by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 26, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
I woke up like this. Excitement tickles my bones and my spine, like dry rain in a fairy tale. I drive my Vespa leisurely through Amsterdam, and the world is whistling a silent song of gentle love. Thinking has dropped to a soft soothing murmur, and the city is my...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 25, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I constantly see things I didn’t see before. Like looking at a work of art that has been thoroughly cleaned, or watching it from a fresh perspective, or with a new appreciation. I guess it has always been that way, at least this...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 20, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
If you feel like shit, don’t look in the direction of the shit for answers. I know, because this is what I’ve been doing most of my life, and it created countless smelly, dark and anxious days (and nights). And so much fucking confusion. Whenever I felt bad, I tried...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 8, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Would you feel sad if you realized life is nothing but experience? Through my window I watch a swallow feeding in the air. The sky is overcast. In the corner of my eyes, the male cat that shares this apartment with me gets out of...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 5, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘You’re in denial’, whispers the mind. (I know that argumentation very well.) ‘You’re just selfish and naive’ is another one of its popular lines. They used to make me cringe, those judgements, the objections, the mental moral whipping. The personal mind having a ball...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 28, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
What if you just make up your own rules? What if you color your own life, exactly the way you like it right now? What if you take the last cookie and don’t offer it to somebody else and enjoy that? What if a life well lived is not a universal but a truly personal...
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