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#1

“Let our brain intuit what feelings are craving to express. If our mind catalyzes an uplifting bond with our emotions, both become brothers at arms, and build a realm of common sense. ( "Disruption" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: brainy-quotes, brother-at-arms, catalyze, common-sense, disruption, emotions, express, feelings, intuit, uplifting-bond

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#2

“When we decide to settle down outside the groove of our daily grind, we have room to discover the world of others who can revive our hidden desires and relaunch us into new adventures. ("Absence of Desire")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: absence-of-desire, daily-grind, hidden-desires, new-adventures, others, relaunch, revive

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#3

“Meditation lets us become humble and free ourselves from the cumbersome dead weight of self-opinion. Insight and gratefulness are significant footholds in life. The insight that sets out the path we must walk and gratefulness that lets us discover the precious jewels of the encounters throughout our journey in the rabbit hole of our minds. (“The rabbit hole of Meditation”)”
― Erik Pevernagie, The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

tags: cumbersome, dead-weight, encounters, foothold, gratefulness, humble, insight, meditation, rabbit-hole, self-opinion

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#4

“We must not look past the maneuvers of politicians who feel driven by intuition fed by visionary hysteria. They pretend to have a 'privileged' mission to shoulder but rob people's physical or mental property, appropriating their cultural heritage. If their intuition is cautioned as vicious or murderous by reason or facts, history will forever eradicate their soul from the holy grail of humanity, especially those who want to set the world on fire for their sole ambition. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: ambition, cultural-heritage, holy-grail, humanity, intuition, maneuvers, mental-property, politicians, visionary-hysteria, what-after-bowling-alone

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#5

“Why do people so often keep on speaking without ever saying anything? Words so often disappear furtively, as if they had never existed. They don’t stir any strings in our minds or thrill our emotions. They leave no trace in our memory and vanish simply like birds in the airy void of the sky. ("Words flew away like birds" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: emotions, fly-away-like-birds, memory, minds, saying, speaking, trace, words

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#6

“If we can step back at times and have the guts to carve doubt in the concrete stone of our certainties, we can hear the beat of a thinking heart. While listening to the stirring of our deep selves and striving to squeeze through the thicket of our intentions, we may find an atoning venue of understanding and sympathy. ("Beware of the neighbor")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beware-of-the-neighbor, carve-doubt, certainties, concrete-stone, deep-self, intentions, step-back, sympathy, thinking-heart, understanding

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#7

“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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#8

“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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#9

“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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#10

“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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#11

“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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#12

“We never come out untouched from the spell of beauty. While we break away from the commonplace, upscaling and veering from the trodden path, it challenges the ordinary. On the broken pieces of the humdrum of our lives, beauty conjures up poetry and infinity.( "Absence of beauty was like hell")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beauty, commonplace, humdrum, infinity, poetry, spell, trodden-path

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#13

“What a relief it is when we have the power to detach ourselves from ourselves, laugh at our pathetic weaknesses, and get the knack of sweeping away the certainties that are not essential in our lives. ( "Steaming ahead")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: certainties, detach-ourselves-from-ourselves, non-essential, pathetic, steaming-ahead, weaknesses

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#14

“In our relationships with others, we need to remain free, without becoming what they want us to be, despite ourselves, with no enslavement to their expectations. The alienation from ourselves can never be an option in the garden of our mental health. ("Steaming ahead")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: alienation-from-ourselves, enslavement, expectations, mental-health, relationships, remaining-free

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#15

“We may be fascinated by the temptations of random encounters. Still, randomness can upset us by the pertinacity of our habits, actuating warning signals or panic buttons in our minds and preventing us from opening up to others. If we want to meet others and, even so, better understand how we are wired and what makes us tick, we must cultivate our tastes and tame the flavors of our lifestyle. ("I seek you")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: cultivate, habits, i-seek-you, lifestyle, make-tick, panic-button, pertinacity, random-encounters, warning-signs

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#16

“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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#17

