“Schizophrenic pandemic aggression may keep us in the confinement of our physical arrest. Still, if we have no other tools in our shed, we have to grind our teeth, take a deep breath, sharpen our awareness, and use the time to recognize what is essential in life. ("Corporeal prison").” AwarenessPandemicAggressionBreathSchizophrenicConfinementEssentialRecognizeCorporeal PrisonGrind Our Teeth Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we don’t stay hungry for attention and awareness, our life is doomed to remain bare and fallow. ("Love lying fallow ").” LifeAttentionAwarenessHungryDoomedBareLying Fallow Author:Erik Pevernagie
“So many sing out of tune and need a little help from their friends, but this may not suffice. Everyone should, thus, leave their ivory tower, now and then, and roll up their sleeves to help the sheeple to break the mold, those who have been doomed to remain unconstructed and unfit to experience revivifying awareness and gratifying conditions. (“Bread and Satellite”)” AwarenessDoomedIvory TowerSheepleBreak The MoldGratifyingOut Of TuneRevivifyingUnconstructed Author:Erik Pevernagie
“People are not dying of lack of money but of lack of esteem and awareness. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an")” DyingAwarenessEsteemSchweinLack Of Money Author:Erik Pevernagie
“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to deal with the fragmentation of our self and assess the deconstruction of our identity, a corny incident could easily capsize our being. A misinterpretation of facts and expectations may perturb our awareness and unsettle our perception. When “I” and “me” don’t get along very well, the road to oneness may be very often bumpy. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)” ThinkingSelfFactsVoiceAwarenessIdentityPerceptionExpectationsOnenessBeingCornyRoadEmergenceMeIMessageInsipidDeconstructionFragmentationMisinterpretationDisruptIncidentOther WorldAssessGet AlongDeal WithIncongruentPerturbUnsettleBumpy RoadCapsizeThinking System Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Sly vendors of tears who like to provoke emotional wreckage should be eschewed intently. Let us not be content with fake commitments but care for genuine concern. When we listen attentively to what tears tell us, we can comprehend their story. Empathy allows us to interpret and respond supportively since tears can convey awareness and identify fear, grief, shortage, or joy. ("Words had disappeared”)” JoyFearAwarenessTearsEmpathyGenuine ConcernEmotional WreckageFake CommitmentsVendors Of Tears Author:Erik Pevernagie
“We have shut up long enough, and now is the time to speak out loud. Yesterday was the silence of the underdog, but today we recognize how unbearably colorless and tasteless our treadmill is. When we recognize things, we can come to comprehend them, and through that knowledge, we get insight into the reality of our needs, allowing our awareness to give birth to a clear vision to catalyze ultimate wisdom. ("The upper lip must never tremble" )” WisdomAwarenessInsightUnderdogColorlessTreadmillTastelessUpper LipCatalyzeSpeak Out Loud Author:Erik Pevernagie
“While focusing on the present moment, we soothe our minds and construe our intuition and inner wisdom. Our mindfulness allows us to access lower levels of awareness and gain insight into our reflections and emotions. At the same time, it lessens overthinking and anxiety. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)” WisdomMeditationAwarenessMindfulnessEmotionsReflectionInsightIntuitionPresent MomentOverthinking Author:Erik Pevernagie
“From the chronology of our time perception we keep garnering fetching and enticing instants of our life story, still abounding in our mind. As they emerge like lucky sparkles of our unyielding awareness, we hold them dearly in the treasury of our remembrance. ("Just for a moment")” MindAwarenessLuckyRemembranceMomentLife StoryChronologyEmergeTime PerceptionGarner Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Regret is the insight that comes too late. Too little and too late. Too little empathy and too late awareness. ("Island of regret - Island of remorse." )” AwarenessRegretEmpathyInsightToo LittleToolate Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Intense and passionate love can be very demanding or exhausting, for it depends on vulnerability, empathy, and emotional investment to navigate the turbulent waters with awareness. (Another empty room)” AwarenessEmpathyVulnerabilityPassionate LoveEmotional InvestmentAnother Empty RoomTurbulent Waters Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we challenge the inertia of our awareness and look at the appealing beauty around us, we can meet the core of our deeper selves. When we venture to open our eyes to the little wonders that arise from innocent daily incidents, we can allow ourselves to reconnect, spurn pressure, step out of our comfort retreat, and spend quality time with our friends without any sense of guilt of wasting time. ("Waiting for Eureka")” BeautyAwarenessComfort ZoneQuality TimeReconnectDeeper SelfLittle WondersWaiting For EurekaInnocent Daily Incidents Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Stars in the sky will always glitter if we are not blinded by the erosion of our emotions, or hampered by our lack of interest and awareness. ("Living life as a poem")” StarsSkyAwarenessPoemEmotionsGlitterBlindedErosionLack Of InterestHampered Author:Erik Pevernagie
