"Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form."

Denial, Addiction, Truth, Awareness

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"Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form."

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"I have a very highly developed sense of denial."

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"Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation."

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"Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help."

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"A kingdom established on hatred is a function of denial of God."

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"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

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"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you."

Bill Hicks, American Comedian

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"She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one."

Boy George, English Musician

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"He may care for her, though she really has been almost rude to him at times. But she! ' why, Margaret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head.'Entering her heart would do."

Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

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"I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with."

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"For example, your man might think: I don't steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose opinion he cares approve of embezzlement in one area, not the other. He uses them to maintain a claim on goodness while at the same time stealing."

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"Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins."

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"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."

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"Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others."

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"The eye is to light as the soul is to God."

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"They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief."

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"Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it."

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"The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they'd have no relationship with Him at all. And, of course, no relationship can be based on guilt and survive."

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"You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be 'undemocratic'."

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"I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey."

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