by Marnix Pauwels | sep 27, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘Everything is perfect’ we say, cheerfully. ‘Every situation and every feeling and every outcome is totally perfect!’, we hear ourselves proclaim, with shiny spiritual smiles on our tired faces. And we really want to believe that. We desperately need it to work. But...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 18, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
I’m not doing anything. I’m not going anywhere. I watch tiny house videos on YouTube. Or cats that are best friends with dogs, or otters, or foxes. I lose myself in hours and hours of talks by Eckhart Tolle or Adyashanti. I just sit in bed with my eyes closed. I go to...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 10, 2020 | Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
And then all of a sudden you realize: ‘People are lucky to work with me!’ You’ve been a struggling coach or therapist or change worker or whatever for years, and you have been constantly fighting for clients and this ever elusive juicy (or even just healthy) revenue...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 8, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
People are always right. When I started to post on Facebook a year or two ago after having been away from the platform for many years, it didn’t take long before I used a recognizable form where every sentence starts on a new rule. Like this. Sentences exist and stand...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 7, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
You can start with nothing. More accurately: you ALWAYS start with nothing. Did you know that? Every piece of text I ever wrote, every advertising concept that was ever conceived through me, every chat I ever had, started with nothing. Every relationship I’ve been a...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 6, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
I feel raw. Emotionally. Raw is good. It’s real. I feel like a tired old punching bag at the end of a busy day in the gym. I’m hurting, and I’m healing. And they are all there. Sadness is there. Confusion is there. Compassion is there. Rage is there, shame...
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