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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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Don't strive for love, be it.
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When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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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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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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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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True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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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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All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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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 are all saying the same thing in different words.
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I can't be found in myself I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.
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