“The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ( “Keeping up with the Joneses” )” WorldLifeBeautifulAdmireFortunateLiveWealthyExclusiveTouchPerformanceFishDazzlingShowGlassKeeping Up With The JonesesMatchlessInvulnerableScintillatingSeascape Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we stay locked up in the spectrum of unsolved life stories and keep hiding in an arcane prism, life remains a mystery behind perpetual tensions and a journey in a world beyond appearances. (“Une femme peut en cacher une autre")” WorldLifeMysteryJourneyPerpetualSpectrumLife StoryLocked UpHideStayAppearancesKeepBeyondArcaneRemainUnsolvedPrismTensions Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Love is blind. Love of money is blind. Greed and money make people forfeit the quiddity of life, banish them from what is essential and alienate them from themselves. They lose their identity and become drifting exiles. ( "Money rocking and rolling" )” LoveLifeMoneyIdentityBlindGreedAlienationExiles Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So ' here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. (" Just for a moment ")” LifeTimeChosenMentalMomentImpatienceHasteNowHustleSuperficialityHere Author:Erik Pevernagie
“For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ("Another empty room")” LifeEmpathyEmptyNarcissismSelf DeceptionGameDeficiencyBleakRoomHaughtySomeIllustratingTheatricsDimPlaygroundUndermineVaingloriousArmoryBrainwave Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Emotion often outwits intelligence, while intuition renders life surprisingly fluent and enjoyable. ("Le ciel c'est l'autre")” LifeEmotionIntelligenceIntuitionEnjoyableFluentCielOutwitSurprisingly Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( "Corporeal prison" )” PeopleLifePastChoicesExperiencePrisonAbandonPrisonerNeedHabitsDailyActuallyFinallyCorporealHostages Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Some are condemned to remain mere “clock and smart phone watchers”, inasmuch as they are not able to read and interpret the lines of their life or don't even treasure the enchantment of daily captivating moments. If we are not prepared to give some personal time to social time, we walk like blind men through gloomy alleys of our existence. ( " Please. Just a bit of a chat " )” LifeMomentsAbleLinesExistencePreparedTreasureClockReadGiveWalkGloomyAlleysEnchantmentWatchersDailyCaptivatingRemainChatInterpretPersonal TimeCondemnedSmart PhoneBlind MenSocial Time Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ( “If he doesn't play ball “ )” LifePlayLibertyEventsFreeRulesExperiencesGameRegularityAdaptEncounterConditionConstantlyAbidePlay BallIn Line Author:Erik Pevernagie
“People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a story and turn into an "empty box". Out-of-the-box thinking and inventiveness remains then merely wishfull thinking. ( "Everybody his story" )” PeopleLifeEmptyStoryActWishful ThinkingSidelinesStayInventivenessBoxRemainTaleFrameTurn IntoConstrueOut Of The Box Thinking Author:Erik Pevernagie
“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine, lucid and graceful, like a flow of wellness in the glow of a new morning. ("Words flew away like birds")” LifeMindFlowWordsGenuineWellnessScenariosBirdsDecideFly AwayGlowGracefulSelf ImportanceDropLucidNew MorningClutteredFlimsyEschewMakeshiftThe DayAlleluia Author:Erik Pevernagie
“The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping life on an even keel. Rational thinking and irrational feeling don’t always get along very well. ( "Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)” LoveLifeUnpredictableRational ThinkingHurdleCapriciousVagariesMeanderIrrational FeelingKeep On An Even Keel Author:Erik Pevernagie
“In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark features of their fair weather relationship, preferring to set up a window dressing of fake satisfaction rather than being rejected as emotional outcasts. