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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <p><em><strong>"A change of vision" (100 x 80 cm) , by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas,</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>By recurrently changing the horizon, things can be perceived from another angle and the perspective of our life can be reoriented. If we can’t recast our life, our vision of the world gets rusted and the squeaking wheel of our mind will suffer from lack of oil.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Andre Gide tells us to have the audacity to abandon our habitual way of behaving: “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore" and for </strong></em><a title="Albert Einstein" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Albert Einstein</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> we can't change things without changing our thinking : “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Also </strong></em><a title="Friedrich Nietzsche" class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Friedrich Nietzsche</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> claims that without changing one's mind one becomes mentally deficient: “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”</strong></em></p> <p><a title="Andy Warhol" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Andy Warhol</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> makes a distinction between a passive or an active approach of time: “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Reorientation in life</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Man in room</strong></em></p> </span> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;"> </p> </span> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;"> </p> </span></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt;"> </p>

Changing the horizon
<p><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"Everybody his </strong></em><a class="new" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Story&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" title="Story (page does not exist)"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>story</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>" , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>For the discovery of self, we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow 'within' and disclose our 'true' self. We are all the construction of a story, and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>We want life to make sense. If we don't find meaning or 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 roadmap, time and again, with fractious patience.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Each person has a personal DNA with identifiable fingerprints, a distinct background, and a specific experience. With these pawns, we can conceive our own story and individual design requisites to furnish the course of our life.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>People who don't construe their life and don't frame their very 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 remain then merely wishful thinking.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Man and his fingerprint</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Man reading</strong></em></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

Everybody his story
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><strong>Femme programmée , </strong></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">by </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #0072c6;">Erik Pevernagie</span></span></strong></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: #000000;">, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm</span></span></p>

Femme programmée
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span class="ecxdetail-box-desc"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <p><em><strong>“Is Heaven a place in the sky?” by </strong></em><a title="en:Erik Pevernagie" class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas, 100 x 80cm</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>For ages people have been asking themselves, what is the mystery of life, what is the big unknown in the sky behind the clouds? Is it all about a big creator in an unfathomable realm of heavens? Could it be all part of a fairy tale told by story tellers? Is it a place where angels linger or sacrificial virgins are waiting for benevolent martyrs? Or is heaven just a place in the sky?</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Mahatma Gandhi admires " the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon" and his "soul expands in the worship of the creator." For Dalai Lama " Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." Pope Francis is aware that there are many non-believers and gives a " silent blessing to each and every one, respecting the conscience of each one but knowing that each one is a child of God."</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Mark Twain wants to dismantle all the stories about heaven and hell: “There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!”.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>John Lennon imagines a world without countries, without religion, living life in peace. Voltaire makes some comparisons and thinks that "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth." For Karl Marx "Religion is the opium of the masses" and Friedrich Nietzsche simply declares that "God is dead". Edgar Allan Poe thinks that religion "evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry". Ingmar Bergman is not very enthusiastic either when he says:" I hope I never get so old I get religious."</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>With more understatement are Victor Hugo who thinks that "Toleration is the best religion", Soren Kierkegaard considers that "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", John Burroughs feels that "the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind." Albert Einstein looks more for a compromise and creates some new faith: "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion."</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Is heaven a place in the sky? Is Heaven not what we wear in our heart and in our mind?</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon : Heaven</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Man holding "placard with heaven" to the sky.</strong></em></p> </span> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p> </span> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p> </span> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p> </span></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p>

