Hugh Prather

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.

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don__ know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don__ know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

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.

You say you just want to be my friend. I know that you mean you want to relate to my mind but not my body. I can understand that and will not ask you to relate to me in a way that you don't want to, or talk to me about subjects you find uncomfortable. But likewise I refuse to castrate myself for you by pretending not to have the feelings I have. If you want me as your friend you will have to accept my penis along with me.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

I live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

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.

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him for that will never be necessary.

Perfectionism is slow death.

I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes.

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

Next time I will ...""From now on I will ..."- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?