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")” LifeHappinessDarkBeautyHellSatisfactionArchitectureAbsenceFeaturesFakeHidingDisplayRejectOutcastsPreferWindow DressingEmtionalPotemkinSet UpFair Weather Relationship Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Emotional illiterates, who don’t recognize the sound of a broken heart, will never be able to hear the subtle vibrations of love reverberating through the rustling flora of life. ("Love as dizzy as a cathedral”)” LoveLifeSoundEmotionalSubtleBroken HeartVibrationsDizzyFloraRecognizeIlliteratesRustlingReverberate Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we just see life as we think it is and we perceive things only from our own tapered point of view and don't learn the idioms of the others, life is doomed to remain a misconstruction. ("Waiting for the smoke signals")” LifePerceiveThinkSmoke SignalsIdiomsThe OthersMisconstructionTapered View Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we only see things through the cold-eyed lens of factuality and don’t listen to the yearning and screaming of unexpressed feelings, life may remain bleak in a mire of clinical hollowness, sodden in apathy and indifference. ("Morning after")” LifeIndifferenceApathyYearningThingsSeeListen To Your HeartBleakMorning AfterHollownessRemainScreamingLensUnexpressed FeelingsClinicalFactualityMireSoddenCold Eyed Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life is merely a series of moments and is in fact an unflinching serial killer, since it kills steadily each moment one after the other. Memory is the only survivor. (“Just for a moment”)” LifeMomentsSeriesMemorySurvivorKillSerial KillerMerelySteadilyIn FactUnflinching Author:Erik Pevernagie
“We want life to make sense. If we don’t find meaning and orientation, we are bound to fabulate a living and invent an inspiring life story. When we write out a chosen script, we’ll have to make time to hunker down into attuning it to the hitches of the road map, time and again, with fractious patience. ( "Everybody his story" )” LifeInspiringLivingPatienceChosenMeaningMake SenseWriteOrientationFindScriptInventEverybodyBoundMake TimeRoad MapHunker DownLifestoryAttuneFabulateFractiousHitchesTime And Again Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. ("Absence of Desire")” LifeDesireConsciousnessEmpathyStandardsAbsenceSensitiveSurroundingsFrameworkFailIntricateConnectednessNeeds And WantsCountlessQueryPricklyAssessBridge The GapStirLive Up ToNitty GrittyStake A Claim Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room")” LifeRealityTimeFictionLivingEmptyFairy TaleStartBecomeRelearnTinaTurn IntoReassessFirestormTo PullTo Pull Up One S Socks Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the “I” entails what I want; the “me” what others expect of me and the “others” what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", “surroundings” and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )” WantLifeIndividualityFeaturesGenerousDiverseSurroundingsListenReconcileOthersMeIExpectBridgeOthernessSideRestoredAbysmalEntailTrilemma Author:Erik Pevernagie
“We may be happy but just don’t know it yet. Many want to rebuke themselves for not finding the threshold of well being, since they simply haven’t learnt to be nice to themselves and to enjoy the privileged twinklings of life. ("C’est quand le bonheur ?" )” LifeEnjoyNiceHappyWell BeingLearnPrivilegedKnowThresholdRebukeTwinkling Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we fail to reflect on the undercurrents of the circumstances of our life, we may have permanent misgivings about the quality of our interpretations. A lucid reading of our acts and our desires helps us to avoid tumbling into a frustrating gap between what we expect and what others expect. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)” LifeReadingQualityCircumstancesPermanentDesiresFrustratingFailActOthersWeAvoidExpectMisgivingsGapLucidInterpretationsTumbleUndercurrentReflect On Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. (“Is that all there is?”)” LifeHardSimpleSweetLivingAppreciateThingsIs That All There IsSwanky Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When illness and old age are no longer indulgent and strength is irrevocably seeping away, brightness fades insidiously away from the light of the day and time only betrays reckless evanescence. (“Into a new life”)” LifeLightTimeStrengthIllnessOld AgeBetrayDayRecklessBrightnessEvanescenceIndulgentIrrevocablyInsidiouslySeep Away Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ("The world was somewhere else")” WorldLifeMindEmotionalPoliceDetailsFloatingBeingSomewhere ElseSpectrumDecideFuzzyTipping PointStandstillAllowCrypticTaleRestoreScanClutteredFault LinesScourStop And Search Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we are not apt to steer our life and engineer our individuality, we become preys of the pecking order or panting cardboard characters turning into walking dead. ("Terra incognita" )” LifePreyBecomeEngineerWalking DeadSteerPecking OrderAptTerra IncognitaTurn IntoIndivualityPantingCardboard Characters 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
