Hugh Prather citations

“I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.”

“No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves”

“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.”

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

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“Don't strive for love, be it.”