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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
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Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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We become what we look at most.
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What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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It's not that today is the first day of the rest of my life, but that now is all there is of my life.
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The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.
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Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
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There is no place love is not.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given I have not embraced what I have learned I lack my own conviction.
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It is your right to be happy. This is what you were made for. And if you will not resist, happiness will find a way to pour from your heart and fill your days.
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Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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