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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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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 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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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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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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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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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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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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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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Next time I will ... From now on I will ... - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be 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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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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