“If we only live through the eyes of the others and don’t try to capture the vibration of our own individual experience, we may miss out the beam and brilliance of authenticity that is essential to move forward in life” LifeIndividualExperienceBrillianceBeamVibrationMove ForwardEssentialMiss OutAuthencity 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
“When we feel life escapes us and we don’t recognize ourselves anymore, we do well to build a safe haven in our frame of mind before the essence of our being evaporates and the keystones of our mental structure disintegrate. ("Absence of Desire" )” LifeDesireEssenceFrame Of MindSafe HavenKeystonesRecognizeMental StateEvaporateDisintegrate Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life. ("Into a new life")” WorldLifeImaginationPowerExpectationsManageDotsScriptWitheringConnectRewriteCreakingAt The Seams Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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 ? ")” LifeMindSilencePovertyEmotionalAffectionMoodContactIsolationDeprivedDesertedPhysicalEdgeOutcasts Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. ("Behind the frosted glass")” LifeStandardsLiesThingsSensePerceptionsFrosted GlassBring To LightPlain VanillaTransvalue Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, our good karma may be ousted by distress and frustration, if negative downbeat waves are emitted. Just with a feel of realism, without prejudice, should we step into the future. What will be, will be. Only the fortune of war will tell, since life may be war or peace. ("Fish for silence.")” LifeWarJoySilenceFutureExpectationsNegativePrejudiceFrustrationRealismDistressDiscomfortClashFeelWar And PeaceFishWavesGood FeelingZestGood KarmaEmitDownbeatOustWhat Will Be Will BeFortune Of WarStep Into Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we misread the blueprint of our life, we need not be ashamed of backtracking on our chosen options. Admitting to mistakes may make us human and maybe great again. ("Sisyphus' hardship on the hill")” LifeHumanChosenAshamedGreatHardshipMakeOptionsSisyphusHillBlueprintAdmitting FaultsBacktrackingMisread Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we don’t want life to treat us like poor clodhoppers or bland hang-abouts, we have to turn ‘surviving’ into ‘living’, readjust our course and propel pointedly a precise track, without being deterred by fear and apprehension. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )” LifeFearLivingTrackSurvivingDeterPropelReadjustClodhopperHang About Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life is a spread of surprises and it is both a privilege and a challenge to respond to things and events, and find the right answers to prickly questions. In this process, however, it might be wise to change first our perception and our way of looking at things, before persistently changing the very things and altering their hallmark. (“Life out there “)” LifeChangePerceptionPrivilegeChallengeHallmarkSurprisesPrickly Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Many politicians are tantalizing storytellers, as they mix facts with fiction, grab our emotion and tell things, they want us to believe. Their factoids are unremittingly reiterated, take a life on their own and in the end become the very truth… until the bubble bursts.("What after bowling alone?" )” WantLifeBelieveFactsTruthEmotionFictionAlonePoliticiansBowlingStorytellersBecomeTellTantalizingIn The EndGrabMixBurstBubbleUnremittingFactoidReiterate Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can “fool people some of the time, but not all of the time”. (“Bribe payers' index »)” LifeTruthLiesNarrativeFakeExpectingInexorableRemainGridlockEventuallyImprisonedDebilitatingChopping BlockBlur The LinesBribe PayersFacts And FablesFool People Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ("When forgetting the rules of the game" )” ThinkingLifeFreedomLifetimeValueRhythmRulesForgettingGameInstillFollowBreakingOfferPreventBreak FreeCocoonPermeateCherry PickingScaringSubtlyExhausingRavishmentCeremonialInner RulesSecuring Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Be it on the garden side or on the courtyard side of life, we have the potential to rise up against the dictatorship of destiny, to become rebels with a cause, at any time, and turn the course of our existence since life deliberately means 'choice’ and offers a range of challenges that can empower us to transcend matters and settings. (‘"Côté cour…Côté jardin" )” LifeChallengesDestinyGardenChoicePotentialRebelDictatorshipTranscendCourtyard Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life is a comprehension of experiences, and the vagaries of our emotions guide us through the ramblings of our distinct journeys and the backwoods of our destiny. ( "Morning after")” LifeDestinyEmotionsComprehensionExperiencesJourneysBackwoodsRamblingsVagaries Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Giving up the obsession of sign-values and the subservient fascination of the social pyramid, allows us to set priorities in life, find out the core of our true self and appreciate being “in” the moment. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )” LifePrioritiesObsessionTrue SelfFascinationCore ValuesSubservientIn The MomentSign ValuesSocial Pyramid Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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" )” LifePhilosophyChoicesResponsibilityMeditationBurdenOppressionMeaningMaturityGravityLightnessHeavinessWeightinessLet Loose Author:Erik Pevernagie
