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Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

Benjamin Hoff

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 Men People
A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.
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Clever Heart Mind
Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.
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Pooh Simple Simplicity Tao
The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.
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Children Creativity Education
If people were superior to animals, they’d take good care of them,” said Pooh.
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Animal Nature People
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
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Foolish Pooh Tao Wise
Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
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Able Minded Simple Tao
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
No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
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Limitation Matter May Sometimes
“What’s that?” the Unbeliever asked. “Wisdom from the Western Taoist,” I said. “It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh,” he said. “It is,” I said. “That’s not about Taoism,” he said. “Oh, yes it is,” I said.
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Sound Taoism Wisdom Words
Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.
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Experience Knowledge Language Speak
Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That’s why I remember things so well.
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Remember Sometimes Stuck
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
There is more to knowing than just being correct
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Correct Just Being Knowing
A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.
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Ice Ocean Summer

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