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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.

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
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Foolish Pooh Tao Wise
We simply need to believe in the power that’s within us, and use it.
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Believe Needs Use
Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow ‘burn their toast a lot,’ said Pooh
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Life Rainbow Things Thinking
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
Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
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Home New Pooh Sweet Tao
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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Give Up Ideas Self
Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.
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Kind Order Wells
Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.
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Experience Knowledge Language Speak
A way of life that keeps saying ‘Around the next corner, above the next step,’ works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.
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Next Order Steps Way
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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Believe Play Risk
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
Treat gain and loss the same.’ Don’t be Intimidated. Don’t make a Big Deal of anything – just accept things as they come to you.
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Accepting Gains Loss
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 Interesting Rocks
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
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

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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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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