Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
Hugh PratherIt's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
Hugh PratherWithin me is the potential to commit every evil act I see being committed by other men, and unless I feel this potential, I can at any moment be controlled by these same urges. I am free from these urges only if I recognize when I am feeling them, and while feeling them and acknowledging them to be me, choose not to follow them. Only in this way can I begin to regain the disowned parts of me. And only in this way can I know what it is I am criticizing in others.
Hugh Prather