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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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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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I'd rather be happy than right.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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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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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live 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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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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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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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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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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There is no place love is not.
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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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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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