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.
BENJAMIN HOFFThe Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.
More Benjamin Hoff Quotes
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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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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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The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you’ve got.
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The Universe knows what it’s doing. So don’t develop a big ego, and don’t be afraid.
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Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
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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.
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Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.
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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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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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One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.
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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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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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I think, therefore I am confused.
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“Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully. “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.” “And he has Brain.” “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.” There was a long silence. “I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.”
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