is if you
keep with the program

and you do everything
that's required of you,

you'll pop out the far end,and you'll be qualified.

And you can carry
on and lead a life

that will be
profitable and secure.

And none of that is true.

And it's not true becausehuman life is not linear.

Human life is organic.

And human life is
not standardized.

And it's not conformist.

It's diverse and extraordinarilyrich and various.

But for all kinds of
reasons, not least

of which is education,
we're socialized

into thinking that
certain types of ability

are more important thanall other sorts of ability.

And it's why so many peoplethink they don't have any.

Because they don't
discover them.

>>A lot of us
discount what we have

to offer because we
can't see how it's

going to make us money, or it'snot going to make us famous,

or we're not going to getinvited to be on "Oprah."

And so we feel like we'renot making a difference.

Making a difference is
not about a project.

It's the way you show up inthe world every single day.

You are already
making a difference.

Whether you know it or not,whether you like it or not,

just by your presence,your vibrational presence

is always making a difference.

You made a difference
today, to everyone

who saw you, felt
you, or heard you.

So the question then is, whatkind of difference am I making?

Don't measure it
in terms of money.

Don't measure in terms of fame.

Don't measure it in termsof even how many people

you've affected.

Shifting one person is sacred.

>>If people looked for theirgift, they would find it.

But the world has
mesmerized each of us

to some extent and degree.

It has hypnotized
us if you will.

The world says power
is in status symbols.

The power is in the positionthat you hold in the world.

The power is in what kindof automobile you drive,

what kind ofneighborhood you live in.

That's where the power is.

The power is in the money.

When the power is in you.

And it's in me.

It's always been there.

But you'll never
find it if your eyes

are stuck on someone else'sgift on the television.

If you're eyes are agaze
at someone else, who's

living their dream, whatabout you and your dream?

>>Choose in favor
of your passion.

Choose in favor
of the things that

have greatest meaning to you.

Your passions are
like bread crumbs

that lead you onto
the path of your gift.

And know that every
moment is a choice.

And you're either choosingcloser to your gift

or moving farther away fromit, in every single moment.

So what do you want to choose?

>>The secret of
life is finding out

what you love to do,
developing a deliberate

practice to get
really good at it.

And that's the foundationthat will lead you

on a serendipitous
journey to riches

beyond your wildest imagination.

One of these days, you'llfind the thing to do.

>>What you love and
are interested in

is a clue to what your gift is.

And what you love
will evolve as you do.

But what I know
for each person is

that there is, as unique
as our thumbprint,

that wonderous
thing that is ours.

And you will begin to findit by paying attention

to what you love.

And you'll notice, also, thatwhen you're in your gift,

you feel more alive, you
feel more passionate,

you feel as if I
was born for this.

>>When you start to tap
into who you really are,

you don't have to make
yourself be happy.

You just get happy.

You feel trusting.

You feel like that
voice of the soul,

as it starts to comethrough, is always perfect.

It unveils your path for you.

It brings you what you need.

It connects you with
everyone you need.

>>You know it's your giftwhen it's effortless.

You know it's your
gift when it's natural,

when it feels
beautiful and simple.

And everybody
already knows that.

It's just a matter
of remembering.

>>It's about finding
your true spirit.

And you know you've
found it, in the way,

because time changes for you.

If you're doing somethingthat doesn't resonate properly

with you, five minutes
can feel like an hour.

But if you're doing
the thing that really

is part of your being,
that is coming from you,

then an hour can feel
like five minutes.

>>As you activate your
gift into the world,

you get that
momentum behind you.

You never know what thelight has in store for you.

You never know what thatmaximum level looks like.

Because there is
no maximum level.

It just keeps scaling up,higher and higher and higher.

And you just keep touchingmore and more people.

And that momentum and
that inspirational power

keeps flowing through you.

And then that drives you togo even deeper and deeper

into your gift.

And I believe that that
is the source of genius.

>>At different
times in your life,

you may have different
gifts to discover.

Your gift, when
you're younger, might

be that you're
going to be a mother

and put all of your energyinto being a mother.

And the gift is of
love, of nurturing.

At some point, because
we are individuals

who are growing and changingand shifting all the time,

whether we know it
or not, that gift

might not feel big
enough for you anymore.

You might have outgrown it.

You might feel there'ssomething else calling to you.

This can be a moment of alot of crisis for people,

because we feel, but this
is what I chose to do.

I wanted to be a full-time mom.

Or I wanted to be a lawyer.

Or I wanted to be an artist.

Suddenly, it's
not fulfilling me.

There's nothing wrong
with those moments.

It means that you have shifted.

