Hugh Prather Quotes

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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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  Letting Go, Children, Heart

  Hugh Prather, Gerald Jampolsky (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.17, Conari Press

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• Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

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  Life, Kindness, Positivity

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.68, Conari Press

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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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  Letting Go, Finding Yourself, Battle

  Hugh Prather, Gerald Jampolsky (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.10, Conari Press

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• Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

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  Happiness, Attitude, Future

  Hugh Prather (1970). “Notes to myself: my struggle to become a person”

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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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  Happiness, Home, Simple

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• 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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  Creativity, People, Might

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

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  Action, Make Things Happen, Happens

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.79, Conari Press

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• 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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  Simple, Risk, Trying

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.20, Conari Press

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

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  Relationship, Important, Argument

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.138, Bantam

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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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  Mistake, Heart, Practice

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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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  Life, Mistake, Would Be

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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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  Love You, Two, People

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.40, Conari Press

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• I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.

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  Letting Go, Hurt, Giving Up

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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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  Fun, Humorous, Kids

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.114, Bantam

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• You're wrong means that I don't understand you, I'm not seeing what you're seeing- and I'm not seeing all of you there is to see. But there is nothing wrong with you. You are what you need to be, doing what you need to be doing, and although I may take steps to protect myself of others, I do not know all and therefore am literally inadequate to judge.

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  Mean, Judging, Steps

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

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  Men, Sunglasses, Ifs

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.150, Bantam

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

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  Change, Life Changing, Live Life

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam

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• A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

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  Mind, Chaos, Whole

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• It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

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  Inspirational, Appreciation, Acceptance

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• I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

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  Betrayal, Fear, Mistake

  Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam

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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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  Volunteer, Care, Found

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.12, Conari Press

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• 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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  Simple, Simplicity, Quality

  Hugh Prather (2002). “How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy”, p.230, Conari Press

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• A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

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  Mud, Messy, Walk With Me

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.162, Bantam

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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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  Heart, Way, Made

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• For communication to have meaning it must have a life. It must transcend "you and me" and become "us." If I truly communicate, I see in you a life that is not me and partake of it. And you see and partake of me. In a small way we then grow out of our old selves and become something new. To have this kind of sharing I cannot enter into a conversation clutching myself. I must enter into it with loose boundaries. I must give myself to the relationship, and be willing to be what grows out of it.

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  Communication, Self, Giving

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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