by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 20, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
The blinking cursor. Dread, in pixels. A white, empty page, waiting for brilliance. Or is it? SO many people have confided in me their deep wish to write a book. And when I ask them ‘what’s the problem, why haven’t you started yet?’, they tell me about how hard it is,...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 19, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
Sadness is beautiful. It’s also sad, of course, but what a precious gift! Feeling lost, feeling lonely. Feeling a heavy ball of tears in your throat. All these shades of pain. Looking out of the window, seeing nothing but your own inside. Shoulders down, eyes closed....
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 12, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality
I’m sorry. Not because I did something wrong, not because I’m ashamed of my actions, but because I respect my humanness, and being sorry is an important part of that. I’m not sorry for making a mistake or seeing things the wrong way or acting out my mood or reacting...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 10, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
Something holds it all. The pain and the pleasure, the rise and the fall. The mornings, the evenings. The dreams and the doubts. Something holds it all. The rain and the sun and the tired leaves falling in the autumn. The tears you cry and taste when they reach the...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 6, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
One of the things I didn’t know: Silence is not the absence of noise. Silence is the neutral, vibrant stage of each and every human play. The modest background for all temporary happenings. Never changing, hardly ever noticed. If life would be a large string of...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 5, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
It feels like I’m marinating in love. Like I’m carrying a thick layer of exquisite laziness. High on life. Yeah. Drinking coffee feels good. Coaching feels fantastic. Listening to someone, or something, is a mysterious experience. And walking down the street feels...
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