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I don't exist. So, they're all characters that I played, including Jim Carrey, including Joel Barish, including any of those things. They're all characters.
Jim Carrey was a less intentional character because I thought I was just building something that people would like. But it was a character. I played the guy that was free from concern so that people who watched me would be free from concern. So, I've been in the business of freeing people from concern. I call it the church of FFC, and that's been my ministry my whole life.
And then at a certain point you go like, "Okay, well, that's great." People talk about depression all the time. The difference between depression and sadness. Sadness is just from happenstance. Whatever happened or didn't happen for you, grief, or whatever it is. Depression is your body saying, "[ __ ] you. I don't want to be this character anymore. I don't want to hold up this avatar that you've created." You should think of the word as depressed as deep rest. Deep rest. Your body needs to be depressed. It needs deep rest from the character that you've been trying to play.
I believe that I had to become a famous idea and get all the stuff that people dream about, accomplish a bunch of things that look like success in order to give up my attachment to those things. It's been part of the evolution of ego is spend your first half of your life acquiring and adding, thinking you can add to yourself. And it looks great. I mean, it looks great when you got a cool car and you got nice clothes and you've done something that people admire, but it can never fulfill you. You can never be happy. It's not where happiness comes from.
I dealt with depression a few years ago. People still think, "Well, he's going through, you can tell he's." It's not. I have no depression in my life whatsoever. Literally none. I have sadness, joy, elation, satisfaction, and gratitude beyond belief. But all of it is weather, and it just spins around the planet. It doesn't sit on me long enough to kill me. A happy place is a realizing that you're everything and that there's no real you involved in the first place.
I want to challenge your beliefs. Throw it on its head in a way that you can accept and love, and it'll free you. I'm finding that people are for the most part accepting of letting go of character. I do believe in manifestation, but I don't believe that any of it matters. This mattering is a human construct. I believe in an energy of God. You know, everything is divine. There's no thing that isn't divine. Everything is divine, and I'm that, and it doesn't matter to me what's happening. Sometimes I still have the groove cut in me that, you know, wants my hair to look nice. There's still ego there, but I I'm finding that ultimately the freedom from it is, uh, is something people are kind of hungry for in a way. They're like, "I don't want to be me either." And I go, "Well, great, 'cause you never have been."