“If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.” IfsWantDoeSelfNamesAttentionObligationWander Book:Notes to Myself Source: Notes to Myself
“Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.” BookSelfHandsReadyConceptsSlipsSelf ConceptNew Self Author:Hugh Prather
“When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.” SelfValuesPureFindingsPersist Author:Hugh Prather
“Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.” PeopleSelfWantedFightingMy OwnSelf WorthLike MeComment Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“For communication to have meaning it must have a life. It must transcend "you and me" and become "us." If I truly communicate, I see in you a life that is not me and partake of it. And you see and partake of me. In a small way we then grow out of our old selves and become something new. To have this kind of sharing I cannot enter into a conversation clutching myself. I must enter into it with loose boundaries. I must give myself to the relationship, and be willing to be what grows out of it.” IfsWayGivingKindSelfGrowsWillingCommunicationConversationCommunicateBoundariesSomething NewOld Self Book:Notes to Myself Source: Notes to Myself
“I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.” MeanDoeI CanSelfEnoughTodayTimeValuesTermDifferencesEffectsTomorrowFutureConceptsMarkAll TimeMaking A DifferenceLastingCan NotExclusiveContradictoryMeaningfulness Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
