Notes to Myself Hugh Prather Read Online

• Home
• My Books

Find & Share Quotes with Friends

Notes to Myself Quotes

Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Go a Person past Hugh Prather
3,507 ratings, 4.06 average rating, 275 reviews
Open Preview

Encounter a Trouble?

We'd dearest your help. Permit united states of america know what's wrong with this preview of Notes to Myself by Hugh Prather.

Thanks for telling us about the problem.

Notes to Myself Quotes Showing ane-26 of 26

"If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, so the desire is not to write"
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

"I'm convinced that this anxiety running through my life is the tension between what I "should be" and what i am. My anxiety doesn't come from thinking nigh the future but from wanting to control it. It seems to begin whenever I smuggle into my listen an expectation about how I or others should exist. It is the tension betwixt my want to control the world and the recognition that I tin't. "I will be what I will exist" - where is the anxiety in that ? Anxiety is the recognition that I might not reach the rung on the opinion ladder I have just set for my cocky. I fear death most when I am about to exceed what I believe others think of me; then death threatens to cut me off from myself, considering "myself" is non notwithstanding."
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

"What I must do is die now. I must take the justice of death and the injustice of life. I have lived a expert life - longer than many, amend than virtually. Tony died when he was twenty. I have had thirty-2 years. I couldn't ask for another day. What did I practice to deserve birth? Information technology was a gift. I am me - that is a miracle. I had no right to a single hr. And yet I have had 30-two years. Few can choose when they will die. I choose to accept decease at present. Equally of this moment I give upwardly my "correct" to live."
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

"Perfectionism is a slow decease....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, merely as I would programme, I would never feel annihilation new. My life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. When I brand a mistake I experience something unexpected."
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Go a Person

"At that place is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to conjecture, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach... To forcefulness myself into a unmarried function, to decide to be just on thing in life, would kill off large parts of me."
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

"You say you just desire to exist my friend. I know that y'all hateful you desire to relate to my mind just not my body. I tin sympathize that and will non ask you to relate to me in a way that yous don't want to, or talk to me nearly subjects yous detect uncomfortable. Merely besides I refuse to castrate myself for you by pretending not to have the feelings I have. If y'all want me every bit your friend yous will have to have my penis along with me."
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

"Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and meet conspicuously my assumption that there'south something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can human activity equally an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the action, tin I look at information technology more honestly?"
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

"The number of things merely outside the perimeter of my financial achieve remains constant no matter how much my financial condition improves. With each increase in my income a new perimeter forms and I experience the aforementioned relative sense of lack."
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Go a Person

"I too sense that I am misusing the thought of being real whenever I discover myself anxiously weight my words and deportment, that is, whenever I am being careful to be "existent". When I do this I am simply playing a new role - the role of the "real person". Calculation does not enter into being real. Concerns with appearances does not enter into it. Being existent is more of a process of letting get then it is the attempt of becoming. I don't really have to get me, although at times it feels this mode - I am already me. And that is both the easiest and the hardest affair for me to realise."
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Go a Person

"perfectionism is a irksome decease. if everything were to plow out just similar i would want information technology to, merely like i would programme for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an countless repetition of dried successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i take listened to my mistakes i have grown."
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Welcome back. Only a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads business relationship.

arringtonanceir.blogspot.com

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2109790-notes-to-myself-my-struggle-to-become-a-person

Share this post