Hugh Prather Quotes

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

We are all saying the same thing in different words.

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

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

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.

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

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

My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.