by Marnix Pauwels | feb 6, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘Do nothing.’ It’s an idea that derives from various spiritual and religious philosophies. And it absolutely fucks up the Western mind. How do you do nothing? Where do you start? How much nothing do you do while doing nothing? Well, it’s a fairly subtle thing. It’s...
by Marnix Pauwels | feb 6, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Spirituality
I love words. They might be a simplified and conceptual way to find our way in the world we live in, but they can also penetrate our deepest depths and inject us with wisdom. I love how words can come together and explode with meaning. And I also love how that meaning...
by Marnix Pauwels | feb 4, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘The only pain there is, is the pain we experience right now.’ This is very obvious to me, but I try not to get blinded by it. (And I definitely don’t use it as a stick to hit people who are already hurting.) At least not anymore. Dogmas are often...
by Marnix Pauwels | feb 3, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
People always look for certainty and security. We just can’t help it. Or can we? A guy emailed me today to compliment me on the first book I wrote (which was published in 2015), but he also criticized me because of my pretty negative views on mainstream mental health...
by Marnix Pauwels | feb 2, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
‘Yeah, if only life was so simple!’, people often say to me. I hear it whenever I talk or write about spirituality and the human experience and other yummy abstract stuff like that. It’s like I’m criticized for my naivety, my lack of judgment and morality, or the...
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