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The Way of the Servant

The Way of the Servant

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Apr 21, 2022
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I have been learning lessons in humility the past couple years and many of them could be summed up in this quote by John Boyd:

"The most important thing in life is to be free to do things. There are only two ways to insure that freedom — you can be rich or you can you reduce your needs to zero."

If you listen carefully, you will see how these align with the three functional classes of my Peasant Theory.

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