by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 27, 2020 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
I’m an expert. At least: that’s what the caption said when I appeared on national television, at 8 pm, during primetime news. ‘Marnix Pauwels, Addiction Expert and Coach.’ It was about one and a half year ago, and there was something going on with Apple and smartphone...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 24, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
Can we change whatever we want to change? Or is everything just totally random, a spontaneous evolving, a creation without any direction? I’ve been a fan of both ways of looking at life, alternately. There were times that I’d gathered enough ‘evidence’ to follow one...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 23, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
Can you ruin the day? Can you really waste time? Is it possible to let the minutes slip through your fingers? Is there a better way to spend our lives, or do we ever only spend our lives the way we spend it? I guess you’ve pondered questions like these. I know I did,...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 21, 2020 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
There’s a fat pigeon sitting in a tree behind my house. It’s probably unaware of being a bird, or full-figured. I tend to believe that animals don’t use concepts and descriptions. Sounds obvious, but the implications are strong. What would a world without words look...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jan 19, 2020 | Addiction, Anxiety, Awakening, English, Entrepreneurship, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
The blinking cursor. Dread in pixels. A white, empty page, waiting for brilliance. Or is it? SO many people have confided in me their deep wish to write a book. And when I ask them ‘what’s the problem, why haven’t you started yet?’, they tell me about how hard it is,...
Recente reacties