Quotes from Hugh Prather

My only sure reward is in my actions, not from them.

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

Sometimes I doubt, and sometimes I believe. I like not making myself believe when I am doubting and not making myself doubt when I am believing.

The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.

Maturity is wanting nothing but what we see with the purity of our heart.

If I hold back any part of me, I suppress that much energy and potential. The question I want to ask myself now is not what behavior is good or bad, but in what ways would I express myself with greater energy if I didn't hold back.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

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.

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

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

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?

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

I'd rather be happy than right.

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.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.

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

There are people whose feelings and well-being are within our influence. We can never escape this fact.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

I will be what I will be - and I am now what I am. Here is where I will devote my energy.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.