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Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you’ve got.

Benjamin Hoff

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
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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Negative Nurture Reality
Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they’re part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They’re not only the ending, but the beginning as well.
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Lines Sight Waiting
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
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
Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.
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Dog Inspiring Love Problem
There is more to knowing than just being correct
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Correct Just Being Knowing
But isn’t the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn’t? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around – walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.
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Animal Needs Pooh Tao
Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.
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Kind Order Wells
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
Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.
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Experience Knowledge Language Speak
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Foolish Pooh Tao Wise
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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Loneliness Men Spiritual
The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can’t save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.
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Problem Saving Simple
We simply need to believe in the power that’s within us, and use it.
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Believe Needs Use
No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
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Limitation Matter May Sometimes

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