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It is not easy to overcome our natural love of ease, our indisposition to self-denying devotedness, and our false tenderness in flinching from the declaration of unpalatable truths.
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
By letting go of what is known, you are free to encounter the living present, in all its perplexity and revelation. Just as silence is the possibility of sound, self-confessed ignorance is the possibility of encounter.
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Face to the reality.
The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves. To
I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.
In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.
Face the truth or the truth will face you!
Challenges stimulate courage.
Adversities provide opportunities for introspection.
It's hard to face the problem when the problem's your face.
We are faced with choices every moment of our lives. Whatever choice we exercise must make us comfortable and at peace. Choices that are made out of fear and anxiety often do not lead to right action
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Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts.
Dare to risk public criticism.
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.
You know that your truth, the one that you hide ... is the thing you are most afraid of.
He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.
unselfing themselves
Change requires courage
A conversational roadblock.
Facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. Good or bad the idea is simply to face the facts. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself without cutting yourself down.
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
Courage is so rare nowadays, that one gets cornered for having courage of conviction and living by one's ideals. However it is great to be cornered, since the corner with courage is never too crowded.
If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache and tell the doctor you have a stomachache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.
It takes courage to remove our masks. But it takes greater courage to allow those we care about to remove their own masks when they are with us. When we grant others the opportunity to be open and vulnerable, that is when we can see the truth. In them. And in ourselves.
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.
Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
When faced with a problem, don't keep on discussing it. Go beyond the mental barrier to resolve it.
To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
Confront somebody with an issue before it becomes a conflict. Confrontation is not all bad.
The only response to adversity or misunderstanding is to be more completely who we are - to share ourselves more.
There are some moments in life we all have to face, even though we don't want to.
The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.
If we're willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be eliminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.
Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.
Being courageous is less painful than being unhappy
The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it
There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say
Confrontation is better than insinuation.
The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a moment to accept with silent dignity.
I am a victim of introspection.
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.
Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead, run away from them, they only get bigger, and they can totally destroy you.
Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within.
In our life sometimes we have to make painful choices. And it takes a bit of courage to make up our mind for it involves an element of renunciation, something hard to accept in a world steeped in pleasure and comfort.
realize what you are not doing and dare to do what you are not doing. What distinctive thing are you not doing?
A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done ... something.
Everyone has a secret, but when it is bound by shame we're forced to live within the darkest circles of our crumbling masks; unable to find the light of the coming dawn; forever locked in the shadows of our own regrets.
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations.
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
Lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things that we would like to do.
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.
Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove.
I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.
fearless face your fate.
In embracing your difficulties is liberation.
Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.
What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required,
The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.
My behavior is humiliating.
Repression is sometimes a precious gift our minds offer us when faced with trauma.
It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.
Vindication and horror. Sometimes being right isn't all it's cracked up to be: how
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.
All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions ...
Confrontation is better than suspicions.
Truth is not afraid of questions.
The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.
When we experience conflict or dissatisfaction, we are being called on to develop something in ourselves that is weak, hidden, or unknown.
I don't particularly like confrontation. Unfortunately, confrontation seems to like me quite a lot.
I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are, and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the world.
There is a pivotal point in every interaction between humans which sets the course in their relationship. Do you hide or do you shine? Which way are you going to go?
Hide or shine?
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.