“Egos clash. That’s the nature of egos.Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.”
— Hugh Prather
“No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves”
— 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.”
— Hugh Prather
“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’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t 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.”
— Hugh Prather
“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.”
— Hugh Prather
“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.”
— Hugh Prather
“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.”
— Hugh Prather
“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”
– Hugh Prather