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.

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

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 desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.

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

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

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

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