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#181

“With her knee in our neck, the goddess of the pandemics has paralyzed us and hindered many to breathe freely and consciously. Only if we discover the timelessness of the moment, we may happen to encounter the blue sky in our mind and fly high into the light of happy expectations. (“Resilience”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: breathe-freely, consciously, goddess, happy-expectation, knee-in-the-neck, pandemics, paralyzed, the-moment, timelessness

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#182

“A universal vision and a joint interest are steppingstones for full-blown empathy, and explicitly through empathy, we seize the pulsating assets of ‘sharing,’ sharing precious values with the others. (“Resilience”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: empathy, joint-interest, pulsating, resilience, sharing, steppingstone, universal, values, vision

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#183

“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

86 likes

#184

“Truth' and 'facts' are 'sworn enemies,' but facts are often torn into a smokescreen and camouflaged into an appearance of alluring reliability. Only gullible people might swallow this for fear of being treated like dummies. ("The hidden sides of his character")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: appearance, camouflaged, dummies, facts, gullible, reliability, smokescreen, swallow, sworn-enemies, truth

79 likes

#185

“When we free ourselves from the chaos enclosed in the surrounding rigid social structure, we can find peace of mind and still our hunger for knowledge and understanding. If we follow the rhythm of our heartbeat, we can quench our thirst for meaning in life and encounter an array of soothing vibrations of wellbeing. (“A handful of dust”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: chaos, handful-of-dust, heartbeat-s-rhythm, knowledge, meaning, peace-of-mind, social-structure, understanding, vibrations

87 likes

#186

“If we remain humble and grounded in nature's wisdom, our mind will guide us safely through the confines of unawareness and the blindness of ignorance. ("Why step out of nature ?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blindness, confines, grounded, guide, humble, ignorance, mind, nature, unawareness, wisdom

83 likes

#187

“If we put the sterile mechanism of our brain on hold, we can view an ocean of enticing eye-opening perspectives. Life offers us an array of choices allowing us to discover a spray of overpowering colors, and hear overwhelming new sounds, and smell the intense fragrances of nature. ("The final decision" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brain, choices, colors, eye-opening, fragrances, nature, overpowering, perspectives, smell, sounds

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#188

“From the chronology of our time perception we keep garnering fetching and enticing instants of our life story, still abounding in our mind. As they emerge like lucky sparkles of our unyielding awareness, we hold them dearly in the treasury of our remembrance. ("Just for a moment")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, chronology, emerge, garner, life-story, lucky, mind, moment, remembrance, time-perception

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#189

“We can always hope, but we must not live on hope. Let us step beyond expectations, and remain resilient. Let us breathe consciously without fright, striving to take over our grail of freedom. ("Expectations")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: breathe, consciously, expectations, freedom, fright, grail, live-on-hope, resilient, step-beyond, striving

80 likes

#190

“When the mind remains the ally of our heart, and the gut is the brain's brother-at-arms, we can tackle the challenging situations, be inspirational appeasers, and stay honest to a fault. If we want to satisfy our quest for the 'real moment,' we must be honest with ourselves and honest to the others and ready to reconcile all intricate contentions. ("Quest for the real moment")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brain, brother-at-arms, contention, gut, heart, honest-to-a-fault, honest-with-yourself, inspirational, mind, reconcile

80 likes

#191

“Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our thinking and our actions, if we don’t want our conscience to be backfired on. (“Twilight of desire”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: actions, anger, backfire-on, conscience, desire, glitziness, inattention, indifference, mumbo-jumbo, slither, superciliousness, thinking, to-still, twilight

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#192

“Ever and again, our mind may become befuddled when we have to find out what is heads or tails. Ever and again, bewilderment may strike our brain when we have to interpret the contrasts between the dark and the bright sides of things when we have got to read complex cases and assess the divergences between the iridescent outward appearances and the grisly undercurrents of particular characters. (‘"Côté cour…Côté jardin" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: befuddled, bewilderment, contrasts, divergence, grisly, heads-or-tails, iridescent, mind, outward-appearances, undercurrent

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#193

“When our spontaneous emotions clash with our instilled emotions, which have been molded by our social community, we might, gradually, see dominoes falling, as we come to experience more authentic emotions, which are arising after ‘conscious reflection’. The confrontation of impulsive, ingrained and introspective emotions may, naturally, create a bewildering trilemma in our mind. ("Disruption" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: authentic, conscious-reflection, disruption, dominoes-fall, instilled-emotions, introspective-emotions, mold, social-community, spontaneous-emotions, trilemma

86 likes

#194

“The ‘unknown’ leaves the door open. Ignorance has the door shut. ("High noon.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: door-open, door-shut, ignorance, unknown

