“When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ( "Looking for the unexpected" )” UnderstandingBehaviorCuriousUpliftingUnexpectedLearnKnowOthersOthernessHowWhereEstablishDifferLinkLooking For Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Let’s watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole interests are soaring targets at high-speed, at all costs and without any consideration. Perceptive understanding may help us discover the hidden actualities behind the ‘appearances’. .("Mama. Meine Bäume wachsen bis in den Himmel")” PeopleUnderstandingDiscoverActualityHiddenUnpredictabilityHigh SpeedAppearancesInterestsTargetsContrarianSoaringPerceptiveAt All CostsWatch Out ForWildcat JumpsWithout Consideration Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Let’s loosen up some time and take a break to re-calibrate our life. We need no endless over-thinking, though. Let’s just connect the dots, set the scene, and steam ahead. ("On a casual day without a tie")” LifeCasualOver ThinkingTieTake A BreakConnect The DotsLoosen UpSteam AheadSet The SceneRe Calibrate Author:Erik Pevernagie
“The day we finally hold ourselves accountable, rather than putting the blame on others, and come clean about our responsibilities, we unfetter ourselves from ravaging frustrations and fretting crankiness. ("The unbearable heaviness of being" )” BlameHeavinessAccountableFrettingResponsibilitiesFrustrationsCrankinessCome CleanUnfetter Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ("Tolerance zero")” IndividualStructureToleranceZeroSystemsNeuronsShitTerminologyFuckColonReplaceProfuselyFoulmouthed Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we are able to convey ‘meaning’ to things and to actions, we may dominate part of the obscure world of ignorance. When we try to give sense to our life, we can come to ‘awareness’ and fill some of the numerous black holes of witlessness in our thinking. We may, then, defy and dam the existential void, down the stretch. ("Not without my shadow")” ThinkingAwarenessShadowMeaningVoidExistentialBlack HolesDefyDamWitlessness Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we crumble under the exorbitant weight of conspicuous commodities and the material pressure in a universe of illusion, life may become disheveled and devastated, while our mind has been dumbed down and our willpower crippled. ( “Buying now. Dying later “ )” IllusionWeightWillpowerCrippledConspicuous ConsumptionDumbing DownCrumbleDisheveledBying Now Dying LaterMaterial Pressure Author:Erik Pevernagie
“The power and the glory often navigate murky waters and reveal the fragility of their quest because power can either bolster or erode the glory and prove how elusive and precarious their vims and vigor are. ("The Power and the Glory")” ElusiveFragilityPrecariousThe Power And The GloryMurky WatersVim And Vigor Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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")” UnderstandingSympathyIntentionsCertaintiesStep BackBeware Of The NeighborCarve DoubtConcrete StoneDeep SelfThinking Heart Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Let us doom and gloom not creep into our day and lust for life not wither away. With the future as brother-in-arms, steps in the unknown should not frighten. ("Steps in the unknown" )” StepsFutureDayUnknownFrightenLust For LifeDoom And GloomCreepWitherBrother In Arms Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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”)” StrategyBreadMissing OutDisgruntledConstructReconstructSecond DimensionDisjointedEerie VoidRepertoire Author:Erik Pevernagie
“By out-talking or bad-mouthing people, some get hoisted by their own petard, ultimately. When their sense of shame makes them crawl back to the open, they can only recover through a convalescing remedy of humbleness. After an exhausting journey throughout the scorching desert of disgrace, they come to know how to be reborn from themselves. This rebirth allows them to recognize their true selves and to become relatable again. ("Waiting for emancipation")” ShameTrue SelfDisgraceRelatableRebornConvalescenceBad MouthingHoistedOut TalkingPetard Author:Erik Pevernagie
