Erik Pevernagie Quotes

“Helping out people in difficulty can be a noble cause. Some will always bear in mind your generosity and remember you forever; especially when they wise up they are in trouble again.("I hope she won't mind my leaving")”

Remember Generosity Wise Up Help Out Be In Trouble Nobel Cause

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“If love does not make us reborn from ourselves, if it does not bring out the best values in us, if it does not reveal us to ourselves, life has dispossessed us, and the reasons are hidden in the dark chambers of our past. (“Amour en friche »)”

Love Past Reveal Amour En Friche Reborn From Ourselves Best Values Dark Chambers Dispossesed

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“When distressing realities flood the banks of our firepower, smothering our daily living, and various events keep rushing into our lives through infringement, only the magic of imagination will sharpen perceptual acuity and restore the sparkle of our buoyancy. (“The Infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”

Meditation Daily Living Infringement Buoyancy Infinite Wisdom Firepower Smothering Distressing Realities Magic Of Imagination Perceptual Acuity

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Let us not be manipulated by societal scripts if we want to maintain our self-authorship that guarantees independent thought and action, allowing social relations to run smoothly. ("Terra Incognita - The lady is a tramp")”

Manipulation Independent Thought Social Relations Self Authorship Societal Scripts

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“When we come to face the entangled vagaries on the chessboard of our life, let us not shrink from using the queen’s gambit to disentwine predictable hassles or diffuse incendiary plots if we want to take control of our being and make our dreams come true, transparent, and straightforward. (”Life with a sea view”)”

Transparent Dreams Do Come True Plots Entangled Chessboard Hassles Incendiary Vagaries Of Life Disentwine Queen S Gambit

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“When we feel devastated sometimes by the deafening noise of the daily commotion, the voices of the sea may help us to elope into a haven of new dimensions. Through our "third ear," we can hear inspirational sounds in the symphony of our expectations while discovering uncharted alleys in the chaos of our mind. ("Voices of the sea")”

Expectations Devastated Sounds Deafening Elope Daily Commotion New Dimension Third Ear Voices Of The Sea

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“Power and glory make the world go round since they are essential drives shaping ambition and social motivation. Time and again, power, as a model of control or authority, sets the stage for glory and credit that results from success or achievement. ("The Power and the Glory")”

Success Authority Ambition Control The Power And The Glory Social Motivation

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“Through the freedom of new thinking, we can transcend boundaries and break down cultural, social, or intellectual barriers. It even lets our failure be seen as a stepping stone to success rather than a setback.("The freedom of new thinking")”

Success Freedom Failure Setback Cultural Barriers New Thinking Stepping Stone Social Barriers Intellectual Barriers Transcend Boundaries

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“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”)”

Meditation Humble Insight Encounters Gratefulness Rabbit Hole Self Opinion Dead Weight Cumbersome Foothold

Book:The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

Source: The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

“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")”

Thinking Misunderstanding Right Words Express Cultivate Misconceptions Conceive Hesitate Deep Waters Set Sail For

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“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" )”

Thinking Motivation Relationships Impression Isolation Pace Friend Oppressed Phone Incongruity Mediator Disparate

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“How come we think we are irrefutably right all the time? What makes us show off our rightness so often? If we agree that we don't just perceive the world, but we frame it, we must admit that errors and misunderstandings arise. Due to the differences in lived reality, we become more open to dialogue and are less addicted to carved certainty. (Is it a bird? Is it a plane?)”

Errors Dialogue Misunderstanding Y Rightness Is It A Bird Is It A Plane Carved Certaint Fram The World Lived Reality

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“Before our life is rolling down into an inescapable descent, let us snoop around and poke about the happy surprises falling into the basket of our inventiveness and keep on laughing and dancing until the end of time, whatever happens.”

