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#91

“The moment the mirror does not recognize us anymore, the cards are no longer in our hands. In effect, we have failed to see to the bottom line of our life story and lost our identity. (“The empty Mirror")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bottom-line, cards, identity, life-story, mirror, moment, recognize

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#92

“When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The twilight of desire " ( “Crépuscule du désir “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: craving, desert, desire, eagerness, mind, passion, twilight, weary

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#93

“When we feel life escapes us and we don’t recognize ourselves anymore, we do well to build a safe haven in our frame of mind before the essence of our being evaporates and the keystones of our mental structure disintegrate. ("Absence of Desire" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: desire, disintegrate, essence, evaporate, frame-of-mind, keystones, life, mental-state, recognize, safe-haven

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#94

“Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ("Living on probation")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, breeze, daily, experience, explore, find-out, flair, free-rein, free-ride, gate, give, indefinite, indistinct, journey, life, living-on-probation, melt-down, non-existence, offer, to-be-or-not-to-be, to-become, ultimate, walk-up-to

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#95

“If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our memory, we can develop a comprehensive pattern of our identity that throws a whirl of light on the secreted framework of our life. ("Labyrinth of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: comprehensive, fly-on-the-wall, framework, identity, labyrinth, memory, mind, pattern, scenario

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#96

“When we crave the touch and the feel of an unfeigned world, we must not waver and put our quest on the back burner, but scratch anxiously the shining shell of a fair-weather world, find out how to discover real values; and foster a candid quality of our desire ("Absence of Desire" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: back-burner, candid, desire, fair-weather, foster, quality, reai-values, shell, shining, touch-and-feel

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#97

“If we only live through the eyes of the others and don’t try to capture the vibration of our own individual experience, we may miss out the beam and brilliance of authenticity that is essential to move forward in life”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: authencity, beam, brilliance, essential, experience, individual, life, miss-out, move-forward, vibration

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#98

“We often fully sense and relish the radiance of happiness only after it is has escaped through the backstage door, stealthily and silently. ("Happy days are back again")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: backstage-door, escape, happiness, radiance, relish, sense, silently, stealthy

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#99

“As emotions may take apart bit by bit the rational blueprints in our imagination, dreams may expose what is veiled in the safe haven of our thoughts and disclose elements, which bring to light some baffling qualities that we might never have presumed ("Only silence remained")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blueprints, disclose, dreams, emotions, imagination, qualities, rational, silence, thoughts

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#100

“Through its creative power, art may trigger approximation, reconciliation and harmonization between individuals and peoples. Through art, beings can meet and exchange their points of view, as it rules out alienation, and arouses chemistry and understanding. By definition, art is universal and helps to cross borders and barriers without prejudice.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: alienation, approximation, art, borders, chemistry, creative, harmonization, reconciliation, understanding

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#101

“Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can “fool people some of the time, but not all of the time”. (“Bribe payers' index »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blur-the-lines, bribe-payers, chopping-block, debilitating, eventually, expecting, facts-and-fables, fake, fool-people, gridlock, imprisoned, inexorable, lies, life, narrative, remain, truth

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#102

“If people challenge the vagaries of life, in a world where conflicting powers are outlining our fate, it may be ill-advised to actuate wrecking high-wire acts without a safety net. If they need a new swing in their reality, they cannot count on sheer luck. Whatever their exploit may be, reflection and action must be ingrained allies, on all accounts.("Ruling the waves" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: action, challenge, conflicting-powers, fate, high-wire-act, luck, reflection, safety-net, swing, vagaries

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#103

“Everybody wants what feels good; and if we wish a symphony of attention from a bunch of caring people and a harmony of happy sounds during our lifetime, we must not act like dark horses, saving up our emotions, but be bountiful to all significant others. ( “Axelle Red “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attention, bountiful, caring-person, dark-horses, emotions, feel-good, happy, harmony, lifetime, significant-other

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#104

“As it has the quality to transmit skills and knowledge, our personal history is a brilliant coach teaching us how to act and play along the meanders of life. While it inhabits our living it comes to be our fellow traveler shielding us from slippery slopes; and sometimes from ourselves. ("Going back to yesterday" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: act-and-play, coach, fellow-traveller, inhabit, life, meander, personal-history, skills-and-knowledge, slippery-slope

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#105

“Nonsense can be an ingenious architect of sense, as it may turn things upside down and, so doing, sharpen our perception, stir our imagination, clear our mind and refine our judgment. Like poetry might interlock with science, and emotion with intellect, so are sense and nonsense relentlessly interacting and this interplay enriches the filigree of our thinking pattern. (“Drunken ship” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: drunken-ship, emotion, fiigree, imagination, interacting, interplay, nonsense, perception, sense, thinking-pattern

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#106

“As many overrate the allowable bearing capacity of their love commitment, they may also misjudge the consequences of the steps they take. Measuring is knowing, indeed. (“Measuring space »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: allowable-bearing-capacity, commitment, consequences, know, love, meausre, misjudge, overrate

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#107

“Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find out the core of our true self and appreciate being “in” the moment. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: core-values, fascination, in-the-moment, life, obsession, priorities, sign-values, social-pyramid, subservient, true-self