You've morphed into
something else.

And that based on the foundationof all that you've learned

and all you've become, somethingmore is wanting to be born.

These are times when we haveto be really courageous,

sometimes let go of thingsthat we've defined ourself by,

and be willing to be rebirthedinto someone and something new

and discover the new
gift inside of you.

>>If you've not
gotten that gift.

If you're still looking
and searching out there,

you've got to look
into your life

and go, what would
I do no matter what?

If the world blew up,
what would I do anyway?

If I lost my family, what wouldI do, every day, for free?

What would I do without
any remuneration?

What would I do as
a nonprofit charity?

And if you ask yourself
that question enough,

and particularly if you meditateon that question long enough,

I believe it's inevitablethat you will find your gift.

>>I think the main
thing you could

do to discover your own giftis to look inside and say

what brings me the greatest joy?

What has been the thing thatwhen I do it, I'm happiest?

When you look at
what brings you joy,

it takes you back intothe essence of who you are

and what you're meant to do.

It's easy to listen to
a rock and roll station.

It's harder to hear yourbody, to hear your intuition,

to hear God's voice, if youwill, speaking through you.

It's always called thestill, small voice within.

>>Specific practices
to find your gift-- one

would be practice more solitude.

Many people are afraid tobe alone with themselves.

But it is in the
silence of your own soul

that your inner voice speaks.

And you're able
to hear and follow

the voice as it directs you

>>Solitude will take you places.

Go into the woods, go andbathe yourself in the stream.

Listen to the birds sing.

Go to the ocean waves
and just hear the music.

The world, the universe
is talking to you.

>>Another specific
that you can do

is to practice loving yourself,giving yourself permission

to live your dreams, giveyourself permission to be well,

give yourself
permission to be OK,

give yourself permission tobe forgiven for past mistakes,

give yourself permission
to start over.

All of these are acts of love.

>>I'm in Rome, and I'm on thephone with my sister, Shajen.

Look.

So I get a call from
my sister, Shajen.

And it was a pretty
profound call,

because what she
said was, when is

the work you're doing
in the world going

to match the man I know?

When's that going to happen?

Because you're reallygood at blowing things up.

And I know you have a
lot of fun doing it,

but it's not a match
for who you've become.

And, you know, it
was a great question.

And I really had
to think about it.

And she was right.

Because on one level, I wasover here making the Hollywood

movies and trying so hard
to get something that

was all about the next,biggest thing I could do.

It wasn't about who I was being.

And suddenly I had my answer.

It was right in front of me.

It had been there
the entire time.

So my purpose is clear, toshare all these amazing people

and the things that I've learnedwith the rest of the world.

I'm just one of
many people that's

experiencing this awakening,this rise in consciousness.

>>As we activate our potential,bliss, ecstasy, happiness,

and joy is in the
giving of the gift.

Because my priority is sharing.

My priority is giving.

My priority is
releasing life energy.

My priority is radiating.

So my priority isn't getting.

Because if I go
to getting, now I

resist the very
thing that I want.

So I'm on, now, a precipiceof becoming more myself.

I'm available to more
good than I've ever

imagined to come
forward in my life.

And I'm not under the illusionthat I know what that good is.

Now, transformation can occur.

And we always know
it's transformation

because it surprises us.

If it doesn't surprise you,it's not transformation.

>>When you start to
use your gift to serve,

magic happens in your life.

It's greater than you
could have imagined.

It's like a soloist
becoming part of a band.

And you're part of a wholechoir of angels that are also

in the same vibration right now.

The more you give, the morethings come back to you.

And then it becomes
what you really

desire is more
opportunities to give.

And if that's what
you're wanting--

that's what you're
really wanting

is to serve and support,you find yourself in Iraq.

You find yourself makingmusic in an ancient culture.

One of the most spiritual
feelings I've ever felt

is that connection
between people I thought

were my enemies and myself.

Well working in Iraq for
the last three years,

when we would start
the drum circle,

people often came
from different parts

of Iraq, different
language groups

and different religious groups.

So there would be an
initial resistance.

And you could see the layersof resistance falling off

people's shoulders.

And pretty soon,
over time, everyone

came together playing
their own part,

not making my music
or their music,

but coming together and formingsomething new, a new song.

And everyone was just playingoff each other's energy.

I think it's a great metaphorfor a beautiful way to live.

There is a duet that's beingcalled out in our culture

right now, in our world.

To have the gift of
traveling the world

and interacting with peoplethrough music and sharing,

really, our heartvibrations across the world,

it gives me great hope
for peace on the planet.

