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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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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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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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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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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 nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
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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.
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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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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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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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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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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'd rather be happy than right.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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