by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 8, 2022 | English, Insights, Love, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Typically Me
“It’s essential to know what’s going on in the world”, my dad used to say. “It defines who you are as a human being!” So he taught us to read multiple newspapers, watch the news, and be interested in politics, culture, and history. Study, remember, reflect, and...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 7, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
For people who have a hard time believing in paradoxes: we live in one. Literally constantly. Time is a paradox. It doesn’t really exist (because it’s always now), but we can experience it just the same. Time isn’t, AND it is. Paradox. Easy-peasy. Does it matter to...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 7, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
How can a world that only exists in your head, feel like a world that mostly exists on the outside? Knowing that our brains create what we see (and do an amazing but still pretty sloppy job) doesn’t change the experience. It’s still like we’re looking at the world out...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 7, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
You think it goes too slow. That it takes too much time. That it should have happened by now. That you’ve worked hard enough, and showed enough patience. And that it’s unfair. You think you must be doing something wrong. You’re overlooking something....
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 6, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
Right now somewhere on the planet there’s a boy throwing a pebble at the sea watching it bounce and bounce and bounce until it’s gone. Just imagine all the worlds outside of yours. Just imagine. — (Photo by @hyw1, for...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 6, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
We look for safety and stability in a world of endless change. Of course, we fuck it up. Of course, it doesn’t work. And of course, we’ll look for a new solution, THE solution, many times, in the exact same place. But you can’t find order and stability in the world of...
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