>>See anything we
do in our life,

we do either expecting
some sort of happiness

or we do as an
expression of joy.

To shift from this positionof expecting something

to sharing what you can withthe world, with the people

around you, makes
all the difference.

>>My name is Tatanka Mani.

It means Walking Buffalo.

My birth name is Andrew.

I'm a sundancer
and a pipe carrier

and a ceremonial leader
and just a common man.

People say that the gift
I have is to help people

learn about themselves.

However, I did choose
to live a life that

enhances that so that
it can be given back

in a appropriate way,
in a respectful way,

and in a traditional way, in away that only does good things.

Because we can't only
take in this world.

We always have to give back.

True gifts are the ones
that we receive and give

back to the world inwhatever way is necessary.

It doesn't mean as much
if we just hold on to it

and keep it to ourselves.

It's often hard andchallenging to walk that line,

to continually
work on these gifts

that each person is given.

I think a lot of peoplearen't willing to do that.

>>Why aren't people
willing to do that?

>>Because it's hard.

>>It's that commitment
to excellence

that forces us to grow and thatcommitment to not backing away

when it's tough that thereal satisfaction, the deeper

satisfaction comes from.

And it's the giving of our giftwhere the fulfillment comes.

When you're out there servingand people are receiving it

and you've had to workhard to make that happen,

and then it justblossoms in its fullness.

I don't think it gets
any better than that.

>>Here we are at
Refugio Altiplano.

I'm Scott Peterson.

I've lived here
for 12 years now.

I run a shamanic healingcenter and integrative medicine

center, where we healpeople with natural means.

People come to us from all overthe world for healing purposes,

for guidance, and
also for learning.

And a lot of the
people, these days,

are insulated from their
own spiritual lives.

We have very little freetime, very little recreation.

We have very little
time to be alone.

They're constantly
under the influence

of television,
antidepressant drugs,

of very abrasive
people around them

on a regular and constant basis.

And when they strip offthese negative influences,

they inevitably will takea certain transition period

to come back into a state
of homeostasis and calm.

But from there, they
can begin to grow

in a very positive
and real direction.

If you want to create apositive environment that

reflects your inner and higherself, what you have to do

is you have to always giveenergy to the things you like

and always take energy awayfrom the things you don't like.

>>So when we're
giving, we're coming

from a premise of abundance.

And that creates the spacefor even more abundance

to flow into our lives.

There's nothing that you givethat you won't experience.

It's like if you give someonea smile, you're smiling.

You are feeling a smile.

Or if you give them
the gift of laughter,

you're the one that's laughing.

Or if you give the
gift of love, you're

feeling the love, becauseit's flowing through you.

And as it flows through you,it's like it comes back.

It's in the giving
that we receive.

>>It's especially importantfor all people, men and women,

to acknowledge the warriorside of their being.

Because when you don't
acknowledge that side,

it comes out in unhealthy ways.

>>The ingestation of
pizza manifestation--

>>As much pizza as possible.

>>All right, let's go, pizza.

You ready?

>>Ready.

>>Yeah, bang it up.

Go.

I look at anybody
famous or anyone

who's achieved their goal.

They weren't that
when they were born.

Your left side's
dipping just a touch.

Somewhere along the
line, they conceived

it, this vision of
themselves, whether it

was singing or dancing
or playing football

or whatever it is.

Then they believed
they could do it.

And once you got
that belief-- and I

think that's where
people get stuck.

They conceive.

They have a conception
of what they like.

But they don't believethat they can achieve it.

And that little
block, right there,

in between first
and second gear,

stays inside for their
whole, entire lives.

And if you were to
talk to them when

they were 80 or 90
or 100 years old

and they're lying
on their deathbed,

they're not going
to say, I'm glad I

stayed in this little shelland never bursted out.

They're going to wish.

They're just going to say,phh, I should have done that.

Now why didn't I do that?

I could've done it.

In fact, the word
"inspire" literally

means to breathe in spirit.

Because you could do this for anhour in the morning or an hour

at night and carry
that spirit with you

for a very, very long time.

And I think that a
person who is truly

in-spirit through inspirationcan accomplish anything

they want and can
easily manifest anything

that they're trying to manifest.

>>Discovering your
gift is one thing.

Living it, that
is something else.

It requires as much focusand dedication as anything

I've ever done.

It is a challenge to
every fiber of my being

to be in service to
what I am becoming.

The more I studied andmeditated on sharing my gifts,

the more I realized that theuniversal, spiritual laws

I had experienced
were continuing

to unfold within my being.

And once again, I awakenedto this unified field

of awareness, where
everything was connected

in perfect vibrationalharmony with everything else.

