"Within me is the potential to commit every……" — Hugh Prather
"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."
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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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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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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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