163 Quotes by Hugh Prather

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

It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.

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

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.

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

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

Why choose to be right instead of happy when there is no way to be right?

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

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.