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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.74,0:00:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do you come from?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.61,0:00:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's such a simple question,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.68,0:00:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but these days, of course,\Nsimple questions
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.86,0:00:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bring ever more complicated answers.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.91,0:00:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are always asking\Nme where I come from,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.86,0:00:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're expecting me to say India,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.04,0:00:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're absolutely right\Ninsofar as 100 percent
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.14,0:00:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my blood and ancestry\Ndoes come from India.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.71,0:00:26.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except, I've never lived\None day of my life there.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.77,0:00:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't speak even one word
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.18,0:00:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of its more than 22,000 dialects.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.18,0:00:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I don't think I've really\Nearned the right
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.39,0:00:36.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to call myself an Indian.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.84,0:00:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if "Where do you come from?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.38,0:00:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means "Where were you born\Nand raised and educated?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.45,0:00:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I'm entirely\Nof that funny little country
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.88,0:00:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as England,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.25,0:00:47.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except I left England\Nas soon as I completed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.66,0:00:49.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my undergraduate education,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.57,0:00:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the time I was growing up,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.29,0:00:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was the only kid in all my classes
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.08,0:00:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who didn't begin to look\Nlike the classic English heroes
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.21,0:00:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,represented in our textbooks.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.89,0:01:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if "Where do you come from?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.19,0:01:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means "Where do you pay your taxes?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.88,0:01:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do you see your doctor\Nand your dentist?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.43,0:01:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I'm very much of the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.80,0:01:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have been for 48 years now,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.36,0:01:12.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since I was a really small child.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.45,0:01:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except, for many of those years,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.16,0:01:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've had to carry around this\Nfunny little pink card
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.66,0:01:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with green lines running through my face
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.59,0:01:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identifying me as a permanent alien.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.20,0:01:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do actually feel more alien\Nthe longer I live there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.46,0:01:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.65,0:01:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if "Where do you come from?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.24,0:01:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means "Which place goes deepest inside you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.00,0:01:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where do you try\Nto spend most of your time?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.18,0:01:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I'm Japanese,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.36,0:01:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I've been living as much as I can
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.61,0:01:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the last 25 years in Japan.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.100,0:01:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except, all of those years\NI've been there on a tourist visa,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.05,0:01:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm fairly sure not many Japanese
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.19,0:01:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would want to consider me one of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.08,0:01:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I say all this just to stress
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.33,0:01:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how very old-fashioned and straightforward
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.05,0:01:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my background is,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.05,0:02:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because when I go to Hong\NKong or Sydney or Vancouver,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.10,0:02:02.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of the kids I meet
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.100,0:02:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are much more international\Nand multi-cultured than I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.79,0:02:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they have one home\Nassociated with their parents,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.46,0:02:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but another associated\Nwith their partners,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.62,0:02:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a third connected maybe with the place\Nwhere they happen to be,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.00,0:02:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fourth connected with the place\Nthey dream of being,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.92,0:02:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many more besides.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.26,0:02:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And their whole life will be\Nspent taking pieces
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.55,0:02:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of many different places\Nand putting them together
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.04,0:02:30.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a stained glass whole.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.88,0:02:33.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Home for them is really\Na work in progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.32,0:02:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a project\Non which they're constantly adding
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.91,0:02:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upgrades and improvements and corrections.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.05,0:02:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for more and more of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.94,0:02:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home has really less to do\Nwith a piece of soil
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.40,0:02:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than, you could say, with a piece of soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.15,0:02:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If somebody suddenly asks\Nme, "Where's your home?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.55,0:02:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think about my sweetheart\Nor my closest friends
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.47,0:02:57.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the songs that travel with me\Nwherever I happen to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.74,0:02:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'd always felt this way,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.59,0:03:02.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it really came home to me, as it were,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.34,0:03:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some years ago when\NI was climbing up the stairs
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.05,0:03:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my parents' house in California,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.76,0:03:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I looked through the living\Nroom windows
