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The Tao of Pooh QUOTES

The Tao of Pooh QUOTES

41 " 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. "

― Benjamin Hoff , The Tao of Pooh

42 " To know the way,
we go the way,
we do the way.
The way we do,
the things we do,
it's all there in front of you.
But if you try too hard to see it,
you'll only become confused.
I am me and you are you.
As you can see;
but when you do
the things that you can do,
you will find the way.
The way will follow you. "

― Benjamin Hoff , The Tao of Pooh

43 " 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. "

― Benjamin Hoff , The Tao of Pooh

44 " When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong. "

― Benjamin Hoff , The Tao of Pooh

45 " Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.
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― Benjamin Hoff , The Tao of Pooh

46 " 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. "

― Benjamin Hoff , The Tao of Pooh

47 " While the Clear mind listens to a bird singing, the Stuffed-Full-of-Knowledge-and-Cleverness mind wonders what kind of bird is singing. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

48 " The wise are Children Who Know. Their minds have been emptied of the countless minute somethings of small-learning, and filled with the wisdom of the Great Nothing, the Way of the Universe. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

49 " From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work, odd as that may appear to others at times. As Piglet put it in Winnie-the-Pooh, “Pooh hasn’t much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

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

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

51 " The efficiency of Wu Wei is like that of water flowing over and around the rocks in its path—not the mechanical, straight-line approach that usually ends up short-circuiting natural laws, but one that evolves from an inner sensitivity to the natural rhythm of things. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

52 " Cleverness tries to devise craftier ways of making pegs fit where they don’t belong. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

53 " If people were Superior to Animals, they’d take better care of the world,” said Pooh. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

54 " The essence of the principle of the Uncarved Block is that things in their original simplicity contain their own natural power, power that is easily spoiled and lost when that simplicity is changed. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

55 " Cleverness, as usual, takes all the credit it possibly can. But it’s not the Clever Mind that’s responsible when things work out. It’s the mind that sees what’s in front of it, and follows the nature of things. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

56 " You might say that while Rabbit’s little routine is that of Knowledge for the sake of Being Clever, and while Owl’s is that of Knowledge for the sake of Appearing Wise, Eeyore’s is Knowledge for the sake of Complaining About Something. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

57 " At least they do when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, “This isn’t supposed to be happening this way,” and trying hard to make it happen some other way. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

58 " In the final section of the Tao Te Ching, Lao-tse wrote, “The wise are not learned; the learned are not wise”—an attitude shared by countless Taoists before and since. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

59 " In the words of Chuang-tse, the mind of Wu Wei “flows like water, reflects like a mirror, and responds like an echo. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh

60 " All it really is, though, is being Sensitive to Circumstances. "

― Lao Tzu , The Tao of Pooh