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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

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
Work
Meantime
Confined
Toward
Process
Ends

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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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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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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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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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I'd rather be happy than right.
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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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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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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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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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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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