“The keen edge that may save emotional waifs and strays from numbness is the enlivening hunch of being dearly missed or expected. This very outlook ensures a comforting ground for faltering footfalls. ("Knowing someone was waiting")” EmotionalNumbnessEdgeMissedEnsureHunchEnliveningFootfallWaifs And Strays Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When people have not learned to interpret the past, to read the present; and to imagine and empower the future, they are living a life without a punchline, clueless about the story they are embarked upon. ("Not on the shortlist" )” PastImagineFuturePresentEmpowerCluelessPunchlineInterpretEmbarkShortlist Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we take the time to break free from the tyranny of Time and learn to listen to the sound of unspoken words, we discern the hot air behind the frenzy of the wheeling and dealing around. (“Wheeling and dealing »)” TimeSoundTyrannyLearnFrenzyHot AirUnspoken WordsBreak FreeDiscernWheeling And DealingListen To Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive, disillusionment may have to be mended, wounds to be healed and emotional fallouts to be taken care of, mindfully ( "Is that all there is ?")” LoveEmotionalWoundsDustDisillusionmentHarshnessOppressiveNew RealityVolcanicMindfull Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When the invisible wall between two secret gardens crumbles down, it may provoke an irreparable emotional earth slide or it may be an unexpected opportunity of building a newfangled bridge between clandestine desires and furtive impulses. .( "No handkerchief, when you need it")” EmotionalDesiresBridgeSecret GardenClandestineHandkerchiefFurtiveCrumble DownEarth SlideNewfangled Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When some name dropping and eye-rolling chin-strokers are trying to snow us under with an avalanche of swollen narratives, we must never resist puncturing the blown-up balloons of their twisted too-good-to-be-true stories. The sound of bursting balloons may, then, ring like ravishing music in the ears.("Could the milk man be the devil?" )” BalloonsMilkmanBurstName DroppingEye RollingChin StrokersPuncturedSwollen NarativeTo Good To Be True StoriesTo Snow Under Author:Erik Pevernagie
“The fragmentation of our awareness may trigger dizzying vertigo in the chaos of our living. As such, an overwhelming flurry of connectivity and images generate thereby an oversaturation in our brain and the overabundance makes us anxious, fractured and insecure. This might, in turn, actuate us to cut the wire with the world and stumble into an estranging and contentious cocoon of self-absorption, while off-loading the lush supply of social interaction. Life becomes, then, an intricate maneuvering ground for walking a fine line between sound connectedness and crumbling consciousness, between unflinching cohesion and atomizing fragmentation. ("Give me more images")” ConsciousnessAwarenessCohesionSelf AbsorptionFragmentationConnectivityCocoonManeuvring GroundOversaturationWalk A Fine Line Author:Erik Pevernagie
“While they prefer to avoid cracks and flaws, many choose to recalibrate their lives, weigh, and assess what they perceive. Distrusting vague descriptions and suspecting “loose ends,” they seek to measure the world. Precision and transparency are their passion that can help balance their thoughts and still their mind. Measuring is knowing, and the right measurement offers them knowledge and inner peace. (“Measuring space”)” KnowledgePerceiveFlawsCracksVagueTransparencyMeasuringWeighRecalibrate Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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" )” LifeSpaceIdentityPersonalityBecomingCapableManRangeAcquireRoutineShedRetreatPossibilitiesFavourBeingHabitsChallengeCreateImprisonmentSkinDevelopBeyondQualitiesSnakeMattersDeadlyShakespeareanTo Be Or Not To BeMerelyGet Rid OfAssembledTo BecomeCall Into QuestionTo Go Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Many think they play the last act. With life in turmoil, they seem to live the setup of a shattering countdown. To an insistent appeal for crucial answers, they only receive evasive responses or killing silence. But since the banks of their patience are bursting, an intractable cataclysm disturbs their interior world. Yet, this disruption might allow them to restore their emotional power by cleansing the oppressive environment and purifying the air that they breathe. ("Corporeal prison".)” AirBreatheDisruptionCleansingShatteringPurifyingCataclysmEmotional PowerCountdownInsistent Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Let us join the flow of ethereal vibrations when love is at our fingertips and encounter the mystery and wonder of unsuspected instants. Let us dip into the marvel of the budding and the blooming spray of our dreams brightening up our path. ("Crystallization under an umbrella")” LoveWonderMysteryFlowUmbrellaMarvelBloomingBuddingCrystallizationEthereal Vibrations Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we settle down in the homeland of love, let us not forget to choose an uplifting horizon, where humor and joyfulness are along the way, and our heartbeat guides the rhythm of our day and composes the song of our passion. ("Crystallization under an umbrella" )” LoveHumorRhythmUpliftingHorizonHeartbeatHomelandJoyfulnessCrystallizationSong Of