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Know & Be Your True Self

by Dole Uplele

180 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #01-0046; ISBN 1-55212-644-7; US$19.00, C$22.99, EUR15.00, £10.40

A fascinating explanation of human life as an awesome gift for which there has to be responsibility.

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About the Book A fascinating explanation of human life as an awesome gift for which there has to be responsibility, Dole Uplele's Know & Be Your True-Self has chapters on important topics such as the purpose of existence and the abundant lessons of life.

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From the Author     Who really, in the deepest sense, am I? For what purpose do I exist? These are, among others, two of the most important questions that, in my opinion, an adult and sane human being will eventually have to pose, in one form or another, to oneself; the fact that a human being has the ability to formulate such questions itself guarantees that the answers, the correct answers to be precise, for such questions are within his or her control and, therefore,must come from him or her.     Assuming that a human being genuinely asks such questions for the relevance of their answers to his or her very being and purpose, and assuming that a human being really finds the authentic answers for such questions, will he or she conform to who he or she really is? Will he or she be true to the purpose of his or her being?     As important as it is for a human being to have questions on his or her very being and purpose, he or she -- when he or she finds the answers -- will know from the answers the obligatory task, of instant by instant bases, of his or her entire lifetime -- from adulthood to the day that he or she is no longer -- to be, in thought, in action or inaction, his or her true-self; in other words, to know who you are or for what you are who you are is one thing; however, to be who you truly are in doing or living, by all your functions, by the purpose of your very being is altogether a different matter.     In this little book, I have posed numerous questions, such as mentioned above, for which I have taken the liberty, perhaps foolishly, to give some answers.     Though I do not claim to be an expert on the human experience or existentialism, the fact that I am a human being reassures me that I am no less qualified than any other human being to give my take on who, as a human being, I really am or for what purpose or design that I am who I am. The book is written simply and is totally void of any pedantry of academic writings.     It is my sincerest hope and wish that this small book, if not of any greater use or help, would at least invoke you, the reader, to try seriously to locate, as each one of us humans must with his or her own, your true-self and purpose in life and, more importantly, live your life to the fullest in accordance to your authentic-self and its purpose.     -Dole Uplele

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Excerpts

Self-Sovereignty and Governance:

    Each adult human being is a sovereign state unto him or herself with clearly demarcated, by our own respective physicality and consciousness with a conscience, natural borders from and to everyone and everything else. Like any state that presents itself as a country of a collection of a certain people with an administrative style, a state person, figuratively speaking, is a miniature version of a state and one may conduct his or her person state, like any country, in a democratic, despotic, megalomaniacal, fascistic manner or any one of a number of other ways.
    However, unlike a state -- a democratically representative state, for example, with human and civil rights -- whose populous delegate huge state responsibilities to few people whom they have elected, or in some countries -- any undemocratic state -- whose people are neither represented nor consulted in the affairs of the state, the state person of an adult human has no one to delegate responsibility to, blame or credit for the conduct of its own but itself. There is a lesson in that; a lesson of being objective or subjective about the subject of oneself; about borders between the individual and others, individually and collectively, that one should or should not cross immorally or illegally, about recognition or denial, respect or disrespect for neighborliness; a lesson in self democracy or dictatorship.
    One ought to continually take stock of the state of his or her "state person." Every one of us should ask this and often: how is the state of my state person?

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    My friends, in a world where people are driven by a quantifiable material gain, one measures his efforts against a perception of time, measured by so called years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds; to this end, through the eyes of true consciousness with a conscience, some mourn incessantly for the dead and buried, others fidget with impatience for the unborn and all of us neglect the living here and now; such is our concept with time; for yesterday is the dead and buried; I dare say never existed; tomorrow is never here. Only this moment is ours; yet, there is no moment either, only consciousness with a conscience whose purpose constantly awaits for each one of us humans to fulfill.
    The work of a human conscience is, without a doubt, on the bases of this instant.

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