“When we learn to work with our own Inner Nature, and with the natural laws operating around us, we reach the level… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“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… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“Wherever Gandhi went, he transformed situations and lives. As one friend and biographer wrote, "He...changed human beings by regarding them not as what they… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief. — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
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… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
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… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike,… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“He tried too hard", said Pooh."and when you try too hard it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed up… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
![“When we learn to work with our own Inner Nature, and with the natural laws operating around us, we reach the level of Wu Wei. Then we work with the natural order of things and operate on the principle of minimal effort. Since the natural world follows that principle, it does not make mistakes. Mistakes are made–or imagined–by man, the creature with the overloaded Brain who separates himself from the supporting network of natural laws by interfering and trying too hard. When you work with Wu Wei, you put the round peg in the round hole and the square peg in the square hole. No stress, no struggle. Egotistical Desire tries to force the round peg into the square hole and the square peg into the round hole. Cleverness tries to devise craftier ways of making pegs fit where they don’t belong. Knowledge tries to figure out why round pegs fit into round holes, but not square holes. Wu Wei doesn’t try. It doesn’t think about it. It just does it. And when it does, it doesn’t appear to do much of anything. But Things Get Done. When you work with Wu Wei, you have no real accidents. Things may get a little Odd at times, but they work out. You don’t have to try very hard to make them work out; you just let them. [...] If you’re in tune with The Way Things Work, then they work the way they need to, no matter what you may think about it at the time. Later on you can look back and say, "Oh, now I understand. That had to happen so that those could happen, and those had to happen in order for this to happen…" Then you realize that even if you’d tried to make it all turn out perfectly, you couldn’t have done better, and if you’d really tried, you would have made a mess of the whole thing. Using Wu Wei, you go by circumstances and listen to your own intuition. "This isn’t the best time to do this. I’d better go that way." Like that. When you do that sort of thing, people may say you have a Sixth Sense or something. All it really is, though, is being Sensitive to Circumstances. That’s just natural. It’s only strange when you don’t listen.” quote by Benjamin Hoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/118/benjamin-hoff-4297_minimal-effort_when-we-learn-to-work-with-our-own-inner_1979836.jpg)
