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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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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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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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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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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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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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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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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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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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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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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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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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