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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
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Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
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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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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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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
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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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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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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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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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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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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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I'd rather be happy than right.
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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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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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