denying

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

Would a rose still be a rose without its thorns? We need to embrace both our Light as well as our Dark side, and to let them come out to play to become whole, with out them or denying them and not admitting, we are denying the most important things and aspects in our life. Every side of us helps protect and teach us.

Like many people who became sick, I found that researching man-made radiation immersed me into a corporate world of lie, confuse and deny.

My decisions determine my destination long before I ever get there. And once I do get there, I suddenly realize this is not the destination I had in mind because what I had in mind was the fantasy that my denial had created verses the reality my choices crafted.

Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own.

Ignorance might be bliss, but it also has teeth.

Even when someone hurts you, you choose how to struggle, resist, deny and receive.

Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minority groups. Labeling the advocacy, educational and informational initiatives of these persecuted minority groups dismissively as 'propaganda for the gay agenda' undermines, belittles and trivializes the cause of those whose right to exist is under threat.