- Hugh Prather
Hugh Prather (born
January 23 ,1938 ) is an author, minister, and counselor who is most famous for his first book,Notes to Myself (ISBN 0-553-27382-5), which was first published 1970, sold over 5 million copies and has been translated into 10 languages. [http://www.beliefnet.com/author/author_92.html] .Together with his second wife, Gayle Prather, to whom he has been married since 1965, he has authored other books including "The Little Book of Letting Go"; "How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy"; "I Will Never Leave You: How Couples Can Achieve The Power Of Lasting Love"; "Spiritual Notes to Myself: Essential Wisdom for the 21st Century"; "Shining Through: Switch on Your Life and Ground Yourself in Happiness"; "Spiritual Parenting: A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing the Heart of Your Child"; "Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions"; "A Book of Games: A Course in Spiritual Play"; "Love and Courage"; "Notes to Each Other"; "A Book for Couples"; "The Quiet Answer"; and "There is a Place Where You Are Not Alone".
Born in Dallas Texas, Prather earned a bachelor's degree at Southern Methodist University in 1966 after study at Principia College and Columbia University. He studied at the University of Texas at the graduate level without taking a degree. While he could be categorized as a New Age writer, he draws on Christian language and themes and seems comfortable conceiving of God in personal terms. His work underscores the importance of gentleness, forgiveness, and loyalty; declines to endorse dramatic claims about the power of the individual mind to effect unilateral transformations of external material circumstances; and stresses the need for the mind to let go of destructive cognitions in a manner not unlike that encouraged by the cognitive-behavioral therapy of
Aaron T. Beck and therational emotive behavior therapy commended byAlbert Ellis .External links
* [http://www.rbrent.com/products/prather/pratauth.html Biography]
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