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#211

“While retreating timely into a break of reflection, we can conquer the sanity of our mental condition and find a piece of stillness in the flurry of the world. (“Finally unbend.”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: break, flurry-of-the-world, mental-condition, piece, reflection, retreating, sanity, stillness, unbending

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#212

“Are we victims of destiny, or is it all mere determination? Suppose we do not just want to blame ourselves for not being lucky. In that case, we must endeavor to be imaginative and empower our dreams to take shape. ("Camera obscura of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: being-lucky, blame, camera-obscura, destiny, determination, dreams, empower, endeavor, imaginative, mind

79 likes

#213

“We are what we are: a handful of dust, and although life remains a temporal enterprise, we recognize we have a mission. Through resilience and empathy, we can take a walk on the path of thought and wonder and brighten up the hazy remains of the day. (“A handful of dust”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: empathy, enterprise, handful-of-dust, hazy, mission, remains, resilience, temporal, thought, wonder

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#214

“The day we recognize we must let go and drop questionable priorities in life, we understand we must accept to follow our inner compass and find harmony with ourselves. Through the flow between buoyancy and acceptance, we can reach a state of awakening and enlightenment. (“A handful of dust”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acceptance, awakening, buoyancy, enlightenment, handful-of-dust, inner-compass, let-go, priorities

88 likes

#215

“Critical thinking and a factual approach to the fundamental life questions are the undividable cornerstones of our authentic presence in the world. ("'My radio ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: authentic-presence, cornerstones, critical-thinking, factual-approach, fundamental, life-questions, my-radio, undividable, world

77 likes

#216

“Let us fear the torment of emotions that might sway in its wake chaos through the sound construction of reason and discernment. Let us cherish instead emotional intelligence along the intricate and tortuous paths of life’s labyrinth. ("No handkerchief, when you need it")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: chaos, cherish, construction, discernment, emotional-intelligence, emotions, life-s-labyrinth, reason, torment, tortuous

86 likes

#217

“When we cannot share our values any longer and our incipient intentions have become blurry, common understanding may turn into irredeemable misunderstanding. If the spirit of common perspectives and commitments has irreversibly been broken, we might patently drift down into suspicion, remorse or regret. As such, shared initiatives ought to be reasoned and well thought-out to avoid ‘understanding’ becoming ‘misunderstanding’ and ‘hope’ breaking down into ‘heartbreak’. ("The unbreakable code " )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blurry, commitments, common-understanding, heartbreak, hope, misunderstanding, regret, remorse, suspicion, values

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#218

“Ignorance and stupidity are the most dangerous viruses that jeopardize our living together. Calamity cannot be prevented nor cured, simply as a result of unawareness. (“High noon")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: calamity, cured, high-noon, ignorance, jeopardize, living-together, prevented, stupidity, unawareness, viruses

79 likes

#219

“Supplying correct information and providing adequate tools to restructure the eroded parts in the minds of the people should be a primary condition for a well-oiled society. Fine-tuning the factuality and accuracy of issues is a paramount civic duty of each responsible individual. ("Labyrinth of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: accuracy, eroded, factuality, information, labyrinth, mind, responsible, restructure, society, tools

85 likes

#220

“As some find picking on people a treasured entertainment, ‘recreational bullying’ has become their devious tool, to satisfy an exhibitionist urge to outdo themselves, by dredging up acerbic stories for score-settling and airing dirty laundry. ("On a doggy day")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acerbic, airing-dirty-laundry, bullying, doggy, entertainment, exhibitionist, recreational, scoresettling, to-dredge-up, to-outdo-oneself

88 likes

#221

“As light splinters into darkness, new thoughts may take over in the mind and allow upbeat views to gain power. Thus and so, thoughtfulness readily opens a blistering sky in the faltering shadow of unawareness. ("Absence of Desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence, allow, blistering, darkness, desire, falter, gain-power, light, mind, open, readily, shadow, sky, splinter, take-over, thoughtfulness, thoughts, unawareness, upbeat, views

92 likes

#222

“Since we are living in an open society with a space for tolerance and indulgence, we must monitor assiduously the permanent changes of habits and customs and the "normality barometer" should be determined and adjusted, time after time. ("On a doggy day”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: adjust, changes, habits-and-customs, indulgence, monitor, normality-barometer, open-society, open-space, tolerance

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#223

“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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#224

“When illness and old age are no longer indulgent and strength is irrevocably seeping away, brightness fades insidiously away from the light of the day and time only betrays reckless evanescence. (“Into a new life”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: betray, brightness, day, evanescence, illness, indulgent, insidiously, irrevocably, life, light, old-age, reckless, seep-away, strength, time

95 likes

#225

“Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence, appalling, breathing-space, communication, deficiency, deficit, emotional, friendship, gap, inflation, intolerable, release, screaming, silence, spawn, time, wellness, words

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#226

“When we are grappling with misery and our heart is in a knot, we may well do better to snap back to a new reality, make choices, refine and consolidate our self-image; and remodel the mould of our identity. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: camera-obscura, choices, grappling, heart, identity, knot, misery, new-reality, self-image, snap-back

