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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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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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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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I'd rather be happy than right.
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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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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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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 no place love is not.
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