As I became open and receptive
to this infinite loop

of energy, I realized thatthe more I shared my gifts,

the more it inspired othersto share their gifts.

I was feeding them, and
they were feeding me.

There was a universal,spiritual principle at work,

the infinity feedback
loop of creation.

>>Giving a gift is part
of the sacred process

of sustaining the communityand sharing the wealth.

And I believe that's
really what lies

behind this idea of
discovering your gift.

You're not discovering
it just for yourself,

but you're discovering
your gift so you

can offer to other people.

And that, in offering
it to other people,

you are building
a stronger sense

of community between
yourself and the people

that we share the Earth with.

It's part ofcontributing to and being

part of the commonwealth
of humanity.

And in that respect,discovering your own gifts

is an act of being
selfless as well as

one of fulfilling yourself.

>>Art has always been a gift.

And that's one of the reasonswhy we place such a high value

on paintings,
because they reveal

what's inside,
what's underneath.

One of the gifts you have asan artist is you feel more.

You see more.

You connect more.

One of the most importantmoments of my life

is when I started to
discover my own gift.

Once my heart was
open and I began

to discover that I was to bean artist, after spending all

my adult life in business, itwas a profound realization.

And when I looked back intime-- it's been 20 years now--

I am so grateful
that I didn't stay

in what I thought
when I was young.

And I wanted to be anarchitect or a business owner.

I wasn't stuck or marriedto that for my whole life.

I began to change anddiscover who and what I was.

So one of my jobs, as ateacher and as an artist,

is to introduce people to theheart and the heart chakra.

And I haven't found a
better way to practice

opening your heart than inthe process of painting.

>>I decided to sell our verypopular restaurant in Whistler

and pursue my dreams
and work with children

in the arts and crafts field.

I have over 200 childrenthat want to do art with me.

I've never been so
poor financially,

but I've never been
so rich in my heart.

It's filled the void.

Because we were never
able to have children.

And now I have more
children in my life

than anyone could ever ask for.

And I hope to bring thismandala back for the children

to see that their art
never has to be perfect,

that their are mistakes in here.

And I know they'll love it.

You can never have
too many sparkles.

[laughter]

>>There's something
here, but you

can't get to it
through the mind.

You have to get to
it through the heart.

>>Everything on this planet isactually just a certain kind

of vibration, vibratingmolecules, vibrating particles.

This is physics.

I'm talking about
spiritual physics here.

And you are actuallyjust a vibrational being.

We are actually all vibrationalbeings before anything else.

>>We call ourself human
beings not human doings,

because what we're reallybringing into any situation

is the quality of our being.

And so when we're being loving,when we're being inclusive,

when we're being expressive,when we're being joyful,

that creates a vibration.

And that vibration is whatwe're really expressing.

It's the quality of the energy,the enthusiasm or lack of it,

the love or lack of it,
the anger or lack of it

that really has the most impact.

>>When you show
up, who shows up?

It doesn't matter
what you're thinking.

It doesn't matter whatyou want to say to people.

What's going to happen isthey're going to feel you.

They're going to feel
everything that you've

brought into that moment.

And we can call
that your vibration.

If that vibration has
black, if it has anger,

if it has resentment, if ithas shame, if it has emotions--

and all emotions are really justvibrations-- if it has emotions

that are not vibrating
at the highest

place, an expansive
place, you will actually

push away things that aretrying to come to you.

You will actually
attract things that

are vibrating with those
emotions of contracted

feelings.

>>You need to look
in the mirror.

You need to look
inside your own being

to discover where you're off inyour vibe, where your anger is

or where your despair isor where your cynicism lies

or where your resignation is.

And until you can begin to cometo terms with your own being,

it's going to be
difficult for you

to be able to return thatvibration to the world.

>>There's a principal in musiccalled sympathetic vibration.

So that when I play
my drum, another drum

is actually vibrating
at that same pitch.

And it will be played,without anyone touching it.

When we hear a pulse, we
can't help but join it.

Because, really,
the principle is

that life wants to harmonize.

Every beat, every note wemake is felt somewhere.

>>We're simply a vibrationheld together into this form.

And we're able to
express ourselves

and to experienceconsciousness, to experience

this tactile world, to
eat, to love, to laugh,

to raise families, to
create grand edifices,

to have art, music.

It's extraordinary.

[music playing]

>>The whole world is vibrations.

Everything is vibrations.

And when happy and peaceful,calm vibration emits from us,

it draws similar
situations around us.

When we connect with
the universal presence,

you know, then our life becomesa fertilized expression of joy.

>>Your life is just a mirror.

