Dr Albert Schweitzer was born in 1875 and was brought up at Gunsbach, in Alsace, where the cultures of France and Germany meet, and the influences of the Catholic and Protestant faiths mingle in unusual tolerance. His father was the local Protestant pastor. The family was deeply musical: both Albert’s grandfathers were well-known organists. Discipline [...]
‘We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.’ Dwight D. Eisenhower One of the greatest contributors to an ineffective life is the lack of purpose, the lack of an objective, and the lack of [...]
In order to move forward in life, to achieve your God-given goals and the destiny that is yours to fulfill, there needs to come a point in your life where you stand up straight, in the face of opposition, impossibility and whatever else stands in your way from being all that you were created to [...]
To be filled with passion is to be driven by a desire to achieve. For you have received a dictate – an order – a command for your life. You have stepped from the state of ordinary into a transformed new state called extraordinary. Spoiled for eternity’s purposes. You no longer live in the land [...]
I was talking to my best friend last night and began asking them some deep questions. The first question I asked was, ‘What do you think you have been called to do in your lifetime?’ Finding it hard to answer this, there was a deafening silence that pervaded the atmosphere. I then asked, ‘For what [...]
‘Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.’ Henry David Thoreau Many live their lives being driven by circumstances – by making a living, by paying the mortgage, or by keeping up appearances. May I suggest that there is a far better way to live your life. And that is to ‘go confidently in the [...]
There is an inner genius; a unique peculiarity about you like no other. But how often do I hear the cry from the confused mind, ‘I don’t know what to do with my life.’ How sad it is that so many have gone to the grave having never discovered their personal idiosyncrasy. This is the [...]
With all the financial markets around the world tumbling, it is in this economic climate that we require a sense of centrality. This is where purpose and passion need to rise to the surface, or in fact need to be dusted off and revisited afresh so that the winds of change don’t blow us off [...]
Hugh Holger writes of his experiences gained from crossing the Sahara desert five times, in Timothy Freke’s book ‘The Way Of The Desert’. He recounts that ‘You need to know what you are doing. One small fault with the truck and you’re finished. But if you prepare properly and take precautions it is safer than [...]
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