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#91

“For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow ‘within’ and disclose our ‘true’ self. ("Everybody his story")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: disclose, discovery-of-oneself, fear-of-self, marrow, overcome, story, true-self, within

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#92

“We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ("Everybody his story")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: assess, at-the-end, construction, plot, story, value

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#93

“When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience does not endure instant gratification, though, and self-knowledge may take a lifetime. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: allow, endure, gratification, instant, learn, listen, others, ourselves, patience, self-knowledge, show, side, take-a-life, take-time

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#94

“Some may be more fortunate than others, and many might feel more like second bests, not sure how to survive. Not seeing the light on their path, they keep on living with fear. Albeit social security systems may be supportive existential anxiety subsists, crushing their identity. Only by converting 'fear' into a challenge, we can grit our teeth, strengthen resilience, and brighten up the dimness in our minds. ("A new life with Schengen"")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: challenge, existential-anxiety, fear, fortunate, identity, light, resilience, schengen, second-best, survive

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#95

“When some name dropping and eye-rolling chin-strokers are trying to snow us under with an avalanche of swollen narratives, we must never resist puncturing the blown-up balloons of their twisted too-good-to-be-true stories. The sound of bursting balloons may, then, ring like ravishing music in the ears.("Could the milk man be the devil?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: balloons, burst, chin-strokers, eye-rolling, milkman, name-dropping, punctured, swollen-narative, to-good-to-be-true-stories, to-snow-under

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#96

“When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. (“Not without the past”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: anchor-points, childhood, consciousness, core, fight, give-back, hard-time, haven, illusions, innocence, maze, mind, not-without, past, thinking

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#97

“Why some people feel more comfortable in the “margin” of society, may simply be that it imparts them more breathing space, shores up their identity, embodies a gateway to self-determination, and confers them a sense of sovereignty, allowing more time for stressless apprehension and thoughtful reflection. (“If he doesn't play ball » )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: apprehension, breathing-space, identity, marginalization, reflection, self-determination, society, sovereignty, stressless, thoughtful

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#98

“Let us not focus on the chink in the canvas of the darkness but look at the light piercing through it. ("The final decision" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: canvas, chink, darkness, final-decision, focus, light, pierce

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#99

“When a river of tears and a load of grief keep on flowing from a mountain of broken trust, feelings may relentlessly besiege the stronghold of our flesh. Only a timely adjustment with our mental compass can shore up confidence, resilience; and reliance. ("Taken for a ride")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: broken-trust, confidence, feelings, flesh, grief, load, mental-compass, reliance, resilience, river-of-tears

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#100

“Stars in the sky will always glitter if we are not blinded by the erosion of our emotions, or hampered by our lack of interest and awareness. ("Living life as a poem")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, blinded, emotions, erosion, glitter, hampered, lack-of-interest, poem, sky, stars

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#101

“The global Corona conflict has rammed people into trenches. Invisible, lethal, viral weapons have replaced visible whistling bullets and thunderous bombs. As we don’t know who is calling the shots, it is difficult to tell how we can call a truce with imperceptible enemies. (“What do they hide behind their dirty aprons”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aprons, bombs, bullets, call-the-truce, coronavirus, invisible, lethal, trenches, viral, who-is-calling-the-shots

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#102

“We can only speak true, talk straight and be outspoken, if we prove to be able to decrypt the veiled elements of the puzzle inside and outside our environment; describe the intricacies of the social constructions and the emotional sensitivities; analyze the feasible contingencies and practical options; arbitrate and come to sensible conclusions; and invent pragmatic proposals and equitable solutions. (“Mutilated memory”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: arbitrate, decrypt, environment, memory, mutulated, outspoken, pragmatic, sensitivities, speak-true

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#103

“When love slides into the edge of unconcern or vanishes in the cornfield of forgetfulness, our mind must loosen the knots that tie us to the barren fields of a lost past. ("The Internet rescue")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: barren-fields, cornfield, forgetfulness, internet, knots, loosen, love, mind, past, unconcern

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#104

“Since many are confronted with an eerie void, lacking essential qualities in their daily repertoire and suffering from missing out on a second or third dimension in their lives, they feel disjointed and disgruntled, unconsciously struggling to find out a kind of strategy to “construct” or to "reconstruct" their living. (“Bread and Satellite”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bread, construct, disgruntled, disjointed, eerie-void, missing-out, reconstruct, repertoire, second-dimension, strategy

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#105

“When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. ("Could the milk man be the devil?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blatant, garland, hideous, irrelevance, lifestyle, milkman, reality, shine, underlying-cracks, vanity

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#106

“Relatedness and interaction between individuals may have lost their drive and liability. In our contemporary “brave new world", traditional trust or generous receptiveness has been replaced by ‘security devices’ and ‘safety gadgets’. (“Could we leave the door unlocked?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brave-new-world, door, interaction, liability, receptiveness, relatedness, safety-gadgets, security-devices, traditional, trust

