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#1

“If we don’t want life to treat us like poor clodhoppers or bland hang-abouts, we have to turn ‘surviving’ into ‘living’, readjust our course and propel pointedly a precise track, without being deterred by fear and apprehension. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: clodhopper, deter, fear, hang-about, life, living, propel, readjust, surviving, track

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#2

“If our splintered attention has led us to oblivion and blindness; and the shell has replaced the substance, it may be enlightening to deep-dive into the roots of our negative qualities and find a surprising guideline for the creation of new horizons. ("Not without my shadow")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blindness, deep-dive, guideline, negative-qualities, new-horizons, oblivion, shadow, shell, splintered-attention, substance

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#3

“Jealousy appears to be a redoubtable pitfall for love, on the toll road of self-absorption and unshareability. When love has to remain cloistered and ostentatiously exclusionary, envy may show its pernicious power, cause wounding harms and unchain emotional twisters. ("Why has Shé got stars in the sky?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cloistered, exclusionary, jealousy, love, pitfall, redoubtable, self-absorption, toll-road, unshareable

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#4

“Unfailing friends are essential, when ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend”).”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence, best-friend, daily-living, friends, lust-for-life, presence, rampage, reliable, trampled, wrangle

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#5

“For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow ‘within’ and disclose our ‘true’ self. ("Everybody his story")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: disclose, discovery-of-oneself, fear-of-self, marrow, overcome, story, true-self, within

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#6

“If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our memory, we can develop a comprehensive pattern of our identity that throws a whirl of light on the secreted framework of our life. ("Labyrinth of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: comprehensive, fly-on-the-wall, framework, identity, labyrinth, memory, mind, pattern, scenario

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#7

“At the beginning of our life, we may feel bare and helpless and gradually adorn ourselves with the most fanciful trappings, trying to be ‘someone else’. After erring and drifting, we eventually realize we want to discover ‘ourselves’, without any airbrushing, so as to meet our real self and not the one imposed on us. ("Lost the global story.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: adorn, airbrushing, bare, discover-oneself, drifting, global-story, helpless, life, real-self, trappings

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#8

“People are not dying of lack of money but of lack of esteem and awareness. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, dying, esteem, lack-of-money, schwein

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#9

“Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive, disillusionment may have to be mended, wounds to be healed and emotional fallouts to be taken care of, mindfully ( "Is that all there is ?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: disillusionment, dust, emotional, harshness, love, mindfull, new-reality, oppressive, volcanic, wounds

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#10

“By confusing strategy with tactics and mixing up “what” and “how”, we may have a hard time staying on point. ”What” we want, on the one hand, and “how” we want to achieve it, on the other, needs a careful reading and a singular approach. (“When the bar is set too high”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bar, mixing-up, stay-on-point, strategy, tactics, what-and-how

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#11

“Some don’t want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland and vacuous state of glee and, instead, prefer to keep on running like raging bulls through the whims and quirks of life. In reality, their dissatisfaction is their contentment. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bull, contentment, dissatisfied, happiness, languor, quirks, raging, whims, yawning

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#12

“When love gets on a slippery slope, unawareness or indifference might be the underpinning of disenchantment and falling out of love. (“Amour en friche”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: disenchantment, fall-out-of-love, indifference, love, slipery-slope, unawareness, underpinning

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#13

“Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can “fool people some of the time, but not all of the time”. (“Bribe payers' index »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blur-the-lines, bribe-payers, chopping-block, debilitating, eventually, expecting, facts-and-fables, fake, fool-people, gridlock, imprisoned, inexorable, lies, life, narrative, remain, truth

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#14

“If we only see things through the cold-eyed lens of factuality and don’t listen to the yearning and screaming of unexpressed feelings, life may remain bleak in a mire of clinical hollowness, sodden in apathy and indifference. ("Morning after")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: apathy, bleak, clinical, cold-eyed, factuality, hollowness, indifference, lens, life, listen-to-your-heart, mire, morning-after, remain, screaming, see, sodden, things, unexpressed-feelings, yearning

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#15

“Love might be frightening, at times, and some are scared of becoming infatuated. Therefore, they may rather choose to chicken out, while walking on thin ice, poise and guts are letting them down. (“Amour en friche”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: amour, at-times, chicken-out, choose, frightening, guts, infatuated, let-down, love, poise, scared, walk-on-thin-ice

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#16

“Emotional illiterates, who don’t recognize the sound of a broken heart, will never be able to hear the subtle vibrations of love reverberating through the rustling flora of life. ("Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: broken-heart, dizzy, emotional, flora, illiterates, life, love, recognize, reverberate, rustling, sound, subtle, vibrations

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#17

“Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extremely harsh, striking a hell of false notes. (“Love lying fallow “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: create, extremely, false-notes, harmony, harsh, hell, love, musical-score, sounds, striking, tuneful

