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HOW
TO LIVE
A LIFE OF PURPOSE
BY
Tosin Olufeyimi
Copyright 2012
Tosin Olufeyimi
Smashwords Edition
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INTRODUCTION
This book aim to awake the young to the responsibility of living a purposeful life, it identify the
reason why man exist and how a man can live a purposeful life and the reason why we need to
live a purposeful life. This book is useful for young individuals. It we awake the young to the
responsibility of living a responsible and purposeful life. Many young people are confused about
what to make of there life, with this book the young can get the motivation and direction of
discovering his or her potentials and thereby living a responsible and purposeful life.
Responsible parent who want there children to develop a responsible and purposeful life, should
get this copy of this book for there children. Because it imparts the understanding of why one
have to live a purposeful life. Interesting individual who also want to have a clear understanding
of why we exist and what we are here for as an individual we find this book a good read.
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Existence is an activity, we are doing, making and creating, we are working and building, we are
inquiring and solving. We live to do, to make, to create. We do not exist for nothing, we exist for
something, we do not just live, but we live for something.
We do not live for nothing nor do we live to eat alone, but to do, to create, to build, to find and to
discover. We are alive to live a life of purpose, we are alive to define our life, and by defining
our life, we give meaning to our being.
In the beginning of our being, the human mind is a tabula rasa, it is full with nothing, we are
conscious of nothing, we are only conscious that we exist, but we are not yet aware of our
essence.
Our existence need to be defined before the nothingness in our being can have a meaning. To
define our life we must live a life of purpose, a life without no purpose is a meaningless life, a
man who does not live a purposeful life is living a useless life, it is better he/she is not born.
God is a creative God; he put is existence into creativity by expressing is potential through the
creation of the world and man. Since man is created in the image of God, man also is created to
be creative; he is blessed with potential and talent. Man exists in time and space and in time and
space he must exercise is potential for the development of humanity.
God is the highest potential he share is potential with man, by creating man to be creative and
through the creative activity of man, man give meaning to is own existence. Man exist to fulfills
the essence of is being, I exist in order to do; it is when I do that the essence of my existence
become manifested.
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We do not just exist to be alive, we exist to live, we are alive to live and to live is to do. Living is
an activity, it is doing making and creating. Man is a rational animal and as a rational animal he
is endowed with potential and talent. He can think, plan, organize, and set goal for himself. He is
put in this world to organize is own life and create meaning out of meaninglessness, something
out of nothing, he is create to define is own destiny and build is own world, in is own creative
way for is own betterment.
The world is created for man creativity; it is made for man development. The world exist to
reveals man to himself and man exist to reveals himself to the world.
Man as a rational being, endowed with potential, must live a purposeful life. A life of purpose is
a life of creativity, it is a life of self expression, it is a life of doing, in which an individual aim to
fulfill the desire of is heart and the essence of is being. Whatever I am created to be I must be.
The world is the home of man; man is the caretaker of the world, it is the duty of man to make
this world a better place for man to live. Challenge abounded in this world, this world is a
wilderness where man struggle to live, in order to survive, it is a battle between man and nature.
The world is not created for man comfort, it is made for man creativity, and every problem in the
world exists for the development and creative expression of man. Those problem awake the inner
power of man, it awake the consciousness of man to the reality of life. When man awake to the
reality before him, it develop in man the desire to inquiry and to know.
Man develop a sense of wonder, reality is a puzzle. As nature awake man to the reality before
him, he develop a sense of wonder, he wonder about is own being and the reality before him and
ask how do those being came to be? What is the purpose of my life? What can I be? This self
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consciousness lead man to inquiry, to seek, to find, to understand why thing is as it is, and the
solution to those problem confronting man.
Man inner potential is awake through this self consciousness and the awaking lead man to
develop a life of purpose. Man develops the passion to know and to inquiry in order to
understand and through this understanding he is able to find solution to some problem
confronting man.
A purposeful life is a life devote to finding solution to a fundamentals problem confronting man,
it is a life of service to humanity where one passionately work to solve a problem that is
confronting man.
It is said that the goal of man is to be happy, man desire for happiness, man cannot be happy
unless he find something to do and he must do what he is doing with all is heart. It is this passion
that we give us the joy to live, it define our life and give us the passion to live.
A purposeful man should be able to answer the question, what do you live for? Many people
cannot answer this simply question because they have not discover the essence of there
existence. Martin Luther king says if a person do not find something to die for he isn’t fit to live.
If you live a purposeful life you we live your life to fulfill that purpose and die pursing it. This
passion of fulfilling this desire in your heart we bring joy to your life and give meaning to your
life.
The love of humanity is the spirit that gives us a purpose driven life, when we love humanity we
will have the passion to do, because we love humanity we will become creative and we will be
eager to do something for the benefit of the human race. Therefore the first step to live a
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