Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Hugh Prather
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Children
Controlling
Needs
Release
Heart
Judging
Mind
Child
Things
Three
Need
Whole
Right
More quotes by Hugh Prather
I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
Hugh Prather
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
Hugh Prather
We become what we look at most.
Hugh Prather
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?
Hugh Prather
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
Hugh Prather
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.
Hugh Prather
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
Hugh Prather
An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
Hugh Prather
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.
Hugh Prather
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
Hugh Prather
Moods should be heard but never danced to.
Hugh Prather
Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
Hugh Prather
Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If this book is read by enough people, the world will transform.
Hugh Prather
I'd rather be happy than right.
Hugh Prather
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.
Hugh Prather
My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
Hugh Prather
'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
Hugh Prather
The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.
Hugh Prather
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.
Hugh Prather
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
Hugh Prather