Thursday, October 28, 2010

[GMW #2074] Cessation Of Endless, Unlimited Development And Unsustainability


[GMW #2074] Cessation Of Endless, Unlimited Development And Unsustainability
Friday 29 October 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1217 ~    9 November 1997

The notion of sustainable development is now an accepted concept, after fifty years of endless, unlimited development.  Still we must go one step further and speak of unsustainable, Earth destroying development, and speak of the cessation of growth in many cases and places of the Earth.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
The greatest, most advanced, most enduring, most treasured beloved human beings on this planet are not the kings, emperors, presidents, businessmen, not even inventors and scientists.  They are the great spiritual leaders, the great artists like Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci, the builders of cathedrals and Taj Mahals.

Alas, in our current, materialistic society this chain of the truly great ones has been broken.  Their birth is smothered by the noise, cheapness, material and money craze of modern society. 

Our best hope rests in a spiritual, classical Renaissance.

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

-- Freya Stark

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[GMW #2073] Create Visions Of Earthly Paradise In Literature And Political Science For A Better World And Happier Humanity



[GMW #2073] Create Visions Of Earthly Paradise In Literature And Political Science For A Better World And Happier Humanity
Thursday 28 October 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1208 ~    31 October 1997

Since we all want a better world and happier humanity, why not think of making our planet a paradise in the universe?  We might not be able to do it, but by formulating the highest objectives we will get closer to them. 

That method is used in all good planning and inventions.  Inventors do not consider anything impossible.  Humanists, social innovators, long-term scientists and above all heads of states and of world organizations should do the same.  In the Divine Comedy, Dante forecasts that after the Purgatory (the correction of our sins and errors) we will see paradise on Earth.

As an invitee to the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in 1998 in Boston, I have recommended that the organizers should compile a collection of visions of earthly paradise in human literature and visionary political science.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
All periods of anxiety, confusion and loss of direction of humanity are reflected in their art and literature.  A Renaissance in both heralds a new direction.

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  

-- Albert Einstein

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

[GMW #2072] Upgrading The UN With A Bold Strategy Of New Institutions, Organs and Services For The Well-Being Of The Earth And Happiness Of Humanity



[GMW #2072] Upgrading The UN With A Bold Strategy Of New Institutions, Organs and Services For The Well-Being Of The Earth And Happiness Of Humanity
Wednesday 27 October 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1199 ~    22 October 1997

Reading my journals of 1970, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UN, and of 1985, the fortieth anniversary of which I was in charge, I am struck that the US and other big powers consistently complain about duplication, bureaucracy and excessive costs of the UN.  This was again the case during the fiftieth anniversary of the UN in 1990, and is worse today since the US Congress even withholds the payment of the US contributions to the UN.  I then remembered that even in the speeches of the US and the USSR during the first General Assembly of the UN in Lake Success in 1946, they complained about excessive costs!  This all proves that the issue is primarily political.  The big powers do not want a strong, effective UN.  They want to keep their power and tax revenue, creating infinitely more duplications of expenses between themselves and the total of 185 nations at the expense of the taxpayers, prisoners of their nations.

My heart bleeds when I think that some essential services of the UN have been suppressed for that reason, and that the main talk today is the suppression or consolidation of more UN services.  For instance, I lament that the UN Fiscal and Financial Branch in which I worked immediately after World War II has been suppressed.  It could render most valuable services to the world community today on two subjects:

1.  How is it possible that so many billionaires can arise in this world?  What is the taxation of their incomes?  How do they use tax havens which exist in the world?

2.  At this time when we want to save forests to produce oxygen for our lungs, would it not be good to survey the taxation of this common wealth?  Should forests not be tax-exempt or even receive tax incentives, instead of seeing owners forced to exploit or to sell them because of excessive land taxation?  This is a subject which we would have taken up immediately in the Fiscal and Financial Commission and Branch of the UN.

I recommend therefore that this UN intergovernmental organ and its Secretariat be reestablished.  I recommend that the current Secretary General propose to the General Assembly not exclusively consolidation and suppression of UN services but come up with a whole list, a bold strategy of new institutions, organs and services which he considers essential for the well-being of the Earth and happiness of humanity.  The latter should be the only criteria.

It goes even beyond the Secretary General.  The whole UN should be upgraded into a second generation UN urgently needed in the 21st century.  A second Charter Conference and Bretton Woods Conference should be convened to that effect.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
Art can dissect and analyze. 
Art can compose and harmonize. 

