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

    Owl   Piglet   Rabbits  
    "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.
  • 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.

  • To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

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

  • 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.

    Sweet   Mind   Messages  
  • "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said.

    Wisdom   Morning   Food  
    "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.
  • A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

    'Winnie-the-Pooh' (1926) ch. 6
  • 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.

    "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.
  • A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

    Clever   Heart   Mind  
  • Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

    Steps   Purpose   Phrases  
  • 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.

    Voice   Simplicity   Way  
  • The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.

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

  • 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.

    Order   Next Steps   Way  
  • Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

    Doe   Able   Tao  
  • When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

  • The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

    Life   Wise   Learning  
    Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.81, Shambhala Publications
  • From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

    Views   Way   Tao Of Pooh  
  • A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

    A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.93, Egmont UK
  • As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

    Stupid   Mean   Simple  
  • It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

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

    Cheer Up   Taoism   Want  
  • 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.

    Confused   Trying   Way  
  • When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

  • Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

  • 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.

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

    Love   Inspiring   Dog  
  • Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

  • 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.

    Life   Jobs   People  
  • There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.

    Sight   Needs   Way  
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