Hugh Prather...

I went looking for a particular quote of Hugh Prather's today, but couldn't find it. I did, however, find some quotes that jumped out at me, and thought I would put them up instead...

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

There is no fear greater than the fear of being happy. There is no reluctance more deeply seated than the unwillingness to see all faults and sins as simply mistakes.

Within 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.

Food for thought. And now I need to get back to fixing the other kind of food...in this case, a very large Uzbek-style palov, with lots of beef, onions, carrots, raisins and dried apricots, cilantro, parsley, garlic, cumin, black pepper and turmeric...