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Philosophies that teach denial of the flesh must ultimately end up preaching a denial of the self and building a contempt for it, because even though the soul is couched in muscle and bone it is meant to experience that reality, not to refute it.

The differences between any of those systems of thought and Christianity may be so apparent that the similarities escape you. You may follow one of the schools of Buddhism in which great stress is laid upon the denial of the body, discipline of the flesh, and the avoidance of desire. These elements are quite characteristic of Christianity also, of course, but they may appear more palatable, exotic, or reasonable coming from a source foreign to your childhood education. So you may leap from one to the other, shouting emancipation and feeling yourself quite free of old limiting ideas.

Here in different context is the same denial of the worth and integrity of earth experience. In some such cases, all of the desirable human attributes are magnified and projected outward into a god or superconsciousness, while all the less admirable characteristics are left to the race and the individual.

AFFIRMATION, LOVE, ACCEPTANCE, AND DENIAL

Chapter Twenty-one: “Affirmation, Love, Acceptance, and Denial.” [...]

[...] When the situations developed which we have discussed, setting off the old conflicts, again you see, then the discipline idea was short-circuited back to the old compulsive behavior, though in different form, and with the old religious connotation of self-denial. [...] Now this self-denial began in the Catholic home, and he was peculiarly prone to accept it. [...]

[...] Both of you lean toward self-denial, sometimes too acutely. [...]

[...] The fact that Ruburt begins to remember his dreams shows that the inner self is being allowed more freedom, and it responds to physical touch, pampering, denial, as the case may be.

[...] After lunch I explained the situation about the hospital being 30 days late sending her medical records to Blue Cross in Syracuse, their denial of the major medical claim, the $10,000 I’d given the hospital on her current bill, and the payments I’d arranged on the old bill we still owed from last year—all of this just so she’d know what was going on. [...]

[...] However, her statement prompted me to tell her that a few days before the insurance company had denied our claim for major medical benefits because they hadn’t received the hospital records, I’d waked up early one morning and lay there worrying about the possibility of a denial for perhaps an hour. [...]

“What is this passion for nonbeing, this denial of sensual life, that drives so many gurus and self-proclaimed prophets? [...]

[...] In that first appendix, the notes on Jane as an “independent mystic” (despite her denial that she even thinks of herself as a mystic), are especially appropriate here.

[...] Her denial was both funny and dogged, for I could see that she was tired. [...]

[...] Conscious restraints can lead you into avenues of denial. But the inner selves, knowing their position within All That Is, do not fear denial. [...]

(I should add that at 2:30 I called to see if Andrew Fife was in his office at billing, since I wanted to show him the claim-denial reports I’d received from the insurance company the day before Christmas. [...]

[...] She said the claim denials were “ridiculous,” and that our lawyer “will get a good laugh out of them.” [...]

[...] It may involve denial, where you refuse to accept the visions or dogmas of others in order to more clearly perceive and form your own.

Ruburt’s perception is highly altered this evening, and this is an example of certain kinds of both affirmation and denial. [...]

[...] In greater terms, denial is the surrendering of that power. [...]

[...] A refusal or a denial, an attempt not to handle a particular emotional structure involves action. [...]

[...] An action or emotion not accepted by the ego, but nevertheless a part of it, will always drain energy from the main core of the ego, despite the ego’s denial, and energy that cannot therefore be used by the ego for the purposes of its own purposeful action.

(I meant to note with yesterday’s session that on Friday I received from Blue Cross four notices of claim denial—for April—July, August and September. [...]

(9:55.) Following such a belief, you will confuse suffering with saintliness, desolation with purity, and the denial of the body as spirituality and a badge of holiness. [...]

He does not realize the full strength of his psychic acquiescence, you see, which is far superior to his egotistical half-denials.

[...] As a result such individuals find it difficult, finally, to express the most normal denial, or to go against their given code of conventionality and respect. [...]

[...] Hatred is not the denial of love, then, but an attempt to regain it, and a painful recognition of circumstances that separate you from it.

[...] The very intuitive feelings behind the writer image were based upon the mysticism of nature, the joy of creaturehood; and yet pursued with too much literal-mindedness, the determination to write, once equated with work, led to important denials in those precise areas.

In nearly all matters of poor health, or unfortunate living conditions or mental or physical stress, there exists a strong tinge of denial, fear, and repression.

[...] The ego’s denial of a reaction however does not cause the reaction to disappear from within the personality, at least as part of possible pattern reaction.

[...] This has to do with the difficulty in buying groceries, the fish being an act of denial, you see.

To some degree, creativity always involves a denial of life’s daily official evidence, for creativity deals with that which you are about to bring into being. [...]

[...] According to orthodox Israelite belief, Baal or nature worship was idolatrous, a denial of any moral values.