Jim Carrey was a brilliant, wry, “demonic” (in a good way) comedian; and he still is though he now is increasingly appreciated as a spiritually-gifted man. His sense of the comic, often absurd or even dark, has now matured to the point that he offers wisdom such as this:

“After knowing Eckhart Tolle for a while and studying the books, I woke up and suddenly got it. I understood suddenly how thought is just illusory, and that thought is responsible for most, if not all of the suffering we experience. And then I suddenly felt like I was looking at thoughts from another perspective, and I wondered, who is it that is aware that ‘I’ am thinking? And suddenly I was thrown into this expansive amazing feeling of freedom – from myself, from my problems. I saw that I am bigger than what I do, bigger than my body. I am everything and everyone. I am no longer a fragment of the universe. I am the universe.” ~ Jim Carrey

His observation about perspective is very powerful, as he realizes the wisdom of Paul Ricoeur, “To have a perspective on one’s perspective is to somehow escape it.” Jesus understood this, being born into perspectival certainty of his day, said with his words and his behavior, “Boys and girls, there is another way of looking at things; there always is.” And he concluded his life with a graphic illustration of how painful this ego-crushing experience is.