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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

“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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#5

“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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#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

“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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#8

“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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#9

“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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#10

“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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#11

“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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#12

“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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#13

“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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#14

“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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#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

“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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#18

“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ("Paper boats forever" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bliss, bring-back, chaotic, childhood, citizen-kane, cookies, daily, delightful, details, fields, floating, frantic, insignificant, joy, leitmotif, life, madeleine, marcel-proust, memory-lane, mind, mood, paper-boats, retreat, rosebuds, spirit, strawberry, the-beatles, trivial, value, vital, walk-down, waves, worries, youth

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#19

“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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#20

“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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#21

“When we decide to settle down outside the groove of our daily grind, we have room to discover the world of others who can revive our hidden desires and relaunch us into new adventures. ("Absence of Desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence-of-desire, daily-grind, hidden-desires, new-adventures, others, relaunch, revive

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#22

“Meditation lets us become humble and free ourselves from the cumbersome dead weight of self-opinion. Insight and gratefulness are significant footholds in life. The insight that sets out the path we must walk and gratefulness that lets us discover the precious jewels of the encounters throughout our journey in the rabbit hole of our minds. (“The rabbit hole of Meditation”)”
― Erik Pevernagie, The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

tags: cumbersome, dead-weight, encounters, foothold, gratefulness, humble, insight, meditation, rabbit-hole, self-opinion

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#23

“We must not look past the maneuvers of politicians who feel driven by intuition fed by visionary hysteria. They pretend to have a 'privileged' mission to shoulder but rob people's physical or mental property, appropriating their cultural heritage. If their intuition is cautioned as vicious or murderous by reason or facts, history will forever eradicate their soul from the holy grail of humanity, especially those who want to set the world on fire for their sole ambition. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: ambition, cultural-heritage, holy-grail, humanity, intuition, maneuvers, mental-property, politicians, visionary-hysteria, what-after-bowling-alone

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#24

“Why do people so often keep on speaking without ever saying anything? Words so often disappear furtively, as if they had never existed. They don’t stir any strings in our minds or thrill our emotions. They leave no trace in our memory and vanish simply like birds in the airy void of the sky. ("Words flew away like birds" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: emotions, fly-away-like-birds, memory, minds, saying, speaking, trace, words

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#25

“Meditation is cleaning up clutter in the backyard of our mind, triggering a shift in our thinking, and reshaping a drained logic in our mental network, giving voice to fresh concepts and new emotions. (The rabbit hole of Meditation)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: drained-logic, fresh-concepts, meditation, mental-network, mind, new-emotions, rabbit-hole, shift-in-our-thinking

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#26

“We must not let boredom or greed dictate our lives and exploit our compulsive fantasies or spendthrift desires. ("Keeping up with the Joneses")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: boredom, compulsive, desires, dictate, fantasies, greed, keeping-up-with-the-joneses, spendthrift

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#27

“When we feel that our default thinking is creeping up on us and starts stifling our minds, we must break the shell of our habits. If rehashed thoughts and bland humdrum are smothering the upshot of subdued cravings, we must create space for the budding of a new dawn. By unsealing all the windows of our mental dungeon, we loosen up our rusty thinking and cut ties with the useless prerogatives of the past. ("Corporeal prison")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: budding, corporeal-prison, default-thinking, humdrum, mental-dungeon, new-dawn, prerogatives, rehashed-thoughts, rusty-thinking

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#28

“If we can step back at times and have the guts to carve doubt in the concrete stone of our certainties, we can hear the beat of a thinking heart. While listening to the stirring of our deep selves and striving to squeeze through the thicket of our intentions, we may find an atoning venue of understanding and sympathy. ("Beware of the neighbor")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beware-of-the-neighbor, carve-doubt, certainties, concrete-stone, deep-self, intentions, step-back, sympathy, thinking-heart, understanding

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#29

“If we only live by the fickle code words of the moment and don’t grasp that today’s truth is not the same as tomorrow’s truth, we remain victims of chronic self-deception. ("Was it all worthwhile?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: chronic, code-words, fickle, moment, self-deception, today-s-truth, tomorrow-s-truth, worthwhile

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#30

“If we are blinded by the razzle-dazzle of the limelight and can't even bring a little depth into our story, we must recognize that self-estrangement has besieged our minds, and reality has become a simulation. ("Was it all worthwhile?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: besieged, blinded, depth, limelight, minds, razzle-dazzle, reality, self-estrangement, simulation, worthwhile

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