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#1

“Love can be a land of wilderness, a wasteland of lost dreams in the backwoods of our muddled emotions, or it can be a heaven of ecstasy with an abundance of surrender, resplendent with acceptance and dependability.( “Twilight of desire” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: abundance, acceptance, backwoods, ecstasy, love, muddled, resplendent, twilight, wasteland, wilderness

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#2

“Let us take the time to explore our inner-selves and get acquainted with our real identity and recognize the quirky corners of our being. Thus, we can view others from another angle and come to see them in a new light that allows us to distinguish past possible misunderstandings.( "Words had disappeared”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: a-new-light, angle, disappear, get-acquainted, inner-self, misunderstandings, quirky, real-identity, view, words

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#3

“We should never despair. Beyond, there is hope! In the meantime, there is resilience. ("Waiting for Eureka")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beyond, despair, eureka, hope, in-the-meantime, resilience

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#4

“Let us not wait until the specter of solitude and isolation crawls into the alleys of our lives. Let us not the veiled threat of despair thrust us into oppression through our deficiency in interaction, and expand the frailty and the anxiety of our existence. Let us reach out and talk instead and use an authentic language in an unambiguous wording, and connect the dots, without fear. ("Words had disappeared”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: anxiety, authentic, connect-the-dots, despair, interaction, oppression, solitude, specter, unambiguous

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#5

“The moment we feel smothered by an unbearable emptiness in our lives, let us give way to the burning urge to 'suspend time,' and create space to build 'content' and ‘scope’ for a new reality. ("Words had disappeared”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: burning, content, emptiness, new-reality, smothered, space, time, unbearable, urge

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#6

“A world without dialogue is a universe of darkness. If people don't get together and share views and exchange ideas, they remain unaware, ignorant, and unconscious. As they live in a space that they don't understand, everything becomes meaningless, incoherent, and forcefully scary. If fear rules our lives, we lose the core of our being, since 'fear' is disrupting the schedule of our existence, and blocks the waves of the good vibrations. ("Beware of the neighbor")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beware-of-the-neighbor, darkness, dialogue, exchange-ideas, fear, good-vibrations, ignorant, share-views, unaware, waves

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#7

“Believing is easy, but thinking is difficult. Thinking about why we believe, this is still more complicated. (" No longer in the middle")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: believing, difficult, easy, thinking

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#8

“Let us drop our 'tin ear' and listen to the sounds of the 'real' world veiled beyond our inattention, and overwhelmed by the smoke and mirrors of superficiality. ("Like a frozen image")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: frozen-image, inattention, overwhelmed, real-world, smoke-and-mirrors, sounds, superficiality, tin-ear, veiled

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#9

“Supplying correct information and providing adequate tools to restructure the eroded parts in the minds of the people should be a primary condition for a well-oiled society. Fine-tuning the factuality and accuracy of issues is a paramount civic duty of each responsible individual. ("Labyrinth of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: accuracy, eroded, factuality, information, labyrinth, mind, responsible, restructure, society, tools

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#10

“Media seem to get off easy to stuff the "sheeple" with canned and standardized messages that they can digest at ease in their comfort zone, without leaving any bitter aftertaste. ("Don't leave! Stay with us!")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bitter-aftertaste, can, comfort-zone, digest, don-t-leave, media, messages, sheeple, standardized, stuff

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#11

“Everything is in the mind, and the power of our will constructs our future. Let us, therefore, honor our brainpower and stimulate our imagination's vibrancy to create the ideal rhythm and perfect quality of our life pulsations.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brainpower, future, imagination, life-pulsations, mind, radio, rhythm, vibrancy, will

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#12

“Instead of the terror of indecision and the fear of oneself, empathy for all living creatures and respect for nature can help us to save the world. As we let the waves of good vibrations flow into our minds, we inspire others and awaken their integrity. ("'My radio ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: empathy, fear-of-oneself, good-vibrations, indecision, inspire, integrity, living-creatures, respect-for-nature, save-the-world, terror

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#13

“Let us 'inspire' intently and breathe 'consciously' and instill the 'inspiration' that guides us to create a fearless future. We can then 'expire' infinitely and emanate insight and thought, and deliver tools for the others on the sideline. ("'My radio ")”
― Erik Pevernagie, Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers

tags: breathe, consciously, expire, fearless-future, insight, inspiration, inspire, instill, on-the-sideline, thought

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#14

“Critical thinking and a factual approach to the fundamental life questions are the undividable cornerstones of our authentic presence in the world. ("'My radio ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: authentic-presence, cornerstones, critical-thinking, factual-approach, fundamental, life-questions, my-radio, undividable, world

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#15

“Let us take care of our Garden of Eden with the fragrance of its flowers and the oxygen of its sheltering trees and savor the fruits of each precious single moment ever since life can be a sparkling ballet expressing the beauties and values that enlighten and enrich us. ( "Why step out of nature?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: ballet, beauties, enlighten, enrich, garden-of-eden, nature, savor, single-moment, values

