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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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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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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
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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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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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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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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
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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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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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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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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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