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The Robin Sharma Pack

This pack includes various titles penned by the author Robin Sharma, known for his writing on personal development and leadership. more

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Robin Sharma
Robin Sharma

Robin Sharma, born in 1964, is a Canadian author, motivational speaker, and life coach best known for his bestselling book "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari." Originally a lawyer, he left his legal career to pursue writing and became one of the most influential voices in personal development and leadership. His books, blending Eastern wisdom with Western business principles, have been translated into 50+ languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. more

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“All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.”

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.”

“There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.”