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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do you come from?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.00,0:00:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's such a simple question,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.00,0:00:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but these days, of course, simple questions
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.00,0:00:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bring ever more complicated answers.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are always asking me where I come from,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.00,0:00:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're expecting me to say India,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.00,0:00:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.00,0:00:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my blood and ancestry does come from India.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.00,0:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except, I've never lived one day of my life there.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.00,0:00:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't speak even one word
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.00,0:00:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of its more than 22,000 dialects.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.00,0:00:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I don't think I've really earned the right
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.00,0:00:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to call myself an Indian.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.00,0:00:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if "Where do you come from?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.00,0:00:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means "Where were you born and raised and educated?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.00,0:00:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I'm entirely of that funny little country
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.00,0:00:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as England,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except I left England as soon as I completed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my undergraduate education,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the time I was growing up,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.00,0:00:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was the only kid in all my classes
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.00,0:00:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who didn't begin to look like the classic English heroes
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.00,0:00:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,represented in our textbooks.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.00,0:01:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if "Where do you come from?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.00,0:01:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means "Where do you pay your taxes?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do you see your doctor and your dentist?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.00,0:01:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I'm very much of the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have been for 48 years now,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since I was a really small child.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.00,0:01:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except, for many of those years,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.00,0:01:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've had to carry around this funny little pink card
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.00,0:01:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with green lines running through my face
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.00,0:01:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identifying me as a permanent alien.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.00,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do actually feel more alien the longer I live there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.00,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if "Where do you come from?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.00,0:01:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means "Which place goes deepest inside you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.00,0:01:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where do you try to spend most of your time?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.00,0:01:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I'm Japanese,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.00,0:01:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I've been living as much as I can
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the last 25 years in Japan.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except, all of those years I've been there on a tourist visa,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.00,0:01:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm fairly sure not many Japanese
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.00,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would want to consider me one of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I say all this just to stress
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.00,0:01:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how very old-fashioned and straightforward
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.00,0:01:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my background is,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:02:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because when I go to Hong Kong or Sydney or Vancouver,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.00,0:02:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of the kids I meet
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.00,0:02:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are much more international and multi-cultured than I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they have one home associated with their parents,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but another associated with their partners,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a third connected maybe with the place where they happen to be,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.00,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fourth connected with the place they dream of being,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.00,0:02:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many more besides.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.00,0:02:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And their whole life will be spent taking pieces
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.00,0:02:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of many different places and putting them together
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.00,0:02:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a stained glass whole.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.00,0:02:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Home for them is really a work in progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.00,0:02:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a project on which they're constantly adding
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.00,0:02:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upgrades and improvements and corrections.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for more and more of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.00,0:02:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home has really less to do with a piece of soil
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.00,0:02:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than, you could say, with a piece of soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.00,0:02:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If somebody suddenly asks me, "Where's your home?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.00,0:02:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.00,0:02:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.00,0:02:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'd always felt this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it really came home to me, as it were,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.00,0:03:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some years ago when I was climbing up the stairs
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.00,0:03:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my parents' house in California,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.00,0:03:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I looked through the living room windows
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.00,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw that we were encircled by 70-foot flames,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of those wildfires that regularly tear through
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.00,0:03:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hills of California and many other such places.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.00,0:03:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And three hours later, that fire had reduced
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.00,0:03:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my home and every last thing in it
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.00,0:03:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except for me to ash.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.00,0:03:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I woke up the next morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.00,0:03:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was sleeping on a friend's floor,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.00,0:03:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only thing I had in the world was a toothbrush
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.00,0:03:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had just bought from an all-night supermarket.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.00,0:03:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, if anybody asked me then,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.00,0:03:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where is your home?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.00,0:03:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I literally couldn't point to any physical construction.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.00,0:03:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My home would have to be whatever I carried around inside me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.00,0:03:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in so many ways, I think this is a terrific liberation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.00,0:03:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because when my grandparents were born,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.00,0:04:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they pretty much had their sense of home,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.00,0:04:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their sense of community, even their sense of enmity,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.00,0:04:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assigned to them at birth,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.00,0:04:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and didn't have much chance of stepping outside of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.00,0:04:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And nowadays, at least some of us can choose our sense of home,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.00,0:04:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,create our sense of community,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.00,0:04:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fashion our sense of self, and in so doing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.00,0:04:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe step a little beyond
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.00,0:04:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of the black and white divisions
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.00,0:04:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our grandparents' age.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.00,0:04:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No coincidence that the president
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.00,0:04:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the strongest nation on Earth is half-Kenyan,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.00,0:04:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,partly raised in Indonesia,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.00,0:04:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a Chinese-Canadian brother-in-law.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.00,0:04:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The number of people living in countries not their own
