Rainn Wilson is a three-time Emmy nominated actor best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office. Besides his many other comedic and dramatic roles on stage and screen, he is the co-founder of the media company SoulPancake and host of the docuseries Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss, coming 5/18/23 on Peacock. Rainn is the author of Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy, as well as SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions, a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Oregon and California with a lot of animals, his wife and son.
Rainn Wilson on How To Heal Your Mind With Gratitude, Service & Spirituality EP 1431
“Our reality is spiritual. We are heart-based beings, and we get 80 years to go around the sun and do the best with what we got, and try to leave the world a better place than we found it.” @rainnwilson
Some Questions I Ask:
- Your new book, “Soul Boom” explores the need for a spiritual revolution to bring healing to the world. Why did you write this book? How is spirituality the path for healing?
- What are the biggest misunderstandings people have about spirituality?
- There’s a thread of spirituality and soul-searching in your books and productions. Why? What compels you to keep exploring these themes and seek answers after all these years?
- You once said gratitude was the best place to start with things. Is gratitude the most important thing in your life?
- Describe the dilemma in entertainment between promoting yourself vs. spreading the word to help others.
In this episode, you will learn:
- How to embrace your own definition of spirituality and use it to serve the world.
- Rainn’s personal healing story and how looking inward has changed his perspective of the world.
- Why gratitude affects every aspect of our daily lives and how to lean into it.
- What questions we should ask ourselves before embarking on our own spiritual journey.
- Some of the greatest lessons Rainn has learned about love, spirituality, and staying authentic to himself while playing one of the most popular characters in TV pop culture history.
- Plus much more…
Show Notes:
- https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Boom-Need-Spiritual-Revolution/dp/0306828278
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/metaphysical-milkshake-with-rainn-reza/id1566052074
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