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#151

“Let us break the deadlock and stop doom-scrolling into the narrative of a fluctuating landscape of dispiriting thoughts...but, instead, invite the flowers of compassion to blossom in our hearts and our minds and overwhelm us with a spray of vibrant petals of well-being. ("Absence of Desire" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blossom, break-the-deadlock, compassion, desire, dispiriting, doom-scrolling, flowers, petals, thoughts, well-being

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#152

“Let’s dare to prepare for living in an unchartered terrain, in a house with no name, and no number, if the sinking feeling of a musty relationship kills our spirit and exiles us from ourselves. Retraction and reflection allow us to rediscover and renew ourselves, in time. ("Feeling like a fallen star")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: exile, fallen-star, living, musty-relationship, rediscover-one-self, reflection, retraction, sinking-feeling, spirit, unchartered

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#153

“If we only see things through the cold-eyed lens of factuality and don’t listen to the yearning and screaming of unexpressed feelings, life may remain bleak in a mire of clinical hollowness, sodden in apathy and indifference. ("Morning after")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: apathy, bleak, clinical, cold-eyed, factuality, hollowness, indifference, lens, life, listen-to-your-heart, mire, morning-after, remain, screaming, see, sodden, things, unexpressed-feelings, yearning

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#154

“By squirming out of our dungeon of indifference and wriggling from ourself-centered vault of unawareness, love can conjure up an aura of mental opulence and an inkling of infinity.( "Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aura, cathedral, conjure-up, dizzy, dungeon, indifference, infinity, inkling, love, mental, opulence, ourself-centered, squirming, unawareness, vault, wriggle

93 likes

#155

“When a storm of harassment disturbs our thinking and brings us down to our knees, the umbrella of our imagination can shield us against destructive aggression. It is offering shelter and is teaching us how to conquer ourselves, train our resilience, and grit our teeth. We better learn to adopt the virtue of endurance, as life consists of both ‘passion’ and ‘patience.’ ("The umbrella")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aggression, endurance, harassment, imagination, passion, patience, resilience, shelter, thinking, umbrella

85 likes

#156

“If reshaping a life style boils down to pretending and dwindling into a world of make-believe, living may turn into a schizophrenic merry-go-round and the real self might be crunched and munched on, piece by piece. (“He did not know that she knew”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: boil-down-to, crunch, dwindle, know, life-style, living, make-believe, merry-go-round, munch, piece-by-piece, pretending, real-self, reshaping, schizophrenic, turn-into, world

90 likes

#157

“Happiness is a flow between a playful construction and a painful deconstruction, undulating from a hampering past into a liberating 'now,' escorting a meandering flood of twists and turns, caressing the velvet sand of dreamy beaches or smashing sometimes into the rocks of reality. ("New York at arm's length of desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie, Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers

tags: construction, deconstruction, desire, flow, happiness, liberating, new-york, past, the-now, twists-and-turns

84 likes

#158

“We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (“Disruption”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: act-in-line, architecture, astounded, behavior, bulls-in-a-china-shop, clash-with, create, disruption, dissension, disturbing, emotional, emotional-outlaws, inner-construction, living-environment, one-heck-of-a-mess, proceed, shocking, standards

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#159

“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life may blur the peculiar aura and the soothing tint of contingent encounters. ( “Twilight of desire “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aura, contingent, desire, encounters, incidents, lack, longing, loss, soothing, twilight

89 likes

#160

“If we take the time or courage to find out what people feel and think, and to listen to the heart of their story, we are capable of losing the narrowness of our preconceptions and the nitpicking manipulations in our brain, making us geared up to view the world, openly and with confidence. ("With confidence »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: confidence, feel, heart, listen, manipulations, narrowness, nitpicking, preconceptions, story, think

88 likes

#161

“Everyone may agree upon the diagnosis, but not everyone may consent to the therapy. Indeed, for healing, things have to be sacrificed at times and separation or loss might always be heartbreak and leave scars of remorse or regret. (“Sorrow”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: diagnosis, healing, heartbreak, regret, remorse, sacrifice, scars, separation, sorrow, therapy

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#162

“The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping life on an even keel. Rational thinking and irrational feeling don’t always get along very well. ( "Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: capricious, hurdle, irrational-feeling, keep-on-an-even-keel, life, love, meander, rational-thinking, unpredictable, vagaries

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#163

“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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#164

“Let us 'inspire' intently and breathe 'consciously' and instill the 'inspiration' that guides us to create a fearless future. We can then 'expire' infinitely and emanate insight and thought, and deliver tools for the others on the sideline. ("'My radio ")”
― Erik Pevernagie, Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers

tags: breathe, consciously, expire, fearless-future, insight, inspiration, inspire, instill, on-the-sideline, thought

76 likes

#165

“Feeling confronted with the absurdity of life may sometimes nurture a personal satisfaction for those who like to set a paramount task or to create a compassionate mission. In so doing, the seal of absurdity becomes less unbearable, while it confers them a ‘Sisyphus’ status that transmutes them into heroes of human resilience. (“Sisyphus on the hill.)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absurdity, compassionate-action, heroes, paramount, personal-satisfaction, resilience, sisyphus, task

