by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 20, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
For a long time, I thought life would become much better if I’d just accepted myself. Accept the good, the bad, and the everything in between. The whole damn thing. It sounded pretty profound and seemingly healing, but there has always been one big problem: It...
by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 19, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I hear this over and over again, people saying “I wouldn’t want to be happy all the time.” The reasoning behind this popular conclusion is always the same: if I was happy all the time, it would become boring, and stale, and I’d get used to it. Which makes sense. It...
by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 15, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
One of the reasons I have pulled back a lot from social media, is my highly ingrained urge to be right. To have the right answers. To know what stuff means and tell people. To be the ultimate judge, the fact factory. To know it all. And to deeply believe that is true....
by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 6, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Maybe. Maybe I have been devastated so often by the ending of relationships, and the agonizing aftermath, that I covered up my heart. And ignored that simple fact. Maybe. Maybe I was SO afraid to fully love just for the sake of it, that I’d rather pretend I don’t need...
by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 6, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
1% happiness. That was all. And it was probably exaggerated too. 1% happiness, probably less. Yeah, for sure. Less than that. For decades. How was I even able to live in that unforsaken place? What kept me going? And what changed? Well, an obvious answer would be...
by Marnix Pauwels | mrt 4, 2022 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I love spring. I love spring SO MUCH that I am happy it’s not there yet. I love loving spring, I love thinking about the feeling of spring, I love feeling the feeling of spring, when the world comes alive, the temperature slowly starts to rise, and more and more light...
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