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We become what we look at most.

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 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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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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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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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 I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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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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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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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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