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Please welcome to speak to us
the funniest man on Earth
A performer of legendary comic genius.
a children's book author of profound depth
an individual of enormous compassion
who is doing so much to make our world a better place
the great Jim Carrey
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Thank you
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What are you sittin down for?
I was gonna milk that for a while
You guys can stretch that out in post production right? To make that longer in the edit.
Thank you Bevan
Thank you all
Jai Guru Dev
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I brought one of my paintings show you today
Hope you guys gonna be able to see it okay
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It's not one of my bigger pieces so you might wanna move down front
Get a good look at it.
Faculty
Parents, Friends, Dignified guests
Graduating class of 2014
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And all the dead baseball players coming out in the corn to be with us today.
*Laugher and applause*
after the harvest there's no place for them too hide
fields are empty
there's no cover there
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I'm here to plant a seed today
a seed that will inspire you to move forward in life
with enthusiastic hearts and a clear sense of wholeness
the question is will that seed have a chance to take root
or will I be sued by Monsanto.
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And forced to use their seed
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Which may not be
Totally Ayurvedic
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excuse me if I seem
a little bit low energy tonight
Today
Whatever this is
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I slept with my head to the north last night
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Huh huh Oh man
Oh man
You know how that is right kids?
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Yeah
Woke up right in the middle of PITA
couldn't get back to sleep till VATA rolled around
Crazy
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Wooo!
*Jim Carrey noises*
But I didn't freak out ya know.
I use that time
to eat a large meal
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Connect with someone special on Tinder
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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
I used to think Jim Carrey is all that I was
Just a flickering light. A danceing shadow
The great nothing masquerading as something you can name
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Seeking shelter in caves and fox holes
Dug out hastily
An archer searching for his target in the mirror
Wounded only by my own arrows
Begging to be enslaved
pleading for my chains
Blinded by longing
And tripping over paradise
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CAN I GET AN AMEN?
*amen*
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You didn't think I could be serious did ya?
I don't think you understand who you're dealing with
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I have no limits
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I cannot be contained because I'm the container
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You can't contain the container man!
You can't contain the container.
I used to believe that who I was
ended at the edge my skin
that I had been given this little vehicle called a body
from which to experience creation
Though I couldn't have asked for a sportier model
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It was after all a loaner
and would have to be returned
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then I learned that everything outside the vehicle was part of me too
and now I Drive a convertible
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Yeah man
Top down
wind in my hair
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Woohoo!
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
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Okay four more years then
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they're obviously not ready
sneezesumorecuttin
Nah uh,
I want to thank the Trustee's
the Administrators, the Faculty of M.U.M.
for creating an institution worthy Maharishi's
ideals of education
A place that teaches knowledge and experience
The knowledge and experience necessary to be productive in life
as well as enabling the students through Transcendental Meditation
and ancient Vedic knowledge
To slack off twice a day for an hour and a half
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Don't think you're fooling me
but I guess it has some benefits
It does allow you to separate who you truly are
and what's real
from the stories that run through your head
you have given that them
the ability to walk behind the minds elaborate set decoration
and to see that there's a huge difference between a dog that is going
to eat you
in your mind. And an actual dog that is going to eat you
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That may sound like no big deal but many never learned that distinction
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And they spend a great deal of their lives living in fight or flight response
I'd like to acknowledge all of you wonderful parents
Way to go
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What a fantastic job
You've done
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For your tireless dedication. Your love. Your support.
most of all for the attention the you pay to your children
I have a saying "beware the unloved because they will eventually hurt themselves
or me"
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But when I look at this group here
you know I feel really safe
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I do
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I'm just gonna say it
My room is not locked
My room is not locked
No doubt some of you will turn out to be crooks
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But white collar stuff ya know
Wall Street that type of thing
You know
Crimes committed by people with self-esteem
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Stuff parents can still be proud of
in a weird way
And to the Graduating class
of 2017
Minus Three
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Ya didn't let me finish
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Congratulations
Yes
Give yourself a round of applause please
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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
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Oh she'll rub up against a leg and purr untill you pick her up and start pettin her
And then outta no where she'll swat you in the face!
