by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 23, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
One of the most amazing things about being a human is that we can deeply realize our utter insignificance, our smallness, AND forget about it a minute later. Living on a planet in a galaxy that is part of countless other galaxies, our scale is almost negligible, our...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 23, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I have tried everything. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t (which probably means that it doesn’t really work). The meditation. The journaling. The hoping. The praying. The fighting. The begging. The working my ass off. The sitting on my hands. The grinding. The...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 23, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
Addictions can ruin your life. They can turn you into a mindless monster, even. But they are not a problem. Or THE problem. Addictions are a fairly helpful solution to something deeper, and that is your unwillingness to be with discomfort. Really happy and fulfilled...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 22, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
My parents fucked me up. Not because they were bad people, but because they were people. (Or are, kinda: my mom died in 2020 but my dad is still alive while Alzheimer’s is slowly and eagerly eating away his sanity.) They tried, and they obviously wanted to do a good...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 18, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
Doing your best is EXACTLY enough. And it’s actually the only thing we’re capable of, ever. You can’t do MORE than your best (because that is automatically your best for that moment) or LESS than your best (for the same reason). So we can actually...
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