The Human Experience Page #5

because someone needs me,

And that someone

can be their family

Or their friend.

And in a larger way,

That person

or that entity who needs them

Is also their country.

And the more reflective

we are,

The more thoughtful we are,

The more questioning

and filled with wonder we are,

The larger and the more urgent

the questions become.

When you recognize

that you have a real mission,

An indispensable contribution

to make,

Then you embrace life,

You celebrate life

in a completely different way.

Many people today

are very aimless.

They don't really know

why they're here,

So they do what's necessary

to survive,

Pay the bills,

all the necessities.

You have to eat;

you have to sleep;

You have to shop.

But there's

no underlying passion.

Why am I really doing

all of this?

And this is

an extraordinary gift

And advantage that they have

Over many young people

in the west today

Who are told the opposite.

"you don't matter.

"there's a million people

waiting to replace you.

We can get someone to do

your job better for less money."

This translates, I think,

Into a cultural question

that we're facing,

Where many, many young

people today

Are saying, "I need

to experience in some sense

That my life matters."

The more mature person

is not the person

Who has

all the questions settled.

No, the mature person

is the person who enters

Ever more deeply,

ever farther and farther

And farther into the mystery

and into the wonder.

If life is not lived

at this level,

Then it is lived

at superficial level.

And then whoever

has the power

To control

your superficial levels

Will rule over you.

And the world

is out of kilter

Because people aren't allowed

to exercise their purpose,

Meet and pursue their purpose.

Sure, everyone has a purpose.

They're born to do it.

Have you ever had a moment

Where you feel like everything

is just right in the world?

Time stops,

and the stars are in line.

It was the first time

in a long time

I could feel peace in my heart.

Just like playing music,

Each of us has our musical note

that we have to play.

And if you know

that's your note,

Then no one can play that music.

The whole composition is waiting

for you to play your note.

There's a good reason

to wake up.

Everybody's on a journey,

Has been given a purpose for their life,

And they can fulfill that,

No matter what

their beginnings were.

People who were abandoned

by parents, you know,

And lived in orphanages

or lived in, even, abusive homes

Can go on to live

very full lives

That, because some parent

might feel like,

"I don't want the burden

of this child,"

The beginning

is just the beginning.

And then there's a long path

of development.

And where there's life,

there's hope.

So we experienced living

homeless in the concrete jungle

And the happiness

of the lost children of peru.

Our stories interested

mike especially,

Who was a freelance writer.

He told us he was planning

to research

A remote leper colony

across the ocean.

And matt was already

going with him.

So, thirsty

for our next adventure,

Cliff and I decided to join.

- Broken glasses.

- Broken sunglasses.

You don't know

what this means.

No, just one piece

was broken off.

It was on its way out.

When I hear "milano,"

I think of those cookies.

- Yeah.

- I haven't seen one cute girl yet.

You missed her.

She just walked by.

You know why they make you

wear your seat belt

When you go to sleep

on a plane, right?

You have to wear

your seat belt?

Yeah, you know why?

Sleepwalkers.

Yeah, maybe I will.

I'll get the explicit ones.

- Yeah, you'd look good in those.

- Dolce gabbana.

We're leaving?

Yeah, we're going.

All right.

Nothing could prepare us

for what was coming next.

In our culture,

life is always a treasure.

There cannot be anybody

without a father or a mother.

If your father dies,

we will give you a father.

The family will give you

a father.

If your mother dies,

The family will give you

a mother.

So there is always meaning

to life.

You always find something

or somebody to lean on

And feel fulfilled.

I think that this is also

at the root of the joy

That permeates our life.

Second fastest.

If they run after you...

Ah.

They're the second fastest

animal on the planet on land.

I think the cheetah

is number one.

Right? Cheetah?

So my allergies are gonna

kick into overdrive.

I'm already sneezing.

These bugs were huge,

and I'm not a big bug guy.

Not into the bugs.

Stand in the center there

with all of them,

Conquer your fear of them.

That's what I realized.

They had a wingspan...

I don't know what.

They look like

small birds here.

Hold the door.

It smells really bad.

Oh, my gosh.

The flies are everywhere.

The flies are everywhere.

yeah, all right.

Okay, I just want to say

to the camera

That in second grade,

I had a teacher,

And her name was miss katsman.

And miss katsman got mad at me

Because I couldn't color

in the lines, okay?

And she told me that I wouldn't

amount to very much.

Well, miss katsman,

I just want to tell you,

Hi from africa,

and where are you?

You're still in the

elementary school.

To miss katsman.

Hello.

Oh, I just got beaned

in the head with beans.

Free samples.

Get your free samples.

It's pretty cool, man.

I like this.

$35.

Discount.

We got ourselves some swords.

We got a machete,

and it ain't for cooking.

Timber me.

- There's another one.

As a muslim, we believe

that the great thing

To have in this world

is to have god in your heart.

If you have god in your heart,

you have everything.

No material possession

can make you be greater

Than any other thing

than having god in your heart,

So as a muslim,

if you have a very strong faith,

You have everything

in the world.

Life is bigger

than what we see.

Think, all human beings

intuitively know that.

You know, there's more going on

than what I can see.

Even though you have

such great diversity

With how people have, you know,

related to god

And particularly

religious rituals

And how they develop so very

diversely throughout the planet,

But there is underlying

Some kind of sense

of the transcendent,

And man's desire and need to be

in relationship with that,

You know,

is not to be ignored.

I think it's very significant.

Well, today we're gonna be

doing some interviews

With people

who are dying of aids.

And on a personal level,

when I was nine,

My mom passed away of aids.

It's gonna be a little hard

for me, you know,

To actually speak to them,

Because I never had a chance,

you know,

To actually speak to my mom

before she passed away.

When I was younger,

I got my blood tested,

And it was the most horrifying

moment of my life.

And I'm hoping

that through them,

They'll find peace,

I'll find peace.

I still miss her.

It's never gonna change.

It never gets easier.

You can replace it

with anything you want,

But you can't replace

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