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• Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not understand themselves very much. Having little understanding of themselves, they have little respect for themselves, and are therefore easily influenced by others.

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  People, Understanding, Looks

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• How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

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  Justice, Clue, Tao Of Pooh

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• 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.

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  Confused, Trying, Way

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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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• Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Tao Of Pooh

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• By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

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  Running, Rain, Rivers

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• 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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  Tao, Where You Belong, Wrong Job

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• "Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."

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  Funny, Clever, Humor

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

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• 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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  Simple, Reality, Squares

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• Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.

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  Children, Smart, Voice

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• The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.

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  Ego, Bigs, Knows

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• While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.

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  Owl, Piglet, Rabbits

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

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• 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, Tao Of Pooh

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• The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.

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  Spiritual, Clubs, Infinite

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• No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.

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  May, Matter, Sometimes

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• The honey doesn't taste so good once it is being eaten; the goal doesn't mean so much once it is reached; the reward is no so rewarding once it has been given. If we add up all the rewards in our lives, we won't have very much. But if we add up the spaces *between* the rewards, we'll come up with quite a bit. And if we add up the rewards *and* the spaces, then we'll have everything - every minute of the time that we spent.

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  Mean, Space, Goal

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Mind, Messages

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• In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between superior and inferior to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.

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  Animal, Men, Perfect

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• In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.

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  Wise, Swans, Ugly Duckling

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• There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and shadow would not be able to follow him and then he never ever had to look at them again. He ran and he ran as fast as he could, but the shadow and the footprints had no problems keeping up to him. And he ran even faster and all of a sudden he fell dead to the ground. But if he been standing still there hadn't been any footprints and if he had been resting under a tree his shadow had been swallowed of the trees shadow.

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  Men, Tree, Shadow

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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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  Giving Up, Self, Ideas

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• Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

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  Curves, Rocks, Interesting

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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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  Appreciation, Perspective, Understanding

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• Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.

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  Order, Kind, Wells

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• Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

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  Sweet, Tao Of Pooh, New Home

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