This is a YouTube video titled "Jim Carrey On The Power Of Intention" featuring Jim Carrey speaking about the importance of intention in life and spirituality. The content includes a monologue by Jim Carrey with some interaction from an audience member named Andrea, discussing themes of purpose, suffering, and collective creation during a conference or event recorded in January 2010.
It's our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention. So I started thinking about my life, and I started thinking about this conference and what we're about. And I looked back and I thought, well, I was two people my whole life. I was in the living room entertaining people, being a monkey, you know, doing my thing for the company and trying to relieve my mother, who was suffering. She had rheumatoid arthritis and phlebitis and everything. Everything under the sun that was nagging at her, and she was depressed. And I wanted her to be free. And I wanted her to realize that her life was worth something because she gave birth to someone who was worth something. And then I would go into my room, and I would sit with a legal pad. I was a little kid, and I would sit there, and I would try to figure out what it meant, what it was all about. Why are we here? What is this? And one day, I read something from Buddha that said that all spirituality is about relieving suffering. And I suddenly realized that's what I'm.
Doing in the other room.
And I'm aligned. My purpose is aligned with this. So I felt incredibly lucky. I lose sight of that all the time. I get caught up in different concerns and ego concerns. But I'm so lucky to be a part of this community and to do something that is of value. And I really cherish that. And we are all one thing. It really is true. Can I speak to the person in the last row, in the very last seat against the wall? Is there someone back there that can say hello? What's your name? Andrea. Are you aware that. Do you have the distinct palpable feeling that your intention created this evening as well as Melissa's? Do you understand that all of this, this entire event, is happening inside you? Well, just try to feel it for.
A second, because it's a trip, man. Some people go to the Super Bowl. I am the super bowl, man. I swear, my friends are all going, did you see that play? That was great. I'm like, yeah. But the energy coming out of me right now, man, is unbelievable. I'm just sitting there. I'm the stadium. I'm the vendors outside. I'm the crack dealer on the corner. I'm everything, man.
There's no end to it. And it's so much fun. It's so much fun. So I hope you can feel that, and I hope you understand that you are one of the creators of this evening, that your intentions and your desires created this evening as well. And then I hope you are able to ask yourself, why did I get such a crappy seat and be okay with it. I mean, you're in the last row.
In the last seat.
And yet you created this. That's got to be. It's a really selfless thing to do.
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