by Marnix Pauwels | sep 26, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Here’s your friendly reminder. Back away. Don’t fight the voice in your head. Simply back away. Don’t pick up its frantic suggestions, its loud orders, its harsh remarks. Back away. Don’t engage with the panic, the doubts, the judgments, or the predictions. Back away....
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 26, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Yesterday I talked about how I’ve become aware of many processes and habits that were mostly invisible. I wrote about my struggle with envy, how that was once a big, smelly deal, but now starts to dissolve because I catch it the moment it arises, and directly...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 25, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Part of psychological therapy, or therapy in general, is to become aware of behavior that doesn’t suit you, trace it back to its source, and then change it or eradicate it. Something like that. I must say that I don’t even have one powerful example of that process in...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 24, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Arthur Schopenhauer supposedly said: ‘Man can do what he wants, but man can’t want what he wants.’ Fascinating, deep stuff. Now I must say that I hardly know anything about the German philosopher from the 19th century, but historians tend to agree that he was...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 23, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Surrendering. Accepting. Allowing. Being. They all sound pretty good, especially for the tired seeker, the disillusioned alcoholic, or the chronically depressed shell of a person. Lofty, promising goals. Like train stations in the future where you can not only rest,...
by Marnix Pauwels | sep 22, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Everything in life can become a rabbit hole. No matter what it is we fall in love with or become intrigued with, it can devour us and take us into oblivion for as long as we live. It’s just one of those things that add flavor to our existence. There’s really no limit...
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