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#1

“Love can crystallize things. When love is in the air, distressing rain can become a wonderful avalanche of shimmering diamonds. Raindrops are transformed into a flood of sparkling crystal pearls. The power of love can convert rain into a multitude of glittering prisms. The mental seduction of love and a boundless illusion, inflamed by a profound uprising emotion, can change any ordinary incident into a radiant, luminous voyage. ( "Crystallization under an umbrella" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: crystallized-dreams, diamonds, emotion, illusion, love, mental, pearls, prism, rain, raindrops, seduction

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#2

“People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: affinity, connectedness, die, empathy, heaven, hope, others, social

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#3

“A fleeting moment can become an eternity. From a past encounter everything may disappear in the dungeon of forgetfulness. A few furtive flashes or innocent twinkles can survive, though. Some immaterial details may remain marked in our memory, forever. A significant look, a salient colour or a unforeseen gesture may abide, indelibly engraved in our mind. ( "Girl in blue" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: abide, blue, color, details, disappear, dungeon, encounter, engraved, etrenity, flashes, fleeting, forgetfulness, furtive, gesture, girl, immaterial, indelible, innocent, look, marked, memory, mind, moment, past, salient, significant, survive, twinkle, unforeseen

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#4

“Some seem to be desynchronized in their relationships. They feel oppressed, because they cannot move forward together and at the same pace. Their thinking is often incongruent, their motivation disparate. The phone could be a mediator, as it creates an impression to be a perfect reliable friend. However, in the end, it causes rather a sense of isolation, since it divides more than it unites. Eventually it appears not to be such a good friend but only a ghost friend. ( "Kein Schwein ruft mich an" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: disparate, friend, impression, incongruity, isolation, mediator, motivation, oppressed, pace, phone, relationships, thinking

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#5

“We may wonder what is going on in the back of the mind and what betides in the mood of some people who live on the edge of isolation and emotional poverty. They belong to life’s outcasts: deserted by affection, deprived of physical or lingual contact and finally reduced to silence. ("Why didn't he ask ? ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: affection, contact, deprived, deserted, edge, emotional, isolation, life, mind, mood, outcasts, physical, poverty, silence

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#6

“The crucial point in life is: are we living our 'own' life or simply a life for 'other' people. Are we not playing a role on behalf of some social groups and masquerading for fear of being excluded? ( "Quest for the real moment" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: excluded, fear, life, living, masquerade, role, social-group

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#7

“Lightness and weightiness are both linked to a philosophy of life. They are choices in life. Heaviness can be the embodiment of a sense of responsibility, the expression of maturity, the result of profound meditation or the emanation of a search for meaning in life. Weightiness, however, may also lead to a feeling of oppression, when it is felt as a burden, an unbearable burden. Then time has come to let loose and things can finally lose their gravity. ( "The unbearable heaviness of being" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: burden, choices, gravity, heaviness, let-loose, life, lightness, maturity, meaning, meditation, oppression, philosophy, responsibility, weightiness

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#8

“We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. ( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aloofness, appearances, brightness, connectedness, dimness, find-out, focusing, happiness, hearing, irrrelevant, life, lucky, narcissism, potential, seeing, warmth, wind

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#9

“When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ("The past was her best friend" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: fingers, forgetfulness, friend, furtively, lazy, memory, past, recognize, sand, slip, time, tired, war

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#10

“When words have vanished, when daily habits have extinguished emotional exchange, only killing silence remains and indifference takes over. ( "Words had disappeared" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: emotional, exchange, habits, indifference, silence, words

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#11

“All incidents which we experience are warily interpreted and translated in the dark chamber of our mind. They inspire us how to behave, how to think, how to act and prompt our predilections and our way of visualizing the world. The mind opens itself then to welcome the enchantments of life or to tear up destructive thinking patterns. The brain becomes truly a precious resilient partner. ( "Camera obscura of the mind" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: behave, brain, camera-obscura, dark-chamber-of-the-heart, incidents, life, mind, predilection, resilient

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#12

“We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumulation of our experiences. When we walk down the memory lane, it can be unconsciously, willingly, selectively, impetuously or sometimes grudgingly. By following our stream of consciousness we look for lost time and things past. Some reminiscences become anchor points that can take another scope with the wisdom of hindsight. ("Walking down the memory lane" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: accumulation, anchor-points, experiences, grudge, hindsight, identity, impetuously, lose, lost-time, memory, memory-lane, memory-loss, remember, reminiscence, scope, selective, stream-of-consciousness, things-past, unconsciously, walk-down, willingly, wisdom

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#13

“Wishful thinking and voluntary daydreaming can occasionally make dreams come true. Unrealistic projects, improbable ventures and unfeasible missions can sometimes be achieved through 'conscious dreaming'. At times, dreams can be an inspiration and generate creative reflections.