92 likes

#227

“When an incidental color or a random fragrance takes possession of our imagination, we can unexpectedly blossom into a new entity as it gives us wings and enlightens our horizon, just like canary birds that feel stimulated and start singing as soon as they sense the radiance of the sun through the reflection of the skylight. (‘"Côté cour…Côté jardin" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blossom, canary-bird, color, fragrance, imagination, radiance, reflection, singing, skylight, wings

89 likes

#228

“If the context is lost and merely bits and pieces remain from a scattered existence, only the connection of anchor points may reinstate a distorted mental balance in an upset life story. ("Lost the global story." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: anchor-points, bits-and-pieces, connection, context, distorted, existence, global, life-story, lost, mental-balance, merely, reinstate, remain, scattered, upset

110 likes

#229

“When our thoughts are stammering in our mind, and memorial failure dumbs down our passion for life, a deep dive in the brainwaves can be the lever that lifts our sense of self. ("Walking down the memory lane" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brainwave, deep-dive, lever, memorial, memory-lane, mind, passion-for-life, sense-of-self, stammering, thougths

80 likes

#230

“Let us not hoodwink our eyes, blurring our awareness and misleading our apprehension. Let us dare to “see” what we see and, at the same time, touch the feel and the overtone as well. ("Man without Qualities" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, eyesapprehension, feel, hoodwink, man-without-qualities, misleading, overtone, see

79 likes

#231

“Let them not cold-call our attention, besiege our feelings, and disturb our dreams, those dealers in phony compassion selling wishful thinking through merchandising sentimental poppycock. ("Like a frozen image")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attention, besieged, cold-calling, compassion, feelings, phony, poppycock, sentimental, wishful-thinking

81 likes

#232

“Let us not be afraid of “saying” what we are “seeing” without censoring anything, or looking away and playing hide and seek. By naming things well, we avoid clutter in our mind and torment in the world. ("Man without Qualities" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: censoring, clutter, hide-and-seek, mind, name-things-well, saying, seeing, torment

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#233

“If something is freaking out people it is very often the slippery slope between words and meaning, between what is said and what is understood. ("I only needed a light ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: freaking-out, meaning, need-a-light, say, slppery-slopes, understanding, words

80 likes

#234

“If the scars of our daily reality overwhelm the beat of our life, we can at all times decide to start from square one, look up at the sky, being conscious of our pettiness, and enjoy the sparks of the stars to find the missing links. ("Man without Qualities" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beat-of-life, daily-reality, man-without-qualities, missing-links, pettiness, scars, sparks, stars, start-from-square-one

79 likes

#235

“As we walk through the secretive doors of our remembrance, looking for forgotten benchmarks of our history, we can find unexpected escape hatches opening into valuable answers to great expectations. ("Walking down the memory lane" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: benchmarks, escape-hatches, great-expectations, memory-lane, remembrance, secretive, valuable

79 likes

#236

“Holding back for a while and taking up some stirring moments can inspire us to ignore all futile prerogatives and rouse us to “put ourselves on hold.” By stepping out of our inner shell and discovering the outer world, we create room for other beings, learn how they think, experience what they feel, and understand what kindles them.”
― Erik Pevernagie, Stilling our Mind

tags: futile, holding-back, inner-shell, kindle, other-beings, outer-world, prerogative, stirring-moments

80 likes

#237

“As we go back in time, we can revisit unsuspected scenes of the narrative of our life and perceive forgotten details in the rear window of our mind, throwing new light on our instilled certainties and consolidated opinions.”
― Erik Pevernagie, Stilling our Mind

tags: consolidated-opinions, details, instilled-certainties, mind, rear-window, revisit, stilling-the-mind

81 likes

#238

“Through art, we learn to understand ourselves and light up the veiled angles in our minds. It teaches us how to get hold of life and get a sense of the shades in the wild richness of the abundant diversity that stretches through our daily experience. It gives us a foothold in the estranging landscapes we cross during our life journey and helps us figure out the wisdom behind the countless signs and tokens. (Stilling our mind)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: art, diversity, life-journey, mind, shades, signs, stilling-the-mind, tokens, understand-oneself, wisdom

82 likes

#239

“Trying to attain the inaccessible might be a pure waste of time. Still, however, the blunt attempt to challenge the ultimate hurdles to reach the untouchable can kindle a glow in the dusk and become a lighting beacon of resilience and throw us out of ourselves into an inspiring fairytale of horizons to nurture our dreams.”
― Erik Pevernagie, Stilling our Mind

tags: attempt, challenge, dusk, glow, hurdles, inaccessible, lighting-beacon, resilience, untouchable, waste-of-time

81 likes

#240

“Art and beauty have the unsuspected force of triggering mental power that gives people courage and confidence to steam ahead. Art and beauty bring to life unfulfilled hope, creative imagination, and bountiful goodwill.”
― Erik Pevernagie, Stilling our Mind

tags: art, beauty, bountifulgoodwill, confidence, courage, creative-imagination-h, mental-power, triggering, unfullfilled-hope, unsuspected

80 likes

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