Denial Quotes - Page 3

...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.

On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.

what you know
and don’t deny that
you don’t know
and knowing this
you know
what and why
you don’t know.
Right?

I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that “spirit,” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences - which, though he might suppress them, he couldn’t altogether erase from memory.

I can't stop shaking. I need you. I want you. I can't let myself have you.

If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan - no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn't a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is denial.
Real magic is what happens when we break old belief patterns and have the courage to employ the native laws of the Universe

What does love mean if we would deny it to others?

Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.