Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too much.

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Awkward Confused

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

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Pooh Tao

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

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Able Minded Simple Tao

No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.

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May Sometimes

A way of life that keeps saying ‘Around the next corner, above the next step,’ works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

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Next Order Steps Way

Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species – and others – alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.

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Animals

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, ‘This isn’t supposed to be happening this way,’ and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

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Pooh Tao Trying Way

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

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Messages Sweet

There is more to knowing than just being correct

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There is more to knowing than just being correct

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Correct Just Being Knowing

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

BENJAMIN HOFF

Curve Rocks