Book Launch Speech

I gave this speech to a room full of great friends at my book launch.

Life - it has become so hectic, we plan and we think. But we think too much and feel too little. We have become so knowledgeable, with any kind of information at our fingertips. But our knowledge has made us cynical.

More than machinery and the information we can perceive during the day, in the light, we need the lantern that lights the way in the dark, to the vast knowledge of our inner wisdom.
The belief we are only what our five senses tell us, what we can literally see, touch and own has succeeded only to make us into a greedy human race.

The way of life can be beautiful and free of greed and menace. We all know it is entirely possible to live life by each other’s happiness and not by each other’s misery.
By now you probably know what started me writing this book.

Navin's message is carried on throughout the book: hate crimes must stop. The earth is rich and can provide for everyone. We are meant to be there for each other.

With my experiences during writing this book I learnt that there is one thing I want more than anything else in life: That is to be part of the crowd who wants to help each other.
This way we can make do with the worst people in the world and somehow we must. We can stand to the side, while people in the world are destroying themselves, and we can have the lantern ready for those that want to follow another path, the path that connects us to each other.

In this room here are gathered some of the finest people I know. You have all influenced my life in many good ways. I cannot thank you enough - all of you - for being there for me in different ways, when it really counts.

To Matt I dedicate a song written by Lowry Olafson, who is here to perform it for us.
It is called "It feels like forever". He has another song for us called "The ship of dreams" a very befitting title for this event. It is dedicated to father and son, but I see it applying to all parents and children.
Thank you for joining me tonight and I love you all.