Quotes from Hugh Prather

Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

I 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.

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

There is no place love is not.

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

Boredom 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.

We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.

If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

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

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Next time I will ... From now on I will ... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow

Nothing coats the world bad or good, but thinking makes it so.

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

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Selfishness is neither good nor bad—it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

Boredom 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?

I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living.

I wish" assumes that I know what is the opposite of my present experience.

If I had Only ... Forgotten future greatness and looked at the green things and the buildings and reached out to those around me and smelled the air and ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations and heard the rain on the roof and put my arms around my wife ... and it's not too late