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#181

“Fear may oust people into the dimness of disruption. Let us instead transcend darkness and create room for light to shine. Now is the moment, and the "now" is the stepping stone that allows us to forge ahead, with abundance of awareness and understanding, and without obtrusive egos. (“Fear of the white page”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, darkness, ego, fear-of-the-white-page, moment, obtrusive, stepping-stone, the-now, transcend

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#182

“Life may be an arcane riddle, a play with many complementary acts or an unfinished chronicle with odd sequences. Still and all, whatever we might think or do, let us above all be attentive and expectant, since everyone is waiting for the pieces to fall into place, at one time or another. ("Drunken sailor" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attentive, chronicle, complementary, drunken, expectant, life, riddle, sailor, sequence

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#183

“Ignorance is killing poison. When people do not communicate, they are doomed to remain ignorant. If people do not get together and share views and exchange ideas, they remain unconscious and unaware. A world without dialogue is a universe of darkness. (“Because the world had corona”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: corona, darkness, dialogue, exchange-ideas, ignorance, poison, share-views, unaware, unconscious, universe

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#184

“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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#185

“So many sing out of tune and need a little help from their friends, but this may not suffice. Everyone should, thus, leave their ivory tower, now and then, and roll up their sleeves to help the sheeple to break the mold, those who have been doomed to remain unconstructed and unfit to experience revivifying awareness and gratifying conditions. (“Bread and Satellite”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, break-the-mold, doomed, gratifying, ivory-tower, out-of-tune, revivifying, sheeple, unconstructed

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#186

“The fresh “breeze of freedom” that so many people promise lightheartedly, so often, remains void in the hot desert of yearning expectations. Pretending that everything is just a deplorable misunderstanding, may soothe their conscience and let them walk out easily on their pledge. (“Breeze of freedom)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: conscience, desert, expectations, freedom, fresh-breeze, lighthearted, misunderstanding, pledge, pretending, promise

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#187

“As people are retracting into their snail shell's security of “stay home, stay safe,” distrust has become the top concern on the list. A climate of suspicion or denunciation is taking hold, gradually destroying the strings of sociability. In the aftermath, every singular person must find out how to reweave the ties of trust and confidence in their community's social tissue. ("What do they think behind their dirty aprons?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: confidence, denunciation, dirty-apron, distrust, security, snail-shell, sociability, stay-home-stay-safe, suspicion, trust

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#188

“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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#189

“Happiness is finding peace with ourselves and ensuring a sound haven for our dreams and, at the same time, acknowledging our nothingness in front of nature's splendor. ("When is Happiness?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acknowledging, dreams, happiness, nature, nothingness, peace-with-yourself, sound-haven, splendor

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#190

“Media seem to get off easy to stuff the "sheeple" with canned and standardized messages that they can digest at ease in their comfort zone, without leaving any bitter aftertaste. ("Don't leave! Stay with us!")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bitter-aftertaste, can, comfort-zone, digest, don-t-leave, media, messages, sheeple, standardized, stuff

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#191

“It is not a shame to be rocked on the waves of our dreams sometime, and roam around in our memories, stirring new emotions. Memories can be a balm for demolished expectations or disfigured reality.( "Knowing someone is waiting for us" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: balm, demolished, disfigured, dreams, emotions, expectations, memories, reality, to-be-rocked, wait-for-you

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#192

“Rituals can be reliable safeguards, but plot twists in the theatre of our life should not freak us out. If we are willing to transform ourselves and confront our inner self with the rites of our inner world, we can allow a dialogue within ourselves. In our existential challenge, faltering can give us a choice between ignoring, accepting, or integrating the plot twists on our path. ("Digging for white gold" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: dialogue, digging-for-white-gold, existential-challenge, faltering, freak-out, inner-self, plot-twists, rituals, transform-oneself

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#193

“Let us not be devastated by the grim wings of fear fluttering in the twisting patches of our minds. By empowering the dynamic force of our brainwaves, we can stir the lame blots to overturn the hinders of fear and give rise to confidence and creativity. (“Fear of the white page”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blot, brainwaves, cofidence, creativity, devastated, empowering, fear-of-the-white-page, fluttering, grim

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#194

“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

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#195

“Truth and facts often have a contrary message with a trying mission to show the cards' real color shuffled in the rough-and-tumble of our social and political arena.
("Imbroglio")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: contrary, facts, imbroglios, message, mission, political, rough-and-tumble, shuffle-the-cards, social, truth

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#196

“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

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#197

“Our best enemy is the one who challenges us, and so doing, teaches us to set out to discover our potentials, while our worst friend is the one who is numbing us and lulling us into complacency, always being consenting or acquiescent. ("Being my best friend.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acquiescent, challenge, complacency, consenting, enemy, friend, lulling, numbing, potentials

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#198

“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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#199

“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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#200

“The embroiling algorithm of happiness may leave many people bewildered or lost in translation while they snubbingly fall back on the smartphone, as a shield against intrusions from the outer world. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: algorithm, bewildered, embroiling, fall-back-on, happiness, intrusions, lost-in-translation, outer-world, smartphone, snubbingly

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#201

“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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#202

“Chains get rusty. Either they merely need some soothing oil, and everything will run smoothly, or they need a game-change. There is no need to become aggressive neither to oneself nor to others. We only need the right decision and appropriate action. ("An egg every day")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aggressive, appropriate-action, chains, egg, game-change, oil, right-decision, rusty, soothing

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#203

“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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#204

“Let us not can and store preconceived ideas in our minds. A freewheeling imagination can only function or reach its real height if it is liberated from canning ”old thinking” and adopting imposed “packaged mental trips.” ("Ready-to-wear thinking")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: canned-thinking, freewheeling, imagination, mental-trip, mind, packaged, preconceived, ready-to-wear-thinking, thinking

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#205

“Love can be a land of wilderness, a wasteland of lost dreams in the backwoods of our muddled emotions, or it can be a heaven of ecstasy with an abundance of surrender, resplendent with acceptance and dependability.( “Twilight of desire” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: abundance, acceptance, backwoods, ecstasy, love, muddled, resplendent, twilight, wasteland, wilderness

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#206

“Let us take care of ourselves instead of burning out in the long run. The path of our inner world is not an irreversible freeway to immutable integrity. Let us thus leave room for some probing during the fast and furious assault of the wishful targets throughout our lives. We need not feel demeaned either when we waver in facing the hassling crossroads coming up or must admit needing incidental backing or feel compelled to accept to question ourselves to the bottom. ("Poste Restante")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: burning-out, demeaned, fast-and-furious, hassling-crossroads, immutable-integrity, probing, taking-care-of-oneself, to-question-oneself, waver

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#207

“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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#208

“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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#209

“A world without dialogue is a universe of darkness. If people don't get together and share views and exchange ideas, they remain unaware, ignorant, and unconscious. As they live in a space that they don't understand, everything becomes meaningless, incoherent, and forcefully scary. If fear rules our lives, we lose the core of our being, since 'fear' is disrupting the schedule of our existence, and blocks the waves of the good vibrations. ("Beware of the neighbor")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beware-of-the-neighbor, darkness, dialogue, exchange-ideas, fear, good-vibrations, ignorant, share-views, unaware, waves

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#210

“Conspiracy adepts love story-tellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people craving a meaningful decoding and a breathtaking clarification. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: clarification, conspiracy-theory, decoding, exorcise, fear, irrational, plausible, rational, story-tellers

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