Hugh Prather Quotes

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

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.

Don't strive for love, be it.

Selfishness is neither good nor bad - it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

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

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

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

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.

I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living.

Next time I will ... "
"From now on I will ... "
- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

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.

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

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

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

When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

am not responsible for my feelings, but for what I do with them.

Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

Perfectionism is slow death.

It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The tools of the mind can be wrongly used, but the mind possesses no wrong tools.

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

There is no place love is not.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

Egos clash. That's the nature of egos.
Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.

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

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

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.

There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life.
There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

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.

We become what we look at most.

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

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

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

What I want are words that reflect my heart, not my cleverness.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side ...

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

We are all saying the same thing in different words.

My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

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.

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

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

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.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.