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.
BENJAMIN HOFFNow, 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.
More Benjamin Hoff Quotes
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A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.
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Through working in harmony with life’s circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.
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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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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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Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.
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It means that Tao doesn’t force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
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Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species – and others – alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.
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Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
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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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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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Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.
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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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I think, therefore I am confused.
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We simply need to believe in the power that’s within us, and use it.
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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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