Prem Rawat — The Possibility of Peace Within

Welcome to the World of Life

Prem Rawat talks about the moment a baby is born and “the one concern: breathing or not?” At the end of our lives, he says, we have the same concern. “Everything you are is predicated on something so simple. This reality is beautiful. Welcome to the world of life.”
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May 13, 2008 in Recent Excerpts, Video clips | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Prem Rawat - "When Spring Comes"

“In spring, on the ground are delicate little plants,” says Prem Rawat. To survive the winter, he says, they shed their leaves “gambling that summer will come again and, when it does, once again will be made whole.” He asks, “Are you ready for the spring in your life?”
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May 13, 2008 in Recent Excerpts | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

$20,000 Grant from TPRF to Support Prison Telecasts

TPRF has donated $20,000 to the Maryland-based Correctional Education Association (CEA) to underwrite the costs of telecasts on the Transforming Lives Network (TLN) that present Prem Rawat’s message of hope and the possibility of personal fulfillment to U.S. prison populations. CEA sources say the TLN programs reach at least 500,000 and as many as 900,000 inmates nationwide as well as about 300,000 correctional staff and workers. Anne Charles, project director for TLN, said, “We believe that ‘Words of Peace’ will help bring positive change to offenders and corrections workers.”
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May 13, 2008 in Press Releases, Video clips | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Who We Are

“The baby knows how to cry, how to laugh, how to be,” says Prem Rawat. “These are innate. These are fundamental things nobody has to teach. The desire for peace is also fundamental. This is who we are. This is our foundation, our need, from our heart.”
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April 25, 2008 in Recent Excerpts, Video clips | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Who We Are

“The baby knows how to cry, how to laugh, how to be,” says Prem Rawat. “These are innate. These are fundamental things nobody has to teach. The desire for peace is also fundamental. This is who we are. This is our foundation, our need, from our heart.”
Watch a video clip of this address by Prem Rawat

April 25, 2008 in Recent Excerpts | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Prem Rawat - 'The Grand Miracle'

Speaking about the power of life that is beyond logic, like new leaves emerging in spring, Prem Rawat says, “This I call ‘the grand miracle.’ This life holds promise after promise after promise, gift after gift after gift for you.”
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April 25, 2008 in Recent Excerpts | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

$26,000 Grant from TPRF Aids Flood Victims in Ecuador

TPRF has donated $26,000 to Montañas de Esperanza or Mountains of Hope (MdE), a local non-profit in northern Ecuador, to provide relief to flood victims in the coastal village of Santa Lucia. The grant will supply 32 tons of vital food supplies to feed 1,500 families (c.7,500 people) for one month. This will be one of the largest deliveries of aid to flood victims by a non-government agency on the Ecuadorian coast to date.
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April 25, 2008 in Press Releases, Video clips | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Love

“Do you know that, wherever you go, whatever you do, there is love in you and there is hate in you?” asks Prem Rawat. “Do not be under the misunderstanding that the love is in someone else. No, no, no. Love is in you.”
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April 3, 2008 in Recent Excerpts, Video clips | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Prem Rawat - "Kindness"

Responding to someone who asked him about becoming kind, Prem Rawat said, “The kindness that you want to feel, you have. There’s more kindness in you than you can possibly imagine. To practice kindness, just become a little more conscious.”
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April 3, 2008 in Recent Excerpts | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Prem Rawat’s Message of Peace Requested by Indigenous People of South America

Leaders in several Quechuan villages in Ecuador have requested DVDs featuring Prem Rawat’s Words of Peace presentations in their own language after introductory events were held there. This is the first time they have been available in Quechua in the rural and remote mountain settlements where that is the primary language. One village leader said, “This message is very beautiful. It helps the families here stay together, and that is why I want the message to stay in the community.”
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April 3, 2008 in Press Releases, Video clips | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Prem Rawat - "Personal Quest"

Prem Rawat talks about a personal quest for peace, “a peace not of consequences but an individual peace for every human being on the face of this earth. People want to stop wars, conflicts, but nobody addresses the individual—from where peace has to begin.”
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March 26, 2008 in Recent Excerpts, Video clips | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Prem Rawat - "A Single Source"

“What is the single source of inspiration in our life?” asks Prem Rawat. “For me, it can’t be a hero. It can’t be something you learned. It can’t be an ideology or a great poet or an artist or philosopher. It is something that resides in the heart.”
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March 26, 2008 in Recent Excerpts | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

TPRF Contributes Food Aid to Kenyan Refugees

TPRF responded quickly to aid Kenya victims of the violence that erupted following the December 2007 elections by making a contribution to the Friends of the World Food Program (FWFP) to help the UN World Food Programme (WFP) provide food for the 3,000 displaced Kenyans for three months. “TPRF’s generous contribution will help save hundreds of lives and prevent under-nutrition and hunger rates from skyrocketing,” said Karen Sendelback, President and CEO of Friends of WFP.
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TPRF continues to reach out to bring food, water, and medical necessities to people most in need all over the world. Your support makes this possible.

March 26, 2008 in Press Releases | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Truest Nature

Prem Rawat distinguishes between appearances that change and the actual nature of a human being. “When we begin to look for our truest nature,” he says, “we will find that there is peace. In our nature, there’s understanding, there is the truest love.”
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March 3, 2008 in Recent Excerpts | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Prem Rawat - "By Design"

“Have you found the source of endless joy?” Prem Rawat asks. “It is not far from you—by design. It would be pointless to have the source of that joy inaccessible to you. In the clever design of this life, the source of joy goes with you wherever you go.”

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March 3, 2008 in Recent Excerpts | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

TPRF Provides Safe, Clean Drinking Water to Schools in Thailand

TPRF has made a significant grant to the Betterment of Life Foundation in Thailand to provide a sustainable source of clean drinking water to more than 2,500 children in 12 schools that have had no access to drinking water during school hours.

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March 3, 2008 in Press Releases | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

One by One

Prem Rawat talks about how each person has been given something—the gift of life, of breath, of serenity—but we do not understand its value. Each one of us needs to feel peace, he says. And to light the world, we need to be lit up one by one.
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February 27, 2008 in Recent Excerpts, Video clips | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

TPRF Funds Breakfast Program for Aboriginal Children in Taiwan

A grant from TPRF will provide nutritious breakfasts for 530 aboriginal children attending 14 primary schools on islands and in remote mountain areas of Taiwan. The program is offered by the Eastern Culture Foundation (ECF) and the Eastern Charity Foundation. CEO of ECF, Kuo Shiang, Chang, expressed “grateful appreciation” to TPRF for joining ECF “to accomplish this task together.”
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February 27, 2008 in Press Releases | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

Prem Rawat - ' Nothing Trivial'

“The universe is a living thing. Something is keeping it all intact. And breath is coming to you, courtesy of that,” says Prem Rawat. “Here you are; you are something. Don’t compare it, ‘Oh, that’s so trivial.’ In this universe, nothing is trivial—nothing.”
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February 27, 2008 in Recent Excerpts | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it

The Miracle Is Existence

Prem Rawat talks about the miracle of life. “The most beautiful miracle is: from nowhere comes this breath and brings the gift of life to you. This is your story. One breath at a time. That’s your beat. That’s your rhythm. Do you understand what a miracle this is?”
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January 23, 2008 in Recent Excerpts, Video clips | Permalink | TrackBack (0) | Digg it