Life Inventiveness Rolling Down Happy Surprise Laughing And Dancing Poke About Snoop Around

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“A dog can be our philosophical agent, reintroducing us to ways of thinking and experiencing the world we may have forgotten. ("I am young and have no dog")”

Dog I M Young And Have No Dogust Philosophical Agent Ways Of Thinking

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“By confusing strategy with tactics and mixing up “what” and “how”, we may have a hard time staying on point. ”What” we want, on the one hand, and “how” we want to achieve it, on the other, needs a careful reading and a singular approach. (“When the bar is set too high”)”

Strategy Tactics Bar Stay On Point Mixing Up What And How

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“Please, let us not stick to our comfortable confirmation biases, seeking out our holy truths based on our preexisting beliefs. Viewpoints differing from our own are a blessing to tear open the canvas of ignorance covering our lives. (" No longer in the middle")”

Confirmation Bias Holy Truth No Longer In The Middle Canvas Of Ignorance Differing Viewpoints Preexisting Beliefs

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“After tail spinning into chaos, one needs a bolt-hole, to resource and ‘challenge’ oneself, break free from the haunting constrictions, squirrel back into bouncy and buoyant surroundings and enjoy the many laugh-out-loud-moments of the day. As soon as one manages to wobble out of one’s shell, everything may click into place again and the radiance and glare of the bright side of life might show again. ("Imbroglio")”

Chaos Challenge Shell Buoyant Bolt Hole Constrictions Wobble Bouncy Squirrel Back Tail Spinning

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“We cannot control external events, but we can control how we respond to them. If we maintain emotional resilience and clarity of thought, we can reconcile practicality and motivation, common sense and momentum. ("Trompe le Pied - Trompe l'Oeil)”

Motivation Common Sense Momentum Practicality Clarity Of Thought Emotional Resilience External Events Trompe Le Pied Trompe L Oei

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“If we want to decode our community's deep-seated fibers, we must go and see the world and explore the significant distinctions and resemblances. To find out about the inner self and understand our internal murmurings, we must learn to reach out to the others. ("On a casual day without a tie")”

Community Reach Out Inner Self Resemblance Internal Tie Distinctions Decode Fibers Murmering

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“By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psychological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future. ( "Svp "Arrêt sur image" )”

Time Future Lifestyle Psychological Clock Human Condition Mental Challenge Image Chronology Freeze Frame

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“Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence”)”

Time Friendship Silence Emotional Communication Words Absence Release Wellness Inflation Deficit Deficiency Spawn Gap Screaming Breathing Space Appalling Intolerable

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“Stolen moments” create a feeling of enjoyment in our “intensive time” awareness. The glow and the intensity of those instants can guide us throughout a whole lifetime. They can expose a second or a third dimension of the daily events and shed an expounding light on all the little details we encounter. ("Stolen moments" )”

Moments Light Time Awareness Events Experience Lifetime Details Instant Enjoyment Feeling Intensity Shed Stolen Create Guide Daily Encounter Second Glow Expose Dimension Intensive Expound

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“When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which “was", no longer "is” and when only silence remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river or we may wonder: “What went wrong?”

Mind Past Time Lost Silence Wonder Cry Living Arise Wrong Questions Moment Feel River Shadows Is Was Remain Loads No Longer

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“When we are “time traveling”, we may trip over problems from the past which distort our memory. If we are weary of dealing with lost causes or lame ducks in our history, we have to make up our mind and give up destructive thinking patterns. At that juncture, time has come to go back to the future. ( “A glimpse of the future" )”

Mind Past Time History Memory Destructive Weary Glimpse Give Up Lost Cause Trip Time Traveling Thinking Pattern Distort Deal With Lame Ducks At That Junture Go Back To The Future

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“Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin ear” makes it impossible to hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of ‘sharing’. ("Only needed a light ")”

People Time Social Impossible Emotional Empathy Capture Sharing Suffer Hear Signs Deafness Qualities Insensitivity Vital Vibrant Relatedness Redoubtable Tin Ear Social Deafness

