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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.

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
Book
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Self
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Concepts
Seek
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Books
Hands

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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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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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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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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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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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We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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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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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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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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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If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.
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We become what we look at most.
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