“If we treasure meditation and don’t mind being taken off guard at every bend of our life, we can experience all privileged moments like sparks springing from the intangible fairyland of our mind’s eye. (“The rabbit hole of Meditation”)”
― Erik Pevernagie, The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

tags: at-every-bend, fairyland, intangible, meditation, mind-s-eye, privileged-moments, rabbit-hole, sparks, taken-off-guard

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#18

“Let us people 'be' as they are, authentic, floundering on the flow of rippling moments, simmering in their juice. Why should we expect them to build up a house of cards crumbling down behind a curtain of appearances? Why keep bending backward every time, suffering unbearable torments and distressful heartbeats? Why inflame people to focus on cringy living standards with a hell's race of illusions? - Erik Pevernagie”
― Erik Pevernagie, The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

tags: authentic, cringy-living-standards, curtain-of-appearances, flow, heartbeats, house-of-cards, illusions, rippling-wave, simmering-in-their-juice, to-be

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#19

“Meditation allows us to free ourselves from burdensome habits, drop the harassing weightiness of our snakeskin, and transform our life into a land of infinite wisdom. (“The rabbit hole of Meditation”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: burdensome, harassing, infinite-wisdom, meditation, rabbit-hole, snake-skin, weightiness

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#20

“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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#21

“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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#22

“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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#23

“If relationships have been pinned down like nails in the wall and do not renew themselves every moment, allowing us to change our mind’s core or improve our world vision, we are like frozen characters that remain only at the stage of “being” and do not develop into the instar of “becoming.” ("Like a frozen image")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: being-and-becoming, frozen-characters, frozen-image, our-mind-s-core, pinned-down, relationships, renew, world-vision

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#24

“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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#25

“If we care to listen to the secrets of our body and the riddles of our heart, we can balance the surfing flow between the wants of our mind and the needs of the flesh. ("Disruption" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: body, care, disruption, flesh, heart, listening, mind, needs, riddles, surfing-flow

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#26

“We must not let boredom or greed dictate our lives and exploit our compulsive fantasies or spendthrift desires. ("Keeping up with the Joneses")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: boredom, compulsive, desires, dictate, fantasies, greed, keeping-up-with-the-joneses, spendthrift

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#27

“The traps of unbridled passion that drive us to hold back the truth and hamper us from speaking candidly and truthfully must not invade our thinking. Living on lies and denying irrefutable facts to attain power or glory condemn anyone to walk on bumpy paths with awkward pitfalls and embarrassing wrangles. ("The power and the glory" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bumpy-paths, irrefutable-facts, living-on-lies, pitfalls, power-and-glory, speaking-candidly, thinking, truth, unbridled, wrangles

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#28

“When we feel betrayed by the vagaries of life, and our wet dreams turn out to be nightmares, let us keep eyes wide open and look for the sparks in the glance of the people. They not only can share a shard of oxytocin but also inspire us to appreciate the fragrance of the ordinary things we have ignored for so long. (“A handful of dust”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: eyes-wide-open, fragrance, glance, inspire, nightmares, ordinary-things, oxytocin, sparks, vagaries, wet-dreams

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#29

“Let us not be devastated by the grim wings of fear fluttering in the twisting patches of our minds. By empowering the dynamic force of our brainwaves, we can stir the lame blots to overturn the hinders of fear and give rise to confidence and creativity. (“Fear of the white page”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blot, brainwaves, cofidence, creativity, devastated, empowering, fear-of-the-white-page, fluttering, grim

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#30

“Let us not ponder over biting ripostes that are thought of just seconds too late on our way home. Rather than awkwardly stumbling on the flight of steps to verbal avenge and tormenting ourselves with the wit of the staircase and its pointless ruminations or self-righteous vanity, we better transcend the shallow waters of narcissism and find harmony by resourcing ourselves in humility.
("Wit of the staircase")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: biting-ripostes, flight-of-steps, humility, narcissism, pointless-ruminations, resourcing-oneself, verbal-avenge, wit-of-the-staircase

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