by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 21, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
Have you ever tried feeling good, just because it feels good? This was one of those obvious realizations that really, really, REALLY sank in for me, recently. Like many people, I had a lot of objections towards ideas like these, because my mind simply wouldn’t have...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 19, 2021 | Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality, Typically Me
I am not the only ‘me’ in the world. In fact: all the human pawns in my life are me’s themselves. How beautiful and magical and difficult and crazy to realize that every person we will ever meet has their own rich experience of life, an immersive 360 thing that is...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 18, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Love, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
And then the storm had died. When I woke up this Saturday morning around 10, I knew it was gone. The days of depression that had colored my life a deep and ominous black for a little while, a cruel remembering of past habitual dwellings, were behind me. I just knew....
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 16, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, Coaching, English, Insights, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Spirituality
Here’s a nifty little trick: Instead of trying to surrender completely, like in a grand and dramatic spiritual gesture, just back off in the moment. Just now. And in the next now. There’s tremendous power in being aware of the little traps and endless riddles and...
by Marnix Pauwels | Jul 16, 2021 | Addiction, Awakening, English, Insights, Personal, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality
In my first book, published in 2016, I dedicated a complete chapter to free will. Or the non-existence of it, to be precise. I was still in my post-nonduality ‘There Is Only Oneness’-vibe, and somehow I felt the need to prove and assert that free will is not real. And...
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