by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 5, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘You’re in denial’, whispers the mind. (I know that argumentation very well.) ‘You’re just selfish and naive’ is another one of its popular lines. They used to make me cringe, those judgements, the objections, the mental moral whipping. The personal mind having a ball...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 28, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
What if you just make up your own rules? What if you color your own life, exactly the way you like it right now? What if you take the last cookie and don’t offer it to somebody else and enjoy that? What if a life well lived is not a universal but a truly personal...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 20, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
The blinking cursor. Dread, in pixels. A white, empty page, waiting for brilliance. Or is it? SO many people have confided in me their deep wish to write a book. And when I ask them ‘what’s the problem, why haven’t you started yet?’, they tell me about how hard it is,...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 19, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
Sadness is beautiful. It’s also sad, of course, but what a precious gift! Feeling lost, feeling lonely. Feeling a heavy ball of tears in your throat. All these shades of pain. Looking out of the window, seeing nothing but your own inside. Shoulders down, eyes closed....
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 12, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality
I’m sorry. Not because I did something wrong, not because I’m ashamed of my actions, but because I respect my humanness, and being sorry is an important part of that. I’m not sorry for making a mistake or seeing things the wrong way or acting out my mood or reacting...
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