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Today I wanna talk to you about your identity...   You see I believe that most of you were being held back by what you have identified as who you are...   I believe that you're being held back by an identity that doesn't really exist... A picture or a definition of you that was created what does not represent your best version of yourself.   I want to share with you an interview did Jim Carrey dead where he talked about how he got wrapped up in plain a character in a movie so much that he realized the identity it's just something that is made up...   Then I want to share with you some ideas I'm how you can shape your identity and you can allow yourself to create a self empowering identity that will help you to take action and create the life you wanna live.   Thanks for listening to the show. Please share this episode.   George Wright III   Here is a brief from the Interview:   Mr. Carrey, have you ever had a spiritual epiphany?   Well, I have gone through a lot changes in the last few years and a lot of realizations — and I guess you could say awakenings about things. Everything is touched by that, everything I am doing creatively right now seems to point to the awareness of a lack of self. What are we? Why are we here? And the answer to both of those questions is: nothing, no reason, as far as I am concerned. It’s just about playing with form.   What do you think prompted those awakenings?   I guess just getting to the place where you have everything everybody has ever desired and realizing you are still unhappy. And that you can still be unhappy is a shock when you have accomplished everything you ever dreamt of and more and then you realize, “My gosh, it’s not about this.” And I wish for everyone to be able to accomplish those things so they can see that.   “Understanding suffering is the way to salvation because once you understand it, you have compassion, and the next thing you know, you are free.”   Is that what happened to you?   Yeah, sure. It didn’t happen to me. There is no me. But it happened. And it pushed me towards the realization there is no individual here. There are only energies.   Energies?   Yes, they’re me. They’re me talking to me — whatever they are, no matter how bad they are. I have gone through some really tough times in the last few years and I would not wish them on anybody, but my God, my understanding of life and what is real and what is not real has expanded exponentially because of that. And my ability to understand suffering, which is a valuable thing. It’s the way to salvation because once you understand it, you have compassion, and the next thing you know, you are free. So what happened after that realization was essentially a very desperate and good energy of wanting to be loved and wanting to love and wanting to create and be admired.   Is it strange to look back on your films after having had these revelations? It must be like seeing someone else entirely.   I see someone who thought they were a person, who was trying to create characters but… How can I put it? Playing Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon in 1999, for example, I realized that I could lose myself in a character. I could live in a character. It was a choice. And when I finished with that, I took a month to remember who I was. “What do I believe? What are my politics? What do I like and dislike?” It took me a while and I was depressed going back into my concerns and my politics. But there was a shift that had already happened. And the shift was, “Wait a second. If I can put Jim Carrey aside for four months, who is Jim Carrey? Who the hell is that?”   And what did you find out?   I know now he does not really exist. He’s ideas.   What do you mean?   If you want to talk scientifically, break it down to a cluster of tetrahedrons that somehow believe they are athing. But they’re ideas — just ideas. Jim Carrey was an idea my parents gave me. Irish-Scottish-French was an idea I was given. Canadian was an idea