“No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves”
Hugh Prather (1938–2010) American writer
Source: I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me
“If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. They blossomed; they did not talk about blossoming. They grew; they did not talk about growing.”
“A Thought about Ourselves,” p. 122
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Hopelessness”
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