Hugh Prather Quotes

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• Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side....
• Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
• The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.
• Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
• 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…
• Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties.…
• 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…
• There is no place love is not.
• Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness.…
• Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom…
• An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
• Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of…
• I'd rather be happy than right.
• 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…
• Perfectionism is slow death.
• Don't fight a fact, deal with 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…
• Moods should be heard but never danced to.
• When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with…
• Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries…

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