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#151

“Meditation means stirring the pool of the lame ducks in our minds and removing the slurry in the stagnant water of our thoughts.( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place",)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: lame-ducks, meditation, meditation-quotes, mind, stagnant-water, thoughts

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#152

“Let us not be content with merely ‘formatting’ generations, but instead, focus on cultivating and enlightening them, ensuring independent thinking where acceptance is in pace with challenge and trust steers clear of gullibility. ("Skyward, over and above")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acceptance, challenge, cultivating, enlightening, formatting, generations, gullibility, independent-thinking, trust

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#153

“When we dare to think differently and decide to expand our thinking, we instill fresh energy in our drained mindset. By infusing new life into our neural web, we create inner space in our journey to self-knowledge and deeper insight.( "Lost dreams")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: deep-insight, drained-mindset, expand-thinking, inner-space, lost-dreams, neural-web, self-knowledge-quotes, think-differently, thinking-quotes

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#154

“We should never despair. Beyond, there is hope! In the meantime, there is resilience. ("Waiting for Eureka")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beyond, despair, eureka, hope, in-the-meantime, resilience

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#155

“When the murmuring of love swells the river of our inner and overflows the boundaries of our emotions, the banks of oblivion start bursting, and its healing power overwhelms the numbness of our mindset. ("Crystallization under an umbrella")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: crystallization, emotions, inner, love, mindset, murmuring, numbness, oblivion, overflow, umbrella

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#156

“When the leaden haze of our lives starts cracking and tearing, and the forlornness and torpor in our minds are smoldering into ashes, we can softly hear the sounds of a new dawn and learn to pick up the magic of the words that make us understood among our neighbors.( "Life was a misunderstanding")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: forlorness, leaden-haze, magic, misunderstanding, new-dawn, smoldering, torpor, words

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#157

“Fear is the fruit of powerlessness leading stealthily to exhaustion or aggression. Instead of sheltering and nourishing fear, we must nurture our imagination to foster thus and so sharing and connecting. (“Swimming or sinking")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aggression, connecting, exhaustion, fear, imagination, nurture, powerlessness, sharing, swimming-or-sinking

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#158

“Many people cannot love themselves because they only love the illusions that they make of themselves. They merely like to wallow around in the narcissistic cocoon delusively constructed with the bits and pieces of their deceptions. ("Being my best friend" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: being-my-best-friend, cocoon, deceptions, delusive, illusions, love, narcissistic, wallow

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#159

“We need not be afraid of learning to know ourselves, fearing it would come down to disappointment. Remaining humble allows us to have compassion for ourselves for not being perfect. If we stay lucid and grounded, we steer clear of the steep cliffs of delusional self-importance or arrogance.( "I am on my own side, but I can listen" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: arrogance, compassion-for-oneself, disappointment, fear, grounded, humble, i-can-listen, know-oneself, lucid, self-importance

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#160

“Through living in a space that we do not understand, everything may become meaningless, incoherent, and forcefully scary. If fear rules our lives, we lose the core of our being, since 'fear' disrupts the schedule of our existence and blocks the soothing waves of the sound vibrations. (“Because the world has corona”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: corona, existence, fear, good-vibrations, incoherent, meaningless, scary, soothing, understand, waves

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#161

“If the doom of failure stifles some time the path of our life, it can pin us down like downtrodden aliens, while, meanwhile, the world around is erupting in joy and contentment. Let's go back then to the nuts and bolts and consult the core of our inner self. ("The grass was greener over there")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: contentment, core, doom, downtrodden, failure, inner-self, joy, nuts-and-bolts, path-of-life, stifle

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#162

“When we feel betrayed by the vagaries of life, and our wet dreams turn out to be nightmares, let us keep eyes wide open and look for the sparks in the glance of the people. They not only can share a shard of oxytocin but also inspire us to appreciate the fragrance of the ordinary things we have ignored for so long. (“A handful of dust”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: eyes-wide-open, fragrance, glance, inspire, nightmares, ordinary-things, oxytocin, sparks, vagaries, wet-dreams

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#163

“The butterfly's wing beat of love can engender a mystical attraction in the neural meanders of our mind and generate emotional torments with a single stroke. ("I seek you")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: butterfly, emotional, i-seek-you, love, meander, mind, mystical-attraction, neural-networks, torments, wing-beat

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#164

“If we feel we are missing out sometimes, it may be because we simply forget to consult the past or neglect to think up its ties with the presence. ("Walking down the memory lane" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: consult, forget, memory-lane, missing-out, neglect, past, presence, think-up, tie

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#165

“Life gives us a bunch of choices because everything is a matter of perception. Where some see the light, others see darkness. Where some feel openness and expectation, others feel fear and danger. Where some are influenced by yin, others are dominated by yang. Where some are guided by trust, others are confined into suspicion. ( “Let us say more and speak less”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: choice, danger, darkness, fear, light, perception, suspicion, trust, yin-and-yang

