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• Within me is the potential to commit every evil act I see being committed by other men, and unless I feel this potential, I can at any moment be controlled by these same urges. I am free from these urges only if I recognize when I am feeling them, and while feeling them and acknowledging them to be me, choose not to follow them. Only in this way can I begin to regain the disowned parts of me. And only in this way can I know what it is I am criticizing in others.

  Hugh Prather

  Men, Evil, Feelings

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

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• We are all saying the same thing in different words.

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  Creativity, Different

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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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  Life, Change, Learning

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

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• The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

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  Swimming, Past, Offering

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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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  Self, Persist, Findings

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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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  Life, Today, Firsts

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.35, Conari Press

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• When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

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  Mistake, Words Of Wisdom, Deep Thought

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.38, Bantam

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

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  Acceptance, Doubt, Faults

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

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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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  Simple, Complicated, Made

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.159, Bantam

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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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  World, Description, Outside World

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

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• We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

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  People, Feelings, Misunderstood

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• Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

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  Doe, Wiser, Knows

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• 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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  Taken, Procrastination, Maturity

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.81, Conari Press

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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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  Thinking, Today, Next

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

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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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  Prayer

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.22, Bantam

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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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  Trying, Energy, Absurd

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• Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

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  Loss, Suffering, Moments

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.35, Conari Press

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• 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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  Fighting, Self Worth, People

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.107, Bantam

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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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  Immature, Needs, Reason

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• Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right?

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  Way

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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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  Passion, Arguing, Certain

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

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• 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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  Fear, Frustration, Needs

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

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

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  Simplicity, Concentration, Gentleness

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

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• 'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

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  Failure, Mean, Faults

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.91, Bantam

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• There is no place love is not.

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  Love, Marriage, Love Is

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