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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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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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Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
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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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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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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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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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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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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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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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We become what we look at most.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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