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#166

“Many cannot understand how to maneuver, getting out of black holes, but it is, up and above, still much more important to learn how to avoid falling into the trap of getting into deep water or being palmed off buckets with a hole. (“Step on the gas”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: black-holes, buckets, getting-into-deep-water, maneuver, palm-off, step-on-the-gas

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#167

“When we feel abandoned along the road of indifference, we can jam our path into our thinking mind, breaking free from the shackles of inattention, getting our life together, uncovering our identity, and resurfacing in a world of sympathy and understanding. (”Life with sea view”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: break-free, identity, inattention, indifference, resurfacing, sea-view, shackles, sympathy, thinking-mind, understanding

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#168

“Our “identity” may fascinate us because it ensures continuity throughout time, as we discern it from external signs, tuition, or heritage. When inner tensions run out of control, though, it can be that our “character” exceeds all boundaries. If we succeed in mastering the pressure that destroys the ramparts of our inner world, we can create a pattern, a way of living, that molds the outlines of our identity, combining the unavoidable daily “musts” with the fluency of the enlightening unsuspected “moments,” allowing us to soar on the flow of the soothing waves of our vibrating feelgood experience. ("Looking for the unexpected")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: character, continuity, daily-musts, feelgood, flow, identity, inner-tensions, inner-world, unexpected-moment, way-of-living

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#169

“Let us reach out to the people and show them an abundance of goodwill. We must, however, learn to identify manipulations as well and uncover maneuvers in the dark if we do not want to be tricked by lying eyes. ("With confidence")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: abundance, confidence, goodwill, identify, in-the-dark, lying-eyes, maneuver, manipulation, reach-out, tricked

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#170

“If we feel incarcerated in the trenches of viral wars, let us not give way to a defensive ‘fear’ reflex or offensive ‘rage’ reflex but let us follow our orienting ‘adventure’ reflex and explore the numerous paths to a new reality. ("Corporeal prison")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: corporeal-prison, defensive, fear-reflex, incarcerated, new-reality, offensive, orienting-reflex, rage-reflex, trenches, viral-war

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#171

“When rain and tears are making a trip together, emotions can be coming under pressure. But the fluid bond between the power of nature and the frailty of the soul may also smash the weight of the burden and create a liberating mental flow opening new insights. (“Rainman”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: emotions, flow, frailty, insights, nature, pressure, rain, soul, tears, weight

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#172

“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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#173

“In discovering the world, the "I" must meet otherness and converge with the "we." If we are prepared to leave our castle's safety, we can confront our sensitiveness with "outwardness", enhance our insight and tune up our pattern of life. (“Resilience”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: converge, discovering-the-world, insight, my-home-is-my-castle, otherness, outwardness, resilience, sensitiveness, the-i, the-we

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#174

“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

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#175

“We have shut up long enough, and now is the time to speak out loud. Yesterday was the silence of the underdog, but today we recognize how unbearably colorless and tasteless our treadmill is. When we recognize things, we can come to comprehend them, and through that knowledge, we get insight into the reality of our needs, allowing our awareness to give birth to a clear vision to catalyze ultimate wisdom. ("The upper lip must never tremble" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, catalyze, colorless, insight, speak-out-loud, tasteless, treadmill, underdog, upper-lip, wisdom

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#176

“When we take the trouble to look at what is unfolding in front of our eyes, we may recognize instances awakening the wisdom slumbering on the fringes of our inner world. If we fuel our imagination, new and old essentials can converge to a dawning awareness. (“I seek you”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awakening, dawning-awareness, essentials, eyes, icq, imagination, inner-world, on-the-fringes, slumber, wisdom

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#177

“If we keep on beating about circumstantial futilities and remain plodding along in the hollowness of weasel words, we need not expect to discover genuine answers to fundamental questions challenging us. ("Wit of the staircase")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: challenging, circumstantial-futilities, fundamental-questions, genuine-answers, hollowness, plodding-along, weasel-words, wit-of-the-staircase

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#178

“The moment we feel smothered by an unbearable emptiness in our lives, let us give way to the burning urge to 'suspend time,' and create space to build 'content' and ‘scope’ for a new reality. ("Words had disappeared”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: burning, content, emptiness, new-reality, smothered, space, time, unbearable, urge

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#179

“Life is a time span where people mostly do not see the wood for the trees, wondering what may be the accurate answers to the numerous questions that they have assembled throughout their life, how they might prevent their perception from contradicting the reality of the world of their daily experience and how they can find out the actual standards to measure the soundness of their assumptions. Whichever way, no matter how they ponder, they have no other choice than keeping on looking for Waldo or for Wally. (“How high is too far?”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: assumptions, contradict, experience, life, looking-for-waldo, perception, ponder, soundness, standards, time-span

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#180

“Memories keep us stay alive as they gently cuddle us along the squirming roads of our lives and even warn us sometimes of insidious pitfalls. ("Knowing someone was waiting")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cuddle, insidious, memories, pitfalls, squirming, stay-alive, waiting, warn

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