Passion Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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" )” ValuesHopesPerceptionsConfuseFrustrationsGlass HouseLustrousPeeing Against The WindSee Things Not As The Are Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If the inner world splinters into pieces and we feel abandoned in the remains of a worn-out story, let us look up, discern new paths, and listen to the stirring, tingling sounds in the dense thicket of untrodden settings that we go across during our journey. ("Halt in flight")” RemainsDenseInner WorldHalt In FlightSplinter Into PiecesThicketUntroddenWorn Out Story Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Let us take care of ourselves instead of burning out in the long run. The path of our inner world is not an irreversible freeway to immutable integrity. Let us thus leave room for some probing during the fast and furious assault of the wishful targets throughout our lives. We need not feel demeaned either when we waver in facing the hassling crossroads coming up or must admit needing incidental backing or feel compelled to accept to question ourselves to the bottom. ("Poste Restante")” ProbingFast And FuriousWaverBurning OutDemeanedHassling CrossroadsImmutable IntegrityTaking Care Of OneselfTo Question Oneself Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Outplacement should give us the glow of a lighthouse, and the outplacer must bring the joy of the bluebirds, the humming of the bumblebees, and a buzz of excitement back into our lives. (“Waiting for Mr. Outplacer“)” ExcitementBuzzLighthouseBumblebeesBluebirdsOutplacementOutplacer Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we think the world has no sense, we are still free to enjoy all the imaginable nonsense. (“Drunken ship »)” WorldEnjoyNonsenseNo SenseImaginableDrunken Ship Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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. " )” LifeHappinessSeeingWindLuckyHearingPotentialWarmthNarcissismBrightnessConnectednessAppearancesFocusingAloofnessFind OutDimnessIrrrelevant Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Some ephemeral moments must be given a memory, because the temporality of an instant may radiate a twinkle of eternity.( "Crystallization under an umbrella" )” MomentsEternityMemoryInstantEphemeralTemporalityRadiateTwinkleCrystallized Dreams Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what is, not is, and maybe is, might embed an enduring showdown, harboring an intense apprehension, and bring us sometimes unwittingly to our knees ("The hidden sides of his character" )” BrainConfrontationApprehensionTruthsBewildermentShowdownEmbedHarborUnwittingGo Haywire Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we feel the cards are stacked against us, and we have to confront the arresting questions of our walks of life, we may happen to face up to an “apocalypse.” When we meet head-on a disclosure of a “new” truth and come to terms with the destruction of our “old” reality, the disparity might be very challenging, but conceivably liberating as well. ("Looking for the unexpected" )” ApocalypseLiberatingDisparityDisclosureChallengingWalk Of LifeNew TruthArresting QuestionsCards Are StackedOld Reality Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we feel that our default thinking is creeping up on us and starts stifling our minds, we must break the shell of our habits. If rehashed thoughts and bland humdrum are smothering the upshot of subdued cravings, we must create space for the budding of a new dawn. By unsealing all the windows of our mental dungeon, we loosen up our rusty thinking and cut ties with the useless prerogatives of the past. ("Corporeal prison")” HumdrumNew DawnBuddingCorporeal PrisonDefault ThinkingMental DungeonPrerogativesRehashed ThoughtsRusty Thinking Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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 »)” RadiationVibrationsLife JourneyLight And DarkMastermindsCheck And MatePanic ButtonPath Of StillnessPsychopaticUnfettering Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we reframe or reinterpret our difficulties, we can transform resignation into a source of personal empowerment. In our ongoing struggle for self-overcoming, we must harness our inner strength and creativity and assert our will in the face of challenging times. ("Check, and mate")” Inner StrengthResignationTransformChallenging TimesPersonal EmpowermentReframeReinterpretCheck And MateSelf Overcoming Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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" )” LifeFearLivingExcludedMasqueradeRoleSocial Group Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Art creates new dimensions, opens our scope, and transcends