Hugh Prather Quotes

Love is louder then the pressure to be perfect.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.

I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.

A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.

There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

No matter how good or bad we may feel, no matter how up or down we may be, Christ loves us, accepts us, and thinks the world of us.

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.

I wish that I was where I am.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are

In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India-I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving-it is not in the result of loving.