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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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Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.
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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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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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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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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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There is no place love is not.
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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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