face denial

"Most people hear insults when only an observation has been made, if what is being observed is something they don't want to own.
Yet until you hold a thing, you cannot let it go. And you cannot disown that which you have never owned.

You cannot change that which you do not accept.

Enlightenment begins with acceptance, without judgment of "what is."

What you resists, persists. What you look at disappears. That is, it ceases to have its illusional form. You see it for what it Is. And what Is can always be changed. It is only what Is Not that cannot be changed.

What you deny you declare. What you declare you create.
Denial of something is re-creation of it, for the very act of denying something places it there.
Acceptance of something places you in control of it.
That which you deny you cannot control. For you have said it is not there. Therefore what you deny controls you."
-quoted :o