Rainn Wilson

Like, he always had some way to uplift every room he came in.

And you know what?

And again, I didn't really appreciate that until he was gone.

And when I was thinking about eulogizing him, I was like, what is the single thing that if I could point to one thing that

My dad did consistently that made the world a better place.

It was, it was, he uplifted every room he went into.

And that was, that was really special.

Um, sometimes I'm able to do that, but sometimes I'm, uh, and the other thing, and I put the inscription of, of my book and I said, dedicated to my, to my father.

And I said, thanks for teaching me about the soul and, um,

I feel like my dad had a deep understanding from his faith that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, that our reality is spiritual.

We are heart based beings and

We are in this physical world.

We get 80 or 90 years.

He got 79 years to go around the sun and to do the best with what we got and to try and leave the world a little bit better than when we came into it.

And that perspective has stayed with me my whole life.

And I went through a time when I was an atheist and I had rejected faith and all of that nonsense and religious BS and whatnot.

I didn't want anything to do with that for a good decade and a half.

But I did always kind of keep with me that idea that we are essentially our spiritual beings.

That lesson was driven home when I saw him on the table of a hospital bed.

And it was just like one of those medical shows where they were doing open heart surgery.