So when you put yourattention on those things

that you're passionate
about, and then

when you start to align withthose things, what you find

is that the doors start toopen, the people, the places,

or things start to show up.

And you become what Icall a passionate magnet.

It's just synchronicityjust starts to align itself.

>>We vibrate things
into our life.

We vibrate things out.

We vibrate people in.

We vibrate people out.

We vibrate opportunities in.

So how do we become a
positive, vibrational

being as opposed to
just a positive thinker?

It means cleaning out ourvibration of everything

that is not serving us, raisingour vibration with love,

with all the things thatwe know expand us and make

us feel that we're vibrating
at a higher frequency.

>>You can either match
fear, out in the world,

and lower your
frequency, or you can

stay in touch with your ownkind of preferred state, where

you feel good and
happy, and stay in that.

It's like strike your
tuning fork and whoo.

And once you choose your
tone, let's call it,

your life starts to becreated out of that tone.

If you choose a low one,you get a low-level life,

with a lot of
snags and problems.

If you raise up and moveinto the higher frequencies,

you get a new
understanding of reality

where everything's
much more unified.

>>Now that I was awarethat this infinity feedback

loop was always
happening, I didn't

understand how thecircumstances of my life,

that I perceived
to be the greatest

challenges or the
biggest obstacles,

were actually for my own good.

If I was creating
my own reality,

why did I keep creating
things I didn't want.

If the feedback loop isfeeding me pain and adversity,

then what am I feeding into it?

>>Some of you are goingthrough some very dark times.

You don't see a way out.

Your back is against
the proverbial wall.

You're at your wit's end.

You don't know what to do.

Some of you are insituations that are chronic.

You've been in this
tough place for so long

that you think it's
your lot in life.

>>One of the greatest
challenges I experienced

was the death of my mother.

There's no doubt about that.

Is there really a gift in this?

Is there really a blessingin my mom passing?

Can I find where she is now?

Because really, we know
that she's in the heart.

I knew she was in my heart.

But to go to that place, toactually find her there, as

opposed to looking for
her on the outside, that

was one of the greatest
challenges I ever

had in my life.

Because energy or matterisn't created or destroyed.

All of us are energy.

We know that we're existing now.

Right here, in this moment,this experience is a gift.

And this is what
exists right now.

And my mother is here.

She's here in this moment.

She's present.

Because everything is
present in every moment.

So the greatest
gift I got out of it

was getting past the
illusion that there's

a death and a life
that are separate.

>>Loss is the most difficultthing to go through.

I lost someone very
important to me.

He was my best friend.

Life is good.

It's beautiful.

But you have to
know how to live.

One thing I could
learn about this,

that I'm going to live mylife and enjoy each moment.

We don't know where we aregoing to leave this place.

You don't know.

We have to love.

We have to forgive.

We have to be patient.

We have to be connected,to try to be a good person.

>>My grandfather,
Tata-- well, Tata

means grandfather in Polish.

I always thought Tata
was his real name

until I was old enough toknow that Icek was actually

his name.

My grandfather had recentlyundergone a triple bypass

at the age of 84.

And things didn't go well.

And he was going to die soon.

And I walked into the room.

And I saw my grandfather there.

And he looked at
me and he smiled.

And in that moment, Iunderstood that this man,

this extraordinary man wasnever going to leave that room,

was never going
to leave that bed.

I said, look, you know,
I know you're dying.

And he goes, yeah.

And what is the one thing
you want me to know,

that you want me to
tell my grandchildren.

And he said, wow.

He goes, well, I'll
tell you a story.

Back in World War II,
I was a young soldier.

And I had your grandmother,Dora, who you never met.

And she was pregnant
with your father.

We were walking, on
foot, in the snow.

And we got to a field hospital.

And in this field hospital,in front of the advancing

Nazi army, your grandmothergave birth to your father.

And I realized that, if westayed there, we would die.

So I stole a Jeep and food.

And I drove as far
away as I could.

And when the Jeep ran out ofgas and when we ran out of food,

we walked in the snow.

But there came a time whenwe couldn't walk anymore,

when we couldn't
take another step.

And I'll never forget.

I was in a snowstorm.

I was carrying Dora on myback and your infant father

in my arms.

And I thought that maybe, if Ijust rested for a little while,

I could get up and go again.

The truth is I was passing
one person after another

that had stopped and diedin the place they stopped.

And I looked down at
your infant father, who

was dying of
pneumonia, by the way,

and I looked into his eyes.

And I said to him, one dayyour son will know no war.

But today, you have
to do your part.

You have to live
through the night.

And I will keep going.

