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Who am I? How can I find myself?   This pair of questions obviously constitutes one of the most recurrent and the less solved equations a human being has to face. They are perhaps the most important questions one has to answer. It seems that finding who you truly are gives you the key to a happy, stable and valuable life. In fact, how could you possibly be stable in life when an imperfect person you do not know or understand is mysteriously guiding your everyday steps?  How can you understand and help others with whom you deal so little when you can’t understand your own self you deal with 24/7? More important, how can others understand and help you?  It is thus of a great interest to know who you are! You can’t truly say you know who you are Have you never felt you are a stranger to yourself? Don’t you feel the need to know a little bit more about the mystery of your person? You might have done significant steps in this search and you think you know more ab...

The search for God is a quest that most men devote their entire lives to. There exists in the human being this desire, this thirst to discover its origin, its raison d'être, its future, in short, the meaning of life. Even though business and  leisure deviate our focus from  these concerns,  the extenuating circumstances of life have this particular side that they often bring us back to this questioning. Laura Story expressed this it so well in her title "Blessings". She wrote:      "What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life  is  the  revealing  of a greater thirst than this world could satisfy?".   Many have turned out to be opinion leaders in this quest, presenting one way or the other towards this much sought-after God, hence the spawn of  a  multitude of religions.  However , a man stands out, not in his search for God, but in relation to what he has said and demonstrated about...