I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the most

valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to be more fully present. Your journey

to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.

I'm delighted to have as my guest today the funny man and the satirical man that we all love to hate,

the character, Dwight Shrewt, from the hit series The Office, brought to us so artfully

and thoughtfully by Rayne Wilson. Oh, you're too kind. No, I'm not too kind. It's true. So why a funny man, Rain Wilson, on our Soul series? I'll tell you why. Two words. Soul pancake. Soul pancake. Rain Wilson, what is Soul pancake? That is an excellent question, Oprah. I love that I just said that.

I said, that's an excellent question, Oprah. What a delight to meet you. Thanks for having me here. I went to high school here in Chicago. I love this great city. I'm not just saying that for the Chicago office fans. Okay, good. I do. Where did you go to high school? New Trier High School? school when that go, yeah. Wow. And did you have any idea then that this is where you would be? You know what? I had, well, we'll get back to SoulPancake in the idea. We'll get back to that in the middle, yeah. Hold that thought. You know, it's interesting that here I am talking to you at that point, because I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor.

I had that dream, I had that longing to be an artist.

And that was my deepest drive.

My family...

Because that is the heart of our soul's calling, is that longing thing that you're talking about.

Yes, yes.

Yes. And I knew that I basically had to be an actor or I would die. I had such a, yes, such a deep drive to become an actor. And at the same time, you know, I grew up as a member of the Baha'i faith and my parents are Baha'is and we lived over by the Baha'i House of Worship there in Wilmet, that beautiful temple on Lake Michigan. Yes, in the Baha'i Temple, yes. I've passed that temple and I've wondered what, because it's so beautiful, and there's this sort of mystery surrounding it if you've never been in and don't know anything about the Baha'i faith. What is that, the Baha'i faith? Well, another excellent question. First of all, I want to say that had you come in the summer of 1984 to the Baha'i House

of Worship in Wilhelmette, Illinois, you would have seen young Rain Wilson in a security

guard uniform, patrolling the grounds.

That's what you were doing?

And I was really intimidating, because I was probably about 154 pounds at the time, and

six foot two, gawky, acne bespeckled,

biosphere.

I was a fierce.

Fears security guard, yeah.

No, the Baha'i faith is, and it's always difficult to sum up a kind of a world religion

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