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.")


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If no signal ever awakens any smoldering desire or seething passion in the wasteland of our mental u...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tri...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
If reshaping a life style boils down to pretending and dwindling into a world of make-believe, livin...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Shrink wrapped ideas and prefabricated thoughts are a result of sloth and laziness. ("Prêt-à-pense...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Power and glory are two dialectic energies working in common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meander...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Love can crystallize things. When love is in the air, distressing rain can become a wonderful avalan...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
After tail spinning into chaos, one needs a bolt-hole, to resource and ‘challenge’ oneself, brea...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ( "New York at arm's length ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Eternal love is a gracious phenomenon, but often remains a temporary concern. ( “I seek you”)
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When people are just drifting along the tides of life and can’t see the shores of reality anymore,...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our me...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Emotion often outwits intelligence, while intuition renders life surprisingly fluent and enjoyable. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
If we don’t want life to treat us like poor clodhoppers or bland hang-abouts, we have to turn ‘s...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When we take the time to break free from the tyranny of Time and learn to listen to the sound of uns...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
The dialectic case of the 'things we do', the 'things we have done' and the 'things we are going to ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When people’s parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When the bonfire of love still smolders in the wake of emotional convulsions, seeds of regret and re...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
As we are standing on a dazzling cliff, overwhelmed by a blizzard of unanswered questions, the alarm...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Let’s watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole in...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
We might not be able to know what reality is about, but we can’t but be aware of the explicitness ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
A promise is a gift and a gift is a symbol of a social relationship. The donor is aware that it crea...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘all...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Women emerging like aliens in a hesitant future, in a men’s world with impervious codes, may feel ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self an...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When love becomes a play of squirming mindgames or a tinderbox of mental conflicts, emotional benchm...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle th...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping l...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been i...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When we are able to break free from the imprisonment of our little, small self-thinking and dare to ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
When the past gets its teeth into our daily life, it may get to grips with an astringent reality and...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Many men remain spoiled boys that have never grown up. Women are prepared to raise them and take pai...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Everyone has prejudices, but some can correct them, others stick in the mud and remain diehard.
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can'...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extrem...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Some fail to bear in mind that everyone is sentenced to death. Death is a treacherous virus that str...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no eco...
ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let m...
ERIK ESTRADA
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new ...
ERIK ERIKSON
The power of social media is it forces necessary change.
ERIK QUALMAN
It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard....
ERIK QUALMAN
The toilet from time to time imparted to the boat the scent of a cholera hospital and could be flush...
ERIK LARSON
My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jer...
ERIK GRIFFIN
The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign usi...
ERIK LARSON
In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political ...
ERIK LARSON
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
ERIK LARSON
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
ERIK NUPPONEN
Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plu...
ERIK PAULSEN
I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.
ERIK LARSON
With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and service...
ERIK QUALMAN
I went to public school on Long Island, and it seemed every year we were being taught that you had a...
ERIK LARSON
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
ERIK ERIKSON
My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching...
ERIK ESTRADA
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
ERIK ERIKSON
As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I al...
ERIK LARSON
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we l...
ERIK ERIKSON
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things ...
ERIK ERIKSON
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of ident...
ERIK ERIKSON
I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and wor...
ERIK LARSON