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When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.

Benjamin Hoff

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn’t look very deeply into things to begin with.
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Clever Looks Pooh
There is more to knowing than just being correct
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Correct Just Being Knowing
Through working in harmony with life’s circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.
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Appreciation Perspective Understanding
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
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
I think, therefore I am confused.
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Confused Thinking
It means that Tao doesn’t force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
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Done Mean Needs
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Foolish Pooh Tao Wise
The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can’t save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.
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Problem Saving Simple
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
Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
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Drug relief Taken
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 Mind Sweet
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
While Eeyore frets … … and Piglet hesitates … and Rabbit calculates … and Owl pontificates …Pooh just is.
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Owl Piglet Rabbits
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
Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.
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Dog Inspiring Love Problem
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 masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.
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Simplicity Voice Way
Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow ‘burn their toast a lot,’ said Pooh
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Life Rainbow Things Thinking
When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.
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Give Up Ideas Self
The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.
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Clubs Infinite Spiritual
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.
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Curve Interesting Rocks
In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior and inferior to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.
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Animal Men Perfect
Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
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Home New Pooh Sweet Tao
Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
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Able Minded Simple Tao
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
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It’s just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.
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Dull Information Way

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