The scientific age was accompanied by an excessive dissecting, often meaningless art. 

The holistic age will now see the rebirth of a composing, inspiring, harmonizing art.


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 WORD FOR THE DAY
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant,
to enact gratitude is generous and noble,
but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Johannes A. Gaertner

The World Association Of Former United Nations Interns and Fellows

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OFFICIAL RECORD

In Honor and Memory
of
Dr. Robert G. Muller
(1923-2010)

            The World Association of Former United Nations Internes and Fellows (WAFUNIF) records with profound grief the sad demise of Dr. Robert G. Muller, on 20th September 2010, the eve of the International Day of Peace.

            He was one of the most ardent supporters of this organization and, despite his various other engagements, he remained closely associated with it in multitudinous capacities until his last breath. Besides being one of the founding fathers and an original member, he was an honorary inductee and a distinguished promoter. He was an eminent patron and an imaginative mentor as well as an energetic advisor and a affable counsel. He further served WAFUNIF as Director-at-Large, Executive Director, Vice President, and Vice President Emeritus. As a noble man, with active disposition and pioneering spirit, he played an extremely constructive role in these positions. Specially, he gave a new push to the organization's programs on global peace, human entirety, environmental safeguard, and ecological balance. Still, going even far beyond, he used to talk about spirituality, universalism, and cosmology, as also to be our concerns.

            In recognition of these celebrated services and thoughts, the Association itself always held him with the highest esteem, including in particular the bestowal of the award of Outstanding Distinction.

Life Sketch:
            Hailing from France, as a young man of twenty five, he came to New York as a member of the first group of the UN Internes and Fellows (affectionately called Mohawks) in 1948. The internship led him to the corridors of the United Nations and opened the doors to his vision for global peace and harmony, setting him on a life path that took some forty years of work at the United Nations, raising him to the rank of Assistant Secretary-General. This afforded him opportunities of indulging deeply and practically in the domain of international affairs, giving him a purposeful channel to direct his energies.

            In 1986, as a co-founder, he became the Chancellor of the University for Peace at San Jose in Costa Rica. Here he worked laboriously and diligently in building up this institution in the cause of world peace and security, which continued to flourish, under his steerage.

Subsequently, as an ardent advocate of peace, he ran a broadcasting program Good Morning World that religiously spread the message of amicability all around. In the same zeal, he produced a World Core Curriculum, being taught in numerous schools around the world. Dwelling on the same lines, he furthermore developed several innovative Frameworks on Planetary and Cosmic Consciousness, Arts and Culture, and World Media Coverage. Ablazed with the very tenet, he wrote many books in various languages, evoking consciousness for a peaceful and harmonious planet. Thus, as an ardent advocate of peace, hope, and unity, he carried out his mission successfully.

            For his ideas and deeds for global harmony and human welfare, he was widely acclaimed as a great advocate of peace. Accordingly, he was accorded with many distinctions. Amongst these, he won the UNESCO Peace Education Prize with an honorary title of Father of Global Education (1989), Albert Scwitzer International Prize for the Humanities, Eleanor Roosevelt Man of Vision Award, WAFUNIF's Award of Outstanding Distinction (1995), Nuclear Age Peace Foundation World Citizen Award (2002), GOI Peace Award (2003), and Lifetime Achievement Award (2010).

            While we mourn deeply the loss, we stand here to honor and remember him for his exemplary character, profound affection, intense devotion, and momentous achievements. We pray for his salvation and offer the heartiest condolences to the bereaved family.

***

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[GMW #2071] UN Annual Report On The Reduction Of Military Expenditures & Closing Of Military Bases Of Each Country



[GMW #2071] UN Annual Report On The Reduction Of Military Expenditures & Closing Of Military Bases Of Each Country 
Tuesday 26 October 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1197 to 1198 ~    20 to 21 October 1997

I recommend that the United Nations publish each year a report on the reduction of military expenditures of member countries, on demilitarization and on the closing of military bases.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
Art which does not "move", inspire is not art, even if it stands in museums or costs huge sums of money.

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   it is a storm.  - Tagore

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

[GMW #2070] World Alliance For Non-Violence And Annual Season Of Non-Violence



[GMW #2070] World Alliance For Non-Violence And Annual Season Of Non-Violence
Monday 25 October 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1192 ~    15 October 1997

I am glad that the Gandhi Institute for Non-violence and the Martin Luther King Centers for Non-violence have partly fulfilled my idea 236 and have launched a Season of Non-violence from January 30, 1998 to April 4, 1998, the 50th and 30th anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi's and Martin Luther King's assassinations. 

