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#1

“Love can crystallize things. When love is in the air, distressing rain can become a wonderful avalanche of shimmering diamonds. Raindrops are transformed into a flood of sparkling crystal pearls. The power of love can convert rain into a multitude of glittering prisms. The mental seduction of love and a boundless illusion, inflamed by a profound uprising emotion, can change any ordinary incident into a radiant, luminous voyage. ( "Crystallization under an umbrella" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: crystallized-dreams, diamonds, emotion, illusion, love, mental, pearls, prism, rain, raindrops, seduction

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#2

“People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: affinity, connectedness, die, empathy, heaven, hope, others, social

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#3

“A fleeting moment can become an eternity. From a past encounter everything may disappear in the dungeon of forgetfulness. A few furtive flashes or innocent twinkles can survive, though. Some immaterial details may remain marked in our memory, forever. A significant look, a salient colour or a unforeseen gesture may abide, indelibly engraved in our mind. ( "Girl in blue" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: abide, blue, color, details, disappear, dungeon, encounter, engraved, etrenity, flashes, fleeting, forgetfulness, furtive, gesture, girl, immaterial, indelible, innocent, look, marked, memory, mind, moment, past, salient, significant, survive, twinkle, unforeseen

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#4

“Lightness and weightiness are both linked to a philosophy of life. They are choices in life. Heaviness can be the embodiment of a sense of responsibility, the expression of maturity, the result of profound meditation or the emanation of a search for meaning in life. Weightiness, however, may also lead to a feeling of oppression, when it is felt as a burden, an unbearable burden. Then time has come to let loose and things can finally lose their gravity. ( "The unbearable heaviness of being" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: burden, choices, gravity, heaviness, let-loose, life, lightness, maturity, meaning, meditation, oppression, philosophy, responsibility, weightiness

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#5

“Some seem to be desynchronized in their relationships. They feel oppressed, because they cannot move forward together and at the same pace. Their thinking is often incongruent, their motivation disparate. The phone could be a mediator, as it creates an impression to be a perfect reliable friend. However, in the end, it causes rather a sense of isolation, since it divides more than it unites. Eventually it appears not to be such a good friend but only a ghost friend. ( "Kein Schwein ruft mich an" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: disparate, friend, impression, incongruity, isolation, mediator, motivation, oppressed, pace, phone, relationships, thinking

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#6

“We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumulation of our experiences. When we walk down the memory lane, it can be unconsciously, willingly, selectively, impetuously or sometimes grudgingly. By following our stream of consciousness we look for lost time and things past. Some reminiscences become anchor points that can take another scope with the wisdom of hindsight. ("Walking down the memory lane" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: accumulation, anchor-points, experiences, grudge, hindsight, identity, impetuously, lose, lost-time, memory, memory-lane, memory-loss, remember, reminiscence, scope, selective, stream-of-consciousness, things-past, unconsciously, walk-down, willingly, wisdom

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#7

“The crucial point in life is: are we living our 'own' life or simply a life for 'other' people. Are we not playing a role on behalf of some social groups and masquerading for fear of being excluded? ( "Quest for the real moment" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: excluded, fear, life, living, masquerade, role, social-group

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#8

“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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#9

“We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. ( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: aloofness, appearances, brightness, connectedness, dimness, find-out, focusing, happiness, hearing, irrrelevant, life, lucky, narcissism, potential, seeing, warmth, wind

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#10

“We may wonder what is going on in the back of the mind and what betides in the mood of some people who live on the edge of isolation and emotional poverty. They belong to life’s outcasts: deserted by affection, deprived of physical or lingual contact and finally reduced to silence. ("Why didn't he ask ? ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: affection, contact, deprived, deserted, edge, emotional, isolation, life, mind, mood, outcasts, physical, poverty, silence

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#11

“The perpetual movement of the water, rolling from and to unknown destinations, the voices of the sea shield us from the raging furies and shrieking sounds of dystopian surroundings, creating an unwinding veil for stilled happiness, acquainting us with the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. They are a soothing relief and let us listen to the voices of our inner world. ("Voices of the sea" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cosmic, destinations, dystopian, extraneous, furies, happiness, inner, listen, movement, perpetual, raging, relief, rhythm, sea, shield, shriek, soothing, sounds, stillness, surroundings, veil, voices, water, world

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#12

“When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ("The past was her best friend" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: fingers, forgetfulness, friend, furtively, lazy, memory, past, recognize, sand, slip, time, tired, war

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#13

“When words have vanished, when daily habits have extinguished emotional exchange, only killing silence remains and indifference takes over. ( "Words had disappeared" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: emotional, exchange, habits, indifference, silence, words

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#14

“In their quest for the "real moment" some expect to grab hold of the singular instant that feels like a journey between the past and the future, between the land they know and a land they don't know. In their pursuit they hope to encounter that 'genuine' moment, that frail child of the fleeting time that leaves a scar in the memory.”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: memory-quote, moments-quotes, past-and-future, time-passing

