"perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were……" — Hugh Prather
"perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out 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.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown."
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Hugh Prather
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79 Quotes by Hugh Prather
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Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side....
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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
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The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look…
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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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If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want…
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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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If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.
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We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
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There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since,…
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It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We…
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Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.
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I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.
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You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now.
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My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut…
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