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

- Benjamin Hoff

A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own…

- Benjamin Hoff

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

- Benjamin Hoff

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 tries too…

- Benjamin Hoff

There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too despe…

- Benjamin Hoff

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

- Benjamin Hoff

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

- Benjamin Hoff

Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh

- Benjamin Hoff

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

- Benjamin Hoff