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Keeping Birthday Happy

Today is my 67th year here on earth. The picture is a magazine’s back cover of me in my birthday suit at a lake in Arizona (1). From then until today, fate has been fortunate, for I should have died quite a few times by now. As to my health, wealth, and family, I couldn’t […]

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Jan 9, 2010 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Autobiographical Tagged With: bio-hoodwink, happy, knowing, thinking

I understand, but do I know?

What is the difference between understanding and knowing? Perhaps chapter 70 alludes to this… My words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice, yet no one in the world can understand them or put them into practice. Our cleverness at understanding far exceeds our ability to know intuitively what we […]

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Nov 4, 2009 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Autobiographical Tagged With: gardening, knowing, understanding, wall street

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