LOVE|EVOL(VED)
LOVE|EVOL(VED)
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How do we live a life of inner peace? A young physician searches for the ultimate answer.
A young physician in deep despair from the burnout of his medical profession faces a mental health crisis but is offered a lifeline when his father intervenes, embarking on a extraordinary global exploration of thought leaders from multiple cultures searching for the secrets to a life filled with peace and happiness. A powerful transformative adventure of understanding unconditional love.
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LOVE|EVOL(VED)
LOVE|EVOL(VED)
Special | 56m 49sVideo has Closed Captions
A young physician in deep despair from the burnout of his medical profession faces a mental health crisis but is offered a lifeline when his father intervenes, embarking on a extraordinary global exploration of thought leaders from multiple cultures searching for the secrets to a life filled with peace and happiness. A powerful transformative adventure of understanding unconditional love.
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(light music) - [Steven] It was in my late thirties when a calling showed up in my life.
Something that was a true passion for me.
It came from so many questions I had, questions like, "What bonds humanity together?
Where do virtues like compassion, acceptance, and kindness, where do those come from?"
So I went traveling the world to tell the story of its joy, to find what connects us.
I went looking for the essence of human life on this planet, and I spoke to scholars, theologians, artists, and scientists, and eventually all those questions I had merged into one.
How do we live a truly peaceful life?
My favorite book in my teenage years was Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, a story of a man who left his family's affluence behind, met the Buddha, and then rejected his teachings, and ultimately found his own path to enlightenment.
But the key to Nirvana was his own understanding of suffering.
- Suffering, decay and death are part of human living.
There may be some higher realization in which we realize that we can be beyond all of this.
There is the knowledge, the know-how to make people suffer less and be happier in their lives.
- To get where I truly wanted to be to get to peacefulness took many unexpected turns.
But ultimately, I found embracing opposites was my only way.
To express gratitude for this big world around me required confronting personal difficulties that stood in my way first.
Facing how painful life can sometimes be, and uncovering my own hardships led me to find answers to the question of peace.
It's almost a paradox how these opposing forces work together, but looking at conflicting aspects in life proved key to the story I felt called to tell.
(bright sound) All right, dad, you ready?
- Where are we going?
- We're gonna go down and take a little hike.
Try not to get run over.
Nice thing is it's not too hot out yet.
- It's so nice.
- We're not gonna be sweating in our pretty clothes.
I guess for this, I need to set an intention here and check in with you.
I'm checking in with both fear and excitement.
And the fear is that we talk about some things that I'm not sure I've ever really talked to you about before.
I don't feel like I've clearly voiced them.
And the excitement is that I get to spend this time with you, and I feel lucky about that.
So with that, I'm in.
My name is Steven Pierce.
My work is as a physician and I've always wanted to make films since I was a little kid as long as I can remember.
And I just never thought I would be making films about myself.
Yet, here we are.
And I also had never thought struggling with depression or anxiety would be part of my life and yet here we are.
Just lemme know when you're set.
Pretty good at hiding it though, but it wasn't always this way.
I knew who I was when I was a kid, and I knew how much love and how like expansive my experience was as a kid.
In my young, young years, I had so many beautiful memories.
- [Brother] Who is this man?
- I had a brother to play with.
You remember when I caught my first fish?
- Yes, oh yes I do.
- [Dad] Well, tell me about you catching that fish.
- There's a joy in that little boy about his first experience of that.
That little boy was golden innocence.
- Do you like these fishes?
- [Dad] Yeah, I like them.
- There's such a joy in observing that in your children.
You know that that last a very short period of time, that after about age six, seven, eight, that most of that joyful innocence goes away.
- [Dad] You gonna smile for me for the camera?
I just knew that who I was in those moments in my thirties was not that kid, I was somebody different.
Suddenly, I'm this other person.
But I knew that my core values always stayed the same.
There's always something about leaving this place better than I found it.
That was always instilled in me from this very young age.
I said, "Oh, well, the only way that I know to do that is to do what my dad did, to be a physician."
Things didn't turn out the way that I expected.
People were hurt, people died.
And those experiences, I took them on and I was extremely critical of myself.
It was a freight train coming.
Wow, what did I get myself into?
It was an environment in which it seemed like it was never good enough.
And so suddenly my support structure was not one of kindness, it was one of a very malignant support structure.
So this intense experience about self-doubt started to creep into my life.
- My experience of it is identical to yours because it didn't matter how intelligent you were, you were never good enough, never.