“What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ("Give me more images")” PeopleLifePowerAddictionImageryEscapeHere And NowGiveIconicTickDullnessEnnuiInexorableExuberanceImagesRespiteTrapGenerateRedemptiveGratified Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Let us keep enough money to enjoy each breath we take, but definitely not too much, if we don’t want to spoil the fragrance of our dreams and the poem of life.” LifeEnjoyMoneyToo MuchDreamsPoemFragranceSpoilBreathDefinitely 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
“At the beginning of our life, we may feel bare and helpless and gradually adorn ourselves with the most fanciful trappings, trying to be ‘someone else’. After erring and drifting, we eventually realize we want to discover ‘ourselves’, without any airbrushing, so as to meet our real self and not the one imposed on us. ("Lost the global story.")” LifeHelplessDriftingReal SelfBareAirbrushingAdornGlobal StoryTrappingsDiscover Oneself Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When people are just drifting along the tides of life and can’t see the shores of reality anymore, they may experience someday the irresistible desire for a liberating burst, emerging deeply from the inner self and disentangling them from their manufactured pattern. That day might be a day of all possibilities and make them ready to hit the ground running. ("A change of vision" )” LifeRealityDesireVisionTidesInner SelfPatternDriftManufacturedTo Hit The Ground Running Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Let’s not wait until the light fades into irreparable loss, but let’s stay in the loop and pursue the momentous flow of daily little wonders, since life kindly tenders us gorgeous bouquets of sparkling colors, telling signs and rousing episodes. (“Côté cour…Côté jardin”)” LifeLightLossFlowPursueGorgeousColorsWaitSparklingDailyStaySignsWondersTenderIrreparableTellingBouquetMomentousEpisodeKindlyCôté Cour Côté JardinFade InRousingIn The Loop Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Life is about taking the time to recognize things that we already know and finding out the mysteries behind the innocence of their appearance. Life is a patient quest for second or third dimensions. (“Just a bit of a chat, please”)” LifeAppearanceInnocenceKnowMysteriesRecognizeFind OutThird DimensionSecond Dimension Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When they wish to be top dogs and become the heartbeat of all attention, some appear to be missing grit and find themselves relentlessly out of steam. Since the philosophy of their living seems to restrict itself to ‘enjoying wanting’ and keeping everything on a wish list, their life, eventually, remains mere wishful thinking. ( "Feeling like a fallen star" )” LifeAttentionHeartbeatWishful ThinkingWantingFallen StarsTop DogWish ListMissing GritOut Of Steam Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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.” LifeInventivenessRolling DownHappy SurpriseLaughing And DancingPoke AboutSnoop Around Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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?)” LifeTimePathChoicePowerlessnessTrilogyVanquishInterpretProvisional Value Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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.” LifeMagicFairy TaleActEnchantmentAlluringHazardousEpisodeWildcatDelusive Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we find the natural rhythm and strike a perfect cord, we can sing our “own” song that will tune the signature of our life. ("The final decision" )” LifeSongRhythmSingTuneSignatureFinal DecisionPerfect Cord Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Women emerging like aliens in a hesitant future, in a men’s world with impervious codes, may feel like dots in an uncharted territory. Discovering the crucial points, which don't line up with the unbearability of reality, may be a key to the right compass in life. ( "Terra incognita")” LifeRealityWomenFutureAliensDiscoveringCompassEmergingFeelDotsKeyHesitantImperviousUncharted TerritoryCodesMen S WorldTerra IncognitaCrucial PointsLine UpUnbearability Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When attention turns into indifference or love fades away into a grey zone of discomfort, only imagination can bring us back to the limelight of life. ("Is that all there is?")” LoveLifeImaginationAttentionIndifferenceDiscomfortFade AwayLimelightIs That All There IsGrey Zone Author:Erik Pevernagie