“‘From caring comes courage.’ We might add that from it also comes wisdom. It’s rather significant, we think, that those who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes; cleverness, maybe; wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care. Wisdom does. We also consider it significant that cor, the Latin word for “heart”, is the basis for the word courage. Piglet put it this way: ‘She isn’t Clever, Kanga isn’t, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it.'”
Benjamin Hoff
The Tao of Pooh
Page 128
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Love pooh!!!
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A great book
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Yes it is 🙂
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Beautiful images and words 🙂
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They are aren’t they? Many thanks to E H Shepard and Benjamin Hoff 🙂
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Gotta love the Pooh Bear! 🙂
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Absolutely 😀
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I love Pooh! 😀
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😀 Ha ha me too 😀 (don’t worry, I added the h!)
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I love the book:) Wonderful post.
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Thank you 🙂
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Love this book! 🙂 ❤
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Me too 🙂
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Oh Violet, your words are so accurate and so beautifully written…….Vegan hugs xxx
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😀 Thank you I agree, but they’re not my words, they’re Benjamin Hoff’s. Have you read the Tao of Pooh? It’s been around for quite a while but I’ve only just read it and it’s full of gems like the words in this post. I think you’d love it xxx
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I just love this.
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Me too 🙂 it makes so much sense.
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I read this over 20 years ago. I should read it again.
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It really is good 🙂 I’m going to keep dipping back into it 🙂
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