01UndatedIf the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
02UndatedYou say you just want to be my friend. I know that you mean you want to relate to my mind but not my body. I can understand that and will not ask you to relate to me in a way that you don't want to, or talk to me about subjects you find uncomfortable. But likewise I refuse to castrate myself for you by pretending not to have the feelings I have. If you want me as your friend you will have to accept my penis along with me.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
03UndatedSometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
04UndatedToday 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.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
05UndatedIt'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.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
07UndatedEgos clash. That's the nature of egos.Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
08UndatedI sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
09UndatedBy 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.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
10UndatedBoredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?Hugh Prather / quote ↗
11UndatedNext time I will ...""From now on I will ..."- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?Hugh Prather / quote ↗
13UndatedBoredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
16UndatedI like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
18UndatedTo avail yourself of His certain wisdom ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him for that will never be necessary.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
20UndatedIt's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life " but that now is all there is of my life.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
21UndatedEvery moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
22UndatedI live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.Hugh Prather / quote ↗