- I felt like I didn't fit into the culture of western medicine.
I felt like an imposter there.
And that's when the overwhelming anxiety set in, full-blown panic attacks.
I was ashamed of the anxiety.
It was easier to deny it.
So I withdrew from my friends, I withdrew from my family, and then the loneliness set in, and then the depression hit me.
And I hit a low point, this night where I was sitting there crying and I walked out on my balcony and I looked down and this thought popped in my head that that'd be about two seconds down.
I came to this like very quick realization of like what the hell am I thinking?
Like what is going on here?
And I went back into my house and then the phone rang.
You called me, you called, you said, "I wanted to check on you and see if you're okay.
I just had this intuition that something was going on with you."
And of course I lied to you and I told you that I was okay, but I wasn't and I really wasn't okay.
(light music) That was the piece that was hard for me.
- To tell me that?
- I didn't want to tell you that stuff.
- I've been there too.
I thought about it in college, so yeah, I hear you.
As a father who has worked very hard to develop the insights and the toolkit to avoid that kind of suffering, it's very painful to watch your son go through that.
And there's the reality that you know that you have to just simply be in support.
And for me, it's allowing intuition to say when I need to say something.
- How do I live a truly peaceful life?
How do I find a toolkit of insight for myself?
In my pursuit of that inner peace, I dove into academic research to seek answers.
And eventually, I discovered promise in the form of Happier, an invaluable book that traced the history and evolution of happiness studies over time, ultimately leading to the rise of positive psychology.
It gave me access to nearly every vital happiness study I could think of, and that book became my toolkit.
And what began as a few email exchanges between me and the author, Dr. Horowitz, would eventually lead me to meeting him, but he insisted I call him Dan.
I underlined, I wrote things.
John Balding, separation and attachment, attachment theory.
- That's wonderful.
- Yeah.
- It does unravel mysteries, history does.
I mean, it tells you where things came from, what obstacles were along the way.
- If I know what has come before me, I feel like I know where I can go.
Like, do not avoid suffering.
I'm okay with that.
- [Dan] Look how much you underlined it.
- I know, I know so I can go back and kind of Prozac.
So I found this book.
To me, it was enlightening.
- That's wonderful, I'm thrilled.
Positive psychology is a combination of behavioral economics, neuroscience, eastern religion, but especially a transformation of the field of psychology or within the field of psychology from an emphasis on depression, anxiety, that is mental illness to mental health that is positive feelings.
In many ways, Freud, and I'd say Carl Jung also had dominated therapeutic approaches.
And then Aaron Beck, who in the post-war period, studied veterans who had killed their buddies and out of that experience came cognitive behavioral therapy, suggesting people could rewrite the narrative or relearn the narrative of their lives.
People told themselves certain stories that blocked them from a path forward and cognitive behavioral therapy was one of the therapies that replaces or challenges Freudian theory with a much more open-ended and positive view of what humans can achieve.
- Ironically, we find that positive psychology is created out of tragedy, out of the turmoil of the Second World War, the tragedies of the Holocaust and the disruptions that those events caused.
So there are a number of people who are key in this, but let me focus on one whose work I think is so powerful and interesting and elemental and that's a man named Viktor Frankl.
An Austrian, a psychiatrist.
He's living in Vienna as the Nazis take over Austria.
It's a terrible, horrendous time for him and for millions of others.
And he loses almost his entire family, including his beloved wife.
They move him to a series of concentration camps.
He has a doctor who will counsel other, mostly Jews, who were in the concentration camps if they were thinking of committing a suicide.
As soon as he gets out by 1945, he begins working on a book called Man's Search for Meaning.
That's one of the 10 most widely read books in the post-war period.
- If you are confronted with the faith, you no longer can change.
Even then you may find the meaning to turn a tragedy into a personal triumph.
- Its key contribution to the field of positive psychology is the notion of posttraumatic growth.
Counterintuitive to most of us to think that out of the experience in the concentration camps that a man would develop a theory that suggested that under the most horrendous circumstances, some people are able to grow from traumatic experiences.
- Some people after meeting a death face-to-face have changed, have changed deeply, and they've become better than before, not just as before.
Becoming exactly as before is more of a medical concept is what they used to call (speaking foreign language), a sick person, we have to make him healthy and he'll be right, he'll be just as before.
But in this branch of work, the idea is to help people become wiser than before, not just as before.
(funky music) - Driving and filming.