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“If we want to understand people and relate to them, we must be self-aware and have self-compassion. Self-love may be a source of division but can become a key to sympathy, bridging gaps, and fostering connection instead of partition. ("Being my best friend")”

Sympathy Self Compassion Being My Best Friend Understand People Be Self Aware Bridging Gaps

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“Unexpected clashes between past and present may arouse a surge of bewilderment, but ‘time’ can be a redeemer and heal mental wreckage. Time might prove to be a dependable ally and a reliable coach to find a new inspiring sequel for the future. (“Disruption”)”

Past Time Inspiring Future Prove Heal Unexpected Present Disruption Find Redeemer Coach Dependable Bewilderment Reliable Ally Surge Sequel Arouse Clashes Mental Wreckage

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“As our life is our main provisional value, ‘taking the time’ to interpret our experiences is a momentous choice. Time, life and choice outline a trilogy that can solve and unite so as to vanquish the powerlessness which we might face on our path. (Could time be patient?)”

Life Time Path Choice Powerlessness Trilogy Vanquish Interpret Provisional Value

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“As we go through the flightiness of time, dazed by the inebriety of our mental time voyage, we must hit the brakes, sometimes, and not shy away from questioning ourselves, when we wade through the tanning mist of our memory that embroiders our thoughts or distorts them. ("Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh" )”

Time Memory Mental Dazed Embroider Flightiness Hit The Brakes Inebriety Shy Away Wade Into

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“If we take the time to unravel the surreptitious fragments from the past that are veiled in the muddle and jumble of our memory, we may single out the essentials for the present that might be best shots for the future. (Never looking back again", )”

Past Time Future Essentials Memory Present Fragments Surreptitious Unravel Muddle And Jumble

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“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”)”

Time Space Burning Emptiness Unbearable Content Urge New Reality Smothered

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“While we revel in the passion of the ‘moment’ braving the whirlpool of time, a flow of vibrations may surprise us and reveal unsuspected power in our inner self, giving us muscle and confidence. (" Swim or sink")”

Time Passion Confidence Moment Inner Self Muscle Revel Swim Or Sink Whirlpool Flow Of Vibrations

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“When we recognize a terrene bubbling with freshness, spontaneous joy, and communal spirit behind the wall of superficiality, we must not stop disrupting our cycle of overthinking and isolation and welcome the presence and inspiration of others. ("'Is that all there is ?").”

Inspiration Isolation Presence Freshness Overthinking Spontaneous Joy Is That All There Is Communal Spirit Wall Of Superficiality

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Let us 'time' be a friendly coach, putting the enchantment of each 'present moment’ artfully in a chosen frame of our thoughts. ("Quest for the real moment")”

Time Thoughts Present Moment Enchantment Artfully Chosen Frame Friendly Coach Real Moment

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“If we really want to know, who we are and recognize our identity, we have to find out the identity of the others. By making friends with the others, we are able to make friends with ourselves. At that moment, we can sense how everything falls into place. ( “ Steps in the unknown" )”

Fall Identity Know Others Place Sense Recognize Find Out Make Friends

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“Real-life may not always be a symphony of buoyant instants or ecstatic exploits. Downbeat emotional externalities can emerge unpredictably throughout our life journey. If we wish to turn life into an undying dance prom, let’s keep one foot in reality for sure. ("Blind date")”

Real Life Symphony Life Journey Ecstatic Blind Date Externalities Buoyant Downbeat Dance Prom Unpredictablility

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“Life can be a piece of art, a magic enchantment, a fetching fairy tale or an adventurous story trimmed with alluring episodes. But it may as well be a delusive or hazardous act with many wildcat players seeming to be what they are actually not.”

