by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 8, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Would you feel sad if you realized life is nothing but experience? Through my window I watch a swallow feeding in the air. The sky is overcast. In the corner of my eyes, the male cat that shares this apartment with me gets out of...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 5, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘You’re in denial’, whispers the mind. (I know that argumentation very well.) ‘You’re just selfish and naive’ is another one of its popular lines. They used to make me cringe, those judgements, the objections, the mental moral whipping. The personal mind having a ball...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 12, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality
I’m sorry. Not because I did something wrong, not because I’m ashamed of my actions, but because I respect my humanness, and being sorry is an important part of that. I’m not sorry for making a mistake or seeing things the wrong way or acting out my mood or reacting...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 10, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
Something holds it all. The pain and the pleasure, the rise and the fall. The mornings, the evenings. The dreams and the doubts. Something holds it all. The rain and the sun and the tired leaves falling in the autumn. The tears you cry and taste when they reach the...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 6, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
One of the things I didn’t know: Silence is not the absence of noise. Silence is the neutral, vibrant stage of each and every human play. The modest background for all temporary happenings. Never changing, hardly ever noticed. If life would be a large string of...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jun 5, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
It feels like I’m marinating in love. Like I’m carrying a thick layer of exquisite laziness. High on life. Yeah. Drinking coffee feels good. Coaching feels fantastic. Listening to someone, or something, is a mysterious experience. And walking down the street feels...
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