Say hi, mom.
- Hi.
- We are in Panama.
Now, I can never go to Panama without my mom.
We had been going to visit Mi Familia in Panama for years, but the road to Macaracas is always a good time.
(speaking foreign language) If there was anyone I knew who embodied all that Dan spoke of, that would be my mother's best friend, Mena.
Essentially, she's like an aunt to me or tia.
(funky music) To me, she's filled with joy, filled with gratitude, filled with compassion, filled with all these positive qualities that we speak about.
And so when I'm around her, it's such a comfortable thing that I feel like I'm allowed to be whoever I want to be and she's right there with me having fun the whole time and life is this joyful, divine adventure for her.
- Jennifer Lopez, Selena?
- (speaking foreign language).
And we say Mark Anthony.
- Mark Anthony, no, no, no, no.
- (speaking foreign language) - (speaking foreign language) (speaking foreign language) - When going to Macaracas, I experienced community.
It's a different world there where community comes together.
Width and depth of our friendships and social relations are probably the most important determinant of our sense of well-being.
A couple studies here again, one is the Framingham Heart study, a longitudinal study, 40, 50 at least years.
It's clear in that study that if you live in a neighborhood, if your neighbors are happy, if the people you encounter every day have a certain level of happiness, you will be happier, the nature of their social relationships.
- (speaking in foreign language) - (speaking in foreign language) - Mena is like a giant to me.
Her impact on my life is significant as I've come to appreciate her values, which played a crucial role in shaping her extraordinary life.
Even though I look up to her now, I didn't learn my principles and standards from her when I was a kid.
The values that molded me were my dads.
- It says, "Dear daddy, I'm so sorry that you had to go to work.
I wish that you could stay, but you can't.
Will I see you tomorrow?
I love you daddy, love Steven."
And that was the reality in the early 1980s where I felt like I had to work all the time.
And it took me a while to understand that I didn't.
The way that my life evolved from medical school into residency and fellowship and then thereafter, it was actually a very brutal experience.
The educational system was brutal, very difficult to get through.
So what that resulted in was a large degree of workaholism, a lot of internal anger, a lot of internal sadness, a lot of that dissonance about whether I had chosen a good path to fall in my life or not.
There were so many times I almost gave up, so many times I almost joined the Peace Corps, so many times I almost went back to the farm, but I didn't.
I persisted and stayed, but there was something lacking still.
There was just something not quite me there.
- It's like as much as I wanted to be this independent being from you, even though I look up to you in so many ways, and I think I look up to you in ways that I'm not even aware of, I just found it so interesting that there were so many similar experiences in learning later on, that this struggle with this dissonance that you had about, did I make the right choice, and then suddenly I'm sitting here thinking, "Did I make the right career choice myself?"
- It was about attaining wealth, about rising out of poverty, about attaining a higher education, attaining social status in society, which was all, in reality, pretty empty.
- Intrinsic values are the values that you care because they're intrinsically good.
For instance, love is evident that it's a value we want love because of love.
We want the beauty because of beauty, and we want health because health is self-evidently value.
There are also extrinsic values like money.
I want money because then with money, I'll be able to do something else or I want a good position in society.
I want to be respectable and well-known because then people, I dunno, people will love me and respect me, The moment we follow them, we become more anxious or more depressed.
There's more risk of that.
So how do we overcome the values entrenched in us?
- In 1994, I began to get sick and for a year, we could not figure out what was wrong with me.
Probably a year and a half, I developed inflammatory arthritis.
I couldn't walk, and yet I was still working, I had to work.
So the eventuality was, after seeing multiple specialists, I was found to have a large mass in my chest, it was huge.
At that point in my life, for the very first time in my life, I've really faced my true mortality that we all know we're gonna die.
We just don't expect it to be today.
So I was given that opportunity to really examine my life and what I determined with that self-examination was it wasn't going the way that I wanted it to.
I wasn't experiencing what I was meant to experience.
I stopped what I was doing and I'd always been very artistic and was interested in learning the arts and I quit working, and I went to live as a bohemian in the lower East side of New York City.
I started that path of artistic expressions and that began to open a spiritual path.
We all have, some people more, some people less, higher order experiences.
Experiences of unity, of beauty, of love, of universality, of wonder, which are extremely important in our life.
If we pay enough attention to this fear, but there so many times we're too busy or too worried with so many other distractions and we forget about them and then we suffer.
- Once I came to really understand his story and hear the things that we never really talked about, I became very receptive to his journey out of depression and how he found his peace.
