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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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If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.
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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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There is no place love is not.
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It is your right to be happy. This is what you were made for. And if you will not resist, happiness will find a way to pour from your heart and fill your days.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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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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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.
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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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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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