Because I knew, if I
stopped, I would die.

And he wouldn't live.

And you wouldn't exist.

And the one thing
that I'm most proud of

is that I kept my promisethat night to your father.

And here you are.

And who you are
to me is my heart.

I left my grandfather
that night,

and I never saw him again.

So many people,
all over the world,

have made so many
sacrifices, literally

have given their life, so thattheir family or this planet

could have an
opportunity to discover

the gifts within themselvesand to experience

the richness of life.

That's what matters.

That's what matters.

>>Just by being willing to lookfor the gift in a situation,

my being changes.

And it is our job is to identifythe goodness that is occurring.

It is serving our awakeningto the powerful co-creators

that we are.

Every single thing
that is occurring

is serving that purpose.

That's the only thing that'shappening in all of creation.

>>I recently discovered
I had prostate cancer.

And it was an initial shock.

And I have to tell thattriggered a series of the most

extraordinarily wonderful
events and experiences--

new friendships, a
closeness between myself

and my wife of 20 years thatjust keeps getting better.

And we'd often thought itcouldn't get any better.

But it does.

It just has been amazing.

But it took looking
for the blessing in it.

So that's the ultimate
accountability,

ultimate responsibility.

Am I going to look for
the goodness in things

or am I going to look forthe darkness in things.

And that's a choice.

>>Just the idea of havinga great many different

experiences in your
life, to be able to have

those experiences-- positive,negative, happy, sad,

suffering, celebratory-- and tobe able to acknowledge that you

are experiencing
them, that you're

grateful for those experiencesand learning from them,

to see every experience assomething that you can value

and take with you that Godmay be trying to teach you

or also that God wants you toexperience as part of the gift

that you are as a human being.

>>I'm going to let thetruck behind you back up.

>>But that's a positive
experience, too,

having that truck backing upbehind you, ruining your movie.

You can learn from that.

You can learn to have
a different angle.

>>When something that could bea crisis or a tragedy shows up,

instead of it's a problem,what if it's for me?

That's the way I find the gift.

I ask, what if this is for me?

And immediately
that shifts my focus

from problem to solution andpositive possibility and even,

oh boy.

So simply by saying,
what if this is for me,

all of a sudden, I've
got a better feeling.

I don't have this
crisis anymore.

>>I was going to divorce
my husband, the father

of my child, the
man I love and have

chosen to spend my life with.

And we were really
having a hard time.

I didn't tell most peoplehow much pain I was in.

But I had been dealing andstruggling with a back injury

that I had had many years ago,from a job related incident.

And the more struggle we had inour relationship, the more pain

I started to be in physically.

That energy manifested in avery negative way in my body.

So for me, it showed
up as a lot of pain,

a lot of emotional pain.

It showed up as physical pain.

My back ended up going out.

I got back surgery.

There was all sorts of ways thatme not honoring my true voice

and my husband not
honoring his true voice

showed up in our lives.

And I think that was
one of the biggest life

adversities I've
ever come up against.

>>My sister, Shajen,
and her husband,

Cherif, had been goingthrough a very difficult time.

Their marriage
was falling apart.

They were deeply in
love with each other,

but they were not
living a life that

honored the gifts that
they were for each other

or for the world.

>>My husband wasstruggling finding himself,

finding his path, his goal.

And I saw his greatness, butI didn't see him accessing it.

>>I was lost.

I had lost my passion.

I wasn't happy with the wayI was or what I was doing.

I wasn't happy with my marriage.

I wasn't happy with my life.

And I didn't know
how to get out of it.

>>They were stuck,
blaming each other,

not in alignment with thespiritual laws of the universe.

>>I had forgotten
my childhood dream.

I'd let it go.

And it was eating away at me.

It all stemmed from having fear.

I was really afraid.

So in essence, I washiding behind this facade

that, if I didn't go for mydreams, then I wouldn't fail.

So I decided to let it die.

>>I was surprised to learnthat Cherif's dream had always

been to come to Hollywood andwork in the movie business.

He even had a filmcompany set up in Morocco

20 years before we
ever met each other.

So I did something
rather dramatic.

I explained to Cherif
that I had to hire

a new VP for my company.

And I have to hire
that person today.

That was a Thursday.

I offered him the job.

But I said, if you
accept the job,

you have to pack
your bags, you have

to leave your wife and child,move to California on Saturday,

so that you can be in thebusiness meetings, with me,

on Monday.

>>I couldn't believe that I wasbeing offered the thing that I

was really dreamingabout for all of my life.

I had a big, steep
learning curve.

But I was passionate
about filmmaking,

so the learning actually
came really easy.

