Hugh Prather Quotes

“All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.”

“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.”

“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write”

“Don't strive for love, be it.”

“Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.”

“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.”

“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”

“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”