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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
Hands
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Slip
Self
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Time
Concept
Concepts
Seek
Ready
Books

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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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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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There is no place love is not.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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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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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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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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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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
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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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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.
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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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We feel understood by people who like us misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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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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