I was finally in
alignment with my gift.

>>I think the thing
I want to tell

people is there is a thingcalled transformation.

I mean it literally
means to transcend

the limitations ordinarilyimposed by form.

But it's not a light switch.

You can become really
good at anything

that matters to you if
you're willing to do

the work, anything.

>>My sister, Shajen, hadalways wanted to write books,

to be an author.

In truth, she'd been writingas long as I could remember.

>>It's always been my passion.

I've loved writing
since I was young.

And I always
wondered, deep inside,

how I'd get my realfeelings out to the world

and how do I share them?

But I was so afraid to
put my voice on paper,

to put my words down.

And I doubted myself.

I doubted who I was, if anyonewould care what I had to say.

And it always seemed really
big for me and too big

for me to even accomplish,so why even try?

>>Forget the word "can't"and just take a step.

It might not even be
in the right direction.

But you won't know
that until you

get to that step and thenthe next step and then

the next step.

Take a step.

It's all it is.

>>And when I sat down to write"Discover the Gift," at first

I thought, oh no, what
am I going to say?

How do I do this?

And then I thought, OK,I know the key to writing

is just writing.

So just write, Shajen, write.

Once I took that
one step, that fear

that had been keeping me backfor so long was relinquished.

And all of a sudden, I wasat this different place

with myself, really living mygift, really being who I am.

What happened was that theauthentic me showed up.

And I'm so grateful.

>>And so she drove
across country

and began to write "Discoverthe Gift," the book,

and to co-produce the movie,with me, alongside her husband.

Both of them now fully
and actively engaged

in their gifts.

>>When I started valuing myown self, my heart, my time,

my dream, it was like I cameout of a cave and finally,

finally started living in light.

Shajen and I just started havinganother level of relationship.

It was amazing.

>>Getting space and us gettingto be with ourselves, choosing

ourselves and then having thespace to choose each other,

saved our marriage.

And when I look back now, Igiggle, because I think, wow,

that was so hard, but
yet it was so easy.

>>The process isn't strategyor fighting or forcing

or controlling or trying harder.

The process is relaxing
into it, going inside

and following that
inner direction.

Because what I think
I want out there

may not be for my highest good.

And I've got to get
really good at listening

to this inner direction, evenwhen it takes me someplace

that isn't what I think I want.

I need to surrender to that.

I need to recognize
what shows up there.

I need to cooperate with it.

And I need to let
go of the other

and see if I can flow with this.

And when I do, it's
amazingly easy.

When I don't, it's hard.

>>When I was 19, I was
abducted and beaten

and repeatedly raped.

And the most unusual
thing happened

in the midst of that experience.

I found this feeling
of safety emerging.

The logic seems crazy.

But my thought was, if I
could live through this,

I could live through anything.

I didn't know if theywere going to let me live

or if they would kill me.

And when I realized that, Ihad this profound revelation,

not like some lofty conceptbut as an actual experience.

I got that who I
am is not my body.

Even if I didn't
make it out of there,

I would make it out of there.

And in that moment, thispreviously unthinkable act

turned into this gift
that I held in my heart.

Life recontextualizes itself.

And the moment I named that asa gift, my past was different.

And the future
truly became a space

where anything was possible.

And forever since,
I've felt safe.

>>We have a new
kind of evolution.

It's called conscious
and participatory,

which means right here andright now, at this second,

beginning with our own life,we can change, we can shift,

we can grow and become
who we're meant to be.

Nothing can determine our growthand unfoldment and happiness

except for ourselves.

>>Commitment for
a better society

should rise within
each one of us.

Technology which has madethe globe into a village.

And it is spirituality which isgoing to make it into a family.

>>It can't just be a few
political spokespeople

saying it.

It has to be
filmmakers saying it.

It has to be
scientists saying it.

It has to be corporate
execs saying it.

It has to be parents saying it.

It has to be whatever
you do, that you

are so passionate about thepossibility of what could be,

that you get that
life is a gift and you

get that it's not guaranteed.

>>It just takes one
person's awakening

to elevate theconsciousness of a family.

It just takes one
person's awakening

to elevate the consciousnessof a company or of a community.

And then it has
that ripple effect.

>>You can't, in a
way, promote states

of being that you,yourself, don't understand.

You can't promote world
peace if you are angry.

As Gandhi said, you
have to be the change.

It begins with your
own transformation.

>>I was beginning
to find my balance

with the spiritual
laws of the universe.

They were like different
colors of the rainbow,

each beautiful by itself,but joined together,

they shine as a
single white light

illuminating everything
and everyone.

