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.
BENJAMIN HOFFThe Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.
More Benjamin Hoff Quotes
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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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Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.
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Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren’t given enough.
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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.
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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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The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.
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Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
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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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Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.
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I think, therefore I am confused.
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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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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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Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.
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Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
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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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