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#18

“When we step outside ourselves and stop being merely subjective witnesses, we can recognize how the relentless cut and thrust of our own self-righteousness vanishes and new ground is broken for a state of independent thinking, where ”others” do matter. ("Wheeling and dealing.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: break-new-ground, cut-and-thrust, independent-thinking, matter, others, self-righteousness, subjective, vanish, wheeling-and-dealing, witness

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#19

“Everybody wants what feels good; and if we wish a symphony of attention from a bunch of caring people and a harmony of happy sounds during our lifetime, we must not act like dark horses, saving up our emotions, but be bountiful to all significant others. ( “Axelle Red “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attention, bountiful, caring-person, dark-horses, emotions, feel-good, happy, harmony, lifetime, significant-other

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#20

“When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of ‘interest’ and ‘attention’, so long as we focus on the ‘singular moments’ and the ‘appealing details’ in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture for a functional future. ("Lost the global story.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: appealing, awareness, chessboard, cloudy, comprehensive, conked-out, connections, context, details, endurance, focus, functioning, future, global-story, lame-duck, life, lost, mental, mind, moments, numbness, patience, perception, picture, quagmire, screen, shape, singular, tear-open, whittle-away

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#21

“Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the first place, in advance of scouting the causes of surreptitious subliminal convulsions. ("Beware of the neighbor")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beware, bottles, causes, contingent, convulsions, emotional, endangered, fissure, genie, identify, neighbor, predictive, problematic, profiling, relationships, scout, stature, still-and-all, subliminal, surreptitious, wise

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#22

“We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ("Happy days are back again")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: back-again, deafen, door, happiness, happy-days, inattention, killing-silence, life, realize, silence, slam, tunefulness

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#23

“If the vibrant and frolicking merry-go-round of our daily living has been ousted by an eerie void of an intractable vacuum, only inspiriting memories may shore up our inner world. ("Only silence remained ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: eerie, frolick, inner-world, inspiriting, intractable, memories, merry-go-round, vacuum, vibrant, void

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#24

“Let’s watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole interests are soaring targets at high-speed, at all costs and without any consideration. Perceptive understanding may help us discover the hidden actualities behind the ‘appearances’. .("Mama. Meine Bäume wachsen bis in den Himmel")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: actuality, appearances, at-all-costs, contrarian, discover, hidden, high-speed, interests, people, perceptive, soaring, targets, understanding, unpredictability, watch-out-for, wildcat-jumps, without-consideration

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#25

“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning. ("Words flew away like birds")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: alleluia, birds, cluttered, decide, drop, eschew, flimsy, flow, fly-away, genuine, glow, graceful, life, lucid, makeshift, mind, new-morning, scenarios, self-importance, the-day, wellness, words

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#26

“We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment we encounter; let us watch each step we take and each move we make, ever since happiness is a loving and appealing fairy, but utterly frail and vulnerable. ("Happy days are back again")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: appealing, endear, enjoy, fairy, frail, happiness, loving, the-unexpected, vulnerable, wheedle

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#27

“Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize its very nature, if we remain guilelessly confined in a state of woeful unawareness or in a no-man’s-land of emotions. In their dogged and obstinate quest for the zenith of happiness, many forget to take pleasure in the small things of everyday and, thus, become disgruntled and depressed instead, which leads them to a mire of gloom. ("C’est quand le bonheur “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blissful, confined, depressed, disgruntled, dogged, emotions, everyday, forget, gloom, guileless, happiness, hard, le-bonheur, mire, np-man-s-land, obstinate, propensity, recognize, remain, small-things, state-of-mind, surreal, take-pleasure-in-life, the-very-nature, unawareness, woeful

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#28

“Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any time or at any place. Above and beyond, fear might be contagious and its scent, sometimes sensual, sometimes mystical or animal, can exude the musty and arcane smell of destiny. ("One could still feel the smell of fear" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: animal, arcane, arrest, contagious, emotion, exude, fear, history, musty, mystical, provoke, scent, sensual, smell, whistleblower

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#29

“If we dare to dream, we must dare to wake up. When we come to rub our eyes wide open and face up to realness, we can clear our vision and curb a whirlwind of bewilderment that might break our mind apart, once fantasy wrangles with reality and our awareness denies the true colors of facts. ("Behind the frosted glass”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, bewilderment, break-apart, clear, colors, curb, dare, deny, dream, eyes-wide-open, face-up, facts, fantasy, frosted-glass, mind, reality, realness, rub, true, vision, wake-up, whirlwind, wrangle

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#30

“It may be expedient to take stock of all the affecting pieces that might shatter in the wake of an emotional earthquake, once red flags come up in a committed relationship and an overarching scene has to be fashioned for a recast life experience. ("Waiting for the pieces to fall into place")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: affecting, committed-relationship, earthquake, emotional, expedient, experience, fashioned, in-the-wake-of, overarching, pieces, recast, red-flags, scene, shatter, take-stock, waiting

87 likes

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