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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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
Concentration
Forgiveness
Simplicity
Humor
Trust
Happiness
Peace
Fearlessness
Gentleness
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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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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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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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I can't be found in myself I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.
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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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There is no place love is not.
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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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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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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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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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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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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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