Benjamin Hoff Quotes
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.
Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.
The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.
While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.
When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.
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.
Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.
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.
Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.
Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.
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.
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.
Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.
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.
From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
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.
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.
Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
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.
As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.
Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh
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.
Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.
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.
If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world
Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.
