Rainn Wilson
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We cultivate our internal spiritual progress, our serenity, our awareness, our love, our radiance, our wisdom, our connection to the divine source. so that we can use it to help others. And the more we help others, the more fulfilled we are. And then we can harness that energy and help even more people. And in so doing, it becomes a cyclical thing. So...
We cultivate our internal spiritual progress, our serenity, our awareness, our love, our radiance, our wisdom, our connection to the divine source. so that we can use it to help others. And the more we help others, the more fulfilled we are. And then we can harness that energy and help even more people. And in so doing, it becomes a cyclical thing. So...
We cultivate our internal spiritual progress, our serenity, our awareness, our love, our radiance, our wisdom, our connection to the divine source. so that we can use it to help others. And the more we help others, the more fulfilled we are. And then we can harness that energy and help even more people. And in so doing, it becomes a cyclical thing. So...
Part of the issue I have with contemporary Western ideas around spirituality is that often begins and ends with tools to reduce anxiety and doesn't move out into the world and find a kind of a collective harnessing of proactive action to reduce injustice and to limit suffering on a grander scale.
Part of the issue I have with contemporary Western ideas around spirituality is that often begins and ends with tools to reduce anxiety and doesn't move out into the world and find a kind of a collective harnessing of proactive action to reduce injustice and to limit suffering on a grander scale.
Part of the issue I have with contemporary Western ideas around spirituality is that often begins and ends with tools to reduce anxiety and doesn't move out into the world and find a kind of a collective harnessing of proactive action to reduce injustice and to limit suffering on a grander scale.
Well, I applaud you. You've actually read my book, and I love it. You've thrown in lots of little juicy little references there. Thank you so much. Yes, sir. It means so much. I really appreciate it. We need a spiritual revolution because we literally are seeing right now the grinding down decay and collapse of old ways of doing things.
Well, I applaud you. You've actually read my book, and I love it. You've thrown in lots of little juicy little references there. Thank you so much. Yes, sir. It means so much. I really appreciate it. We need a spiritual revolution because we literally are seeing right now the grinding down decay and collapse of old ways of doing things.
Well, I applaud you. You've actually read my book, and I love it. You've thrown in lots of little juicy little references there. Thank you so much. Yes, sir. It means so much. I really appreciate it. We need a spiritual revolution because we literally are seeing right now the grinding down decay and collapse of old ways of doing things.
the ways that human beings have done things for eons are not sustainable. They're based on the worst impulses of humanity. They're based on, you know, greed and one-upsmanship and every man for himself and self-interest and a dog-eat-dog world and all of these...
the ways that human beings have done things for eons are not sustainable. They're based on the worst impulses of humanity. They're based on, you know, greed and one-upsmanship and every man for himself and self-interest and a dog-eat-dog world and all of these...
the ways that human beings have done things for eons are not sustainable. They're based on the worst impulses of humanity. They're based on, you know, greed and one-upsmanship and every man for himself and self-interest and a dog-eat-dog world and all of these...
wonderful energies that allowed us to get to this place in time where we're sitting in this beautiful studio in Topanga having this amazing conversation and there's lights and there's technology and we've got education. Humans struggled and overcame and had ambition and war and conflict to get to where we are as a species right now on the planet. two things. Number one, that wasn't all we were.
wonderful energies that allowed us to get to this place in time where we're sitting in this beautiful studio in Topanga having this amazing conversation and there's lights and there's technology and we've got education. Humans struggled and overcame and had ambition and war and conflict to get to where we are as a species right now on the planet. two things. Number one, that wasn't all we were.
wonderful energies that allowed us to get to this place in time where we're sitting in this beautiful studio in Topanga having this amazing conversation and there's lights and there's technology and we've got education. Humans struggled and overcame and had ambition and war and conflict to get to where we are as a species right now on the planet. two things. Number one, that wasn't all we were.
And that's a very limiting kind of way of thinking about humanity. Humanity is also really good at cooperation and really good at collectivism and kindness and working together. And some of the most successful societies are the ones that cooperated the best and were the best at trade and were the best at communication. Not the most warlike ones, you know, that conquered the most land.
And that's a very limiting kind of way of thinking about humanity. Humanity is also really good at cooperation and really good at collectivism and kindness and working together. And some of the most successful societies are the ones that cooperated the best and were the best at trade and were the best at communication. Not the most warlike ones, you know, that conquered the most land.
And that's a very limiting kind of way of thinking about humanity. Humanity is also really good at cooperation and really good at collectivism and kindness and working together. And some of the most successful societies are the ones that cooperated the best and were the best at trade and were the best at communication. Not the most warlike ones, you know, that conquered the most land.
So that's number one, but number two, continuing to move in that direction when essentially the resources of planet Earth have been sucked up and used, it's not sustainable. And we're seeing it. We're seeing all the different ways that it's breaking down right now. I go into a list of pandemics and soul boom of beyond the pandemic we just came out of, materialism and racism and sexism and
So that's number one, but number two, continuing to move in that direction when essentially the resources of planet Earth have been sucked up and used, it's not sustainable. And we're seeing it. We're seeing all the different ways that it's breaking down right now. I go into a list of pandemics and soul boom of beyond the pandemic we just came out of, materialism and racism and sexism and