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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.

-Hugh Prather

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Within Me Is The Potential To Commit

Hugh Prather

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.

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