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#1

“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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#2

“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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#3

“The frightening assaults of pandemic terror have vastly increased our vulnerability. At the outset, hope and humor were able to alleviate the sabotage of our living together, until bit by bit, the raging roars and the thundering crashes of the death toll called the shots. The ground zero of our mental structure must inevitably make us remold another thinking pattern. ("What do they think behind their dirty aprons?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: death-toll, ground-zero, hope, humor, living-together, mental-structure, pandemic, sabotage, thinking-pattern, vunerabality

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#4

“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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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“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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#8

“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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#9

“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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#10

“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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#11

“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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#12

“Let us not ruminate on lost cases, creating imaginary scenarios of spite and revenge. Let us honor our valuable mental time, follow a positive road instead, and dump barren and gnawing resentments and destructive anger. ("The umbrella")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: anger, gnawing, imaginary, mental-time, resentments, revenge, ruminate, scenarios, spite

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#13

“As we might be overwhelmed by the dictate of a mindset at odds with reality, and cannot get a grip on our unconsciousness, rather than curling up in the hive of uncomfortable expectations, let us cry out and unshackle our free will. ("Transcendental journey")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cry-out, curling-up, dictate, free-will, hive, mindset, reality, transcendental, unconsciousness, unshackle

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#14

“At times, silence can be a welcoming and hospitable partner when we can let loose, and the flow of time is sending a comforting wave of sound vibrations gently opening the skyline. ("A gap of silence")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: flow-of-time, hospitable, silence, skyline, sound-vibration, wave, welcoming

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#15

“Reality may not always be a happy companion. If we learn to trust ourselves and fully put through our paces, we can discover something like a winner's soul ignoring itself and passing with flying colors. The future can be an open space with a range of surprises. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bowling-alone, companion, future, passing-with-flying-colors, reality, surprises-of-life, trust, winner-s-soul

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#16

“While we hear Carl Jung's jazzy humming and Nietzsche's dance steps intermittently during our musings, we can willingly tear down the spread of depression from all the gray zones around and allow the sun to shine and warm up the hearts' expectations. ("A handful of dust")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: carl-jung, dance-steps, depression, expectations, gray-zone, handful-of-dust, humming, musings, nietzsche, sun

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#17

“As we inhale soothing wellbeing through the radiant glow of an unsuspected lighthouse in the dark stormy nights of our life, we can come to feel the exhilarating rhythm of our heartbeat, finding compassion with ourselves and at one time reaching out to all the others. ("Le ciel c'est l'autre")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: compassion, exhilarating, glow, inhale, lighthouse, reaching-out, soothing, stormy, wellbeing

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#18

“Watching the wonder of a dewdrop clinging on a tree leaf in the early morning sunlight can give us an ethereal thrill and at one time awaken the elapsed compass of our inner child. ("Why step out of nature")
.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awaken, compass, dewdrop, ethereal, inner-child, morning-sunlight, nature, thrill, trea-leaf, wonder

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#19

“Let us not give way to the temptations of a false self and the illusions of an inflated reality, but let us highlight our deeper self's authenticity and forward the truth of our words and the straightness of our actions. ("With confidence")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: actions, authenticity, deeper-self, false-self, illusions, inflated-reality, straightness, truth, words

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#20

“Through their intellectual disability or mental illiteracy, some cannot free themselves from the imprisonment of irrevocable idiocy and feel condemned to find gratifying compensation by extracting the vilest qualities from the deep quarters of their dark self. ("Ugly mug offense")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: dark-self, disability, gratifying-compensation, idiocy, illiteracy, intellectual, mental, uggly-mug-offense, vilest

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#21

“As many people are in turmoil, they happen to put many substantial questions. By incessantly asking themselves what it means "to be essential," they start wondering whether "usefulness" has a key function in their life. It is true; many people can only survive through necessary and useful effects. But can we dispel "unusefulness" as worthless? For some, art and play may be “useless” but, yet, are fundamental ways and means for survival. ("Corporeal prison")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: art, corporeal-prison, essential, play, survival, turmoil, unusefulness, usefulness, worhtless

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#22

“Good and conscious breathing regulates active and logical thinking. ("My radio")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: conscious-breathing, logical-thinking, radio, regulate

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#23

“Many think they play the last act. With life in turmoil, they seem to live the setup of a shattering countdown. To an insistent appeal for crucial answers, they only receive evasive responses or killing silence. But since the banks of their patience are bursting, an intractable cataclysm disturbs their interior world. Yet, this disruption might allow them to restore their emotional power by cleansing the oppressive environment and purifying the air that they breathe. ("Corporeal prison".)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: air, breathe, cataclysm, cleansing, countdown, disruption, emotional-power, insistent, purifying, shattering

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#24

“Ever and again, our mind may become befuddled when we have to find out what is heads or tails. Ever and again, bewilderment may strike our brain when we have to interpret the contrasts between the dark and the bright sides of things when we have got to read complex cases and assess the divergences between the iridescent outward appearances and the grisly undercurrents of particular characters. (‘"Côté cour…Côté jardin" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: befuddled, bewilderment, contrasts, divergence, grisly, heads-or-tails, iridescent, mind, outward-appearances, undercurrent

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#25

“That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. (“Crépuscule du désir”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: closet, crépuscule, desire, discretion, fall-short, give-way, hidden, may, passion, unspoken

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#26

“When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure, or a scar in the canvas of a vacant environment. The attachment to the little things, though, and the fleeting moments of every day can confer connection and expectation. ("The grass was greener over there")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attachment, connection, expectation, failure, fleeting-moments, happiness, not-belonging, scar, toll-the-bell, vacant

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#27

“Real-life may not always be a symphony of buoyant instants or ecstatic exploits. Downbeat emotional externalities can emerge unpredictably throughout our life journey. If we wish to turn life into an undying dance prom, let’s keep one foot in reality for sure. ("Blind date")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blind-date, buoyant, dance-prom, downbeat, ecstatic, externalities, life-journey, real-life, symphony, unpredictablility

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#28

“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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#29

“The moment the mirror does not recognize us anymore, the cards are no longer in our hands. In effect, we have failed to see to the bottom line of our life story and lost our identity. (“The empty Mirror")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bottom-line, cards, identity, life-story, mirror, moment, recognize

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#30

“When the invisible wall between two secret gardens crumbles down, it may provoke an irreparable emotional earth slide or it may be an unexpected opportunity of building a newfangled bridge between clandestine desires and furtive impulses. .( "No handkerchief, when you need it")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bridge, clandestine, crumble-down, desires, earth-slide, emotional, furtive, handkerchief, newfangled, secret-garden

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