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For communication to have meaning it must have a life. It must transcend "you and me" and become "us." If I truly communicate, I see in you a life that is not me and partake of it. And you see and partake of me. In a small way we then grow out of our old selves and become something new. To have this kind of sharing I cannot enter into a conversation clutching myself. I must enter into it with loose boundaries. I must give myself to the relationship, and be willing to be what grows out of it.

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Communication, Self, Giving

Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.

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Frustration, Littles, Might

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Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

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Risk, Trying, Want

Hugh Prather (1970). “Notes to myself: my struggle to become a person”

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Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given; I have not embraced what I have learned; I lack my own conviction.

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Believe, Taken, Together

Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.107, Conari Press

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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

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Fighting, Facts, Live By

Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.55, Bantam

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A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

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Mind, Chaos, Whole

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Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

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Honesty, Stupid, Moving

Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.46, Conari Press

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Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

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Friendship, Mistake, Support

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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.

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Fear, Thinking, Light

Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.60, Bantam

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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.

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Time, Future, Mean

Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.24, Bantam

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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

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Life, Trouble

Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.46, Bantam

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Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

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Mistake, Responsibility, Thinking

Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.11, Conari Press

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All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

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Simple, Complicated, Made

Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.159, Bantam

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Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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Depression, Mental Illness, Mood

Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.139, Bantam

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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 again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

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Change, Giving Up, People

Hugh Prather (1977). “Notes on Love and Courage”, Main Street Books

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If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.

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Self, Names, Doe

Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.

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Morning, Hands, And Love

Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.20, Bantam

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The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

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Letting Go, Firsts, Steps

Hugh Prather (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.7, Conari Press

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There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

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Girl, Years, People

Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, Conari Press

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If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?

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Ocean, Water, Mind

Hugh Prather (1982). “The Quiet Answer”, Main Street Books

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We are all saying the same thing in different words.

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Creativity, Different

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No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

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Talking, Matter, No Matter What

Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.16, Conari Press

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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. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.

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Happiness, Peace, Heart

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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 oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

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Letting Go, Oneness, Irritation

Hugh Prather (2017). “The Little Book of Letting Go: Cleanse your Mind, Lift your Spirit, and Replenish your Soul”, p.20, Conari Press

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We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

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People, Feelings, Misunderstood

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Born: January 23, 1938
Died: November 15, 2010
Occupation: Writer
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