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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

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
Sunglasses
Takes
Hear
Better
Men

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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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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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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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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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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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Don't strive for love, be it.
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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's not that today is the first day of the rest of my life, but that now is all there is of my life.
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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 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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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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Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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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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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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Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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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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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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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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