Benjamin Hoff Quotes

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• But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural laws. This mind…
• 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…
• If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.
• The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change…
• The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly.…
• A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.
• When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.
• Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal…
• The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they…
• 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.
• 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.
• 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…
• But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in…

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