Sacred Bliss

Hugh and Gayle Prather are spiritually-oriented counselors and well-known writers in the fields of relationships and personal growth.  Hugh Prather became well-known for his 1970s book of meditations, Notes to Myself. During the past twenty years, Hugh and Gayle Prather have written about their personal experiences with A Course in Miracles, their counseling practice, and their own experience as a couple and a family.

Hugh Prather born January 23, 1938is an author, minister, and counselor who is most famous for his first book, Notes to Myself, which was first published 1970, sold over 5 million copies and has been translated into 10 languages.

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 the rational emotive behaviour therapy commended by Albert Ellis.