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#107

“Love may be an inexhaustible well of inspiration for writing loads of letters until the wind of unresponsiveness blows frostiness into the fold of expectations.( "Poste restante" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: expectations, frostiness, inexhaustible, inspiration, love, poste-restante, unresponsiveness, writing-letters

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#108

“Never being on the shortlist of people’s attention may arouse a sensation of desolation but may, all together, be an expectant challenge to excel and exceed oneself, as it can inflame the will to extract unsuspected power from the inner self, never to give up and to hit the ground and run…ever since life may offer an astounding window of opportunity to assert oneself in a land of contention. ("Not on the shortlist" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: challenge, desolation, excel, expectant, hit-the-ground-and-run, inflame, inner-self, shortlist, window-of-opportunity

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#109

“Let's soar on the wings of liberty and trace the perfect angle to tackle the vagaries of life. What can happiness be else than covering freedom, creating harmony, and finding peace with oneself? ('"Poste Restante")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: angle, freedom, happiness, harmony, liberty, peace-with-yourself, poste-restante, soar, vagaries-of-life, wings

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#110

“By out-talking or bad-mouthing people, some get hoisted by their own petard, ultimately. When their sense of shame makes them crawl back to the open, they can only recover through a convalescing remedy of humbleness. After an exhausting journey throughout the scorching desert of disgrace, they come to know how to be reborn from themselves. This rebirth allows them to recognize their true selves and to become relatable again. ("Waiting for emancipation")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bad-mouthing, convalescence, disgrace, hoisted, out-talking, petard, reborn, relatable, shame, true-self

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#111

“Above all, let us not ourselves be pinned down by ill-intentioned creatures with incongruent and disputable forethoughts, trying to submit us to devious manipulations and hinder us from breaking free from contrived mental bondage. ("Finally things had lost their weightiness")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bondage, contrive, disputable, forethought, ill-intention, incongruent, manipulation, pin-down, weightiness

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#112

“Let people embrace their elected god or let them create one if they feel inspired. In case some want to share, it may be fun but if they don’t fancy the concept, they should be free to recant. (“Is Heaven a place in the sky?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: concept, create, elected, embrace, fancy, god, heaven, inspired, share, sky

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#113

“Lest us piggyback off the inspiration of every lucky instant if we wish to light up the dim specks of our days and allay the thunderous crashing of destiny.( "Just for a moment")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: allay, crashing, destiny, inspiration, light-up, lucky-instant, moment, piggyback, speck, thunderous

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#114

“When the time has come to confront the hard truth, we may have to rewire our brains to ensure the healing from subversive mental barbs of aching incidents. ("Lost dreams")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aching, barbs, brains, ensure, hard-truth, healing, lost-dreams, mental, rewire, subversive

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#115

“If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in authentic life challenges. ("Not on the shortlist")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: authentic-life, belonging, ever-changing, feeling, freeze-frame, get-rid-of, habits, hampering, inhibiting, life-challenges, mind, take-part-in, weird, world

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#116

“If the reality of our life has become an unsettling arabesque puzzle and we still want to add more filigree embroidery to it, we might, some day, expect to stray from the point of recognition, lose the final thread, be expelled to the edge of delusion and forced to dance on the brim of chaos. ("Alert. High noon." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: arabesque, chaos, delusion, edge, embroidery, expelled, filigree, high-noon, puzzle, recognition

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#117

“As we walk down the steps to the unchartered rims of our life, we may become aware of unsuspected beacons we have ignored thus far, discover unsolved enigmas of our identity and so get insight into the undisclosed intricacies of our shared environment. ( "Only silence remained" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aware, beacon, enigmas, identity, insight, rim, shared-environment, silence, unchartered

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#118

“Learning to ‘be‘ ( -not the ‘fake being’- ) and learning to ‘be with others’ ( -the heartfelt being -), allows us to ‘be in the world’ and to approach fate with determination, and bend destiny with confidence. ("With confidence »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: be-in-the-world, be-with-others, confidence, destiny, determination, fate, heartfelt, to-be-fake-being

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#119

“We may like to know the relevance of loyalty in an ever-shifting world and comprehend the essence of "commitment" in a rapidly altering relationship. In a frame of the "easy come easy go syndrome” many interpretations are brought to mind like "It was all a misunderstanding" or "I liked what the other did, but at this moment I must recognize he didn't do what I really do like". ("Was it all worthwhile?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: commitment, easy-come-easy-go, essence, ever-shifting, interpretation, like, loyalty, misunderstanding, relationship, syndrome

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#120

“The timeless moments between ‘being in the nick of time’ and ‘missing out’ may captivate our thinking and arouse a spell of time traveling. Those moments may be unsuspected anchor points in our lives, confer an astounding depth to our daily experiences and throw a stunning light on the history of our being. ("All the words he always wanted to tell her." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: anchor-points, depth, in-the-nick-of-time, missing-out, spell, thinking, time-travelling, timeless-moments

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