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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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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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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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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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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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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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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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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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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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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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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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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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