by Marnix Pauwels | aug 20, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
Oh man. I just realized how much I’ve neglected a very important part of my emotional life. I’ve been SO afraid of sliding down the path of mental pain again, of going down the rabbit hole of despair, that I haven’t really been able to be with the feelings and...
by Marnix Pauwels | aug 8, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘You already have everything you need.’ Or ‘You don’t have to find yourself, because it is who you are.’ Or ‘Trying to find happiness is the only thing that gets in the way of being happy.’ I’m sure you know those quotes. And, like me, you’ve probably tasted them on...
by Marnix Pauwels | aug 4, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
There are many things I don’t like, and that’s fine. I hardly have any problems with my simple human preferences and opinions, the things that show up in daily life when you get to interact with other people and food and gadgets and music and films and cars and other...
by Marnix Pauwels | aug 2, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
This is what happens sometimes: I write blogs or poems and post them on social platforms. I record videos and share them online. I invite people to spend some time with me, for free. I invest a lot of my time and energy and imagination in stuff that I just give away....
by Marnix Pauwels | aug 1, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
When I closed my eyes for a couple of minutes to do a haphazard meditation (I don’t meditate, normally) while listening to a guy in a YouTube-video, I once again realized how much thinking we have going on. It’s incessant. Like a slideshow from hell. I saw one image...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 28, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
When you know you’re alive, you have everything you need to know. That’s all. Being awake is just that: The simple, basic knowing of aliveness. A delicate energetic hum. So sweet, so obvious. And SO powerful that it doesn’t need to prove its existence. Closer than...
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