by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 20, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
If you don’t know who you really are in a metaphysical sense, emotions and worries will always trump the intellect. You can have it all figured out, rationally, intellectually, logically, academically, but there’s a huge grey area where we get lost again and again...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 17, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
You are born without the need for status symbols. A boob and a clean diaper and Bob’s your uncle. Life is fine without shiny expensive stuff for a couple of years, but then people start to teach you things, and when you go out into the world you learn that...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 17, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
Today I censored myself. I don’t do it very often, but I deleted a story an hour after posting it. It wasn’t because of specific responses, and it also wasn’t because I changed my mind about the topic, but I just realized in the aftermath of publishing that I don’t...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 15, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
It’s not you. I know you think it is, but it’s not. I know you think you’re the only one who lacks the confidence and the success and the ideas and the money and the courage and the dream life. That it’s you and JUST YOU who’s missing out. But it’s not. As a coach, I...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 15, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
Maybe I should live in the woods and write blogs all day long. Maybe I should become the next anti-guru. Maybe I should wash windows in Bangalore. Maybe I should change my name to MaybeIShould. Maybe. Because: who knows? How do we know ANYTHING for sure? Before I...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 15, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
Let’s talk about options. Not just two, or five, but millions and millions. All the options in the world, now and forever. So what about them? They didn’t exist, previously. I never really had them (or even thought that it would be a possibility), before I cleaned up...
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