Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
BENJAMIN HOFFI think, therefore I am confused.
More Benjamin Hoff Quotes
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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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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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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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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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From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
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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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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 wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
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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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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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You’d be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.
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Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
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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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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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