Benjamin Hoff

Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the…

— Benjamin Hoff

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's…

— Benjamin Hoff

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

— Benjamin Hoff

But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural…

— Benjamin Hoff

We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate…

— Benjamin Hoff

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you…

— Benjamin Hoff

It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally.…

— Benjamin Hoff

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a…

— Benjamin Hoff

One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear…

— Benjamin Hoff

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

— Benjamin Hoff

Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own…

— Benjamin Hoff

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

— Benjamin Hoff

To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do, it's all…

— Benjamin Hoff

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they…

— Benjamin Hoff

Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was…

— Benjamin Hoff

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances…

— Benjamin Hoff

It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies,…

— Benjamin Hoff

In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan.…

— Benjamin Hoff

In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no…

— Benjamin Hoff

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

— Benjamin Hoff

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into…

— Benjamin Hoff

“When you discard arrogance' cool gritty, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover…

— Benjamin Hoff

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…

— Benjamin Hoff

Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn…

— Benjamin Hoff

“The athletic sort of Backson - one of the many common varieties - is concerned with physical fitness, he says. But for…

— Benjamin Hoff