Hugh Prather Quotes

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

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

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

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We are all saying the same thing in different words.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

There is no place love is not.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Perfectionism is slow death.

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

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

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.

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.

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.