The Real You - Jim Carrey

I have often said that I wish people could

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ize all their dreams, wealth and fame, and so they could see that that is not where you will find your sense of fulfillment. I had to do it. I think I had to become a famous you. knowing the idea, yeah, uh, and getting all the things that people dream about and, uh, uh, achieving a bunch of things that you know look like success so I can give up my attachment to those things, has been part of the evolution of ego is spending the first half of your life acquiring and adding, thinking that you can add something to yourself and it looks cool, I mean, it looks cool when you have a cool car and nice clothes and you know it and you're uh . and you've done something that people admire, you know, when I was about 28 years old, after a decade as a professional comedian, one night in Los Angeles I

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ized that the purpose of my life had always been to free people from worries and choose to free people from worries. me to the top of a mountain look where I am look what I can do wherever I go this I'm going to be excited because when I take advantage of this it's really extraordinary for me I did something that made people present their best selves for me wherever I go I'm at the top of the mountain and I was and the only one I hadn't freed was myself I played the guy who was worry-free so that the people watching me would be worry-free and that's when my search for identity deepened. .

I wondered who I would be without my fame. Who would I be if I said things that people didn't want to hear? We don't matter. You're supposed to say. You know we are. important you're supposed to say that everything is going to be okay and you're supposed to say that you know that anything you dream can come true and you're supposed to say all those things. I do believe in the power of manifestation of those kinds of things, but I don't think any of that matters, you know, this importance is for me a human construct. I used to think jim

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is all i was just a flickering light a dancing shadow the big masked nothing is something you can name i don't exist so they're all characters i played including jim

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including Joel Barish, including any of those things, they're all characters, you know, Jim Carrey was a less intentional character, right? because I thought he was just building. something that people would like, but it was a character because ultimately we are not the avatars that we create, we are not the images in the film, we are the light that shines through everything else, it's just smoke and mirrors that distract you but don't really force you. you know that everything is divine you know that there is simply no there is nothing that is not divine everything is divine and I am that not the body I am you and I am this thing and I am this thing and the cameras and I don't care what is happening to you Happening sometimes I still have that groove cut into me that you know wants my hair to look good, right, it's kind of old, you know there's still ego there, but uh, but I don't.

I'm finding that ultimately freedom from this is something that people are hungry for in a way where they think I don't want to be me either, right, and I and I look great because you've never been To find true peace you have to let go of the armor your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world don't let anything get in the way of the light that shines through this way you risk being seen in all your glory Our eyes are not spectators, they are also projectors that project a second story onto the image we see in front of us all the time.

Fear is writing that script and the working title is I'll Never Be Enough. People talk about depression all the time. The difference between depression and sadness, sadness is simply that you know by chance what happened or didn't happen to you or you know the pain or whatever and depression is your body telling you I don't want to be this character anymore. I don't want to hold this avatar you've created in the world, it's too much for me, right? So, a friend of mine who is a spiritual teacher has a very good interpretation of his name: Jeff Foster and his, uh, opinion of him.

In that, you have to think of the word depressed as a deep rest, a deep rest, your body needs to be depressed, it needs a deep rest from the character that you've been trying to play, right? You know, the great and powerful Oz, I am. the great and powerful oz how dare you come near me this is the voice of the ego and if you listen to it there will always be someone who is doing better than you no matter what you earn the ego will not let you rest it will tell you that you cannot stop until that you have left an indelible mark on the earth until you have achieved immortality how deceptive is this ego that would tempt us with the promise of something that we already possess a happy place is to realize that you are all you know and that, in the first place , there's no real you involved, you know, the only thing that separates you from an African American or an African Canadian is an idea that you know, and the climate, that you know, and adaptation to the climate and whatever.

Don't believe in any of that, and that's why the feeling of plenitude is a different feeling than meanness. I believe that peace is beyond personality, beyond invention in heaven. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts worrying about the path to the future, but all there will be is what is happening here and the decisions we make right now, which are based on love or fear, so many of We choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality, what we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect so we never dare ask the universe for it I say I'm proof that you can ask the universe please in case you I didn't see you, good afternoon, good night, and good night.