Top 97 Hugh Prather Quotes
#1. If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.
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#2. 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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#3. Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.
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#4. Guilt is a guide that will lead me whenever I choose to follow. It will raise its righteous banner and take me to the wasteland of my incompetence. Guilt is a voice that will speak whenever i choose to listen. It will mournfully address any subject but one : correcting the mistake.
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#5. There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life.
There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.
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#9. The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today. I
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#10. Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given; I have not embraced what I have learned; I lack my own conviction.
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#11. We are all saying the same thing in different words.
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#12. Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side ...
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#13. A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
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#14. The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.
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#15. My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
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#16. 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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#17. It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
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#18. To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.
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#19. Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
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#22. 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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#23. am not responsible for my feelings, but for what I do with them.
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#24. To sing with the voice of angels as we do the work of angels. To laugh with the laugh of Buddha as we go to our awakening. To extend the arms of Jesus to welcome the presence of children and let them climb into our hearts.
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#25. 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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#26. Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
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#27. Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.
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#28. I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living.
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#29. 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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#30. Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
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#31. The key to having "more than enough time" is to relax. Time is change, therefore I have more time per clock-hour when i am flexible. Rigid control means less time because less change. I can lengthen my life by saying out of doctrines and ruts.
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#33. Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.
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#34. Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop ... Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.
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#36. Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.
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#37. I was just asked to go somewhere. I said, "I can't. I have to stay home. Gayle's sick." Clearly, I was not accepting responsibility for my actions. Next time I want to be more honest and state that I do what I do because I want to do it.
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#38. A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
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#39. Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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#40. 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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#41. I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human
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#42. 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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#43. I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing i know for sure is that I'am confused.
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#44. The tools of the mind can be wrongly used, but the mind possesses no wrong tools.
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#45. If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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#46. If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write
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#47. It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
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#48. Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
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#49. Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
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#50. 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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#52. Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
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#53. Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
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#54. Egos clash. That's the nature of egos.
Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.
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#59. Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
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#60. 'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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#61. 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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#62. Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?
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#63. Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't
and those feelings are probably realistic.
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#67. An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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#68. 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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#69. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
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#70. What I want are words that reflect my heart, not my cleverness.
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#71. 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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#72. Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right?
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#73. Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.
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#74. Selfishness is neither good nor bad - it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.
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#75. The number of things just outside the perimeter of my financial reach remains constant no matter how much my financial condition improves. With each increase in my income a new perimeter forms and I experience the same relative sense of lack.
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#76. Moods should be heard but never danced to.
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#77. 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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#78. Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.
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#79. I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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#80. There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach ... To force myself into a single role, to decide to be just on thing in life, would kill off large parts of me.
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#81. By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.
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#82. Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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#83. 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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#84. To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
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#85. Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
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#86. If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?
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#87. 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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#88. No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
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#89. There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
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#90. 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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#91. Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.
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#92. Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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#93. 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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#94. Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.
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#95. My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.
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#96. 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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#97. 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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