“Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.” RealProblemActionEarthMovingFoundProcessUnderstandingAwarenessDangerEmpowermentThreatDenialPersonal LifeAttendingNumbnessPersonal Empowerment Author:Sarah Connor
“Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.” WayHouseAwarenessFrontsDenialPushingLawnsBasementsShowing UpBurrowing Author:Howard Sasportas
“I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.” IfsShowsMightNiceStreetsAwarenessFineMetsBallsDenialGowns Author:Julie Bowen
“To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.” YearsBelieveHumansSelfRealityPassionSocialHuman BeingsAwarenessTaughtSelf AwarenessFilledDenyDenialGreat MenNonsenseBetrayAnti SocialFormative YearsDenial Of Reality Book:A Dark Time in America Source: A Dark Time in America
“Is Guinea prepared? And that's the question because of course these three countries had very, very weak health institutions. Many people had said that there was denial in Guinea, that many people in Guinea either said that Ebola did not exist or were hostile to any sort of Ebola health and safety awareness - how to deal with it.” PeopleSaidCountryThreeCoursesDealsAwarenessWeakSafetyInstitutionsPreparedDenialHostileGuineaEbolaHealth And Safety Author:Ofeibea Quist-Arcton