Genuine Communion

“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.”     

–Hugh Prather (American Writer, Minister, Spiritually-oriented Counselor and Writer in the Field of Personal Growth and Relationships, 1938-2010)

“Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person” (Hugh Prather)