I had all the success. I got a Netflix show. I wrote best-selling books. I spoke in stadiums, but I still found myself to be in a place that was pretty painful. I was in my house in Hollywood after all the success and I was writing this note. It was a suicide note. I don't think I would have acted on it, but it was still, I still wrote it.

And I called my therapist instead of acting on it.

He talked to me, we talked through it.

It was very late at night, like 11 o'clock at night, very random that he picked up the phone.

The next morning, I find myself at the Mystic Bookshop on Abakini. And I randomly picked up the autobiography of a yogi

by Paramahansa Yogananda. I'd seen that book many, many times, but I'd never picked it up.

I opened it to a random page. Once I'd opened that random page, I looked at a random paragraph.

And in that paragraph, he says to as soon to be guru, if you reveal God to me, I will follow you anywhere.

In that moment, I had an epiphany.

I was like, that's it. I am going to India to find God.

My day one podcast fans will remember that my very first podcast guest was a man by the name of Leon Logothetist who had just returned from riding a vintage yellow motorcycle around the world, get this, relying entirely on the kindness of strangers, which means he didn't take any money with him, if you can imagine that.

And every day, he had to persuade someone to feed him, to put fuel in his motorcycle, and to give

him a place to stay. And in return, he would offer something that they desired. And that journey

became the Netflix show called The Kindness Diaries. And since then, Leon has taken a few more adventures, but his latest adventure is his most

personal.

Even after being on his purpose for years now, Leon occasionally felt lost, depressed, and suicidal.

And he suspected that maybe it had to do with a question around God. Is God real? Is God not real?

And he got this internal nudge to go on a quest to find God. And he decided to embark on that

quest in India of all places. And that journey culminated in a new documentary called The Kindness Within.

And I know some people hearing this who do believe in God think, oh, it's obvious. Of course God

exists. But maybe it's not so obvious for some people. And in any case, Leon and I unpack what

exactly prompted his search for God, how his relationship with that question has changed him,

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