“The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.” KnowsFeelsLooksHeartWaitingMistakePracticeKnowingCircumstancesInsightfulFatal Mistakes Author:Hugh Prather
“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.” WantMomentsDecidedYesterday Book:Notes to Myself Source: Notes to Myself
“The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.” IfsLittlesHappensPastLinesJudgingEgoJudgmentConstantFishesMiserableStreamsCollectionsSwimSwimmingReach OutOfferingOur PastHookPast ExperiencesChit Chat Author:Hugh Prather
“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.” HandsWalksMorningGloryAnd LoveAnother Day Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.” PeopleKnowsWorldHomeHappinessSimpleWalksEnormousBehaveManipulate Author:Hugh Prather