{"id":46812,"date":"2022-05-20T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46812"},"modified":"2022-05-20T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:25:13","slug":"trying-to-convince-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/05\/20\/trying-to-convince-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to convince the world."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And then one day you stumble across the secret of happiness.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It works!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s either called the 3 Principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dzogchen mediation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Non-duality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taoism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayahuasca or shamanic wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever it is that Eckhart Tolle talks about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or Mooji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or Wim Hof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But no matter what it\u2019s called or who\u2019s presenting it, you can\u2019t keep it to yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have to share it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You HAVE TO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if it works for you (and it most certainly seems that way), it will probably work for other people too, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You feel the whole world deserves your enlightening experience, your changes, your wellbeing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that\u2019s one reason to constantly talk about it, whether it\u2019s really appropriate or logical for the situation or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there\u2019s another one, another drive that makes you shove this new, amazing philosophy into each and every conversation you bump into, on- AND offline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s still fairly new to you, you\u2019re not really owning it yet, but you want to solidify it, make it more real and powerful, so you\u2019re constantly throwing it out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s where the idea of confronting and convincing other people can come from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting ferociously mixed up in discussions and debates, letting others know they have it all wrong because you\u2019ve figured out how it REALLY works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using other people\u2019s \u2018ignorant\u2019 posts to make your point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claiming the truth, somehow, again and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always looking to have the final word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a weird mix of fragility and superiority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s like you\u2019re fighting for complete recognition of this new thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if stuff makes total, authentic, simple sense to you, the whole urge to keep proving it falls away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You just know, you\u2019re fine, and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess I\u2019ve only realized this three minutes ago \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by @wlll, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And then one day you stumble across the secret of happiness. It works! It\u2019s either called the 3 Principles. Dzogchen mediation. Non-duality. The Work. Taoism. Ayahuasca or shamanic wisdom. Whatever it is that Eckhart Tolle talks about. Or Mooji. Or Wim Hof. But no matter what it\u2019s called or who\u2019s presenting it, you can\u2019t keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,113,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46814,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46812\/revisions\/46814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}