*DENY/*DENIAL
Nothing holy has ever been achieved through denial. (Conversations, p206)
"Unless you deny your [inmost] self and take up the cross, you cannot be my disciple." (Mark 8:34) Denial of our inmost self includes detachment from the habitual functioning of our intellect and of ordinary thoughts during prayer, but also of our most devout reflections and aspirations insofar as we treat them as indispensable means of going to God. (Open Mind, p15)
DETACHMENT is the goal of self-denial. (Open Mind, p16)