We've had a lot of conversations about life lessons that work for me.
Yeah, that's clean enough, huh?
- A cup of water.
- Philosophical, intellectual ideas.
- It took me a while to experientially understand the difference between ego level functioning and spiritual functioning.
Ego level functioning was, for me, and I think generally it's an accepted idea, it's everything that's considered right, wrong, good, bad, me versus them.
The small I and the small I meaning what my beliefs are about who I am.
And that all functions within a certain level in the psyche that keeps us safe.
- The ego is a thought system of separation.
So every problem that we have stems from this belief in separation.
We're separate from God, separate from good, separate from love, separate from abundance, separate from happiness, separate from wisdom, separate from freedom.
The whole idea that we could be bad or wrong is all completely of the ego thought system.
- [Steven] My dad has a favorite quote, a Coleman Barks rendition of Rumi, a 13th century Sufi mystic poet.
And the quote goes "Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there's a field.
I'll meet you there."
- And neither of us is right and neither of us is wrong, but we just see each other as souls having a life experience, it just becomes an exquisite life experience.
One after another, just exquisite life experience for whatever time we're left here on the planet.
- I began repeating something like that quote over and over in my head.
There's something beyond right and wrong.
There's something beyond right and wrong.
How can I transcend that duality?
How do I get to that kind of peace?
So when I was in a full-blown panic attack with my heart racing and I wanted to crawl out of my skin, I would say that.
It was the first thing that chipped at this protective shell of anxiety around my heart.
It brought some kind of acceptance and it started my fascination with Rumi and the Mevlevi Dervishes.
One Dervish in particular became very important to me, Ismail Fenter.
- What we're experiencing here is how the world was made.
We've gone in and interrupted it all.
This moment right now is what's expressing love and compassion and God's love.
Just being out here by this beautiful lake under these trees, hearing the birds, watching the deer walking around.
How can we take that and bring that into us so that when we walk away from here, how do we take that with us so we don't just go back to what we were not loving?
Not loving, not being in contact with our deeper self, our best self that we have.
- I haven't figured that out.
- That's the journey.
That is, that's why we do this.
And once we get here, we start to remember how little we love, how much we do is ego-based, how much we do is selfish.
Whether it's I'm helping somebody, but I'm getting paid for it.
I'm doing this, but I'm getting acclimation for it.
Our ego is playing out everywhere and it shuts us down, it narrows us and it blocks our hearts so that it could actually be open because we are always about self, we're always about self.
Yeah, that's the look.
So I told you when I was doing the pulmonary test the other day, I was thinking about you.
Oh my God.
- Thank you for that.
- The catalyst for me was this emptiness that I had felt, trying to connect back with something that was part of me growing up that wasn't right.
And when I went out to do music, which I had wanted to do my whole life, I was really good at what I was doing.
I was competitive, I was working my way up to being...
Working my way up to being part of the, you know what the A list is?
but I was empty.
- Meaningful work is terribly important and there are two studies here that I think are intriguing.
One is a study carried out that delineated the difference between a job.
I've gotta go to work today because I just gotta earn money to put on the table to eat.
A career I'm advancing along, this is my chosen path and this is what I want to do.
And a calling, something that if not God, something else called on me to do in my work, in my profession that gives me profound happiness.
The other one, which is one of the most powerful explanations of what makes us feel better, is the concept of flow, F-L-O-W.
Chess players, athletes, artists were so caught up in their work that they weren't aware for a while what's going on around them.
That's flow, that's being in the flow, which is a source of great intense happiness for millions of people.
So it's about purpose and flow.
I came to learn later on that multiple studies show financial success as a key life aspiration was a major trigger for mental health disorders.
So no wonder I was struggling.
But what do I do with the life I created?
There was still a level of desperation in me.
I think that's when I began to open up to a very different point of view, a spiritual point of view.
(bright music) - Today I'm here in Konya with Rumi.
We don't call him Rumi, we call him Mevlana, our teacher.
For centuries, people have come to this place bringing love and hope, desperation and desire into that space.
(bright music continues) The task of the Dervish is to diminish the ego.
The ego needs to be right-sized.
It needs to be less than we want it to be.
Especially in American culture, we're taught to be aggressive, assertive, find your way, create your path, know your truth.
As a Dervish, the task is to get small and to see you before I see me My mind couldn't tell what was my ego and what was my heart.
