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

Benjamin Hoff

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
Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren’t given enough.
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Complaining Enough Fountain
The Universe knows what it’s doing. So don’t develop a big ego, and don’t be afraid.
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Bigs Ego Knows
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
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
Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
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Home New Pooh Sweet Tao
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
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Foolish Pooh Tao Wise
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
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
There is more to knowing than just being correct
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Correct Just Being Knowing
Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.
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Loneliness People Spiritual
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
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
Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.
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Kind Order Wells
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

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