(<"Lost dreams")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: conscious, daydreaming, dreams, inspiration, reflections, wishful-thinking

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#14

“Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearian " To be or not to be " we could favor " to become or not to become". By "becoming", we challenge the range of possibilities in our life and go beyond the merely "being". We can retreat, then, from the imprisonment of a deadly routine, acquire an identity and develop our personality. ( "Man without Qualities" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: acquire, assembled, becoming, being, beyond, call-into-question, capable, challenge, create, deadly, develop, favour, get-rid-of, habits, identity, imprisonment, life, man, matters, merely, personality, possibilities, qualities, range, retreat, routine, shakespearean, shed, skin, snake, space, to-be-or-not-to-be, to-become, to-go

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#15

“The dialectic case of the 'things we do', the 'things we have done' and the 'things we are going to do' has been haunting present and earlier generations. For ages people have been confronted with the soul-searching question how should I interpret the past and how do I move forward. Linguistic sayings, which were inherited from century to century, gave us a good deal of remarkable advice and moral guidance in this field : " Do what is right and let come what come may ", " Do well and fear not ", " Do well and dread no shame ".
Erik Pevernagie, Never looking back again”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: advice, dialectic, fear, future, guidance, look-back, past, shame, soul-searching

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#16

“Through dreams and ideas we are seduced to go back to particular places and instances of our past. In the course of the years, these singular moments and spaces of our history very often receive then another color and dimension. Our mind tries however to tame and keep in control the phantoms of times past. If not so, our memory can be subject to an irreversible mutilation. ( "The mutilated memory" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: dreams, ideas, memory, mind, moments, mutilation, past, space

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#17

“In their quest for the "real moment" some expect to grab hold of the singular instant that feels like a journey between the past and the future, between the land they know and a land they don't know. In their pursuit they hope to encounter that 'genuine' moment, that frail child of the fleeting time that leaves a scar in the memory.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: memory-quote, moments-quotes, past-and-future, time-passing

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#18

“The perpetual movement of the water, rolling from and to unknown destinations, the voices of the sea shield us from the raging furies and shrieking sounds of dystopian surroundings, creating an unwinding veil for stilled happiness, acquainting us with the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. They are a soothing relief and let us listen to the voices of our inner world. ("Voices of the sea" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cosmic, destinations, dystopian, extraneous, furies, happiness, inner, listen, movement, perpetual, raging, relief, rhythm, sea, shield, shriek, soothing, sounds, stillness, surroundings, veil, voices, water, world

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#19

“Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate thoughts, the constraint of the room may become oppressive and the emptiness unbearable. The room loses then its original fullness and turns into a place of nothingness. ( " Another empty room" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: constraint, create, daily, dreamy, emptiness, fullness, inviting, lives, lose, love, love-quotes, nothingness, oppressive, original, passionate, people, place, power, room, routine, space, thoughts, unbearable

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#20

“Love assumes expectation and hope. All actors of the hazardous pursuit of love eagerly look forward to passing a significant cape without injuries or aching scratches: "the Cape of good Hope". ( " Those journeys of love" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: expectations, hope, love

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#21

“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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#22

“We must be able to give way to doubt in life, but doubt must not fill the whole room. ("My radio" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: doubt, my-radio

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#23

“Some cry out against the majority's despotism that knocks them off their feet and hacks into their fundamental values. Since the unbearable intrusion on their lifestyle's quality frightens them, they are obsessed with losing their integrity through the backlash of an overpowering "democratorship." Spearheading a reconciliation between freethinking and mediation is of supreme importance because mere resentment can be an evil counselor. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bowling-alone, democratership, despotism, freethinking, fundamental-values, intrusion, lifestyle, majority, mediation, resentment

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#24

“We may sometimes witness conversations at cross purposes and see how people hold muted dialogues of the deaf. They keep talking without really recognizing what the other is trying to bring home. Why should we not more engage in discussions with animals, promising much better results? Animals often appear to be much wiser, reasonable observers, and excellent listeners. (Let us say more and speak less)-Erik Pevernagie”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: animals, at-cross-purpose, conversations, dialogues-of-the-deaf, discussions, listeners, observers, say-more, speak-less

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#25

“We are all in favor of emotional intelligence. Intelligence can take emotion as a privileged counseling partner. However, it does not allow the emotion to take possession of us, besiege our mind, and subjugate our thinking. The emotion must regulate our thoughts, not manipulate nor substitute them. Our perception is only a biased picture of reality, and emotions are individual or provisional. Therefore, critical thinking and emotional thinking must go hand in hand. ("No monsters hide at this point" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: besiege, biased, counseling, critical-thinking, emotional-intelligence, perception, subjugate, thinking

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#26

“Nebulous words covering a broad spectrum of intriguing
maneuverings allow lobbyists to impersonate innocuous "strategic analysts" and masquerade as benefactors of the people. Therefore, foresight and clarity must always be our brothers-at-arms. ("Finally things had lost their weightiness")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: benefactors, clarity, impersonate, innocuous, intriguing, lobbyists, maneuvering, masquerade, nebulous, strategic-analyst

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#27

“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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#28

“Beauty can be wearing out easily, like glitzy pants, slowly waning through the tiredness of age, the fickleness of neglect, the boredom of habit, or the revenge of poor treatment. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beauty, boredom, fickleness, glitzy, neglect, pants, revenge, treatment, wear-out

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#29

“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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#30

“Happiness is the potential of sharing destiny and letting loose. We may see it burgeoning in the curve of a sensitive vibe and growing into a swinging outline if we can listen to the rustling silence in the foliage of expectations. ("New York at arm's length of desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: burgeon, curve, destiny, foliage, happiness, letting-loose, new-york, rustling, silence, vibe

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