“As gloom and doom have been creeping into their lives, many can’t feel anymore the freshness of their emotions that withered alongside the wearisome path of their expectations. ("Drunken sailor" )” LifePathEmotionsExpectationsFreshnessCreepWitherDrunken SailorWearisomeGloom And Doom Author:Erik Pevernagie
“We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ("Happy days are back again")” LifeHappinessSilenceBack AgainSlamDoorRealizeInattentionHappy DaysDeafenKilling SilenceTunefulness Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life can be brittle and generous. Love and happiness are not static but evolving experiences enhanced by insight, allowing us to transform our existence into a tapestry of vibrant colors and dazzling splendor. (Love, Happiness, and Insight)” LoveLifeHappinessTransformationInsight 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Willful blindness” may hinder us from discerning the critical fault lines in the narrative of our life. Our memory may obliterate then the crucial elements that are vital to really come to know ourselves. ("Non mais, t'as vu l'heure !")” LifeMemoryNarrativeCrucialKnowDiscerningFault LinesObliterateWillful BlindnessHeure Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life is a time span where people mostly do not see the wood for the trees, wondering what may be the accurate answers to the numerous questions that they have assembled throughout their life, how they might prevent their perception from contradicting the reality of the world of their daily experience and how they can find out the actual standards to measure the soundness of their assumptions. Whichever way, no matter how they ponder, they have no other choice than keeping on looking for Waldo or for Wally. (“How high is too far?”)” LifePerceptionStandardsExperienceAssumptionsSoundnessPonderContradictLooking For WaldoTime Span Author:Erik Pevernagie
“In point of fact, life may be just a shaky expectation, inasmuch as everyone realizes that the cards have often been shuffled, well in advance.” LifeExpectationShuffleCards You Have Been DealtShakyIn AdvanceIn Point Of Fact Author:Erik Pevernagie
“As it has the quality to transmit skills and knowledge, our personal history is a brilliant coach teaching us how to act and play along the meanders of life. While it inhabits our living it comes to be our fellow traveler shielding us from slippery slopes; and sometimes from ourselves. ("Going back to yesterday" )” LifeCoachPersonal HistorySlippery SlopeSkills And KnowledgeInhabitMeanderFellow TravellerAct And Play Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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" )” LifeMindBrainBehaveIncidentsResilientCamera ObscuraPredilectionDark Chamber Of The Heart Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Let us loosen our grip sometimes, open up and break free from the corroded mechanism of our life, and let us thereby indulge in living by the seat-of-the-pants allowing unclouded and eye-opening rides. (“Digging for white gold »)” LifeMechanismIndulgeEye OpeningBreak FreeCorrodeWhite GoldLive By The Seat Of The PantsLoosen One S Grip Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we lose the pieces of the wayward mechanism of our life and can’t walk our own walk anymore, we can’t but turn back the clock for a while and detect the hitch, to find out where things went wrong. ( “Wonder what went wrong “ )” LifeWonderMechanismLoseWalkWaywardGo WrongHitchTurn Back The Clock Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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" )” LifeMindJoySpiritChildhoodFieldsYouthValueDetailsMoodBlissRetreatDelightfulFloatingInsignificantCookiesChaoticWavesFranticDailyWorriesThe BeatlesVitalRosebudsTrivialMarcel ProustCitizen KaneStrawberryMemory LaneMadeleinePaper BoatsWalk DownBring BackLeitmotif Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life is a conjurer’s trick that may become a playground for multifarious side-splitting acts; sometimes a showdown for a series of torturous, off the wall questions or often a terrain for tragic miscalculations. ("Wheeling and dealing." )” LifeOff The WallPlaygroundShowdownMiscalculationTorturousConjurer S TrickMultifariousSide Splitting Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Finding the happy medium between what our brain tells us, what our mind inspires us, and what our heart instills is our paramount challenge in life.( "Poste Restante" )” LifeChallengeParamountPoste RestanteHappy MediumOur Brain TellsOur Heart InstillsOur Mind Inspires Author:Erik Pevernagie
