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#1

“Are we victims of destiny, or is it all mere determination? Suppose we do not just want to blame ourselves for not being lucky. In that case, we must endeavor to be imaginative and empower our dreams to take shape. ("Camera obscura of the mind")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: being-lucky, blame, camera-obscura, destiny, determination, dreams, empower, endeavor, imaginative, mind

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#2

“Some may be more fortunate than others, and many might feel more like second bests, not sure how to survive. Not seeing the light on their path, they keep on living with fear. Albeit social security systems may be supportive existential anxiety subsists, crushing their identity. Only by converting 'fear' into a challenge, we can grit our teeth, strengthen resilience, and brighten up the dimness in our minds. ("A new life with Schengen"")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: challenge, existential-anxiety, fear, fortunate, identity, light, resilience, schengen, second-best, survive

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#3

“Love can be a natural endowment, a present, or a gift. If it is not just a donation, it can be a divine talent. Since love is a silver bullet, it can make the unimaginable possible through the power of its inspiration. ("Love as dizzy as a cathedral")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cathedral, divine-talent, dizzy, donation, endowment, gift, inspiration, love, silver-bullet, unimaginable

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#4

“Carpe diem: Enjoying the "instants" as they emerge. When living is too comfy or glitzy, it may not be easy to appreciate the humblest things in life. Being happy with the small gifts we receive can be a bliss, but we can, even more, expand it through voluntary action and exalting Voltaire's words, "today, I have decided to be happy." (« Is that all there is?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: carpe-diem, comfy, enjoying, glitzy, happy, humble, is-that-all-there-is, voltaire, voluntary-action

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#5

“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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#6

“Cordial or commercial, that may be the question. How pleasant is it not, to experience the instantaneity and the radiance of a sunny smile or to scent unsuspectingly an air of friendly willingness. In contrast, however, how smashingly disheartening is it not when everything appears to be merely contrived or profit driven and anything but cordial or empathic. The magic of genuine feelings is a precious value and has to be cherished and remain uncorrupted. We mustn’t consent to feelings being faked or deteriorated. ("A Thousand times touched." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: commercial, cordial, disheartening, empathic, faked, instantaneity, magic, radiance, unsuspecting, willingness

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#7

“The fresh “breeze of freedom” that so many people promise lightheartedly, so often, remains void in the hot desert of yearning expectations. Pretending that everything is just a deplorable misunderstanding, may soothe their conscience and let them walk out easily on their pledge. (“Breeze of freedom)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: conscience, desert, expectations, freedom, fresh-breeze, lighthearted, misunderstanding, pledge, pretending, promise

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#8

“Finding the happy medium between what our brain tells us, what our mind inspires us, and what our heart instills is our paramount challenge in life.( "Poste Restante" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: challenge, happy-medium, life, our-brain-tells, our-heart-instills, our-mind-inspires, paramount, poste-restante

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#9

“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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#10

“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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#11

“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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#12

“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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#13

“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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#14

“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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#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

“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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#17

“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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#18

“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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#19

“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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#20

“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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#21

“Life gives us a bunch of choices because everything is a matter of perception. Where some see the light, others see darkness. Where some feel openness and expectation, others feel fear and danger. Where some are influenced by yin, others are dominated by yang. Where some are guided by trust, others are confined into suspicion. ( “Let us say more and speak less”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: choice, danger, darkness, fear, light, perception, suspicion, trust, yin-and-yang

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#22

“The ‘unknown’ leaves the door open. Ignorance has the door shut. ("High noon.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: door-open, door-shut, ignorance, unknown

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#23

“Happiness is a flow between a playful construction and a painful deconstruction, undulating from a hampering past into a liberating 'now,' escorting a meandering flood of twists and turns, caressing the velvet sand of dreamy beaches or smashing sometimes into the rocks of reality. ("New York at arm's length of desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie, Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers

tags: construction, deconstruction, desire, flow, happiness, liberating, new-york, past, the-now, twists-and-turns

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#24

“The world can spare psychopathic masterminds of fear, pushing the panic button all along. Instead, let us look at the unfettering light that is slicing beyond the dark clouds throughout our life journey and make us feel its radiation and the vibrations around a path of stillness. (“Check and mate »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: check-and-mate, life-journey, light-and-dark, masterminds, panic-button, path-of-stillness, psychopatic, radiation, unfettering, vibrations

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#25

“Thank you“ might be the hardest word to say. We may wonder, what can be so castrating about embracing gratitude? Some think it causes fear of loss, while it unleashes indistinct anxiety of losing independence or self-control. Gratefulness might come down to an undying struggle against oblivion. It could amount to a lasting burden for maintaining the infallibility of their memory. In short, for some, thankfulness is a box of Pandora. ("Thank God for the Belgian chocolate ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: belgian-chocolate, box-of-pandora, burden, castrating, gratitude, memory, oblivion, thank-you, thankfulness

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#26

“When we are locked up between a mood of 'transparency' and a feel of 'discretion,' we must clear up our mental muddle, until we find the "golden ratio," and recognize the peak of 'candor.' By hitting the point of recognition and enlightenment, we can make a correct choice and follow the right track ("Unfulfilled meeting")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: candor, choice, discretion, enlightenment, golden-ratio, mental, muddle, recognition, transparency, unfulfilled

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#27

“Life is about taking the time to recognize things that we already know and finding out the mysteries behind the innocence of their appearance. Life is a patient quest for second or third dimensions. (“Just a bit of a chat, please”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: appearance, find-out, innocence, know, life, mysteries, recognize, second-dimension, third-dimension

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#28

“Never being on the shortlist of people’s attention may arouse a sensation of desolation but may, all together, be an expectant challenge to excel and exceed oneself, as it can inflame the will to extract unsuspected power from the inner self, never to give up and to hit the ground and run…ever since life may offer an astounding window of opportunity to assert oneself in a land of contention. ("Not on the shortlist" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: challenge, desolation, excel, expectant, hit-the-ground-and-run, inflame, inner-self, shortlist, window-of-opportunity

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#29

“Life may be an arcane riddle, a play with many complementary acts or an unfinished chronicle with odd sequences. Still and all, whatever we might think or do, let us above all be attentive and expectant, since everyone is waiting for the pieces to fall into place, at one time or another. ("Drunken sailor" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: attentive, chronicle, complementary, drunken, expectant, life, riddle, sailor, sequence

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#30

“When the time has come to confront the hard truth, we may have to rewire our brains to ensure the healing from subversive mental barbs of aching incidents. ("Lost dreams")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aching, barbs, brains, ensure, hard-truth, healing, lost-dreams, mental, rewire, subversive

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