I woke up and I suddenly got it. I understood suddenly how thought was just an illusory
thing and how thought is responsible for if not all, most of the suffering we experience.
And then I suddenly felt like I was looking at these thoughts from another perspective
and I wondered who is it that's aware that I'm thinking and suddenly I was thrown into
this expansive amazing feeling of freedom from myself from my problems. I saw that I
was bigger than what I do. I was bigger than my body. I was everything and everyone. I
was no longer a fragment of the universe. I was the universe. And ever since that day
I've been trying to get back there. It comes and goes, it's like riding wave, sometimes
I'm on sometimes I'm off but at least I know where I want to go and that I want to take
as many people with me as I possibly can because the feeling is amazing.
Jim Carrey is a highly successful Canadian actor and comedian. But before he reached
an astounding amount of fame and money, he was just a broke guy, following his dreams.
But from an early age he had the notion that if he believed enough in something, that thing
could happen as easily as anything else. In recent years he has been increasingly vocal
about his life’s experiences of achieving what he wanted and dissolving his ego.
His awakening has been a source of debate and acclamation between various people because
he seemed to have discovered a secret. Jim discovered something that changed EVERYTHING:
We don’t have any idea about the REAL power that lies within us.
We are so caught up in our fear of losing, of not being enough that we succumb to common
sense. We pursue a career that is thought to be stable and, in the process, we lose
touch with ourselves. But everything we can think of can be achieved.
Every desire we have exists for us to pursue them.
Anything people say can’t be done is just a result of limiting beliefs.
There are no limits in the Universe. YOU have the POWER to achieve ANYTHING.
Believe it is possible, visualize it, and expect it to happen.
So didn't you write yourself a check? I heard that you did, is that true?
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and I gave myself
five years, three years maybe and, and I dated at Thanksgiving 1995 and I put it in my wallet
and I kept it there. And it deteriorated and deteriorated and stuff. And, and but then
just before it's the Thanksgiving 1995 I found out that I was gonna make ten million dollars
on I think it was, dumb and dumber maybe.
Dumb and dumber, yeah. So you visualize yourself, visualization works if you work hard.
Yeah well, yeah that's, that's the thing. You can’t just visualize and you know go
eat a sandwich.
Visualization is the means for you to know exactly what you want and put it into practice.
You got to have a really clear picture in your mind and believe it will come true.
We ARE what we BELIEVE in. If you believe you’re worthless and you
will be broke forever, that is exactly what is going to happen. Because “A” you will
be vibrating in the energy of failure, and “B” you won’t have a reason to get up
in the morning and do everything you can possibly do to change your situation.
It is already set, right? No, it isn’t!
You CREATE your reality! You will get everything you want if you visualize
and put in the effort. Work, work, and work!
Because you know it is worth it. You already know it WILL COME TRUE.
When I was about 28 after a decade as a professional comedian, I realized one night in La that
the purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern, just like my dad.
And when I realized this, I dubbed my new devotion, the Church of freedom from concern,
the Church of FFC. And I dedicated myself to that ministry. What's yours? 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're about to go and do, I can tell you from experience
the effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. Because everything
you gain in life, will rot and fall apart, and all, that would be left of you is what
was in your heart. My choosing to free people. My choosing to free people from concern got
me to the top of a mountain. Look where I am. Look, what I get to do. Everywhere I go
this, I'm going to get emotional because when I tap into this, it really is extraordinary
to me. I did something that made people present their best selves to me wherever I go.
I've often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams in wealth and fame. So that
they could see that, it's not where you're going, to 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 realize 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, one unified field. One unified field of nothing dancing,
for no particular reason, except maybe to comfort and entertain itself. As that shift
happens in you, you won’t be feeling the world, you will be felt by it. You'll be embraced
by it.
Once you see how things are connected and how you can get what you want, you understand
there is one powerful thing holding you back: Your EGO!
Our ego is shaped by the environment we live in and our mind’s reaction to it.
Every time you hear that voice in our head saying you won’t make it.
Every time you feel the need to do something you don’t want to do just to prove yourself
to others. Every time you use comparison to bring you
down. That’s your ego talking!
Don’t be fooled by it! You already have everything you need to succeed!
You just have to go for 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 a promise of something we already possess.
As far as I can tell, it's 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
it's going to happen for you, but to open the door in your head, and when the door opens
in real life, just walk through it. And don't worry if you miss your cue, because there's
always doors opening, they keep opening. And when I say life doesn't happen to you, it
happens for you, I really don't know if that's true. I'm just making a conscious choice to
perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive
way. You'll come up with your own style. That's part of the fun. Oh, and why not take a chance
on faith as well? Take a chance on faith, 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.