... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.
Nell FreudenbergerTags: fear denial society-denial knowing repression
The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.
Georgina KleegeTags: denial
If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then you’re delusional. Your emotion is part you. You’re made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence.
Ann Marie AguilarA fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
Criss JamiTags: fear paradox strength honesty humility weak weakness denial honest humble correction facing-fear reversal fear-of-failure facing-problems reverse facing lying-to-ourselves strengthening weakening
What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.
Criss JamiTags: lies denial guilt manipulation feelings grave gossip slander deceit enemy apologies libel feelings-of-weakness massive defamation overwhelming misdeed
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?
Criss JamiTags: free-will belief god dream hypocrisy denial uncertainty mother skepticism crime confusion rhetorical apologetics atrocities imprisonment agenda blame bias son scrutiny self-interest biases
It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.
Charles BukowskiTags: sex denial relationship
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
Judith Lewis HermanTags: truth denial psychotherapy trauma taboo ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder
If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
Tags: pain sadness suffering denial depression healing recovery
Yet, Step 2 and AA spirituality is about nothing if it isn’t about faith in God. Many good reasons exist why AA makes a distinction between religion and spirituality, but a denial of God is not one of them. – p. 127
Ray A.Tags: religion faith denial spirituality
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