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Now these are the things, some of the things, that you do not want to face consciously. [...]

[...] As we did my eyes were so close to her face that I could see the tiny pores in the skin below her eyes — very fine and smooth. [...]

[...] We stood outside after the service, three in a row facing each other on the porch, while six others carried Joe’s casket between us and down the steps to the hearse.

[...] Even in the face of your exhaustion; and for your edification I shall indeed make it brief.

I am treated like an enemy, though with a kind face. [...]

[...] It is against my principles, and do not be surprised that I called Ruburt a puritan for he is, a strange mixture of a complete primitive and a complete puritan, and if it were not for me he would be very solemn-faced, indeed. [...]

[...] In this particular instance, I try to affect you so that you will not blow yourselves off the faces of your planet. [...]

[...] In your particular personal relationship Ruburt began to feel that when you looked at him you were comparing him precisely with “that perfect physical self” that seemingly so eluded him, and in the face of that image, any improvement at all began to seem so insignificant as to be meaningless.

The morning episodes are directly related to the fact lately that he grew to doubt his ability to recover, and face each morning the prospect of a day in which he tried to hide those feelings from himself and from you. [...]

[...] You would never consciously face what appeared to be the conflict between writing and painting. [...]

After not going out for a while the fear would reassert itself, of looking ridiculous and facing people, so there would a time until he again became defiant and conquered it. [...]

(Long pause, then with much subdued irony:) In exasperation some of you see nature as good and enduring, filled with an innocence and joy, while on the other hand you envision man as a bastard species, a blight upon the face of the earth, a creature bound to do everything wrong regardless of any strong good intent. [...]

[...] Flu epidemics become social excuses for much needed rest, therefore, and serve as face-saving devices so that the individuals can hide from themselves their inner difficulties. [...]

[...] I see a large, sort of beefy man with a red face, sitting at a piece of furniture like a drafting table, carefully cutting out these characters. [...]

(Jane smiled broadly, facing me with one foot up on a chair.)

Nevertheless again, you would have made an excellent project of it; both of you changed your expectations, when faced by them in concrete terms. [...]

[...] That is like a slap in the face that she must tolerate, and because of her own actions and stress laid upon what was right and proper at the expense of true feelings.

[...] In the past she would have been quite able to face and handle everyone’s honesty, and honesty would have been far kinder. [...]

[...] Such problems would have had to be faced in any case, but they were faced creatively, and brought about these sessions and your own psychic developments.

(1. As we sat waiting for the session to begin, Jane told me that the face of Joseph, in my oil painting of Ruburt and Joseph,^* smiled down at her from its spot on the living room wall. [...]

(Jane faced the painting as she sat in her Kennedy rocker, but my back was to it because of my position on the couch. [...]

[...] There is nothing outside of yourself that will force you to understand these issues or face them.

Now: If, for example, you hate a parent, then it becomes quite easy to hate any parents, for in their faces you see and project the original offender. [...]

[...] The country did not face its own inner reality. [...]

(“Have you got anything to say about the faces I’ve been painting lately?”

He did not want to face people that he knew. [...]

[...] When you find yourself facing such negative images in your mind and projecting them into the future, you should at once mentally wipe out that image and replace it with a constructive image, seeing yourself, for example, sitting in command of a well-ordered room.

Now: the inner self is the primary personal creator and perceiver, the seat of identity, a consciousness then with many faces. [...]

[...] All you have to do is realize that within yourself is the ability to face each life, each day as a life, as you come to it. [...]

(10:20.) You were faced with what could be called a classic instance of secondary personality. [...]