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.00,0:04:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now comes to 220 million,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.00,0:04:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's an almost unimaginable number,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.00,0:04:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it means that if you took the whole population of Canada
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.00,0:04:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the whole population of Australia
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.00,0:04:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the whole population of Australia again
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.00,0:04:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the whole population of Canada again
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.00,0:04:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and doubled that number,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.00,0:04:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would still have fewer people than belong
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.00,0:05:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this great floating tribe.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.00,0:05:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the number of us who live outside
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.00,0:05:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the old nation-state categories is increasing so quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.00,0:05:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by 64 million just in the last 12 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.00,0:05:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that soon there will be more of us than there are Americans.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.00,0:05:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Already, we represent the fifth-largest nation on Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.00,0:05:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact, in Canada's largest city, Toronto,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.00,0:05:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the average resident today is what used to be called
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.00,0:05:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a foreigner, somebody born in a very different country.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.00,0:05:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've always felt that the beauty of being surrounded by the foreign
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.00,0:05:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that it slaps you awake.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.00,0:05:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't take anything for granted.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.00,0:05:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.00,0:05:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked "on."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.00,0:05:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.00,0:05:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real voyage of discovery, as Marcel Proust famously said,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.00,0:05:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consists not in seeing new sights,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.00,0:05:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in looking with new eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.00,0:06:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, once you have new eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.00,0:06:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even the old sights, even your home
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.00,0:06:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,become something different.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.00,0:06:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of the people living in countries not their own
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.00,0:06:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are refugees who never wanted to leave home
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.00,0:06:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ache to go back home.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.00,0:06:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for the fortunate among us,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.00,0:06:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the age of movement brings exhilarating new possibilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.00,0:06:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly when I'm traveling,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.00,0:06:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially to the major cities of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.00,0:06:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the typical person I meet today
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.00,0:06:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be, let's say, a half-Korean, half-German young woman
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.00,0:06:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living in Paris.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.00,0:06:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as soon as she meets a half-Thai,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.00,0:06:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,half-Canadian young guy from Edinburgh,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.00,0:06:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she recognizes him as kin.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.00,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She realizes that she probably has much more in common with him
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.00,0:06:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than with anybody entirely of Korea or entirely of Germany.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.00,0:06:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they become friends. They fall in love.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.00,0:06:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They move to New York City.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.00,0:06:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.00,0:06:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or Edinburgh.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.00,0:07:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the little girl who arises out of their union
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.00,0:07:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will of course be not Korean or German
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.00,0:07:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or French or Thai or Scotch or Canadian
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.00,0:07:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even American, but a wonderful
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.00,0:07:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and constantly evolving mix of all those places.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.00,0:07:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And potentially, everything about the way
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.00,0:07:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that young woman dreams about the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.00,0:07:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,writes about the world, thinks about the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.00,0:07:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be something different,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.00,0:07:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it comes out of this almost unprecedented
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.00,0:07:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blend of cultures.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.00,0:07:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where you come from now is much less important
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.00,0:07:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than where you're going.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.00,0:07:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More and more of us are rooted in the future
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.00,0:07:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the present tense as much as in the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.00,0:07:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And home, we know, is not just the place
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.00,0:07:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you happen to be born.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.00,0:07:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the place where you become yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.00,0:07:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.00,0:07:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is one great problem with movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.00,0:07:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is that it's really hard to get your bearings
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.00,0:07:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you're in midair.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.00,0:08:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some years ago, I noticed that I had accumulated
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.00,0:08:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one million miles on United Airlines alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.00,0:08:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You all know that crazy system,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.00,0:08:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,six days in hell, you get the seventh day free.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.00,0:08:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.00,0:08:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I began to think that really,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.00,0:08:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,movement was only as good as the sense of stillness
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.00,0:08:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you could bring to it to put it into perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.00,0:08:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And eight months after my house burned down,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.00,0:08:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ran into a friend who taught at a local high school,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.00,0:08:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, "I've got the perfect place for you."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.00,0:08:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Really?" I said. I'm always a bit skeptical
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.00,0:08:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people say things like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.00,0:08:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No, honestly," he went on,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.00,0:08:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"it's only three hours away by car,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.00,0:08:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not very expensive,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.00,0:08:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's probably not like anywhere you've stayed before."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.00,0:08:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hmm." I was beginning to get slightly intrigued. "What is it?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.00,0:08:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well —" Here my friend hemmed and hawed —
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.00,0:08:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, actually it's a Catholic hermitage."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.00,0:08:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the wrong answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.00,0:08:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had spent 15 years in Anglican schools,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.00,0:09:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I had had enough hymnals and crosses to last me a lifetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.00,0:09:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Several lifetimes, actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.00,0:09:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But my friend assured me that he wasn't Catholic,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.00,0:09:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor were most of his students,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.00,0:09:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he took his classes there every spring.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.00,0:09:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as he had it, even the most restless, distractible,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.00,0:09:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,testosterone-addled 15-year-old Californian boy
