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Quotes by Hugh Prather

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

Hugh Prather
 
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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
Source: (Notes)
More quotes about: commitment, control, evil, feeling, men, potential
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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.

Hugh Prather
 
More quotes about: fear, frustration, good, indecision, needs, present, words
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

Hugh Prather
 
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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.

Hugh Prather
 
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Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.

Hugh Prather
Source: (Notes)
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Perfectionism is a slow death. If everything were to 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.

Hugh Prather
Source: (Notes)
More quotes about: death, experience, justice, life, mistakes
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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.

Hugh Prather
Source: (Notes)
More quotes about: betrayal, facts, fear, heaven, justice, mistakes
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I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.

Hugh Prather
Source: (Notes to Myself)
More quotes about: change, future, meaning, time, value
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Do I avoid looking a stranger in the eyes because I don't want to make him uncomfortable, or do I turn my eyes so he can't look into me? What is in there that I don't want him to see?

Hugh Prather
Source: Notes
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