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.58,0:03:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw that we were\Nencircled by 70-foot flames,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.76,0:03:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of those wildfires\Nthat regularly tear through
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.25,0:03:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hills of California\Nand many other such places.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.08,0:03:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And three hours later,\Nthat fire had reduced
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.10,0:03:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my home and every last thing in it
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.85,0:03:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except for me to ash.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.86,0:03:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I woke up the next morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.57,0:03:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was sleeping on a friend's floor,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.26,0:03:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only thing I had\Nin the world was a toothbrush
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.69,0:03:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had just bought\Nfrom an all-night supermarket.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.26,0:03:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, if anybody asked me then,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.17,0:03:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Where is your home?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.52,0:03:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I literally couldn't point\Nto any physical construction.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.52,0:03:52.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My home would have to be whatever\NI carried around inside me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.25,0:03:56.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in so many ways, I think\Nthis is a terrific liberation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.24,0:03:58.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because when my grandparents were born,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.44,0:04:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they pretty much had their sense of home,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.96,0:04:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their sense of community,\Neven their sense of enmity,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.45,0:04:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assigned to them at birth,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.38,0:04:09.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and didn't have much chance\Nof stepping outside of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.36,0:04:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And nowadays, at least some of us\Ncan choose our sense of home,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.06,0:04:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,create our sense of community,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.22,0:04:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fashion our sense of self, and in so doing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.80,0:04:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe step a little beyond
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.94,0:04:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of the black and white divisions
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.73,0:04:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our grandparents' age.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.56,0:04:26.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No coincidence that the president
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.44,0:04:29.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the strongest nation\Non Earth is half-Kenyan,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.17,0:04:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,partly raised in Indonesia,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.78,0:04:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a Chinese-Canadian brother-in-law.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.38,0:04:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The number of people living\Nin countries not their own
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.84,0:04:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now comes to 220 million,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.63,0:04:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's an almost unimaginable number,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.24,0:04:48.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it means that if you took\Nthe whole population of Canada
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.99,0:04:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the whole population of Australia
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.91,0:04:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the whole population\Nof Australia again
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.22,0:04:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the whole population of Canada again
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.86,0:04:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and doubled that number,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.54,0:04:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would still have\Nfewer people than belong
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.71,0:05:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this great floating tribe.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.92,0:05:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the number of us who live outside
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.70,0:05:07.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the old nation-state categories\Nis increasing so quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.79,0:05:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by 64 million just in the last 12 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.42,0:05:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that soon there will be more\Nof us than there are Americans.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.90,0:05:19.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Already, we represent\Nthe fifth-largest nation on Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.57,0:05:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact, in Canada's largest\Ncity, Toronto,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.43,0:05:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the average resident today\Nis what used to be called
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.12,0:05:30.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a foreigner, somebody born\Nin a very different country.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.21,0:05:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've always felt that the beauty\Nof being surrounded by the foreign
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.00,0:05:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that it slaps you awake.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.60,0:05:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't take anything for granted.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.40,0:05:41.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Travel, for me, is a little bit\Nlike being in love,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.14,0:05:45.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because suddenly all your senses\Nare at the setting marked "on."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.19,0:05:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly you're alert to the secret\Npatterns of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.19,0:05:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real voyage of discovery,\Nas Marcel Proust famously said,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.51,0:05:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consists not in seeing new sights,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.51,0:05:58.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in looking with new eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.88,0:06:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, once you have new eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.84,0:06:03.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even the old sights, even your home
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.28,0:06:05.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,become something different.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.96,0:06:08.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of the people living\Nin countries not their own
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.78,0:06:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are refugees who never\Nwanted to leave home
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.86,0:06:14.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ache to go back home.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.57,0:06:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for the fortunate among us,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.22,0:06:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the age of movement brings\Nexhilarating new possibilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.50,0:06:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly when I'm traveling,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.57,0:06:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially to the major\Ncities of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.88,0:06:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the typical person I meet today
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.01,0:06:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be, let's say, a half-Korean,\Nhalf-German young woman
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.55,0:06:32.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living in Paris.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.25,0:06:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as soon as she meets a half-Thai,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.31,0:06:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,half-Canadian young guy from Edinburgh,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.53,0:06:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she recognizes him as kin.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.00,0:06:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She realizes that she probably\Nhas much more in common with him
