Prem Rawat — The Possibility of Peace Within

Perspectives

Prem Rawat asks, “Why has the most fundamental need of fulfillment been changed dramatically to, ‘Oh, it’s not possible’?” “Perspectives,” he says. “In you has been placed the want to be fulfilled. Can this want be fulfilled? Yes.”

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Days of Our Life

Prem Rawat talks about the urgency of understanding and valuing life. “If a human being lives to 70 years, which is an average,” he says, “you get 25,550 days. What do you want to buy with the dollar that you get every day for 25,550 days?”
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The Triumph of a Human Being

“When you experience joy in your life,” Prem Rawat says, “it is something special. And when you experience peace, it is the triumph of a human being. You have succeeded."
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Forgotten Opportunity

“We are on this magnificent earth,” says Prem Rawat, “a show of all shows. And for me to exist in this time, I cannot help but feel gratitude. We have forgotten what it means—the opportunity to be alive, to have the privilege to be able to take this breath.”
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The Greatest Show

I have some tickets to the greatest show on earth,” says Prem Rawat. “I look for people who want the tickets, and they look for me. You are the venue, but you need a ticket. I’m not selling them; I’m giving them out—compliments of one human being to another.”

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The Arena of Knowing

“In the arena of knowing, there’s no make-believe,” says Prem Rawat. “You experience. It’s not a fantasyland. There is a longing within a human being so deep that it leaves you dry and, in the same moment, fills you up. It’s a magical dance of quenching the thirst within.”
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Something Is Going On

Prem Rawat talks about the simplicity of life: “Something is going on here, isn’t it? You can move, you can talk, you can think, you can smile, you can cry. Something is going on here, and one day it won’t be. What is this thing that is going on?”
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Mind over Matter?

Prem Rawat talks about fundamental needs. When you are hungry, he says, “you cannot just say, ‘I’m not hungry. I’m not hungry. I’m not hungry.’ You can say, ‘Oh, it’s mind over matter.’ But not for the basics, not for those things that really matter.”
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Coming and Going of Breath

Prem Rawat talks about the miracle of life. “You want to know how to recognize a miracle? Then understand that today was a miracle,” he says. “And, if tomorrow comes, that is going to be a miracle. And the coming and going of this breath is a miracle.”
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A Simple Story

“I am here to tell you a story that is simple,” says Prem Rawat. “This story is not about animals or kings and queens. It is not about the fulfillment of somebody’s fantasy. This story is about you and me — as we exist, as we are.”
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