Turn Spiritual Emptiness Into Real Purpose | Rainn Wilson

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Rainn Wilson got everything he thought he wanted when he moved to New York City to chase acting at 20, a beautiful girlfriend, a career taking off, total freedom from the Baha'i faith he grew up in. Instead he found himself wide awake at 3am asking what his life was even about, a crisis that sent him reading the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Dhammapada in search of an answer, and eventually planted the seed for SoulPancake.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:11.4	When I moved to New York City, basically, long story short, I didn't want any morality in my life.
0:19.1	Do you want any morality?
0:20.3	I didn't want morale.
0:21.1	I didn't want to, the Baha'i faith has, like all religious faiths, it has some moral
0:26.2	laws.
0:27.1	Some of which are very, very challenging in the modern world.
0:33.1	So like premarital sex.
0:35.5	Right.
0:36.0	So that was one that I really struggled with.
0:40.1	And I was having sex with my girlfriend and feeling really guilty about it.
0:43.9	Yeah.
0:44.4	Even though in the by-faith, it's not, there isn't really a concept of, like, sin and hell and damnation or anything like that.
0:50.2	It's like forbidden.
0:51.1	It's like a law.
0:52.0	It's like a rule.
0:53.1	It's a rule.
0:55.0	However, I would say forbidden is a too strong a word.
0:59.0	It's a rule that helps one grow spiritually and helps one's soul, not our body, but helps
1:08.3	our soul become more whole and spiritual and enriched and evolve.
1:14.6	That's the idea behind the laws.
1:18.1	Drugs and alcohol are something that Baha'is refrain from because Baha'is believe that
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