American - Writer | January 23, 1938 - November 15, 2010
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Hugh Prather
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The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.
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I must act now without knowing the results. Thus, I give my actions their only possible meaning for me.
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Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.
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How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?
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There are people whose feelings and well-being are within our influence. We can never escape this fact.
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Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.
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Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.
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It is only in helping someone else to awake that I awake.
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We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.
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Sometimes I doubt, and sometimes I believe. I like not making myself believe when I am doubting and not making myself doubt when I am believing.
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We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.
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