The path that calls for dedication to idealism and high sense of moral purpose does not, in fact, demand a saintly conduct in the course of one’s earthly journey. It is not a call to saintliness, for this makes it all to categorize the ideas and concepts as impractical and largely unattainable. Rather, the starling quality of those that thread this path is revealed in their willingness to address fundamental questions and then strive with every strand of their being to live by the answers and convictions they arrive at.
Faith in divine purpose, courage, selflessness and an innate spirit of service motivated by a sense of higher understanding, deriving from a firm belief in the power of introspection as the key source of knowledge, reflects a life devoted to truth, high moral principles and values and service to humanity in reverence of the Absolute.
The call is, therefore, a call not only to have life but to have it more abundantly. However, abundance requires selflessness and wholehearted divestment; that we may not limit ourselves by what we claim to own. Therein lies the Paradox.
By Emmanuel Onyechere Osigwe-Anyiam-Osigwe. Sage Philosopher