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Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.

Benjamin Hoff

We simply need to believe in the power that’s within us, and use it.
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Believe Needs Use
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
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Attachment Desire Suffering
When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.
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Block Discover Fun Life
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 Thinking
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
When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don’t belong.
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Belong Job Respect Tao
A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.
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Clever Heart Mind
Modern man’s difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
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Loneliness Men Spiritual
There is more to knowing than just being correct
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Correct Just Being Knowing
From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
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Happiness Pooh Tao Views Way
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Foolish Pooh Tao Wise
You’d be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.
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Reality Simple Square
Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.
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Negative Nurture Reality
The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don’t look clearly and objectively at situations, they don’t recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.
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Believe Play Risk
Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
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Able Minded Simple Tao
It is very hard to be brave,” said Piglet, sniffing slightly, “when you’re only a Very Small Animal.” Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: “It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.
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Adventure Animal Writing

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