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.34,0:06:48.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than with anybody entirely\Nof Korea or entirely of Germany.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.94,0:06:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they become friends. They fall in love.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.69,0:06:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They move to New York City.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.97,0:06:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.13,0:06:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or Edinburgh.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.52,0:07:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the little girl\Nwho arises out of their union
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.79,0:07:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will of course be not Korean or German
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.92,0:07:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or French or Thai or Scotch or Canadian
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.47,0:07:07.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even American, but a wonderful
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.57,0:07:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and constantly evolving\Nmix of all those places.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.71,0:07:14.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And potentially, everything about the way
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.47,0:07:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that young woman dreams about the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.22,0:07:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,writes about the world,\Nthinks about the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.27,0:07:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be something different,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.24,0:07:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it comes out of this\Nalmost unprecedented
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.43,0:07:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blend of cultures.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.40,0:07:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where you come from now\Nis much less important
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.49,0:07:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than where you're going.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.14,0:07:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More and more of us\Nare rooted in the future
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.53,0:07:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the present tense\Nas much as in the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.83,0:07:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And home, we know, is not just the place
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.39,0:07:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you happen to be born.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.50,0:07:46.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the place where you become yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.98,0:07:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.40,0:07:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is one great problem with movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.06,0:07:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is that it's really\Nhard to get your bearings
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.27,0:07:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you're in midair.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.89,0:08:00.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some years ago, I noticed\Nthat I had accumulated
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.18,0:08:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one million miles\Non United Airlines alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.70,0:08:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You all know that crazy system,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.75,0:08:09.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,six days in hell, you get\Nthe seventh day free.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.48,0:08:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.98,0:08:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I began to think that really,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.26,0:08:18.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,movement was only as good\Nas the sense of stillness
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.54,0:08:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you could bring to it\Nto put it into perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.38,0:08:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And eight months\Nafter my house burned down,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.24,0:08:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ran into a friend who taught\Nat a local high school,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.96,0:08:31.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, "I've got\Nthe perfect place for you."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.49,0:08:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Really?" I said. I'm\Nalways a bit skeptical
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.50,0:08:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people say things like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.98,0:08:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No, honestly," he went on,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.35,0:08:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"it's only three hours away by car,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.20,0:08:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not very expensive,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.81,0:08:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's probably not like anywhere\Nyou've stayed before."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.39,0:08:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hmm." I was beginning to get\Nslightly intrigued. "What is it?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.59,0:08:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well —" Here my friend hemmed and hawed —
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.37,0:08:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, actually\Nit's a Catholic hermitage."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.95,0:08:55.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the wrong answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.92,0:08:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had spent 15 years in Anglican schools,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.46,0:09:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I had had enough hymnals\Nand crosses to last me a lifetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.06,0:09:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Several lifetimes, actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.33,0:09:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But my friend assured me\Nthat he wasn't Catholic,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.89,0:09:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor were most of his students,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.34,0:09:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he took his classes\Nthere every spring.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.12,0:09:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as he had it,\Neven the most restless, distractible,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.89,0:09:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,testosterone-addled\N15-year-old Californian boy
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.92,0:09:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only had to spend three days in silence
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.16,0:09:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and something in him cooled\Ndown and cleared out.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.41,0:09:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He found himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.72,0:09:33.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, "Anything\Nthat works for a 15-year-old boy
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.46,0:09:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ought to work for me."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.80,0:09:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I got in my car,\Nand I drove three hours north
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.41,0:09:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along the coast,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.88,0:09:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the roads grew emptier and narrower,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.44,0:09:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I turned\Nonto an even narrower path,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.21,0:09:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,barely paved, that snaked for two miles
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.85,0:09:51.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up to the top of a mountain.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.37,0:09:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I got out of my car,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.21,0:09:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the air was pulsing.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.58,0:09:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole place was absolutely silent,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.44,0:10:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the silence wasn't\Nan absence of noise.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.90,0:10:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was really a presence of a kind\Nof energy or quickening.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.94,0:10:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at my feet was the great,\Nstill blue plate
