by Marnix Pauwels | mei 28, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
While I was watching something on YouTube, I realized: This is a story within a story. There’s the story of the man in the video. And there’s the story of me, the man watching the man in the video. So how many stories are we talking about? And what if I look outside...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 27, 2022 | Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
On YouTube, I saw a woman talk about the power of words. The words we use when we talk, but especially the words on the inside. The unconscious words. The words the universe doesn’t really like, or responds to in a detrimental way. The words that eat away at our...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 26, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
Sometimes it helps, a bit. But not much. And not constantly. Sometimes it helps to think about all the people who are worse off, who are suffering more, living under really bad circumstances. Sometimes, but most of the time it doesn’t. Sometimes it helps to reflect on...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 24, 2022 | Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I talk about spirituality all day long. Even though I don’t really know what it refers to. Maybe it’s about what nobody will ever see but everybody can feel. That which scientists can try to find and prove or dismiss forever, while it’s willingly and joyfully looking...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 24, 2022 | English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
Once I was in bed with a very smart and beautiful woman who called me ’the most intelligent man I’ve ever met’. True story! She’s now married to some other dude. (Yeah, so much for sapiosexuality, I guess.) I was just reflecting on that. What...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 24, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
I’m standing on my balcony. Watching stuff. Hearing things. And I realize: Looking at the world, dividing it into things we recognize and have given a name, doesn’t mean we understand it. At all. I see what we call trees, bushes, a neighbor washing her window, a...
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