by Marnix Pauwels | mei 26, 2020 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
You don’t HAVE to feel good. Nor do you need to. Life has space for that. Space for not knowing, for doubts, for fear, for thinking that every day for the rest of your life will be as dark and bad as this one. Life is okay with that, it’s okay with you. Now of course...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 22, 2020 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
The counter on my cross-trainer read ’14:48’ minutes. I was ready to stop. I felt tired and bored and my body was aching. I had no real reasons to proceed any longer, it was certainly not a matter of life and death, and my motivation was completely gone. I slowed...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 21, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
I have no reason to feel sad. But I do. There’s no need to change it (although I’m used to trying, a lot). And I’m not looking for comfort (although I’m writing a blog about this). There’s just sadness happening in my experience. That’s all. But is it? What is so bad...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 16, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
When I tell you I take life exactly the way it is, I’m full of shit. It’s just not true. When I tell you I learned how not to worry, how to stay close to the True Self all the time without losing myself in scary stories, I would be lying. Because sometimes I do, and...
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 15, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
We are always looking for the ‘how’. ‘How do I quit drinking?’ ‘How do I stop being scared?’ ‘How do I know what to choose, and what not?’ ‘How will I be when I take these steps?’ ‘How can I be happy?’ There is not a single piece of action that works for everybody....
by Marnix Pauwels | mei 13, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
You’re not just a brain. You’re not just a father, or a mother. You’re not your career, your car, or your cluelessness. You’re SO much more than what you think about yourself, what you lack, or what you wish for. So much more. You see: calling ourselves a walking...
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