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Benjamin Hoff Biography

Benjamin Hoff (born 1946) is an American author. He is best known as the author of The Tao of Pooh (1982) and The Te of Piglet (1992). In 2006, he denounced the publishing industry and announced his resignation from book-writing. His book, The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow, won the American Book Award in 1988.

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Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.

Phonographic, Remember, Sometimes, Stuck, Things

"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. "

Words Of Wisdom, Taoism, Sound, Unbeliever, Wisdom, Yes

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, Happy, Begin, Appreciative

In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.

Realized, Recognize, Splash, Swans, Ugly Duckling, Wise

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.

Give, Giving Up, Ideas, Images, Self

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 do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals.

Accomplishment, Applies, Attaining, Feelings, Goal

Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world.

Angel, Angels, Communicated, Different, Jobs, Responsibility

The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.

Afraid, Bigs, Ego, Knows

The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford. . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.

Education, Children, Creativity, Machines, Play, Waste

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

Owl, Piglet, Rabbits, Calculates, Hesitates

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.

Bitterness, Come, Messages, Mind, Sweet, Vinegar

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

Animal, Animals, Good, Nature, People, Superior

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

Reality, Negative, Nurture, Creates

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Came, Rain, River, Rivers, Running, Stream

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

Ability, Enjoy, Natural, Simple, Simplicity, Tao Of Pooh

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

Appreciation, Negative, Percieve, Perspective, Taoist, Understanding

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.

Belong, Jobs, Know, Life, Marriage, People

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, Front, Know, Trying, Way

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

Animal, Experience, Needs, Scholars, Tao Of Pooh, Thing

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

Dog, Inspiring, Lots, Love, Problem, Talk

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