Do I avoid looking a stranger in the eyes because I don't want to make him uncomfortable, or do I turn my eyes so he can't look into me What is in there that I don't want him to see.
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When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel 'I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you.'Hugh Prather
Love expands.
Hugh Prather
I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
Hugh Prather
Support your friends even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.
Hugh Prather
Fault means failure to meet a standard. Whose Mine.
Hugh Prather
Within me is the potential to commit every evil act I see being committed by other men, and unless I feel this potential, I can at any moment be controlled by these same urges. I am free from these urges only if I recognize when I am feeling them, and while feeling them and acknowledging them to be me, choose not to follow them. Only in this way can I begin to regain the disowned parts of me. And only in this way can I know what it is I am criticizing in others.
Hugh Prather
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Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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