Jim Carrey Leaves the Audience SPEECHLESS | One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever
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my father could have been a great
comedian but he didn’t believe that that
was possible for him and 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 learned
many great lessons from my father not
the least of which was 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 you know I watched the effect
of my father’s 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
seven-year-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 second chance
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 will be left of
you is what was in your heart am i
choosing to free people am i 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
look this I’m gonna 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 wished people
could realize all their dreams and
wealth and fame and so that they could
see that it’s 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 realize that there
is nothing bigger than myself because
life doesn’t happen to you it happens
for you how do I know this I don’t but
I’m making sound and that’s the
important thing that’s what I’m here to
do
sometimes I think that’s the only thing
that’s important really you know it’s
just letting each other know we’re here
reminding each other that we’re part of
a larger self your job is not to figure
out how it’s gonna 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 not religion but faith not
hope but faith I don’t believe in hope
hope is the beggar hope walks through
the fire and faith leaps over it
I used to believe that who I was ended
at the answer my skin that I had been
given this little vehicle called a body
from which to experience creation and
though I couldn’t have asked for a
sporty or model it was after all a loner
and would have to be returned then I
learned that everything outside the
vehicle was part of me too and now I
Drive a convertible top down win to my
hair I am elated and truly truly truly
excited to be present and fully
connected to you at this important
moment in your journey I hope you’re
ready to open the roof and take it all
in you are the vanguard of knowledge and
consciousness a new wave in a vast ocean
of possibilities on the other side of
that door there’s a world starving for
new ideas new leadership I’ve been out
there for thirty years she’s a wildcat
she’ll rub up against your leg and purr
until you pick her up and start petting
her and then out of nowhere she’ll
swatch on the face
it can be rough out there
but that’s okay because there’s
soft-serve ice cream with sprinkles I
guess that’s what I’m really trying to
say here today sometimes it’s okay to
eat your feelings 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 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
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I am at the top of the mountain and I
was and I the only the only one I hadn’t
freed was myself and that’s when my
search for identity deepened I wondered
who might be without my fame who would I
be if I said things that 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 and disguise
even beyond effort itself you can join
the game fight the wars play with form
all you want but to find real peace you
have to let the armor 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 my soul is not contained within
the limits of my body my body is
contained within the limitlessness of my
soul 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 could create that
will be as compelling the imagination is
always manufacturing scenarios both good
and bad and the ego tries to keep you
trapped in the multiplex of the mind our
eyes are not viewers they are also
projectors that are running a second
story over 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 I had a substitute
teacher from Ireland in the second grade
they told my class during morning prayer
that when she wants something anything
at all she prays for it and promises
something in return and she always gets
what she wants before I’m sitting in the
back of classroom you know thinking wow
my family can’t afford a bike you know
so I went home and I pray for and I
promised I would recite the Rosary every
night in exchange broke it broke that
promise but two weeks later I got home
from school to find a brand-new Mustang
bike with a banana seat and Easy Rider
handlebars yeah
from fool to cool my family informed me
that I had won the bike in a raffle that
a friend of mine had entered my name in
without any of my knowledge whatsoever
so that type of thing has been happening
to me ever since 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
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
relax and dream up a good life
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