Rainn Wilson

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3,063 appearances 12 recordings 7 series first heard Jul 2024 last heard 7 Jul

Rainn Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Know Thyself · E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution · 21 Jan 2025 podcast

Baha'is have a period of fasting, so there's a... a 19-day period every spring, the Baha'is do a deep fast. And I have, as part of my practice as well, I have daily 12-step things that I do. I call my sponsor and I go to meetings and I connect with people that are struggling, share my experience, strength, and hope. This goes hand in hand with my Baha'i practice and with my own personal practice.

And I seek every day in the highest form of prayer that exists in both the 12-step program of recovery and in the Baha'i faith, that essentially the highest prayer boils down to this. Thy will, not mine, be done. If I can get my greedy, egoistic, selfish, petty, you know, thrashing little will out of the way,

and surrender to the divine will, to the divine force, to the divine light, to the unknowable essence, thy will, not mine, be done, that's where the rubber meets the road. What do I try and do out of that? I try and foster conversations on Soul Boom. I work in philanthropy. I try and make the world a better place. And I try and make the world a better place when I'm driving down the street.

I try and make it a better place when I'm in a Trader Joe's parking lot. I try and make it a better place when I'm interacting with service workers that I encounter to make everyone feel human, loved, seen. I try and connect with people. That is a practice. That's a daily practice.

One of the things about my father I most admired was when he passed away, I realized something about him that I didn't appreciate while he was alive, which is that he made every room he went into better. He made every room he went into more alive, filled with more light, with more humor, with more laughter, with more curiosity. He would always ask people questions. How are you? Where are you from?

What are you doing? Tell a joke. And he'd share his opinion and laughter and listen. And that's a practice. What would that be like for the listeners, the viewers, listeners? Every room I go into is an opportunity for me to practice making that room more alive.

Thanks.

This is so much fun. Yeah.

Well, I think that what you're doing on your podcast and in your world, I just want to just give a shout out to how important it is. Because when we can shift our awareness, like you said, it's kind of how we started our whole conversation. Spirituality is just shifting perspective a little bit like, oh, I'm not just an animal seeking to, you know, eat and piss and fuck and sleep.

You know, I'm a spiritual being having this human experience and having these conversations. all these different ways into that world is so important. And I love what you're doing. And I just think it's really important. And I hope you will join me and we'll work together in sparking a spiritual revolution.

Right? How about no boom? No boom. Soul thyself.

Thanks.

The Comment Section with Drew Afualo · THE OCEAN HEALED MY RABIES Ft. Rainn Wilson · 24 Jul 2024 podcast

I will say it was so much fun driving in L.A.

during COVID.

Because no one was on the freeway.

20 minutes, I'm in Glendale.

Hey, now I'm in Long Beach.

Yeah.

We need a new plague.

Woo!

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