The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. 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. You also know where you don’t belong.~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh). When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. What we need to do is recognize inner nature and work with things as they are. How can you get very far, If you don’t know who you are? ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh). But once we see they’re there, we can decide what we want to do with them. Sooner or later, we are bound to discover some things about ourselves that we don’t like. This book uses Pooh as a means of teaching readers the concept of "wu wei" or "action through inaction".īy Enjoying the Process, we can stretch that awareness out so that it’s no longer only a moment, but covers the whole thing. Top The Tao of Pooh Quotes Pooh Bear is a character that can be used to explore the Tao of Pooh. They work with what they’ve got and do what they can do. Click to TweetĪ 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. No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of there are things we need to change. 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. ~ Benjamin Hoff (The Tao of Pooh).Ĭleverness, after all, has its limitations. 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 not so rewarding once it has been given. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too much.
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