by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 8, 2022 | English, Insights, Love, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Typically Me
“It’s essential to know what’s going on in the world”, my dad used to say. “It defines who you are as a human being!” So he taught us to read multiple newspapers, watch the news, and be interested in politics, culture, and history. Study, remember, reflect, and...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 7, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
How can a world that only exists in your head, feel like a world that mostly exists on the outside? Knowing that our brains create what we see (and do an amazing but still pretty sloppy job) doesn’t change the experience. It’s still like we’re looking at the world out...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 6, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
We look for safety and stability in a world of endless change. Of course, we fuck it up. Of course, it doesn’t work. And of course, we’ll look for a new solution, THE solution, many times, in the exact same place. But you can’t find order and stability in the world of...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 5, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Parenting, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
You can’t think yourself out of a depression. You can’t think yourself into love. You can’t think yourself out of worry. You can’t think yourself into peace, or happiness. But you still try, right? Thinking, thinking, thinking. Would you say that’s a deliberate...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 5, 2022 | Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
Rationality is a religion. We might not consider it that way, but it is. It’s the preferred belief system of the mind. Solidly built around the mind. In honor of the mind. And constantly relying on the mind. A perfect, closed-loop. A fear-based phenomenon....
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 5, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
What is the most overlooked thing in our existence? The thing that is as obvious as obvious can be, but remains obscured most of the time? It’s aliveness. It’s that which generates whatever lives. The power of life itself, and the realization of that. And we simply...
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