It seemed like this big part of peace of my life was about my purpose, but what's my true purpose?
Flow was in telling stories and making films, but I'm a physician.
So does that mean giving up everything I had created?
(light music) - (speaking foreign language) - [Steven] The word sima means to listen, to listen to Allah, to God.
And when I listened, I heard nothing about film or medicine.
I heard the word love and I heard the word family and that was it.
- [Translator] We are among beloveds.
- Thank you, thank you.
- Enlightened just means the light's shining inside.
It doesn't have to be a lot.
You can hold up a match in a dark room and it lights the room up once you adjust to it.
- (speaking foreign language) - I need to be a channel to let things flow through me.
God made me an instrument of their peace.
God made me a channel of your peace.
That's the core of the Mevlevi way that we are just merely vessels.
It's the core of what Kabbalah and Judaism is.
It's just being a vessel to let things flow through us.
And all the great religions say the same thing, is that we just need to get out of the way and serve humanity.
We are individuals in the midst of a community and the way we do it is by learning to make the community stronger and better, heal the community because within the community, there are people who need healing.
- That's when I started to see deeper layers of my search unfold.
Past a simple question of how do we live in peace, past goals of meaningful work, past anxiety, past a sense of self.
What Ismail talks to me about is a soul journey.
And if it is a journey, there're going to be steps, practices to be learned, to be adopted.
- I went to lunch with a friend, he was gonna go to this university in California that taught spiritual psychology and essentially, it is not learning about the pathology of the psyche, but how to live a truly high level peaceful existence.
So I went and learned so many spiritual practices that result in a unconditionally loving, non-judgmental world.
It's the most valuable thing I've ever done.
A series of unrepeatable miracles is what life becomes and life becomes joyful.
There becomes a freedom from want and a freedom from desire for things that the things don't matter, it's the relationships that matter.
I released 50 years of anger and came home transformed, just a different human being.
I began to really experience these episodes of really true inner peace.
- Your task is not to seek for love, but to seek and find all the barriers within that you have built against it and to dissolve them.
- And I began to realize that my true strength as a man was generative male vulnerability.
To me, it's the real mark of the strength of a man is the man who's able to be vulnerable and own the parts of him that he hides, represses and denies, but then is able to create a very loving, very peaceful, very positive world around him.
I'm simply learning to live my life in a way that is genuine, loving, and positive and that it generates, it doesn't destroy.
And generative male vulnerability is about owning that imperfection and going out and making it such that I can live in honesty and clarity with the people around me.
We don't withhold anything, we come out and we talk so that life is much better.
- That's when I decided that there was enough knowledge built up in me and I think the knowledge was really building me up to get to that moment of acting, action, movement, getting on the court and letting it all play out.
- The word knowledge or knowing historically really has had two meanings.
And the first level was it meant to know about.
The second level was to know through experience.
- [Steven] Ron and Mary taught my dad for many years.
So they are forever in my heart.
Because of his experience with them, he overcame his depression, and I've always been amazed by that.
So when Ron invited me, I went and took their class in spiritual psychology.
- The spiritual context itself facilitates more of what I'll call a learning environment.
For example, it's much easier for someone to deal with a disturbance that they have inside.
If they see that disturbance as literally part of their God-given curriculum that they're here to heal.
So our own soul is going to put us into environments where that which we are here to learn will come forward.
That's a lot easier format to move into than the right, wrong format.
And from our point of view, it's a very accurate one.
- Accepting Ron's invitation was the beginning of two wonderful years.
Those two years meant hours and hours of process work.
- [Steven] One of the most brilliant lessons I learned from my time at USM was forgiveness.
But that forgiveness was not for someone else.
It was forgiving myself for the misperception or forgiving myself for the misidentification of whatever was hurting me, forgiving the meaning I made of things that was anything less than loving for all involved.
- Do you wanna say something, Steven, before we actually begin?
- Really thank you and really here... And once I forgave my own misperceptions, it's like everything else fell into place.
Really here to honor all of you.
And despite everything within me still telling me to hide, I leaned into opposites and I stood up in that class and chose expression in a way that was as open as I could be.
And the more I shared, the more I felt like me again.
And when I did that, the anxiety shattered, the depression left me and I felt like I was completely free.
- Each person has at least two purposes.
The first one is to know who I am as a being, my unique soul essence, the gifts that I came to share, but the second is what we all have in common and that is to remember our essential nature to waken into the awareness of the love that we are.
