by Marnix Pauwels | nov 18, 2019 | Anxiety, Awakening, English, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
Every proposal I came up with over the last weeks, was denied or frozen. All of them. Answers ranged from ‘just too expensive’ to ‘oh I haven’t got that amount of money laying around at this moment in time’ to ‘let me think about it a few weeks longer’ to ‘well, it...
by Marnix Pauwels | nov 14, 2019 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
The last time I checked, I wasn’t braindead. Or stupid. Yet every piece of writing I do is an exercise in redundancy. I know that today’s pain will be gone tomorrow. I am well aware of the fact that the problems that deeply haunt me right now, will look like old...
by Marnix Pauwels | nov 14, 2019 | Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sometimes being passive-aggressive feels SO good. Like having sex, or candy, when you’re not allowed to. It’s during the moments when I tend to drift towards hating the world and blaming circumstances and building dark cases for how...
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...
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