Life Magic Fairy Tale Act Enchantment Alluring Hazardous Episode Wildcat Delusive

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“If we wrestle with traumas that do not want to give way and our inner little Red Riding Hood cannot get rid of the wolf's threatening giggles, we must not be afraid of opening ourselves to otherness that can trigger a salutary 'orienting reflex' propelling us into a new thinking pattern. ("Into a new life")”

Trauma New Life Wolf Otherness Little Red Riding Hood Giggles Orienting Reflex Thinking Pattern Propel

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“When life turns out to become a muddy pool, we have got to recognize we must fire away and get down to leave for limpid waters and take possession of our dream to follow the flight of the swallows that still hover high in the blue sky of our memory. ("Halt in flight")”

Dream Memory Blue Sky Swallows Hover Halt In Flight Fire Away Limpid Waters Muddy Pool

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“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!")”

Stuff Media Messages Comfort Zone Can Sheeple Digest Don T Leave Bitter Aftertaste Standardized

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“What do we actually expect of our data processor? As our computers acquire interactive interfaces, voices, and adaptive behavior, we may be tempted to invest emotion in them, but they offer only simulation, which breeds intense irritation. It is like trying to love a mirror that won't love back. ("My computer does not understand me")”

Computer Simulation Data Processing Adaptive Behavior Interactive Interface Invest Emotion Love A Mirror

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“When we cannot stand the noise of overthinking anymore, we must reconnect with the essence of our life and our uncarved mental frame. When we flow freely on the rhythm of intuitive living, we can clasp life's ebbs and flows with poise. (“Labyrinth of the mind" »)”

Overthinking Poise Intuitive Living Labyrinth Of The Mind Life S Ebbs And Flows Reconnect With The Essence Uncarved Mental Frame

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“When we step outside ourselves and stop being merely subjective witnesses, we can recognize how the relentless cut and thrust of our own self-righteousness vanishes and new ground is broken for a state of independent thinking, where ”others” do matter. ("Wheeling and dealing.")”

Matter Witness Subjective Others Self Righteousness Independent Thinking Vanish Break New Ground Wheeling And Dealing Cut And Thrust

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“We have to walk out on ourselves, expel ourselves from our inner castle, and drop our formatted masks if we want to encounter people in the flesh, without makeup. ("Steps in the unknown")”

Masks Encounter Make Up Expel Formatted In The Flesh Inner Castle Walk Out On

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“As we travel through our internal landscapes, we recognize the unspoken comfort of knowing someone is waiting for us and experience the layered complexity of our emotions, memories, and anticipations. (Knowing someone is waiting for us.)”

Memories Internal Landscapes Anticipations Complexity Of Emotions Unspoken Comfort

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“What could we want more than being genuine and authentic? We all need a distinctive, substantial identity guiding us along the scary slopes of our life adventure and protecting us from unsuspected pitfalls. Still, our identity remains under construction and can often let us down, tossing us about in our daily journey and recurrently altering its policy. ("Steps into the unknown")”

Genuine Authentic Pitfalls Life Adventure Identity Under Construction Steps Into The Unknown Substantial Identity

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“As people like sharing pieces of their history, let us listen to how they speak, what they say, but precisely what they “mean.” By diving under the surface of their words and following the sound of their intonation, we can get to the bones of their story and, at the same time, a better understanding of oneself. ("Everybody his story" )”

Mean Speak Sound Words Surface Story Say Intonation

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“Some men can be good ' horse whisperers ' and many dogs can be wonderful ' man whisperers '.”

Horse Man Dogs Whisperer

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“If we cling to old stories and carry the burden of regrets, mistakes, and unresolved sorrow, we must recognize that we hold on to pain and suffering. Instead, we must steam ahead, letting go and releasing the grip of the past with the inspiration of mindful liberation, but without willful amnesia. (“Never looking back again”)”

Pain Letting Go Mistakes Liberation Amnesia Never Looking Back Again Old Stories Burden Of Regrets Grip Of The Past Unresolved Sorrow

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“In a world where poverty is a crime and where people are yearning for some crumbs of affection, they can only dance on the brim of the volcano and wait for an eruption of compassion. ("New life in Schengen")”

Compassion Poverty Crime Dance Affection Yearning Crumbs Eruption Volcano Schengen

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