“One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a harsh and uninviting setting. Nothing seems to grow anymore. No seed. No flowers. No foreseeable hope. No conceivable prospects. Any blossom of expectation seems to have become an illusion and life appears to have come to a standstill. If no seed of loving care is sown in the untilled, abandoned land, no bud can come into flower. Singer Amy Winehouse felt like lying fallow in the ground of a wasteland "with tears dry, dying a hundred times, going back to black" and leaving eventually for a place of ultimate sorrow and heartbreak, for a point of no return. ( “Amour en friche” )” LoveLifeFeelingsCareHopeTearsSorrowHeartbreakEmotionsIllusionAffectionExpectationWastelandFallowPoint Of No ReturnAmy Winehouse Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Espere" in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: "waiting" and "hoping". If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time "wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be "killed". In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of "time". ("Waiting for a place behind the geraniums " )” LifeTimeLostWaitingFutureDespairDrivenBoredomNeedAgonyNothingnessWordSpanishExpectationWatchKilledPointHopingGapMeaningsBoundVacuumWastedSenselessnessCondemnedProspectThereforeGeraniumsDeadlocked Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )” LifePlayActorsStoryInterpretationAct Author:Erik Pevernagie
“We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )” WorldLifeExistencePuzzlesWorldview Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Some people look as if they have lost their eagerness and passion. Their aspiration seems to be exhausted and fresh inspiration has abandoned their weary mind. Life has boundlessly given them material welfare, which has fully spoiled them in the end. No energy for longing has been left, as they have reached a twilight zone. The twilight of desire. ( "Twilight of desire" )” LifeMindInspirationDesirePassionEnergyLongingWelfareTwilight Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When questioning ourselves, we must identify, where we are heading to. Do we prefer our life to remain untitled. Will we stand bare and naked without dressing any expectations or do we decide to interact with the world around. Will we play a part on the stage of life or do we choose to remain simply a chapter without heading, an episode without caption, an untitled interval. ("Life untitled" )” WorldLifeExpectationsNakedChooseCaptionIdentifyChapterInteractBareEpisodeHeadingIntervalPlay A RoleUntitled Author:Erik Pevernagie
“People live on the flow of the daily reality and they surge on the waves of hazy expectations. They can experience pleasant junctures and try to catch and enjoy each special moment that is offered to them. Until life takes them by surprise.” LifeRealitySurpriseMomentExpectation Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ("The world was somewhere else" )” LifeDreamsCracksGhettoDefaultIdentifyingHavenShipwrecked Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life. For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality. The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. ("Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh" )” ThinkingWorldLifeMindRealityTimeBrainPureTiredSurrenderInnocentInstantSuspicionMentalMomentDailyPerceptionsPatternPickWeakenWillinglyChipDecodingSafeguardsUnguardedDecryptingDiscontinue Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we are smitten, we await love to be “remontant” and to be blooming over and over again”, like remontant roses, with blossoms scenting through all the seasons of life. Passion and patience are to be good allies, though.” LoveLifePassionSeasonsPatienceAlliesScentRosesBloomingSmittenBlossomsAwaitRemontantRemontant Roses Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don’t try to learn it. « If lions could speak, we would not understand them. » says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an effort, however, we could manage to understand. ( “ Life was a misunderstanding » )” LifeSpeakLanguageEffortIgnorantLionsLearnMisunderstandingUnderstandLudwig Wittgenstein Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" )” LifeCircumstancesManBarriersTrappedMentalPowerlessMomentPlaceDeliveranceApprehensionPublicDeconstructionCheckmateVitalPawnFeebleImpedeDaily RoutineOut Of The BlueSmotheringBring AboutCerebral Attack Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Happiness is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness and it stands the test of time. Joy is an eruption of cheerful moments and we want to express it: it is an external eventuality. We might shout it out, as it conveys a dynamic of fleeting instants. Joy gives voice to “en-joy-ment”. ("The grass was greener over there")” WantLifeMomentsHappinessJoyTimeGreenGrassInstantEnjoymentStillnessSensitivityCheerfulFleetingFeelTestEruptionInternalExpressShout OutExternalDynamicConveySurreptitiousUndercurrentEventualityTo StandGive Voice To Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or totally useless. "Sorry, insufficient funds, goodbye!".” LifeLaborPainfulUselessBuyingConsumption Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When the door starts to creak it may be time to take it off the hinges. If things get rusted, life has to be called into question and matters re-evaluated. ( “In the doorway” )” LifeQuestionDoorHingesDoorwayRe EvaluatingRustedCreaking Author:Erik Pevernagie