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HOW TO LIVE A LIFE OF PURPOSE BY Tosin Olufeyimi Copyright 2012 Tosin Olufeyimi Smashwords Edition Page 1 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. Page 2 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. Page 3 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 Page 4 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 Page 5 ... - tailieumienphi.vn
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