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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
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Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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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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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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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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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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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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perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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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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