Heaven is place in the sky
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span class="ecxdetail-box-desc"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>Hinter der Mattscheibe , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, Oil on canvas</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>If we expect to “know” the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, we may have a hard time seeing the entire picture, since the truth is a willful construction that allows us often only to “guess.”</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>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 once our awareness denies the true colors of facts.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and recognize the lies behind perceptions. Truth is not a transparent process. What we see are shadows behind mat glass, a vaporous representation of reality. Truth is not as such, what we think it is. Truth is a prism with many sides that only let us guess. In fact, the truth is perhaps not 'true' at all. Maybe it is just a lie. Taking our truth for “the” truth could lead to many erroneous interpretations. Truth is the permanent discontinuation of value, which must be reinterpreted warily and adjusted recurrently.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>Many have difficulties in concentrating and circumcising all the essential elements that might lead to the truth. If people are actually willing and have no inhibitions, they can show a real “appetite” for trying to lay bare the hidden facts that went underground.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"><em><strong>“L’appétit vient en mangeant, et la vérité aussi, si on veut bien se mettre à table. »</strong></em></p> <div></div> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon: Truth and values</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Two human shadows</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Germanː "Die Wahrheit ist kein transparenter Prozess . Was wir sehen, sind Schatten hinter einer Mattscheibe, eine dampfförmige Darstellung der Realität. Die Wahrheit ist nicht unbedingt was wir uns vorstellen. Wahrheit ist ein Prisma mit vielen Seiten, das uns nur erraten lässt. Vielleicht ist die Wahrheit überhaupt nicht wahr und ist es nur eine Lüge . Unsere Wahrheit als " die" Wahrheit betrachten, könnte zu vielen Fehlinterpretationen führen.''</strong></em></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p>

Hinter der Mattscheibe
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>"His master's voice" , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas, (100 x 80 cm)</strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>The mix-breed fox terrier, Nipper that gave color and spirit to the music world of the gramophone age, shows with what attentiveness and contentment it is listening to 'his master's voice.' The master's voice brings about a feeling of security and comfort.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>However, the master's voice can have many other qualities and effects too. 'Voices' and messages can be interpreted in many different ways. Gazillion people had to die because of a misreading of specific texts or a misconception of unwritten laws.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>Literalist explanations of messages of elected or self-proclaimed masters have very often led to disputes. "The master's voice" has frequently been elucidated in a variety of forms and led to many controversial interpretations of religious or ideological issues.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>Though contentious topics have sometimes been agreed upon peacefully, they have often generated appalling situations. That's why people should regularly walk out of the inclusive cinemascope of their comfort zone and perceive things from a distance with an external eye to approach matters critically or objectively. They might then get rid of the shadows that are suffocating them with traditional ideas and ossified thoughts.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>Sometimes the master's voice has impregnated people's thinking in such a way that they have started seeing, hearing, and thinking things that don't exist. Then, it is time someone came to wake them up. While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud that he is stark naked. If the clear-sighted are constrained by the gullible and when the "followers" are browbeating the "knowers," the cat is among the pigeons, and the age of obscuration is underway. Then "something wicked may have come this way ..."</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>Trustworthy masters should give enough mental tools to their pupils to create an original and independent mind and a spirit of tolerance that can enable them to think for themselves without becoming mere hangers-on.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>Finding access to the 'open public space' is the challenge that matters in life. We may know that everyone might feel like an alien to someone else or sometimes even to oneself, whether native, foreigner, or exile, whether assimilated or singular, whether straight or gay.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><em><strong>Be that as it may, a basic premise for the safeguard of self-fulfillment is the availability of a comforting maneuvering ground for one and all and an opportunity to enter a 'space of appearance' with a gate to a 'citizenship of the world.'</strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Interpretation of messages and voices</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture: Master with pupils</strong></em></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="text-align: center; margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" align="center"> </p>

His master’s voice
<p><em><strong>"I Wonder what went wrong</strong></em>." <strong><em>by </em></strong><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm</strong></em></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; background-color: #f8f9fa;"> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>When we lose the pieces of the wayward mechanism of our life and can't walk our walk anymore, we can't but turn back the clock and detect the hitch to find out where things went wrong.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our minds, when the moment "was" no longer "is" and only silence remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river, or we may wonder: "What went wrong?"</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>If we go down the rabbit hole of our unconsciousness and try to unravel the knotty points of our life story, we may encounter a bunch of hidden niceties or emotional stowaways.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Forgotten details in the windmill of our mind may daintily reveal where things might have gone wrong. Relationships may become wrecked by a quirky syndrome: the "ain't broke, don't fix"-syndrome. When there is only skin experience, no interaction in the neural network, and no breakthrough into the mind, living together might be very torturous. Nothing will be broken if we cannot mold a profound bond, and obviously, nothing needs to be fixed.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Living together becomes a living apart when the pineal gland has not been able to create a radiance of spiritual togetherness and emotional attachment.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><em><strong>Love can become art when it fulfills each other's expectations by living graciously "in alliance' with each other without making do with skimpily 'living together' or aiming at overpowering or taking possession of the other.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><br /> <strong><em>Phenomenon:</em></strong><em> Analysis of the script of life</em></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Factual starting point of the picture:</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; background: #F8F9FA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> Sitting girl</span></em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; color: #202122; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> </p>