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.00,0:09:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only had to spend three days in silence
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.00,0:09:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and something in him cooled down and cleared out.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.00,0:09:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He found himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.00,0:09:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, "Anything that works for a 15-year-old boy
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.00,0:09:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ought to work for me."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.00,0:09:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I got in my car, and I drove three hours north
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.00,0:09:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along the coast,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.00,0:09:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the roads grew emptier and narrower,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.00,0:09:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I turned onto an even narrower path,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.00,0:09:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,barely paved, that snaked for two miles
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.00,0:09:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up to the top of a mountain.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.00,0:09:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I got out of my car,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.00,0:09:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the air was pulsing.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.00,0:09:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole place was absolutely silent,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.00,0:10:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the silence wasn't an absence of noise.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.00,0:10:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was really a presence of a kind of energy or quickening.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.00,0:10:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at my feet was the great, still blue plate
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.00,0:10:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Pacific Ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.00,0:10:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All around me were 800 acres of wild dry brush.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.00,0:10:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I went down to the room in which I was to be sleeping.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.00,0:10:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Small but eminently comfortable,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.00,0:10:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it had a bed and a rocking chair
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.00,0:10:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a long desk and even longer picture windows
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.00,0:10:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking out on a small, private, walled garden,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.00,0:10:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then 1,200 feet of golden pampas grass
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.00,0:10:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running down to the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.00,0:10:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I sat down, and I began to write,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.00,0:10:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and write, and write,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.00,0:10:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though I'd gone there really to get away from my desk.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.00,0:10:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by the time I got up, four hours had passed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.00,0:10:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Night had fallen,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.00,0:10:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went out under this great overturned saltshaker of stars,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.00,0:10:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could see the tail lights of cars
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.00,0:11:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disappearing around the headlands 12 miles to the south.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.00,0:11:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it really seemed like my concerns of the previous day
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.00,0:11:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vanishing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.00,0:11:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next day, when I woke up
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.00,0:11:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the absence of telephones and TVs and laptops,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.00,0:11:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the days seemed to stretch for a thousand hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.00,0:11:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was really all the freedom I know when I'm traveling,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.00,0:11:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it also profoundly felt like coming home.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.00,0:11:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm not a religious person,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.00,0:11:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I didn't go to the services.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.00,0:11:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't consult the monks for guidance.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.00,0:11:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just took walks along the monastery road
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.00,0:11:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sent postcards to loved ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.00,0:11:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked at the clouds,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.00,0:11:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I did what is hardest of all for me to do usually,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.00,0:11:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is nothing at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.00,0:11:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I started to go back to this place,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.00,0:11:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I noticed that I was doing my most important work there
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.00,0:11:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,invisibly just by sitting still,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.00,0:11:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and certainly coming to my most critical decisions
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.00,0:12:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way I never could when I was racing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.00,0:12:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the last email to the next appointment.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.00,0:12:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I began to think that something in me
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.00,0:12:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had really been crying out for stillness,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.00,0:12:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but of course I couldn't hear it
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.00,0:12:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was running around so much.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.00,0:12:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was like some crazy guy who puts on a blindfold
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.00,0:12:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then complains that he can't see a thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.00,0:12:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought back to that wonderful phrase
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.00,0:12:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had learned as a boy from Seneca,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.00,0:12:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which he says, "That man is poor
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.00,0:12:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not who has little but who hankers after more."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.00,0:12:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, of course, I'm not suggesting
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.00,0:12:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that anybody here go into a monastery.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.00,0:12:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the point.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.00,0:12:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I do think it's only by stopping movement
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.00,0:12:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can see where to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.00,0:12:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's only by stepping out of your life and the world
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.00,0:12:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can see what you most deeply care about
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.00,0:12:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and find a home.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.00,0:12:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've noticed so many people now
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.00,0:12:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take conscious measures to sit quietly for 30 minutes
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.00,0:12:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every morning just collecting themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.00,0:13:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in one corner of the room without their devices,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.00,0:13:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or go running every evening,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.00,0:13:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or leave their cell phones behind
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.00,0:13:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they go to have a long conversation with a friend.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.00,0:13:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Movement is a fantastic privilege,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.00,0:13:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it allows us to do so much that our grandparents
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.00,0:13:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could never have dreamed of doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.00,0:13:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But movement, ultimately,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.00,0:13:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only has a meaning if you have a home to go back to.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.00,0:13:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And home, in the end, is of course
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.00,0:13:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just the place where you sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.00,0:13:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the place where you stand.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.00,0:13:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.00,0:13:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)