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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.

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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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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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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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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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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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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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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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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 nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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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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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