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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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When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
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There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
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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 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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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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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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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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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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Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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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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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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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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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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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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I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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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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