I wonder what went wrong
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></p> <p><em><strong>If he doesn't </strong></em><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Play" title="Play"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>play</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> </strong></em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ball" title="Ball"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>ball</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> , by </strong></em><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Pevernagie" title="en:Erik Pevernagie"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Erik Pevernagie</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong>, (100 x 80 cm) Oil on canvas x</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong> </strong></em></p> <p><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB"><em>We may well value our minds and esteem our brainpower. But let us respect our feet as well. They might be down-to-earth, but they allow us to go forward and steam ahead in life. On top, they can kick out anyone disrespectful and mind-numbing. </em></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB">We agree to accept specific rules when we play ball, limiting our freedom. We must recognize that our liberty will only be possible if it can coexist with the freedom of the community where we are living. </span></strong></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB"><em>While times are changing at a lightning-fast pace, new rules exact inexorable adjustments, in line with our encounters, consistent with our experiences, and step with our needs. However, if they appear incompatible with our inner self, they may raise a hell of war in our minds and compel us to take to the hills. </em></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB"><em>Let us stop wracking our brains with vain and futile stories but keep it loosey-goosey without missing a beat of our life in our pursuit for authenticity. </em></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB"><em>If people refuse to play ball, they may be reproved as marginal and rejected as social outcasts. </em></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background: #F8F9FA;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #666666; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-US"> </span></strong><strong style="font-size: 12.16px;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: #202122; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;" lang="EN-GB">Some people feel more comfortable in the “margin” of society. It may impart them more breathing space and shore up their identity. It embodies a gateway to self-determination and confers a sense of sovereignty, which allows them less apprehension and thoughtful reflection. </span></strong></em></p> <p><br /><em><strong>Phenomenon: Liberty and marginality</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point of the picture:Foot, hand taking ball</strong></em></p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="ecxmsonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;"> </p>

If he doesn't play ball
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style: normal; color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> </span></em></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal"><em><strong>""If you scratch my back" , by Erik Pevernagie, oil on canvas," (100 x 80 cm)</strong></em></p> <p><a title="Percy Bysshe Shelley" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;"><em><strong>Percy Bysshe Shelley</strong></em></span></span></a><em><strong> knew very well, how it feels when there is no complementarity. He understood that a unilateral deed or a one sided feeling is a failure, if there is no reciprocation. “What are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” says the poet.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>"Quid pro quo".</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Commonly, granting a favour to somebody encourages people to show goodwill in return. Giving creates a bond between people and generates an atmosphere of wellness. When people are at ease with their surroundings they can live in agreement with themselves. When they find peace in their mind they can subsume fully and tunefully into their environment.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>At times, we could, nevertheless, have some misgivings about “quid pro quo” or “a back scratching “. When everything becomes a flat “Give and take” or “What is in it for me “ it may create a feeling of annoyance, disappointment and distrust.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>When lobbyists say: “You give me the information, I want, and you tell me what I can do for you.”, it can arouse a mood of suspicion. When scratching backs mainly focusses on an exchange of gifts and profits, it may generate dubious situations. Bribery may be straight round the corner.</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>However, the fear of being bought off or manipulated every time should not make us paranoiac and build an obstacle to opening ourselves to the others .</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Phenomenon  : Reciprocation, Giving and taking</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Factual starting point: Woman’s back being scratched</strong></em></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p> </p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; vertical-align: top;" class="ecxmsonormal"> </p>

If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch your back
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