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
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.
inspirational pain world
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
people matter energy
Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.
life firsts today
It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.
want feels know-how
I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.
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.
fighting self-worth people
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.
believe consistency doubt
Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.
ocean water mind
If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?
hate cocky men
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
doe wiser knows
Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?
heart bitterness painful
There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.
want today
Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
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.