Hugh Prather Quotes About Fear

• I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.

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• 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.

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  Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.60, Bantam

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• Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

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  Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam

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