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

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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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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 Tao
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
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 Summer
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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Creativity
Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.
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Language
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Simple Square
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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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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Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
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Able Minded Simple 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 Way
A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.
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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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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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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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Perfect
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 Rocks
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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Cheer Up
Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That’s why I remember things so well.

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Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That’s why I remember things so well.
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Sometimes Stuck

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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