by Marnix Pauwels | nov 3, 2019 | Anxiety, Awakening, Insights, Love, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
Je komt binnen met een hoofd vol, een leven vol. De zorgen trekken je gezicht samen, je ogen staan serieus. Je lijf is verkrampt, met hoge schouders, schichtig en gespannen. En je bent moe, zo moe. Dus ik zeg ‘Ga even zitten’, en ik vraag je: Wie ben je? Wat blijft er...
by Marnix Pauwels | okt 12, 2019 | Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
When people tell me how amazing and brave and strong it is that I quit drinking and using drugs after more than 25 years of abuse, I feel quite uncomfortable. Although I was there when it happened, and although I was the one suffering through a year of agony and...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 28, 2019 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘I know how you feel’, we say. But we don’t. We know how WE feel, at least approximately, or we remember how WE felt when we went through an experience with the same name. I will never ever know how you feel. And yet it comforts us, this shared sense or common idea of...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 26, 2019 | Awakening, English, Insights, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality
Patience is the miracle trait with lousy PR. It’s extremely unsexy, but I’m dead serious. If there’s one thing you should cultivate, it’s ‘the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious’. Patience means...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 26, 2019 | Awakening, English, Insights, Spirituality
You can’t see what you don’t see. It’s bloody obvious, but being fundamentally aware of it changes everything. There’s no way I can step outside my worldview and borrow yours for a while. There’s no way I can observe the planet with different eyes than mine (eyes that...
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