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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
Meantime
Confined
Toward
Process
Ends
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Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given I have not embraced what I have learned I lack my own conviction.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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There is no place love is not.
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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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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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If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.
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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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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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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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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.
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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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