Hugh Prather Trying Quotations

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."

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

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.