- Knowing that I am loved and knowing that my entire experience is love, that was the greatest evolution of my life.
But coming into that moment, that state of consciousness shifts everything.
- [Dad] What do you want me to do fishing with you?
- Catch fish with me.
- [Dad] Well, tell me about you catching that fish.
Did you, what kind of fish is it?
- Love that Rumi talks about, it's a love that has to do with service.
It's love through the right actions and certainly in the Mevlevi Order, love is understood through the concept of brotherhood, in real brotherhood, really caring for each other, being of service to each other, being of service to the world.
- And in the same place where isolation once consumed me, I found opportunity to live into my true essence.
And the beauty of it all was that nothing had to change.
I was already in service to the world exactly where I was.
One of the greatest gifts that I've received in doing this work was that I always thought I was riding on the shoulders of giants until I looked down and I realized I was a giant myself, to realize that I had light too, that I could share my light just as powerfully as everybody else.
From there, my whole life has blossomed.
Look at the beautiful things that have shown up from that perspective.
What showed up was what I heard most when I truly listened.
Love and service to another and a family of my own.
What shined into my life was Nina.
(bright music) - Joy comes when we can really live a life of service, which doesn't mean we have to give up everything that we love.
It just means you live each moment.
How can I be loving and patient and kind here now with the people I'm with and with myself?
- There you go.
- [Steven] Soul work prepares us to see the light that we are, share it and embrace the light that's all around us.
- Spiritual relationship is where you recognize that your friend, your coworker, your partner, whoever it is, they're in your life to help you remember the truth.
They're in your life to give you an opportunity to extend love, to extend compassion, to be patient, to be kind, to be generous, to let go of codependency and judgements and opinions and everything that blocks the flow of love.
- Steven, you look deep into my eyes and said, "You see me, really see me."
And that was on the third date.
You see me and love me.
I hoped I would find a person for me, I imagined him.
And even if I had all the power in the world, I couldn't create you.
There is no way I could've thought you up.
Your deep confidence, sense of security, vulnerability, you're the bravest person I know.
You dove into us with the biggest open heart and patiently lured mine out.
I know I have your strong, brilliant, beautiful family and community to thank, so thank you.
- Take your right hand and I ask you to offer it out to be a channel of blessing to them now.
May this marriage be blessed with eternal joy and happiness and may this sweet marriage flow forever like milk and honey.
(audience cheering) - We're gonna have a baby, we're gonna have a child.
I mean, this is this continuation of that story.
- The Bodhisattva is coming, the child is coming.
The Bodhisattva is a sentient, enlightened being who comes to earth to teach and enlighten people before they go on to the Buddha hood in the next reincarnation.
So my toast is to Stephen and Nina, the child they've created and the Bodhisattva that comes.
Love you, love you, thank you.
- [All] Cheers.
- The little Bodhisattva.
That looks like a good bite there.
- That's all frosting.
- We did it, it's so good, that's delicious.
- So good, thank you.
(light music) - We're welcomed home to our own heart and that's the way the kingdom is already pre-installed.
We just have to look where we can find it.
So it's like a buried treasure right here, where it's been all along, which is the story of the Wizard of Oz.
It's the story of The Matrix.
It's the story of all these wonderful tales about seeking, not finding, and then finally giving up the false idols and saying, "Okay, I just wanna go home.
I just wanna be free."
- (speaking foreign language) - That calling wasn't just for me, it was for everyone around me.
Because in the end, when I really look at it, we're all just walking each other home.
(light music) (bright music) (bright music continues) ♪ I've got a feeling that you should know ♪ ♪ That we could leave in time ♪ There's a place I found we could go ♪ ♪ Into the sun we will hide ♪ Waking up and getting so excited ♪ ♪ The air outside is so warm ♪ Forget the city, we'll reach the country ♪ ♪ Right to the sun, we may ride ♪ ♪ This could be a fun ♪ This could be a fun time ♪ This could be a fun ♪ This could be a fun time ♪ This could be a fun ♪ This could be a fun time ♪ This could be a fun ♪ This could be a fun time (funky music) (funky music continues) ♪ I've got a feeling that you should know ♪ ♪ That this could leave on time ♪ ♪ The clouds are screaming and the birds are singing ♪ ♪ Into the sun, we feel fine ♪ This could be a fun ♪ This could be a fun time ♪ This could be a fun ♪ This could be a fun time ♪ This could be a fun ♪ This could be a fun time ♪ This could be a fun ♪ This could be a fun time
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