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Hugh Prather

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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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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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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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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.
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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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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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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.
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We become what we look at most.
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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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There is no place love is not.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given I have not embraced what I have learned I lack my own conviction.
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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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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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