87 likes

#166

“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

98 likes

#167

“We may well value our minds and esteem our brainpower. But let us respect our feet as well. They might be down-to-earth for sure, but do allow us to go forward and steam ahead in life. On top, they can kick out anyone disrespectful and mind-numbing. ("If he doesn't play ball")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brainpower, disrespectful, down-to-earth, esteem, feet, kick-out, mind-numbingl, respect, steam-ahead, to-play-ball

80 likes

#168

“Happiness is not a sin, so let’s spread our wings and prepare to be lucky. ("C’est quand le bonheur ?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bonheur, happiness, lucky, sin, spread-the-wings

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#169

“Everything is in the mind, and the power of our will constructs our future. Let us, therefore, honor our brainpower and stimulate our imagination's vibrancy to create the ideal rhythm and perfect quality of our life pulsations.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brainpower, future, imagination, life-pulsations, mind, radio, rhythm, vibrancy, will

82 likes

#170

“Life is a spread of surprises and it is both a privilege and a challenge to respond to things and events, and find the right answers to prickly questions. In this process, however, it might be wise to change first our perception and our way of looking at things, before persistently changing the very things and altering their hallmark. (“Life out there “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: challenge, change, hallmark, life, perception, prickly, privilege, surprises

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#171

“If we cannot tame the valkyries of our emotions and restrain the burgeoning crankiness of our actions, we have to empower our mind, at some point, and let time flow on the waves of remission and compassion… and loosen up. ("Transcendental meditation")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: compassion, crankiness, emotions, empower, loosen-up, meditation, remission, tame, transcendence, valkyries

84 likes

#172

“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

81 likes

#173

“Deep thinking is a conspiracy against ignorance, blindness, and obliviousness. ("An egg every day?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blindness, conspiracy, deep-thinking, egg, ignorance, obliviousness

80 likes

#174

“Lust of life digs out hidden qualities and subdued yearnings from the silence of our inner self. If we give way to the desire of looking above and beyond the limit of the horizon, we can perceive a fabulous range of unsuspected privileges unfolding in front of our eyes. ("Steps in the unknown")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: above-and-beyond, desire, horizon, inner-self, lust-of-life, silence, steps-in-life, yearnings

80 likes

#175

“When we feel devastated sometimes by the deafening noise of the daily commotion, the voices of the sea may help us to elope into a haven of new dimensions. Through our "third ear," we can hear inspirational sounds in the symphony of our expectations while discovering uncharted alleys in the chaos of our mind. ("Voices of the sea")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: daily-commotion, deafening, devastated, elope, expectations, new-dimension, sounds, third-ear, voices-of-the-sea

80 likes

#176

“We have to walk out on ourselves, expel ourselves from our inner castle, and drop our formatted masks if we want to encounter people in the flesh, without makeup. ("Steps in the unknown")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: encounter, expel, formatted, in-the-flesh, inner-castle, make-up, masks, walk-out-on

81 likes

#177

“Let us not neglect rituals. They can be the watchdogs for the survival of our mental health, warning us when a well-oiled functioning of our life story is about to disrupt. Rituals can be safeguards hindering us from stumbling into the abyss of nothingness. Rituals can be anchor points providing guidance on our potholed path for the future. ("Digging for white gold" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: anchor-points, future, mental-health, neglect, nothingness, provide-guidance, rituals, safeguards, watchdogs

80 likes

#178

“While we are threading our way through the vagaries of life, our shortage of reciprocity and solidarity may corner us into breaches of culpability. We can eschew this and kindle a dream of universalism that does not impose itself but emerges from the world's numerous cultural and topical particularities and enable us to compare, discern, and identify, allowing us to marvel at the diversity. In this way, we can embrace universal recognition, human understanding, peace of mind, and compassion with others and with ourselves. ("I only needed a light ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: compassion, culpability, cultural, diversity, human-understanding, particularity, reciprocity, recognition, solidarity, universalism

81 likes

#179

“We expect populists to be popular. However, what can be more inconsistent and nonsensical than “unpopular” populists. They start doing everything to fit the job and are gritting their teeth so hard that they shatter them all and are chewed to bits. The moral … let us be genuine, humble, and coherent instead of stumbling from a vainglorious stance into the opposite. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: coherent, grit-the-teeth, humble, inconsistent, keeping-up-with-the-joneses, nonsensical, populists, unpopular, vainglorious

80 likes

#180

“If we suffer from an unbearable mean world syndrome and fear we will get a comeuppance anytime, let us endeavor to defeat the inner rejections of buoyancy and confidence, liberate our subdued lust of freedom, start to enliven the bleak outlook of our life story, and technicolor the sky of our expectations. ("With confidence")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bleak-outlook, buoyancy, comeuppance, confidence, enliven, inner-rejection, life-story, lust-of-freedom, mean-world-syndrome, technicolor

80 likes

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