I feel the laws flowingthrough me like a river, now,

with a strong but steadycurrent washing the resistance

to my own existence away.

>>It's like the rolling
stones in the water.

Water flows.

It doesn't stop because
there is a stone.

It flows over it.

And in due course, it evenshapes the stone, itself.

It just needs a little
perseverance, patience,

and conviction that lovewins and will always win.

>>I had the unique experience
to die at one time.

I was in a car accident
and pronounced dead.

I had the experience
of being everything,

of experiencing all theimportant people in my life,

whether they were
alive or had passed on.

And I had time to talkwith them and be with them.

And it seemed like it wasdays that I was experiencing.

I also experienced
being the ocean.

I was a drop of the ocean.

But then a drop of the
ocean is the ocean.

And then there was light.

And I was part of the light.

And everyone that
I had talked to

and been with during thattime was part of the light.

And it was beautiful.

And it was full of joy.

And there was no judgement.

All there was was love,beautiful, magnificent, all

encompassing love.

>>Agape means
unconditional love.

It's a love that cannot
be done with the mind.

It's a love that takes usover when our heart is open.

And we discover there's
no boundary between us,

that it's all about love, andit's all about forgiveness,

and that the
universe doesn't have

one ounce of retribution in it.

All it has is love.

It's just a unified
field of love.

>>Think about it.

When you're around
someone who's loving,

do they have to say
anything to you?

You just feel their energy.

Their goodness just overflows.

There's really only
one law, and it's

the law of love that
makes me one with you,

with them, with the people onthe other side of the globe,

with everyone everywhere.

And when you find love,
you've found everything.

>>It's this continual
state of being,

so it's about doing
that in our work

and then bringing
that into your moment

to moment interactions
and connections

and into your moment
to moment life.

It's about being the lightand bringing that light,

reflecting it everywhere you go.

>>There's nothing lovingwon't heal, nothing, nothing.

And I forget that sometimes.

But I never forget
that I've gotten it.

And I know I can return there.

And I know that when I
do, my life is beautiful

and the results I
produce are positive.

And it kind of spills over.

And someone else picks
it up and passes it on.

It just multiplies that way.

>>As long as I'm
in a state of love,

miracles will happen here.

And when you know that only loveis real, it changes everything.

>>Love is the basic principleof how everything works.

You don't cause pain.

You don't do violence
to anything, in any way,

even in the subtlest way.

Because it hurts
the whole system,

which, of course,
comes back to you.

>>Coming from our
heart is authentic.

And that's a feeling experience.

And what I recommend
to people is,

hey, you've got to
be able to feel it.

If you can feel
it, if you can feel

that someone's coming
from their heart,

then you know you're hearingthem with your heart.

>>Your heart will
always be true.

Whenever you have a question,put your hands on your heart,

ask that question.

Your heart will tell youinstantly what the answer is.

And our tendency is to followthe fear that lives up here.

When we just find that peacein ourselves, walk our truth,

always be in your
heart, your life

will become easier, much easier.

>>There's a language
beyond words.

It's a language of our hearts.

It's a language of the soul.

So when we give our love,we add to that vibration

that encircles the universe.

When we let go of our
words and our thoughts,

then we fall into our heart.

>>We should call "normal" theperson who awakens each morning

with shining eyes, seeing eachday as a gift, clearly centered

in what they're passionateabout and committed

to a practice of getting betterand better and better at it

and living a life that's
a gift to the world,

welcoming people
of all ethnicity

and persuasion with
respect and warmth.

We ought to call that normal.

>>It's simple.

It's you.

You're the gift.

>>Since all there is
is this present moment,

since it's the only thing thatexists, how much of a gift

is it to actually be presentwith the person in front of you

and expressing love to thatperson in front of you?

Think about that for moment.

>>If you had asked, what areyou going to be doing in a year,

I never would have
thought that I'd

be here speaking with
you, that I have gone

through this incredible journey,working and creating "Discover

the Gift," and that I wouldhave, through that work,

transformed myself and
discovered my own gifts.

And what we ended
up creating was

a family of
togetherness and love.

We have unity.

>>The discovery of the giftof forgiveness, compassion,

and family has resulted inthe healing of my heart.

Love is the gift
that reveals itself.

I am now being the man
I always wanted to be,

with my family, my friends,my business, my community.

Love is the true
hidden treasure.

Living your life
is like sailing.

You're constantly makingadjustments and corrections.

But once you take thewheel and set your course,

you can go anywhere.

And after this long
journey of my own,

if there's any wisdom I canoffer, it is simply this.

Follow your heart.

Discover your gift.

And get ready for the greatest
adventure of your life.

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