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Moods should be heard but never danced to.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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Moods
Depression
Illness
Mood
Heard

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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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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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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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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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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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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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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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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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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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