“So often, we want to be part of the big picture and “understand” what all the hassle is about in our lives. We feel we are missing out on the essential pieces of the puzzle, permanently struggling with the confrontation of the absence of awareness. Still, so often, we do not make the time nor have the guts to take the plunge to experience the enlightening inner transformation that gives us the insight we have longed for so badly. ("A character's hidden sides ")” CharacterAwarenessInsightEnlighteningMissing OutInner TransformationHidden SidesPieces Of The Puzzle Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we lose our integrity, we fail socially and, above all, emotionally because we must struggle with shame, dissonance, and creeping awareness of becoming a stranger to ourselves. ("The Power and the Glory")” AwarenessIntegrityShameDissonanceEmotionallySociallyThe Power And The GloryStranger To Oneself Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Cultivating our "insight" and polishing up our "perception" gives us a free pass to understanding our place in the world, allowing us to earn heavenly sparkles of happiness and awareness on our life path. ("When is Happiness?" - "C’est quand le bonheur ?")” HappinessUnderstandingAwarenessPerceptionInsightBonheur Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we are unaware of the substance and importance of our choices, we may fall victim to errors of omission or missed opportunities. If awareness arrives too late, the actions we have not taken or the words that were left unspoken may squeeze us into an irreversible void. Lateness can imply irredeemable failure. ("Island of regret.- Island of remorse.")” AwarenessFailureVoidIrreversibleLatenessIrredeemableWords Unspoken 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
“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
“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
“Once our imagination starts collapsing and the fragrant blossoms of our inspiration are wilting, petal after petal, our awareness may shake to its foundations, but nothing might deter us if we find the strength to rediscover the path back to the undifferentiated groundedness of our being and the essence of our roots. ("One drink after work.")” InspirationImaginationAwarenessWiltingPetalGroundednessCollapsingDrink After WorkFragrant BlossomsOur Being Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we scan our desires and relationships with awareness and base them on their real-world value, we can free ourselves from irrational attachments and align desires with reason. By uncovering buried drives, we can redefine them and make decisions that genuinely benefit our lives. (“Twilight of desire”)” RelationshipsAwarenessDecisionsTwilight Of DesireIrritating AttachmentsReal World Value Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Let us not hoodwink our eyes, blurring our awareness and misleading our apprehension. Let us dare to “see” what we see and, at the same time, touch the feel and the overtone as well. ("Man without Qualities" )” AwarenessFeelSeeMisleadingMan Without QualitiesEyesapprehensionHoodwinkOvertone Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of ‘interest’ and ‘attention’, so long as we focus on the ‘singular moments’ and the ‘appealing details’ in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture for a functional future. ("Lost the global story.")” LifeMindMomentsLostFocusAwarenessFuturePerceptionConnectionsPatienceDetailsEnduranceMentalComprehensiveNumbnessCloudyPictureShapeContextQuagmireScreenFunctioningAppealingSingularChessboardGlobal StoryLame DuckConked OutTear OpenWhittle Away Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life gives us a flair of awareness in the breeze of our daily journey and offers a free reign to explore what we are, to experience what we are not and to find out what we may become: a free ride until everything melts down into the indistinct and indefinite, while walking up to the ultimate gate of non-existence. ("Living on probation")” LifeJourneyAwarenessExperienceUltimateBreezeGiveExploreDailyFlairNon ExistenceOfferGateFind OutTo Be Or Not To BeIndefiniteFree ReinLiving On ProbationMelt DownTo BecomeFree RideIndistinctWalk Up To Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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" )” MomentsLightTimeAwarenessEventsExperienceLifetimeDetailsInstantEnjoymentFeelingIntensityShedStolenCreateGuideDailyEncounterSecondGlowExposeDimensionIntensiveExpound Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we dare to dream, we must dare to wake up. When we come to rub our eyes wide open and face up to realness, we can clear our vision and curb a whirlwind of bewilderment that might break our mind apart, once fantasy wrangles with reality and our awareness denies the true colors of facts. ("Behind the frosted glass”)” MindFactsDreamRealityVisionFantasyClearAwarenessWake UpDareDenyTrueColorsCurbWhirlwindBewildermentRealnessEyes Wide OpenWrangleFace UpRubFrosted GlassBreak Apart Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Fear may oust people into the dimness of disruption. Let us instead transcend darkness and create room for light to shine. Now is the moment, and the "now" is the stepping stone that allows us to forge ahead, with abundance of awareness and understanding, and without obtrusive egos. (“Fear of the white page”)” DarknessAwarenessEgoMomentTranscendThe NowStepping StoneFear Of The White PageObtrusive Author:Erik Pevernagie