by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 14, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Most people want you to have opinions. It’s an important part of social interaction. If you agree with others, it feels safe, it validates and enforces who you think you are. And if you disagree, it can either feel unsafe, or it can give you some sort of personal...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 12, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
When I quit drinking after decades of severe abuse, I thought life would become easy. Boy was I wrong -though not completely. Eventually, yes, eventually life became easier, sweeter, more joyful, and simple. Eventually. But not at first. The thing with drinking or any...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 12, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Do it for you, just for you, everything. Even if you love the idea of helping other people out and make that one of your prime goals in life, do it for yourself anyway. Always. Because here’s the thing: if you don’t learn to do shit just for the doing and the creating...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 12, 2022 | Anxiety, Awakening, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
‘I’m afraid I’m not living my best life.’ Or most successful life. Or ultimately fulfilling life. Or most adventurous. Those are mental platitudes that open up worlds of anxiety. The fear we can feel around being in the wrong place doing the wrong thing can be...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 10, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
This is gonna sound all over the place, but… Sometimes I have insights that are SO big, that I can only kinda smell them. Or sense them. Or feel them, even though I have no idea with what, or how. I know them, but I don’t know what I know yet. It’s like...
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