“As long as you think you're green, you'll grow. As soon as you think you're ripe, you'll rot.”

– Scott Horton, American human-rights attorney and journalist

The other day a friend said to me, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to travel through life in a state of blissful ignorance – nothing to worry about, nothing to dwell upon, and nothing more to fill our day than the concerns of our own little world?” That got me thinking. I believe that most of us are already travelling through the day in a state of blissful ignorance. Think about it. Have you ever heard, or said yourself, “The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know”?

I went to the doctor’s office recently for some tests. Though everything was essential...

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