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#108

“Some have given up the expectation of meeting genuine, ‘heartfelt’ people and prefer to retire to a mute world, where fish, at least, give a feeling of recognition. In the wake of the unbearable sterile daily noise, their life has turned into a fluid universe of silence, dream, and stillness and their compass has come to be a space beyond fear, deception, and betrayal. Fish never disappoint. (Fish for silence)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: betrayal, deception, disappoint, fish, heartfelt, mute, noise, recognition, silence, sterile

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#109

“If we don’t readjust our perception in time, the screeching hinges in our mind may break for want of oil and our viewing angle narrow unremittingly, thus inducing blurred vision, misinterpretation and incomprehension. ( "Drunken sailor" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blurred-vision, drunken, hinges, incomprehension, induce, misinterpretation, perception, readjust, screeching, viewing-angle

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#110

“When we feel fractured, redundant and nonessential, only bouncing back from lowliness may brighten up the story of our life. In this endeavor, “otherness” might lend a helping hand in making the road less parching. (“He did not know that she knew”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bounce-back, brighten-up, endeavor, fractured, know, lend-a-hand, lowliness, nonessential, otherness, parching, redundant, road, story-of-my-life

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#111

“The addiction to our mobiles may insidiously unlock evil actions by helplessly surrendering to the plague of blatant indifference, arrogant inattention, and flighty bee-lining and sophisticated acts of revenge. Smartphones may unstitch positive points in our lives and incidentally enchant us by instant selfies but, with some, they might inexorably trigger off shabby and despicable practices. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: addiction, bee-lining, evil, inattention, indifference, mobiles, plague, revenge, selfies

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#112

“It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through the pandemic attacks into a new reality. They are the ones who tell us how to navigate, breathe, feel, think, enjoy, and fully live our lives. (“Because the world had corona”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: artists, breathe, corona, enjoy, feel, musicians, navigate, new-reality, pandemic, poets

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#113

“Fear can be a source of facial discrimination because faces, which we are not used to, can be frightening, deviant or weird. Since the human brain permanently processes countenances, it identifies who is who, who is foe, who is friend, and who could constitute an imminent danger. Only, when the mind has become accustomed to the various facial types, people might drop their prejudices and their fear. (- "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: countenance, danger, deviant, facial-discrimination, fear, human-brain, mind, prejudices, uggly-mug

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#114

“Let us look at the things we don’t see, let us listen to the echo of the sound behind the clamor and discern the crackling in the brushwood of our emotions, so we may recognize the tokens of the heartbeats we might miss and value the quality and the bite of our life story. ("This is no chicken feed")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bite, brushwood, clamor, crackling, discern, emotions, heartbeats, quality, recognize, tokens

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#115

“Be it as it may, if we are not ready to break new ground and get to grips with the recurrent challenges of our daily reality, we will never, ever be able to recognize the uncharted and colorful pictures on the canvas of our life, nor sense the pounding rhythm in the core of our being.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: being, break-new-ground, canvas, challenges, core, daily-reality, get-to-grips-with, pounding-rhythm, recurrent, unchartered

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#116

“If we are really ready for thinking, not the traditional, conventional, rehashed thinking, but the exploratory and adventurous thinking, we can move forward and discover the astounding appeal of new mind-blowing visions. ( "Ready-to-wear thinking")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: adventurous, astounding, conventional, exploratory-thinking, mind-blowing, ready-to-wear-thinking, rehashed, thinking, traditional, visions

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#117

“Life is a conjurer’s trick that may become a playground for multifarious side-splitting acts; sometimes a showdown for a series of torturous, off the wall questions or often a terrain for tragic miscalculations. ("Wheeling and dealing." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: conjurer-s-trick, life, miscalculation, multifarious, off-the-wall, playground, showdown, side-splitting, torturous

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#118

“As we are standing on a dazzling cliff, overwhelmed by a blizzard of unanswered questions, the alarming immaterialities of our living may cry out to us and our consciousness may ask us to account for what we are doing or for what we have not done. This may be the instant we might engineer our future with destiny. (
"Sisyphus on the hill")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blizzard, cliff, consciousness, dazzling, destiny, engineer, future, immateriality, questions, sisyphus

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#119

“If those, who call the shots, are tightrope-walking between unconcern and ignorance, giving way to unrestrained vagaries, and bypassing all the priorities of our environment, we mustn’t fail to value those who take courage to stand up against random practices, institutional malfunction and flagrant injustice, and speak out against social decay and moral obliviousness. (" High noon)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: call-the-shots, environment, injustice, institutional-malfunction, obliviousness, priorities, random-practices, social-decay, tightrope-walking, vagaries

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#120

“How should one keep a balanced spirit, if the standards in our lives and in the world are constantly reshuffled? Come rain or shine, let’s not fear our own shadow or desperately simmer down whistling in the dark, but let’s speak up and make our point, and comprehend ourselves in our surroundings, with our very own individuality. (“Was it all worthwhile?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: balanced-sprit, come-rain-or-shine, fear-one-s-shadow, make-one-s-point, reshuffle, simmer-down, speak-up, standards, whistle-in-the-dark

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