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#1

“Truth is not a transparent process. What we see are shadows behind mat glass, a vaporous representation of reality. Truth is not as such, what we think it is. Truth is a prism with many sides, that only let us guess. In fact , truth is perhaps not true. Maybe it is just a lie. Taking our truth for “the” truth could lead to many erroneous interpretations.”
― Erik Pevernagie

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#2

“When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So ' here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. (" Just for a moment ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: chosen, haste, here, hustle, impatience, life, mental, moment, now, superficiality, time

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#3

“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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#4

“Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: act, actors, interpretation, life, play, story

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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“Some people look as if they have lost their eagerness and passion. Their aspiration seems to be exhausted and fresh inspiration has abandoned their weary mind. Life has boundlessly given them material welfare, which has fully spoiled them in the end. No energy for longing has been left, as they have reached a twilight zone. The twilight of desire. ( "Twilight of desire" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: desire, energy, inspiration, life, longing, mind, passion, twilight, welfare

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#8

“Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experienced in our environment and how they react in the arsenal of our imagination, creates a torrent of inspiring ideas that flood the speedy highways of our brains.
( " Labyrinth of the mind " )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brains, environment, ideas, imagination, labyrinth, memory, mind, senses

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#9

“We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: existence, life, puzzles, world, worldview

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#10

“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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#11

“People live on the flow of the daily reality and they surge on the waves of hazy expectations. They can experience pleasant junctures and try to catch and enjoy each special moment that is offered to them. Until life takes them by surprise.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: expectation, life, moment, reality, surprise

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#12

“A promise is a gift and a gift is a symbol of a social relationship. The donor is aware that it creates a link and the recipient identifies it as a mutual bond. A gift, however, is tangible and a promise is not. Eventually, a promise can be expounded as misunderstood, or misheard or it is simply over and done. If misheard, the social bond is to be put into question. If forgotten, it can be reminded but this is embarrassing. If elapsed, it is one of those broken promises that infest countless relationships. ( "Promised me a breeze of freedom" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bond, donor, elapsed, embarrassing, forgotten, gift, identity, infect, link, misheard, misunderstand, mutual, promise, remind, social-relationships, symbol, tangible

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#13

“Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: agony, boredom, bound, condemned, deadlocked, despair, driven, expectation, future, gap, geraniums, hoping, killed, life, lost, meanings, need, nothingness, point, prospect, senselessness, spanish, therefore, time, vacuum, waiting, wasted, watch, word

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#14

“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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#15

“Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ("The world was somewhere else" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cracks, default, dreams, ghetto, haven, identifying, life, shipwrecked

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#16

“Reality is not what we see, reality is what we think we see.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: reality, see, think

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#17

“Should happiness and success be hidden, in view of the misery and poverty around. Would it be a sign of selfishness and un-intellectual behavior, if we admit to a pursuit of happiness? Could it, on the contrary, not work out as a motivation and an incentive? When giving voice to our happiness, could it not be perceived as a positive challenge? Could happiness not be contagious and become a salutary infectious syndrome? A beneficial infection. ( "Happy days are back again" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beneficial, happiness, misery, poverty, selfishness

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#18

“When questioning ourselves, we must identify, where we are heading to. Do we prefer our life to remain untitled. Will we stand bare and naked without dressing any expectations or do we decide to interact with the world around. Will we play a part on the stage of life or do we choose to remain simply a chapter without heading, an episode without caption, an untitled interval. ("Life untitled" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bare, caption, chapter, choose, episode, expectations, heading, identify, interact, interval, life, naked, play-a-role, untitled, world

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#19

“Some men can be good ' horse whisperers ' and many dogs can be wonderful ' man whisperers '.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: dogs, horse, man, whisperer

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#20

“Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don’t try to learn it. « If lions could speak, we would not understand them. » says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an effort, however, we could manage to understand. ( “ Life was a misunderstanding » )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: effort, ignorant, language, learn, life, lions, ludwig-wittgenstein, misunderstanding, speak, understand

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#21

“If life beats us up, while we have our back to the wall, there is no other way than exorcising fear and using the seeds of resilience stored in the attic of our imagination. ("Transcendental meditation")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: back-to-the-wall, beat-up, exorcize, fear, imagination, resilienceattic, seeds, transcendental-meditation

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#22

“At a certain point, we have to stop ‘play time,’ start ‘construction time’ and get things going, instead of getting mired down in the quicksand of wishful thinking, clutching desperately to imaginary ‘dei ex machina.’ (" Swim or sink")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: clutching, construction-time, deus-ex-machina, get-things-going, imaginary, mired-down, play-time, quicksand, wishful-thinking

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#23

“If we cannot tame the valkyries of our emotions and restrain the burgeoning crankiness of our actions, we have to empower our mind, at some point, and let time flow on the waves of remission and compassion… and loosen up. ("Transcendental meditation")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: compassion, crankiness, emotions, empower, loosen-up, meditation, remission, tame, transcendence, valkyries

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#24

“Creative thinking and groundbreaking ideas are the answers to yawning dullness and threadbare lifestyles. Lateral thinking and new insight allow us to choose alternative paths and unstructured pursuits, wiping out obstacles to the furtherance and refinement of our identity. (“An egg every day”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: alternative-therapy, creative-thinking, egg, groundbreaking, identity, insight, lateral-thinking, lifestyles, refinement, unstructured-pursuits

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#25

“Love may be an inexhaustible well of inspiration for writing loads of letters until the wind of unresponsiveness blows frostiness into the fold of expectations.( "Poste restante" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: expectations, frostiness, inexhaustible, inspiration, love, poste-restante, unresponsiveness, writing-letters

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#26

“Learning to ‘be‘ ( -not the ‘fake being’- ) and learning to ‘be with others’ ( -the heartfelt being -), allows us to ‘be in the world’ and to approach fate with determination, and bend destiny with confidence. ("With confidence »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: be-in-the-world, be-with-others, confidence, destiny, determination, fate, heartfelt, to-be-fake-being

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#27

“Let's look at the bright side of life, even if love has only been a long shot and become evanescent, it may still inspire us if we have the gift to savor the fragrance of the treasured moments of togetherness from memorable times that furtively slipped away. ("Waiting for the smoke signals")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: a-long-shot, evanescent, inspire, love, savor, slip-away, smoke-signals, the-bright-side-of-life, togetherness, treasured-moments

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#28

“If we take the time or courage to find out what people feel and think, and to listen to the heart of their story, we are capable of losing the narrowness of our preconceptions and the nitpicking manipulations in our brain, making us geared up to view the world, openly and with confidence. ("With confidence »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: confidence, feel, heart, listen, manipulations, narrowness, nitpicking, preconceptions, story, think

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#29

“Let’s not put our lust of life on the back burner of a distant future, but let’s share and walk up to others, listening to the sound of their words, and taking part in the vibrant carrousel of their pursuits. ("Waiting for the smoke signals")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: carrousel, distant-future, listen, lust-of-life, on-the-back-burner, pursuits, share, smoke-signals, to-take-part-in, vibrant

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#30

“If we learn to reflect on a paramount strategy and recognize the proper tactics, we may come to find out how we can rule the stormy waves of our lives since action and reflection have to unite in braving the tortuous windings and turnings of the paths ahead. ("Ruling the waves »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: action, reflect, reflection, rule-the-waves, strategy, tactics, tortuous, winding-roads

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