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It can be rough out there
but that's okay because they're soft serve ice cream
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with sprinkles
I guess that's what I'm really trying to say here today
sometimes it's
okay to eat your feelings
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Now fear
is going to be a player in your life
you get to decide how much
you could 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 dared ask the universe for it
I'm saying I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it
Please
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And if it doesn't happen for you right away It's only because the universe is
sold busy fulfilling
my order
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Party sash
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 gotta 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
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it's not the only thing he taught me know you know i watch the affected 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 good it wasn't long before I started acting up
your people would come over the house
may be greeted by a seven-year-old throwing himself down
large flight of stairs
they would say what happened and I would say I don't know
let's check the replay could go back to the top of the stairs and come back down
in slow motion low of
called her partner
it was a very strange household
my father used to brag that I was in the ham I was the whole pay
should be treated my talent
as it was his second chance when I was about 28
after a decade as a professional comedian I realize one night in la:
the purpose of my life had always been to free people from cancer
just like my dead when I realized this
I dumped my new devotional the church
a freedom from concerned the church at the FFC
and I dedicated myself to that ministry what's yours
how will you serve the world
what do they need the 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 they were is
because everything you gain in life Little Rock and fall apart
in all that will be left to view is what was in your heart
my choosing to free people pp
my choosing a free people from concern gone to the top of a mountain
look where I am look what I get to do
everywhere you go her this I'm gonna get emotional because when I tap into this
it really is
extraordinary to me I D it's something that made
people present their best selves to me wherever I go
I am at the top of the mountain and I was and I the only the only 1i had fried
was myself that's when my search for identity
bed I wonder might be without my free
who would I be if I said things that people did morning here if I defied
their expectations amid
what I showed up to the party without my Mardi Gras bat mask and
refused to flash my breasts for a handful beats
I'll give you a moment to like that image outta your mind
for you guys
our sole I headed the gay you already know who you are
in that piece that piece that were after
lies somewhere beyond personality be on the perception others beyond invention
in disguise
even beyond effort itself you can join the game fight the wars
play with warm all you want but
to find real peace you have to let the Honorable 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
the
it's not big enough this painting
is big for a reason it's called high visibility
it's about picking up the light and daring to be /c
here's the tricky part everyone is attracted to the light
the party host up at the top who thinks
unconsciousness is bliss it is always offering to drink
from the bottles that empty you misery
below her despises delight can't stand when you're doing well
wish you nothing but the worst the queen of diamonds
under him needs a que
to build her house of cards and the hollow one
down bottom there will cling to your latte and say please don't leave me
behind
for I have abandoned myself even those who are closest to you
most love with you the people you love most in the world
will find clarity confronting at times this painting
took me thousands of hours to complete
when I was finished thank you house thousand hours
I'll never get him back
and never get them back I was I worked on this for so long
weeks weeks like a madman alone on the scaffolding
and when I was finished with my friend said
this is the a cool black late P so I started over
%uh
the
hi
welcome to Burning Man
some pretty crazy characters up there
but better up there than in here be now
taking is one of the ways he is one of the ways I free myself from cancer
way to stop the world to total mental spiritual and physical involvement
but even with that comes a feeling that define
dissatisfaction because ultimately
we're not be avatars we created we're not the pictures on the film stock
we are the light that shines through to
all else is just smoke and mirrors distracting but not truly compelling
I've often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams in wealth and
fame in
so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find
your sense of completion like many %uh view
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 limitless this is my soul
one unified field the
one unified field that nothing dancing
for no particular reason except maybe to comfort
and entertain itself
that shift happens in you you'll be feeling the world be felt by
you'll be embraced by now I'm always at the beginning have a reset button
and I ride that button constantly
once that button is functioning in your life there's no story the mind can
create
there will be as compelling imagination is always manufacturing scenarios both
good and bad and the Eagle tries to keep you trapped in the multi-plex at the
mind
our eyes are not viewers they're 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
in the working title is I'll never be enough you look at a person like me and
say
how could we ever hope to reach those kinda hunts Jim
how can we make a painting that's too big for our home
how do you fly so high without a special breathing apparatus
this is the voice
Albany go and if you listened to it
there will always be someone who is doing better than you no matter what you
gain
Eagle will not let you rest will tell you
you cannot stop into you 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
so just want you to relax
you know that's my job
relax and dream up a good life I had a substitute teacher from Ireland in the
second grade told my class tree morning prayer that what you want something
anything at all she prays Fort
and promised something in return and as she always gets what she wants
for say tobacco classroom you know second well
my family can't afford to buy you know so
I went home and I prayed for and I promise I will recite the Rosary every
night
exchange broke a broke that promise
but two weeks later I got home from school to find a brand-new mustang by
for the banana see
Easy Rider handlebars yes from full to cool
my family for me that I had won the bike in a raffle that a friend of mine and
my name and without any without my knowledge whatsoever
so that type things been happening to me ever since as far as I can tell it's
just about
letting the universal know what you want and working toward it by letting go of
how it comes to pass
the
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 through it
and don't worry if you miss a cute because there's always doors opening
they keep opening when I say life doesn't happen to you
it happens for you really don't know it's true
just making a conscious choice
the perceived 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 told and
why not take a chance on faith as well the
take a chance on face not religion
the fate not hold but faded
I don't believe in Holt hope is the better
hope walks through the fire and faith leads over it
the
you are ready and able
to do beautiful things in this world can actually walk through those doors today
you will only ever have two choices love
or fear choose love and don't ever let fear
turned you against her playful heart thank you so much the
the