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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
Hugh Prather
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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 seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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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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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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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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There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.
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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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