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#195

“Love can be a natural endowment, a present, or a gift. If it is not just a donation, it can be a divine talent. Since love is a silver bullet, it can make the unimaginable possible through the power of its inspiration. ("Love as dizzy as a cathedral")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cathedral, divine-talent, dizzy, donation, endowment, gift, inspiration, love, silver-bullet, unimaginable

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#196

“If we do not hesitate to set sail for the deep waters of our thinking and take the time to cultivate the right words that we need to conceive and express what we feel, we can avoid many misconceptions. ("Life was a misunderstanding")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: conceive, cultivate, deep-waters, express, hesitate, misconceptions, misunderstanding, right-words, set-sail-for, thinking

82 likes

#197

“Believing is easy, but thinking is difficult. Thinking about why we believe, this is still more complicated. (" No longer in the middle")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: believing, difficult, easy, thinking

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#198

“Let us drop our 'tin ear' and listen to the sounds of the 'real' world veiled beyond our inattention, and overwhelmed by the smoke and mirrors of superficiality. ("Like a frozen image")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: frozen-image, inattention, overwhelmed, real-world, smoke-and-mirrors, sounds, superficiality, tin-ear, veiled

85 likes

#199

“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

86 likes

#200

“Cordial or commercial, that may be the question. How pleasant is it not, to experience the instantaneity and the radiance of a sunny smile or to scent unsuspectingly an air of friendly willingness. In contrast, however, how smashingly disheartening is it not when everything appears to be merely contrived or profit driven and anything but cordial or empathic. The magic of genuine feelings is a precious value and has to be cherished and remain uncorrupted. We mustn’t consent to feelings being faked or deteriorated. ("A Thousand times touched." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: commercial, cordial, disheartening, empathic, faked, instantaneity, magic, radiance, unsuspecting, willingness

85 likes

#201

“When torpor and hesitancy are crippling us, only love has the power to breathe life into the dead brushwood of our emotions and bring back essence to existence. ("Knowing someone was waiting")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: breathe-life, brushwood, crippling, emotions, essence, existence, hesitancy, love, torpor

85 likes

#202

“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

88 likes

#203

“When our mind is in shambles and we dare to reflect on the story of our life, we may discover, in the stream of our thoughts, the fault line between what we have underfelt and what we have overthought on our way. (“Axel Red”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: dare, discover, fault-lines, in-shambles, mind, on-our-way, overthought, reflect, story, stream-of-thought, underfelt

96 likes

#204

“Let us take care of our Garden of Eden with the fragrance of its flowers and the oxygen of its sheltering trees and savor the fruits of each precious single moment ever since life can be a sparkling ballet expressing the beauties and values that enlighten and enrich us. ( "Why step out of nature?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: ballet, beauties, enlighten, enrich, garden-of-eden, nature, savor, single-moment, values

82 likes

#205

“Let us express our confidence lavishly. In the construction of human relationships, trust can unlock bolted hearts and evaporate groundless suspicions. It has the power to uplift us and detach us from material calculations. Except, if reliance shows nasty shatters, we may put it on hold for a while or, furthermore, deny it. ("'My radio ")”
― Erik Pevernagie, Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers

tags: calculations, confidence, detach, evaporate, human-relationships, radio, reliance, suspicions, trust, uplift

79 likes

#206

“As we go through the flightiness of time, dazed by the inebriety of our mental time voyage, we must hit the brakes, sometimes, and not shy away from questioning ourselves, when we wade through the tanning mist of our memory that embroiders our thoughts or distorts them.
("Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: dazed, embroider, flightiness, hit-the-brakes, inebriety, memory, mental, shy-away, time, wade-into

83 likes

#207

“When attention turns into indifference or love fades away into a grey zone of discomfort, only imagination can bring us back to the limelight of life. ("Is that all there is?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attention, discomfort, fade-away, grey-zone, imagination, indifference, is-that-all-there-is, life, limelight, love

82 likes

#208

“Many like to suffer, and for some, suffering can be a kind of artistic expression that challenges people and defies them with their limits, and, so, pain can be a shot to recognize the architecture and the workings of their being. (“ Rooting, hogging or... dying”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: architecture, being, challenge, defy, hogging, limits, pain, rooting, suffering, working

85 likes

#209

“When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what is, not is, and maybe is, might embed an enduring showdown, harboring an intense apprehension, and bring us sometimes unwittingly to our knees ("The hidden sides of his character" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: apprehension, bewilderment, brain, confrontation, embed, go-haywire, harbor, showdown, truths, unwitting

80 likes

#210

“Being caught up in a game without having a clue about the rules, may be extremely maddening and frustrating. Liberty may be so frightening and grueling, that many don’t conceal their passion for rules and regulations, since these can give a relieving feeling of security and protection. ("When forgetting the rules of the game" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: catch-up, clue, conceal, feeling, forget, frightning, frustrating, game, grueling, liberty, maddening, passion, protection, regulations, relieve, rules, security

95 likes

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