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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

We simply need to believe in the power that’s within us, and use it.
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Believe Needs Use
Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.
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Dog Inspiring Love Problem
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.
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Phrases Purpose Steps
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
Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you’ve got.
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Cheer Up Want
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
Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
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Able Minded Simple Tao
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
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
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
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
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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Pooh Simple Simplicity 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
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

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