Hugh Prather Short Quotes

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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves.

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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

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My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.

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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

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There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

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I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

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Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

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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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Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

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If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

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Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

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I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

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Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

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Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

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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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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 live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

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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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Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

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It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

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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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But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.

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The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

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There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor.

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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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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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