Hugh Prather
Hugh Prather
Hugh Edmondson Prather IIIwas an American self-help writer, lay minister, and counselor, most famous for his first book, Notes to Myself, which was first published in 1970 by Real People Press, and later reprinted by Bantam Books. It has sold over 5 million copies, and has been translated into ten languages...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 January 1938
CountryUnited States of America
book hands self
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
prayer
My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.
self findings persist
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
looks attention pay
Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.
secret forgiving ancient
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
swimming past offering
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.
letting-go firsts steps
The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.
fun humor kids
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
change life-changing live-life
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.
want feels know-how
I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
needs reason feels
I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.
want today
Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
talking matter no-matter-what
No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
happiness
I'd rather be happy than right.