Hugh Prather

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

“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.”

“Sometimes I doubt, and sometimes I believe. I like not making myself believe when I am doubting and not making myself doubt when I am believing.”

“I must act now without knowing the results. Thus, I give my actions their only possible meaning for me.”

“Maturity is wanting nothing but what we see with the purity of our heart.”

“The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.”

“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.”

“Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.”

“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.”

“I don't want to work to make money. I want to work to work.”