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#15

“The dialectic case of the 'things we do', the 'things we have done' and the 'things we are going to do' has been haunting present and earlier generations. For ages people have been confronted with the soul-searching question how should I interpret the past and how do I move forward. Linguistic sayings, which were inherited from century to century, gave us a good deal of remarkable advice and moral guidance in this field : " Do what is right and let come what come may ", " Do well and fear not ", " Do well and dread no shame ".
Erik Pevernagie, Never looking back again”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: advice, dialectic, fear, future, guidance, look-back, past, shame, soul-searching

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#16

“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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#17

“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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#18

“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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#19

“Wishful thinking and voluntary daydreaming can occasionally make dreams come true. Unrealistic projects, improbable ventures and unfeasible missions can sometimes be achieved through 'conscious dreaming'. At times, dreams can be an inspiration and generate creative reflections.

(<"Lost dreams")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: conscious, daydreaming, dreams, inspiration, reflections, wishful-thinking

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#20

“All incidents which we experience are warily interpreted and translated in the dark chamber of our mind. They inspire us how to behave, how to think, how to act and prompt our predilections and our way of visualizing the world. The mind opens itself then to welcome the enchantments of life or to tear up destructive thinking patterns. The brain becomes truly a precious resilient partner. ( "Camera obscura of the mind" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: behave, brain, camera-obscura, dark-chamber-of-the-heart, incidents, life, mind, predilection, resilient

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#21

“Art must state a link to the challenges of previous eras and the twinkles and heartbeats of the present moment to ensure a ‘trans historic’ bond with our living world where past and present can converse. ("When is Art?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bond, challenges, converse, era, heartbeats, link, present-moment, trans-historic, twinkels, when-is-art

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#22

“Intuition listens to an inner voice and responds to an instant sentiment that may checkmate reason. It is only in hindsight that its soundness or fallibility is proven. ("Blame storming")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blame-storming, checkmate, fallibility, in-hindsight, innervoice, instant-sentiment, intuition, proven, reason, soundness

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#23

“When we have the knack for listening to ourselves and hearing ourselves out without flinching, we can throw down willful deafness and self-deceit and meet up with our authentic selves. (“Like a frozen image“)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: authentic-self, frozen-image, hearing-out, knack, listen, self-deceit, willful-deafness, without-flinching

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#24

“Encounters may help us discover our inner world, reveal us to ourselves and unshackle us from prejudices, but still, they can disrupt our thinking patterns when they make us too dependent or needy. However, if they give voice to our life choices and offer inner freedom, they inspire and enlighten us. ("I seek you")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: encounters, enlighten, i-seek-you, inner-freedom, inner-world, life-choices, prejudices, thinking-pattern, unshackle

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#25

“If the light in our hearts can brighten up the darkness in the mindset of our neighbors, we liberate them from a prison of distrust and prejudice. The healing glow unshackles the frozen atoms of their minds. ("Le ciel c'est l'autre")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: darkness, distrust, frozen-atoms, healing, hearts, le-ciel-c-est-l-autre, light, mindset, prejudice, unshackle

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#26

“If we learn to see things as they are and not as we would like them to be, we avoid many frustrations. If we do not confuse our hopes with our perceptions, the glass house of our values will remain lustrous. ("Like peeing against the wind" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: confuse, frustrations, glass-house, hopes, lustrous, peeing-against-the-wind, perceptions, see-things-not-as-the-are, values

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#27

“We learned enough lessons the hard way and, thus, have come to understand that we must clearly recognize the things that are either expanding our mental welfare and brightening the paths to creative thinking or the things that are ripping our lives apart.("Going back to yesterday" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brighten-the-path, creative-thinking, expand, going-back-to-yesterday, learn-the-hard-way, mental-welfare, recognize, rip-apart

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#28

“Let us stop wracking our brains with vain and futile stories but keep it loosey-goosey without missing a beat of our life in our pursuit for authenticity.( "If he doesn't play ball")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: authenticity, beat-of-life, brains, futile, loosey-goosey, play-ball, pursuit, vain, wrack

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#29

“Above all, let us take the time to learn to listen intently to ourselves if we want to be mindful and aware of others. If we can untie the knotty points in our minds and become conscious of what is essential in our lives, we can reach the core of our inner selves and then sense how cool it is to listen to others and enjoy the wonder of connecting. ("I am on my own side, but I can listen" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: connecting, consciousness, inner-selves, knotty-points, listen-to-others, mindful, on-my-side, take-the-time

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#30

“Even when we feel the sun in our soul has died, and the autumn storms of our life have broken the glow in our eyes, nothing must keep us from swelling the river of our inner longing. We can create a new scenario and colorize the chapters of the story we want to embed and liven up the thinking pattern of the personae we would like to cast a role.( "Into a new life")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cast-a-role, colorize, embed, eyes, glow, inner-longing, new-life, soul, sun, thinking-pattern

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