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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
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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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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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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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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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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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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
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There is no place love is not.
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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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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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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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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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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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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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