I hope that this season of non-violence will become a yearly event and repeat my recommendation that all associations, movements and institutes working for a non-violent world should create a World Alliance for Non-Violence and request that the United Nations should convene urgently the World Conference on Non-violence recommended in my idea number 5.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
When we, the rich and well-endowed, are surrounded by so much free natural beauty, how do we accept to live in monstrous cities and skyscrapers, disnatured, discontent and wanting endlessly more?

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"We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony."

- Thomas Merton

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[GMW #2069] Global Spirituality Is What All Religions Have In Common




[GMW #2069] Global Spirituality Is What All Religions Have In Common
Friday 22 October 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1188 ~    11 October 1997

I remember that Dag Hammarskjöld used to go to a different church, temple or house of worship every week to learn what they had in common.  He then reported it to God. 

Thus he discovered that global spirituality is what all religions have in common.

I discovered it too and wrote the book New Genesis, Shaping a Global Spirituality.  He must be happy in heaven to learn that a United Religions Organization similar to the United Nations is now on the way of being created.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
The Renaissance of nature is the first sign of humanity's spiritual and artistic rebirth.

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To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

-- Terry Tempest Williams

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

[GMW #2068] Whyology - The Human Capacity And Art Of Asking The Fundamental Question "Why?"



[GMW #2068] Whyology - The Human Capacity And Art Of Asking The Fundamental Question "Why?"
Thursday 21 October 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1180 ~    3 October 1997

We need also a science, strategy and methodology of what I would call Whyology, the human capacity and art of asking the fundamental question "Why?"  Why the mysteries, phenomena and happenings surrounding us?  I would like to see a long inventory of whys published for the year 2000:
why are there still wars and armed conflicts on this planet?
why is not every conflict resolved by peaceful means?
why do conflicts arise in other forms?
why is there still so much poverty on this planet?
why do we destroy nature unnecessarily?
why are there still "sovereign" nations?
why are there 5000 religions and why are some of them making war on each other, contrary to their preachings of peace?
and so on and so forth.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
Attraction to beauty is the main means of nature to make us do what nature wants us to do: reproduce.  Beauty is therefore a key instrument of reproduction and evolution.

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 WORD FOR THE DAY

There is no way to peace.
Peace is the way.

A.J. Muste

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

[GMW #2067] A Return To Nature, To Simple And Frugal Lives, To Spirituality And Out Best Hopes For Earth And Humanity



[GMW #2067] A Return To Nature, To Simple And Frugal Lives, To Spirituality And Out Best Hopes For Earth And Humanity
Wednesday 20 October 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1162 ~    15 September 1997

A return to nature, to simple and frugal lives, to spirituality and the growth world-wide of the Natural Law Party are among our best hopes to save the Earth and humanity from the present quandaries and ultimate cataclysm.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
What is a Leonardo da Vinci compared with this planet as a work of art?  Look at the skies and nature and you will see the works of an artist unequaled by any human!

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An Undying Faith of the Infinite in Us
by Rabindranath Tagore

http://www.ijourney.org/audio.php?op=play&tid=694
When we watch a child trying to walk, we see its countless failures; its successes are but few.  If we had to limit our observation within a narrow space of time, the sight would be cruel.  But we find that in spite of its repeated failures there is an impetus of joy in the child which sustains it in its seemingly impossible task.  We see it does not think of its falls so much as of its power to keep its balance though for only a moment.

Like these accidents in a child's attempt to walk, we meet with sufferings in various forms in our life every day, showing the imperfections in our knowledge and our available power, and in the application of our will.  But if these only revealed our weakness to us, we would die of utter depression.  When we select for observation a limited area of our activities, our individual failures and miseries loom large in our minds; but our life leads us instinctively to take a wider view.  It gives us an ideal of perfection which ever carries us beyond our present limitations.  Within us we have a hope which always walks in front of our present narrow experience; it is the undying faith in the infinite in us; it will never accept our disabilities as a permanent fact; it sets no limit to its own scope; it dares to assert that man has oneness with God; and its wild dreams become true everyday.

We see truth when we set our mind towards the infinite.  The ideal of truth is not in the narrow present, not in our immediate sensations, but in the consciousness of the whole which gives us a taste of what we *should* have in what we *do* have.

--Rabindranath Tagore, in Sadhana
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