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#16

“Let us express our confidence lavishly. In the construction of human relationships, trust can unlock bolted hearts and evaporate groundless suspicions. It has the power to uplift us and detach us from material calculations. Except, if reliance shows nasty shatters, we may put it on hold for a while or, furthermore, deny it. ("'My radio ")”
― Erik Pevernagie, Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers

tags: calculations, confidence, detach, evaporate, human-relationships, radio, reliance, suspicions, trust, uplift

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#17

“In our struggle between liberty and destiny, we must never stop challenging the masterminds of fate that tries to deconstruct the stepping stones of our freedom. ("Wrong time. Wrong place")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: challenge, deconstruct, destiny, fate, freedom, liberty, masterminds, stepping-stones, wrong-time-wrong-place

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#18

“Rather than loitering around, day by day, some prefer to crawl out of the shadow of their squirrel cage and try badly to cuddle up to a brighter side of life by searching out some wiggle room to empower their feeble stance, expecting to eke out some soothing moments of relish and buoyancy in the wings of their expectant quest. ( "Loss of urban benchmarks" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bench-marks, bright-side, buoyancy, crawl, cuddle-up-to, loiter-around, quest, relish, squirrel-cage, wiggle-room

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#19

“Since many are confronted with an eerie void, lacking essential qualities in their daily repertoire and suffering from missing out on a second or third dimension in their lives, they feel disjointed and disgruntled, unconsciously struggling to find out a kind of strategy to “construct” or to "reconstruct" their living. (“Bread and Satellite”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bread, construct, disgruntled, disjointed, eerie-void, missing-out, reconstruct, repertoire, second-dimension, strategy

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#20

“Facing our problems, first, and living by the seat of the pants, and opening ourselves to the world can turn life into a captivating journey on a sparkling rainbow. ("A glimpse of the future")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: captivating, facing-problems, future, glimpse, living-by-the-seat-of-the-pants, opening-oneself, rainbow, sparkling, world

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#21

“As it has the quality to transmit skills and knowledge, our personal history is a brilliant coach teaching us how to act and play along the meanders of life. While it inhabits our living it comes to be our fellow traveler shielding us from slippery slopes; and sometimes from ourselves. ("Going back to yesterday" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: act-and-play, coach, fellow-traveller, inhabit, life, meander, personal-history, skills-and-knowledge, slippery-slope

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#22

“If we do not hesitate to set sail for the deep waters of our thinking and take the time to cultivate the right words that we need to conceive and express what we feel, we can avoid many misconceptions. ("Life was a misunderstanding")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: conceive, cultivate, deep-waters, express, hesitate, misconceptions, misunderstanding, right-words, set-sail-for, thinking

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#23

“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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#24

“When people are missing out in their choices and cannot make a distinction between cheery, witty, funny, filthy or scurrilous walks of life, they will have a hard time to inhabit a pleasing and enriching life; and to integrate into a world of understanding and recognition. ("Love lying fallow " )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: choices, enriching, integrate, lying-fallow, missing-out, recognition, scurrilous, understanding, walk-of-life, witty

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#25

“As we feel the whispering vibrations of the sea and hover on the waves of the present, we realize that each moment flows into an unknown destination. Everything melts down into a new mystery since 'now' will never come back, and 'tomorrow' is uncharted territory. ("Voices of the sea")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: destination, mystery, now, present, sea, tomorrow, uncharted-territory, vibrations, waves, whispering

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#26

“When perception and sensitivity do meet, we feel empowered to create a colorful world and share a breathtaking experience. If our view can awaken and enrapture our feeling, we can also enhance our insight. ("Disruption»)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: breathtaking, disruption, empower, enrapture, feeling, insight, perception, sensitivity, share

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#27

“If we put the sterile mechanism of our brain on hold, we can view an ocean of enticing eye-opening perspectives. Life offers us an array of choices allowing us to discover a spray of overpowering colors, and hear overwhelming new sounds, and smell the intense fragrances of nature. ("The final decision" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brain, choices, colors, eye-opening, fragrances, nature, overpowering, perspectives, smell, sounds

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#28

“With the dawning of a new age, after pandemics have done their work, we may find ourselves at the watershed of singular considerations about how to handle the changes that revolutionize our lives, and trace the silver lining in a new reality. (What do they think behind their dirty aprons?)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: apron, changes, considerations, dawning, new-age, new-reality, pandemics, revolutionize, silver-lining, watershed

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#29

“Fear may oust people into the dimness of disruption. Let us instead transcend darkness and create room for light to shine. Now is the moment, and the "now" is the stepping stone that allows us to forge ahead, with abundance of awareness and understanding, and without obtrusive egos. (“Fear of the white page”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: awareness, darkness, ego, fear-of-the-white-page, moment, obtrusive, stepping-stone, the-now, transcend

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#30

“Love is only for creative minds. It is permanent imagination at work, unraveling the wear and tear of killing habits. ("Crystallization under an umbrella")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: at-work, creative-minds, imagination, killing-habits, love, unraveling, wear-and-tear

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