Hugh Prather Quotes, Thoughts and images

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

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

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.

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.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

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

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.

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

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

We are all saying the same thing in different words.

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