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From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

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The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.
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Clubs Infinite Spiritual
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
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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Adventure Animal Writing
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
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
But isn’t the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn’t? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around – walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.
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Animal Needs Pooh 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
While Eeyore frets … … and Piglet hesitates … and Rabbit calculates … and Owl pontificates …Pooh just is.
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Owl Piglet Rabbits
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
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
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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Knowing Understanding Way
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
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
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Foolish Pooh Tao Wise
Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
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Home New Pooh Sweet Tao
If people were superior to animals, they’d take good care of them,” said Pooh.
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Animal Nature People

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