by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 3, 2022 | Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I was thinking about how my posts land differently, with different readers. It seems I have a sweet little group of people who appreciate almost everything I write (cool, for sure!), and it’s my educated guess that there are also many people who read it, close the...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 3, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
This was supposed to be a post on Buddhism. Its origin, the guy, what it’s about, the rules and the steps to become enlightened. What you should do and stop doing, as a Buddhist. All that stuff. Or at least a bunch of that stuff. But when I explored it online, I got...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 3, 2022 | Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
‘Well, you shouldn’t make assumptions’, people sometimes say. That’s like telling someone ‘You shouldn’t have thoughts’. Sure. Why don’t you stop them right now, stop their appearance, as long as you feel like? For an hour, an afternoon? Maybe a week? Sure. You know...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 2, 2022 | English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I’m a people pleaser. In a way, at least. Now I’m not gonna serve you some popular psychology crap about what it means and I’m also not going to tell you how I overcame it. Because I didn’t, and there’s a good reason for it. I like pleasing people. In a fairly...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 30, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Words are cool. Quite helpful things. Words are pointers, communication tools, and ways to somewhat capture the indescribable nature of life. So they’re pretty amazing. But they’re not the things they refer to. And we forget that all the time. Is that a big deal?...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 30, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Our apparent incapacity of loving life exactly as it is, no matter what, is both essential and torturous. Essential because, well, because it’s there, which needs no further reasoning. And if you want one: it’s also essential because it seems to be an amazingly...
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