Prem Rawat: What are the chances that the components of this dirt (hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, calcium, phosphorus), all these coming together and making you? What are the chances? Whoa. All this dust got brought together and you were created. You were out, and you took...

I always say, “What is the most important thing about reading a map? You need to know where you are on the map. And you got to.... If you have figured out where you want to go, but you don’t know where you are.... Have you been to a supermarket or one of those big...

Each one of us has a little story—and the issue becomes, what is our little story? What story would you tell, that would be your story? You, being alive on the face of this earth—I know, in one way, it is the most mundane thing to you. You’re alive. “So, big deal.”...

Someone is caught up in yesterday, and somebody is caught up in tomorrow. That pretty much sums up everybody, everybody that’s here: “Somebody is caught up in yesterday, and somebody is caught up in tomorrow.” No? You’re not thinking about tomorrow? You don’t think...

I’d like to tell you a very simple little story, and it has something to do with each one of us, as individuals, as we look at ourselves, as we understand ourselves. And the way this story goes is there was a young American Indian, living in a camp. And one day he...

There was a guy, and his job was to go every day to the mountain. And he would cut a piece of rock; he would take the rock, bring it back home, and he would make little things from that rock. He would make mortar-pestle, small statues—and he would sell them. And this...

People say “now,” right? I have said “now.” And one day I was thinking about “now.” Now is the most elusive thing there is. Because by the time I say “now,” it’s not now anymore. So, by the time I finish saying “now,” now is gone. Here is one for you. If you don’t...

You were born; you are alive. And one day, whether you like it or not, you have to go. Right? Where do you go? Where do you go? I ask this question: “When a child is born—and say, the child weighs ten pounds, five kilos, whatever—does the earth get five kilos heavier?...

You want to succeed in your life? One of the events that I did in Taiwan was at the Dong Hwa University of Hualien. And it was all these students. They were there, and then they asked me questions. And one of the questions was, you know, "How do I do this?" And here...

This is your time on this magnificent planet earth. Wasted, and it's too short. Lamenting, and it's too long. Fulfilled, and it is just right!   - Prem Rawat

If you don’t understand the value of being alive, then everything is all out of phase. No amount of wisdom is going to come and make any difference. If you don’t understand the value…. And people say, “Now.” Right? I have said, “now.” And one day I was thinking about...

There is a saying, “If you don’t get what you want, you’re not happy.” It’s true! If you don’t get what you want, you’re not happy. “If you get what you don’t want, you’re not happy!” You didn’t want it, and you got it! And even if you get what you do want, you are...

You know, today, if I got up here and said things that nobody could ever understand, believe me, I’d be much more popular. Actually, speaking very, very simply, people probably think, “Well, that was too simple! That’s it? That’s it?” But to me, the topic of life is...

I’m just a human being. And I am not sitting here claiming I don’t have bad days—that would be stupid! I do! But I also question, “Why am I having a bad day?” I’m having a bad day, not because the day is bad! Uh-uh-uh, the day is the same! You think the sun comes out...