163 Quotes by Hugh Prather

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves.

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor.

It’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.

The number of things just outside the perimeter of my financial reach remains constant no matter how much my financial condition improves. With each increase in my income a new perimeter forms and I experience the same relative sense of lack.

If your reaction to your partner’s fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

I can’t be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.

I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing i know for sure is that I’am confused.

There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach... To force myself into a single role, to decide to be just on thing in life, would kill off large parts of me.

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