This was SO good... I had to sit down an pause & play and transcribe this piece of it. Feel free to watch it. Here is the piece I felt the need to transcribe from his speech. Jim Carrey is Here – Speech to graduates at Maharishi University 2014 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, in 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! Please. And if it doesn’t happen for you right away, it’s only because the universe is so busy fulfilling MY order. Party size!” My father could have been a great comedian, but 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 year old he was let go from that safe job and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of is that you can fail at what you don’t want! So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love! It’s not the only thing he taught me though. I watched the effect of my fathers’ love and humor and how it altered the world around me. And I thought, “THAT’S something to do… that’s something worth my time!” It wasn’t long before I started acting up. You know, people would come over to the house and they’d be greeted by a 7year old throwing himself down a large flight of stairs. They would say, “what happened?!” And I would say, “I don’t know, let’s check the replay!” I’d go back to the top of the stairs and come back down in slow motion! It was a very strange household! My father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham, I was the whole pig. And he treated my talent as if it was his 2nd chance. When I was about 28, after about a decade as a professional comedian, I realized one night in LA that the purpose of my life had always been to free people of 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! 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 will be left of you is what was in your heart. 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.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 03:48:02 +0000
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