My father could've been a great comedian but he didn't believe that that was possible for
him.
So he made a conservative choice.
Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant and when I was 12 years old, he was let go
from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive.
I learnt many great lessons from my father.
Not the least of which was that you could fail at what you don't want, so you might
as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Now fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.
You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future,
but all there will ever be is what's happening here.
And the decisions we make in this moment which are based in either love or fear.
So many of us 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 to ask the universe for it.
I'm saying, I'm the proof, that you can ask the universe for it.
How will you serve the world?
What do they need that your talent can provide?
That's all you have to figure out.
As someone who's done what you are about to go and do, I can tell you from experience
the effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
Cause everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart.
And all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
I am at the top of the mountain and I was and the only one I hadn't freed was myself
and that's when my search for identity deepened.
I wondered who'd I be without my fame, who'd I be if I said things people didn't want to
hear.
Or if I defied their expectations of me.
And that piece, that piece that we're after lies somewhere beyond personality.
Beyond the perception of others.
Beyond invention, disguise and even beyond effort itself.
You can join the games, fight the wars, play with form all you want.
But to find real peace you have to let the armour go.
Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.
Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form, risk
being seen in all of your glory.
Its about picking up the light and daring to be seen.
Here's the tricky part, everyone is attracted to the light.
The party host up at the top who thinks unconsciousness is bliss and is always offering to drink from
the bottles that empty you.
Misery below her, despises the light, can't stand when you're doing well, wishes you nothing
but the worst.
The queen of diamonds under him, needs a king to build her house of cards.
And the hollow one down bottom there will cling to your leg and say please don't leave
me behind, for I have abandoned myself.
Even those who are closest to you, most in love with you, people you love most in the
world, will find clarity confronting at times.
Because ultimately, we're not the avatars we create.
We're not the pictures on the film stock.
We're the light that shines through, all else is just smoking mirrors.
Distracting but not truly compelling.
I've often said that I wish people could realise all their dreams and wealth and fame so that
they can see that its not where you're gonna find your sense of completion.
Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger
than myself.
Until someone smarter than myself made me realise that there is nothing bigger than
myself.
My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the
limitlessness of my soul.
As that shift happens in you won't be feeling the world, you'll be felt by it.
You'll be embraced by it.
Now I'm always at the beginning.
I have a reset button, and I ride that button constantly.
Once that button is functioning in your life there's no story that the mind can create
that will be as compelling.
Imagination is always manufacturing scenarios both good and bad and the ego tries to keep
you trapped in the multiplex of the mind.
And if you listen to it, there will always be someone who's doing better than you.
No matter what you gain, ego will not let you rest.
It will tell you that you cannot stop until you've left an indelible mark on the earth.
Until you've achieved immortality.
How tricky is this ego that it would tempt us with the promise of something we already
possess.
Our eyes are not viewers.
They're also projectors that are running a second story of the picture that we see in
front of us all the time.
Fear is writing that script, and the working title is I'll never be enough.
As far as I can tell its just about letting the universe know what you want and working
toward it, while letting go of how it comes to pass.
Your job is not to figure out how its going to happen for you, but to open the door in
your head and when the door opens in real, just walk through it.
And don't worry if you miss your cue cause there's always doors opening.
They keep opening.
Oh and why not take a chance of faith as well.
Not religion, but faith.
Not hope but faith.
I don't believe in hope.
Hope is a beggar.
Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it.
You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.
And after you walk through those doors today, you will only ever have two choices.
Love or fear.
Choose love, and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.
Thank you so much.