us from demeaning "pettiness" that haunts the minds of emotionally underprivileged people. ("When is Art?")” ArtEmotionalDimensionsScopeMindsPettinessDemeaningUnderprivilegedTranscendHaunt Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When the shimmer of the past is melting into the presence, spreading a scent of attentiveness and inquiringness, our mind may ask for a new reading of the story of our life. An innocuous flicker from a hazy sequence in our memory lane can affect our current awareness, making us raise questions, throwing new light on our expectations; crafting an airy vision of the future. ("A change of vision" )” VisionAwarenessScentFlickerShimmerAttentivenessMemory LaneInnocuousRaise QuestionsInquiringness Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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" )” LifeSequenceSailorRiddleComplementaryAttentiveDrunkenExpectantChronicle Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Watching the wonder of a dewdrop clinging on a tree leaf in the early morning sunlight can give us an ethereal thrill and at one time awaken the elapsed compass of our inner child. ("Why step out of nature") .” NatureWonderThrillCompassAwakenInner ChildEtherealMorning SunlightDewdropTrea Leaf Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If life has got to be a play, let's play it well. As the avoidance of problems and the maintenance of inner peace may guide us smartly through open and unswerving confrontations, let's face up to conflicts playfully, as well. Playfulness allows us to see things from different angles and may sometimes save us from harmful outcomes. ("The band was still playing")” BandInner PeaceOutcomesAngleAvoidanceGuidePlayfulnessHarmfulOpen ConfrontationsUnswerving Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits or mysterious undercurrent power games, a number of social tell-tale flickers might help us in finding a lucid interpretation of hazy circumstances. ("Trompe le pied.")” CircumstancesPsychologicalMysteriousInterpretationFindCrippledFlickerManipulativeNumberHazySocial RelationshipsGambitLucidMinefieldUndercurrentPower GamesAcrimoniousTell Tale Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we can still capture the enlightening sounds in the deep grooves of our memory, we may be sure we have not lived crippled in the deafened ripples of mental silence beyond the focus of attention.("Corporeal prison")” AttentionMemoryCrippledRipplesCorporeal PrisonDeafenedDeep GroovesEnlightening SoundsMental Silence Author:Erik Pevernagie
“We can build up a significant life story of our own and enjoy the richness and depth of its plot if we don’t want to surrender to external forces to shape our lives and don’t yield to a lack of mindpower. ("Everybody his story")” PlotLife StoryExternal ForcesMindpowerEverybody His Story Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we think outside the box or build a new box, a new framework, or a poignant narrative, we can break free from established thought patterns. ( "Everybody his story")” Think Outside The BoxEverybody His StoryBuild A New BoxEstablished Thought PatternsPoignant Narrative Author:Erik Pevernagie
“In a world that often seems chaotic or overwhelming, we seek clarity, order, and meaning. In the puzzle of our life, we may never fully "find" Waldo (the absolute truth) but the search itself can enlighten us and shape who we are or who we become. ( "Everybody his story")” OrderClarityMeaningAbsolute TruthSearch For TruthEnlightenEverybody His StoryChaotic WorldLife S PuzzleWaldo Author:Erik Pevernagie
“We know truth is constantly evolving, waiting to be refined. It is not a cluster of certainties but a process of searching and testing. While embracing this search, we can do it with joy or resentment, even in the face of its pointlessness. . ( "Everybody his story")” Everybody His StoryProcess Of SearchingTrurth Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Our life stories help us integrate our experiences and understand our place in the world. They give coherence and direction to our lives. ( "Everybody his story")” ExperienceDirectionCoherenceLife StoriesEverybody His Story Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Emotion is ‘recognition’. When treasured moments are identified in the jungle of our personal history during a visual or aural encounter, we capture magic sparks from our past, arousing flashes of insight and revealing an inner flare. These instants of recognition may kindle enthralling emotion and fulfilling inspiration. (“Those journeys of love”)” LoveMomentsInspirationPastEmotionMagicInsightRecognitionInstantCaptureSparksFlashFulfillingJungleRevealingTreasuredPersonal HistoryJourneysEncounterKindleIdentifyVisualArouseAuralEnthrallingInner Flare Author:Erik Pevernagie