"I sometimes react to making a mistake as……" — Hugh Prather
"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."
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79 Quotes by Hugh Prather
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Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
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Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the…
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There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and…
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There is no place love is not.
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Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of…
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Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I…
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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than…
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