“Eureka" can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen idea or the expression of a magic moment that throws us into a new world. It acts like a radiant sunbeam that comes out of the blue and illuminates a dim past, opening a new, dynamic horizon. It may even be a trivial but lucky encounter with new friends, who let us be what we are in our imagination: original and undifferentiated. (“Waiting for Eureka” )” PastImaginationMagicExpressionFriendsLuckyHorizonMomentIdeaActQuestionRadiantAnswerOriginalOpenArticulationEncounterIlluminateTo BeTrivialDynamicEurekaThrowDimSuddenSunbeamOut Of The BlueUnforseenUndifferentiated Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. ("The past was her best friend")” PastPiecesPersonalityIndividualityBest FriendRecollectionBuild UpAssembleBase On Author:Erik Pevernagie
“By assembling in our mind all the consequential facts we have lived through and by reviewing, appraising or sometimes idealizing the numerous key points of the past, authenticity may gradually mutate and actuality decay at last. At that point in time we are to experience a maimed factuality. ("Labyrinth of the mind")” MindSometimesFactsPastExperienceAuthenticityDecayLabyrinthActualityReviewAppraiseNumerousGraduallyAssembleAt LastMaimedConsequentialFactualityIdealizeKey PointLive ThroughMutate Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When only silence remains, we stand suspended between remembrance and presence in a fragile space between being grounded in the past and making sense of the present. ("Only silence remained")” PastSilencePresentRemembranceGroundedPresenceOnly Silence RemainedMaking Sence Author:Erik Pevernagie
“The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. (“Into a new life”)” HomeDreamPastFearEffortRegretFutureGuiltNew LifeRemorseNewSkeletonsHold BackEven ThoughUnsettle Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Happiness and love need wisdom to navigate life's tides. Insight lets us detach from the weight of the past and embrace the present moment's "timelessness," teaching us to welcome the twists and turns with wonder. (“Love, Happiness, and Insight”)” LoveWisdomPastHappinessPresent MomentTimelessnessTwists And TurnsAnd InsightLife S Tides Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ( “Not without the past”)” MindPastHistoryFutureMemoryCrucialAlienationEvaluationConsultingArchivesBenchmarkingStoreBad FeelingsGranary Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our thinking. Only anchor points from our past and the innocence of our childhood might give back the core of what we are. (“Not without the past”)” ThinkingMindPastConsciousnessChildhoodCoreInnocenceFightIllusionsHavenMazeGive BackHard TimeAnchor PointsNot Without Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When love slides into the edge of unconcern or vanishes in the cornfield of forgetfulness, our mind must loosen the knots that tie us to the barren fields of a lost past. ("The Internet rescue")” LoveMindPastInternetForgetfulnessKnotsUnconcernLoosenBarren FieldsCornfield Author:Erik Pevernagie
“By retracing the emotional fragments lost in the turns and splits of the past, we may learn to reconstruct a shattered self, find a sensible present, and prepare to inhabit a share of the future. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )” SelfPastFutureCamera ObscuraInhabitRetraceEmotional FragmentsReconstractTurns And Splits Author:Erik Pevernagie
“If we never want to look back on the past, we create tension between memory and independence, retrospection and progress. By so doing, we make a radical commitment to the future that becomes a state of unbridled freedom. (“Never looking back again” PastFreedomFutureCommitmentMemoryRetrospectionNever Looking Back AgainIndependebnce Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When we feel out of sync with the priorities of real life and overwhelmed by impossible dreams, we must retrace the essential fragments of our storyline hidden in the shadow of our past. They can guide our further thoughts, actions, and behaviors, ("Camera obscura of the mind")” PastThoughtsStorylineCamera Obscura Of The MindFeel Out Of Sync Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Happiness is a flow between a playful construction and a painful deconstruction, undulating from a hampering past into a liberating 'now,' escorting a meandering flood of twists and turns, caressing the velvet sand of dreamy beaches or smashing sometimes into the rocks of reality. ("New York at arm's length of desire")” PastHappinessDesireNew YorkFlowConstructionLiberatingDeconstructionTwists And TurnsThe Now Book:Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers Source: Words of Wisdom: Selected and illustrated by his readers
“If we feel we are missing out sometimes, it may be because we simply forget to consult the past or neglect to think up its ties with the presence. ("Walking down the memory lane" )” PastForgetNeglectPresenceMissing OutMemory LaneTieConsultThink Up 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
“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
“The dialectic case of the 'things we do', the 'things we have done' and the 'things we are going to do' has been haunting present and earlier generations. For ages people have been confronted with the soul-searching question how should I interpret the past and how do I move forward. Linguistic sayings, which were inherited from century to century, gave us a good deal of remarkable advice and moral guidance in this field : " Do what is right and let come what come may ", " Do well and fear not ", " Do well and dread no shame ". Erik Pevernagie, Never looking back again” PastFearAdviceFutureShameGuidanceSoul SearchingLook BackDialectic Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Between our craves and our regrets stands the live stage of the presence that must give meaning and consistency and feel-good vibes to our life. At the same time, it raises the power of positivity and reconciles the history of our past with the expectations of the future. ("Island of regret.- Island of remorse.")” PastFuturePositivityMeaningConsistencyPresenceRegretsCravesExpectaionsFeel Good Vibes Author:Erik Pevernagie
“A fleeting moment can become an eternity. From a past encounter everything may disappear in the dungeon of forgetfulness. A few furtive flashes or innocent twinkles can survive, though. Some immaterial details may remain marked in our memory, forever. A significant look, a salient colour or a unforeseen gesture may abide, indelibly engraved in our mind. ( "Girl in blue" )” MindPastGirlColorBlueMemoryDetailsDisappearSignificantInnocentFleetingMomentForgetfulnessSurviveLookIndelibleUnforeseenEngravedEncounterGestureTwinkleAbideDungeonMarkedImmaterialFlashesFurtiveSalientEtrenity Author:Erik Pevernagie
“Our shadow is simultaneously our past and "inner child," representing the essence of our vulnerability, creativity, and emotional core shaped by our experiences. It is our best friend, guiding us through the vagaries of life, giving us expectations, and opening new skylines. (“Not without my shadow »)” PastShadowVulnerabilityBest FriendExperiencesInner ChildNot Without My ShadowEmotional Core 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
“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 »)” LovePastRevealAmour En FricheReborn From OurselvesBest ValuesDark ChambersDispossesed Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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?” MindPastTimeLostSilenceWonderCryLivingAriseWrongQuestionsMomentFeelRiverShadowsIsWasRemainLoadsNo Longer Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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" )” MindPastTimeHistoryMemoryDestructiveWearyGlimpseGive UpLost CauseTripTime TravelingThinking PatternDistortDeal WithLame DucksAt That JuntureGo Back To The Future Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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”)” PastTimeInspiringFutureProveHealUnexpectedPresentDisruptionFindRedeemerCoachDependableBewildermentReliableAllySurgeSequelArouseClashesMental Wreckage Author:Erik Pevernagie
“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", )” PastTimeFutureEssentialsMemoryPresentFragmentsSurreptitiousUnravelMuddle And Jumble Author:Erik Pevernagie
“When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with an astringent reality and adjust our timeline. By recognizing ourselves in the light of our history, we become aware of what we are. ("Going back to yesterday")” RealityPastHistoryYesterdayDaily LifeRecognizingTimelineAdjustBecome AwareGet To Grips WithIn The LightAstringentGet One S Teeth Into Author:Erik Pevernagie