[Applause] 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 [Applause]
[Music] 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
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