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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 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 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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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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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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When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
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One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
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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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It is your right to be happy. This is what you were made for. And if you will not resist, happiness will find a way to pour from your heart and fill your days.
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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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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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