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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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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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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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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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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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There is no place love is not.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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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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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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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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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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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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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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