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.45,0:10:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Pacific Ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.70,0:10:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All around me were 800\Nacres of wild dry brush.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.14,0:10:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I went down to the room\Nin which I was to be sleeping.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.92,0:10:20.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Small but eminently comfortable,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.65,0:10:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it had a bed and a rocking chair
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.86,0:10:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a long desk and even longer\Npicture windows
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.03,0:10:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking out on a small,\Nprivate, walled garden,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.32,0:10:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then 1,200 feet of golden pampas grass
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.52,0:10:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running down to the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.51,0:10:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I sat down, and I began to write,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.68,0:10:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and write, and write,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.19,0:10:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though I'd gone there\Nreally to get away from my desk.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.80,0:10:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by the time I got up,\Nfour hours had passed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.29,0:10:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Night had fallen,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.42,0:10:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went out under this great\Noverturned saltshaker of stars,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.18,0:10:58.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could see the tail lights of cars
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.43,0:11:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disappearing around the headlands\N12 miles to the south.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.64,0:11:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it really seemed\Nlike my concerns of the previous day
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.35,0:11:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vanishing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.30,0:11:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next day, when I woke up
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.11,0:11:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the absence of telephones\Nand TVs and laptops,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.58,0:11:17.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the days seemed to stretch\Nfor a thousand hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.74,0:11:21.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was really all the freedom\NI know when I'm traveling,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.43,0:11:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it also profoundly\Nfelt like coming home.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.05,0:11:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm not a religious person,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.66,0:11:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I didn't go to the services.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.16,0:11:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't consult the monks for guidance.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.73,0:11:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just took walks along the monastery road
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.51,0:11:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sent postcards to loved ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.86,0:11:38.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked at the clouds,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.70,0:11:42.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I did what is hardest\Nof all for me to do usually,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.02,0:11:45.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is nothing at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.52,0:11:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I started to go back to this place,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.82,0:11:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I noticed that I was doing\Nmy most important work there
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.39,0:11:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,invisibly just by sitting still,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.92,0:11:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and certainly coming\Nto my most critical decisions
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.05,0:12:00.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way I never could when I was racing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.33,0:12:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the last email\Nto the next appointment.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.90,0:12:05.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I began to think that something in me
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.53,0:12:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had really been crying out for stillness,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.52,0:12:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but of course I couldn't hear it
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.07,0:12:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was running around so much.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.86,0:12:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was like some crazy guy\Nwho puts on a blindfold
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.51,0:12:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then complains\Nthat he can't see a thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.74,0:12:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought back\Nto that wonderful phrase
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.28,0:12:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had learned as a boy from Seneca,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.65,0:12:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which he says, "That man is poor
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.31,0:12:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not who has little but who hankers\Nafter more."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.68,0:12:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, of course, I'm not suggesting
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.78,0:12:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that anybody here go into a monastery.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.61,0:12:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the point.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.20,0:12:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I do think\Nit's only by stopping movement
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.92,0:12:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can see where to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.22,0:12:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's only by stepping\Nout of your life and the world
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.82,0:12:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can see what you\Nmost deeply care about
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.39,0:12:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and find a home.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.80,0:12:53.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've noticed so many people now
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.84,0:12:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take conscious measures\Nto sit quietly for 30 minutes
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.93,0:12:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every morning just collecting themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.46,0:13:01.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in one corner of the room\Nwithout their devices,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.02,0:13:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or go running every evening,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.09,0:13:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or leave their cell phones behind
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.05,0:13:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they go to have a long\Nconversation with a friend.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.96,0:13:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Movement is a fantastic privilege,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.13,0:13:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it allows us to do so\Nmuch that our grandparents
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.49,0:13:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could never have dreamed of doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.61,0:13:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But movement, ultimately,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.52,0:13:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only has a meaning if you\Nhave a home to go back to.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.06,0:13:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And home, in the end, is of course
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.85,0:13:30.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just the place where you sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.72,0:13:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the place where you stand.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.36,0:13:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.81,0:13:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)