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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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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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We become what we look at most.
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When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you.
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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.
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Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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There is no place love is not.
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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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