Benjamin Hoff Quotes

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• Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

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  Love, Inspiring, Dog

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• When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.

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  Life, Fun, Block

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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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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  Cheer Up, Taoism, Want

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• Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

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  Language, Speak, Knowledge And Experience

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• If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

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  Nature, Animal, People

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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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  Spiritual, Loneliness, Men

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• The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.

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  Believe, Play, Risk

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• 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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  Simple, Saving, Problem

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• A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

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  Clever, Heart, Mind

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• The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

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  Voice, Simplicity, Way

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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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  Men, Animal, People

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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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  Education, Children, Creativity

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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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  Spiritual, Loneliness, People

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• 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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  Sight, Waiting, Lines

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1982.

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• Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society's rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting "facts" about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous "spiritual" obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.

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  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

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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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  Loss, Gains, Accepting

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• The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

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  Wise, Tao Of Pooh, Foolish

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• Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. 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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  Life, Jobs, People

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• 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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  Trying, Way, Tao Of Pooh

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.

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  Mean, Needs, Done

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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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  Reality, Negative, Nurture

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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.

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  Confused, Thinking, Awkward

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• We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate to come knocking at the door. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Responsibility

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world.

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  Jobs, Responsibility, Angel

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• A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

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  Strength, Short Life, Acceptance

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