by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 21, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Have you ever tried feeling good, just because it feels good? This was one of those obvious realizations that really, really, REALLY sank in for me, recently. Like many people, I had a lot of objections towards ideas like these, because my mind simply wouldn’t have...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 18, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
And then the storm had died. When I woke up this Saturday morning around 10, I knew it was gone. The days of depression that had colored my life a deep and ominous black for a little while, a cruel remembering of past habitual dwellings, were behind me. I just knew....
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 16, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality
Here’s a nifty little trick: Instead of trying to surrender completely, like in a grand and dramatic spiritual gesture, just back off in the moment. Just now. And in the next now. There’s tremendous power in being aware of the little traps and endless riddles and...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 16, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
In my first book, published in 2016, I dedicated a complete chapter to free will. Or the non-existence of it, to be precise. I was still in my post-nonduality ‘There Is Only Oneness’-vibe, and somehow I felt the need to prove and assert that free will is not real. And...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 15, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality, Typically Me
At least once a week, I get an email with this particular question. People I don’t know write to me that their life is completely down the drain, that they have been anxious for twenty years, or that they have felt insecure ever since they were a kid, and they...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 15, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
What if you were a coach and didn’t promise anything? Like: nothing? No success. No happiness. No peace of mind. No clarity. Not the end of suffering. No new romantic relationship. No new confidence. None of that. On your modest website it would simply say ‘Well,...
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