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Flights of fancy and imagination open me to intriguing possibilities but sometimes might lack of assertiveness and follow-through. Hounded by instincts which at times lead to the pursuit of eccentric whims... ...

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Notes to Myself: My struggle to become a person - by Hugh Prather


"The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I expected"

" I sometimes react to mistakes as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of them seems to arise from the 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 now, a jolt to the expectations I have unconsciously set, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown"

"I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing I know for sure is that I'm confused."

"What absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to figure out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't"

"All my life I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself."

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