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The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too much.

Benjamin Hoff

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
We simply need to believe in the power that’s within us, and use it.
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Believe Needs Use
A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.
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Clever Heart Mind
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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Reality Simple Square
There is more to knowing than just being correct
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Correct Just Being Knowing
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
Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.
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Dog Inspiring Love Problem
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Foolish Pooh Tao Wise
“Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully. “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.” “And he has Brain.” “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.” There was a long silence. “I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.”
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Clever Funny Humor
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
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 Ocean Summer
The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too much.
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Awkward Confused Thinking
I think, therefore I am confused.
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Confused Thinking
If people were superior to animals, they’d take good care of them,” said Pooh.
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Animal Nature People
As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
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Mean Simple Stupid
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 surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too much.

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