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[GMW #2389] World University of Handicapped

2012-02-05T08:19:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2389] World University of Handicapped

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1254 ~
16 December 1997

I would also like to see established a World University of Handicapped which would develop a science of all handicaps in the world and their causes, together with a world strategy and methodology to prevent and avoid handicaps and help the handicapped live the best possible lives.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
The most beautiful question a person can ask himself or herself is:
"How can I be of service to Creation and express my gratitude for the tremendous, miraculous gift of my life?"

WORD FOR THE DAY

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but
offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.

--Diane Ackerman

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[GMW #2388] Resolving Water Issues Throughout the World

2012-02-05T08:11:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2388] Resolving Water Issues Throughout the World

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1251 ~
13 December 1997

It is high time for the UN to convene a second world water conference thirty years after the first one I got convened in 1967. The world consumption of water has dramatically increased since then. Water is one of the most vital elements of which human life is made (70 percent of our body) and depends on. It will become one of the next biggest global problems of this planet.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
I often hear God saying to me and humanity:
"You want to show me your gratitude? It is very simple: be peaceful, just, kind, loving each other and grateful for every day of your life."

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[GMW #2387] Life Sustainable Conditions Will Become More Important Than Sustainable Development

2012-02-01T21:29:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2387] Life Sustainable Conditions Will Become More Important Than Sustainable Development

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1228 ~
20 November 1997

It is strange that most industries of the world are located in northern regions where for three to four months forests and trees have no leaves to absorb carbon dioxide and to produce oxygen. This is why the northern countries are likely to perish first from atmospheric pollution and oxygen deficiency. Instead of developed and under-developed countries, the world will be divided into livable and unlivable countries. Life sustainable conditions will become more important than sustainable development.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Suppose humanity lost its eyesight or its hearing, speaking, thinking or loving capacity?
Would it not be a catastrophe? Shouldn't we therefore
be grateful for being endowed with these stupendous senses and capacities?

Is "stupendous" too strong?
Well, think how you would feel, if you lost a single one of them!

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Great things are done  when people and mountains meet. -- William Blake

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[GMW #2386] Annual Humanity & Earth Report of What was Right, Successful and Beneficial, Failures, Regrets, Recommendations for Next Year

2012-02-01T21:01:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2386] Annual Humanity & Earth Report of What was Right, Successful and Beneficial, Failures, Regrets, Recommendations for Next Year

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

12 December 1997

All heads of states, of great institutions and of firms should write a Testament to the 20th century, giving their views of what was right, successful and beneficial to humanity and to the Earth, what was erroneous, what were failures, what they regret not having done and what they recommend should be done and ideas to be implemented in the 21st century.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
We must open ourselves to every potential,
to everything we can be,
to the vast world out there,
to the heavens, to God and to eternity.

To be the vastest, the longest, the greatest,
the fullest living being in the universe,
serenely and gratefully,
that should be our purpose.

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The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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[GMW #2385] Universal Responsibilities and Duties, and Upgrading World Human Rights and Earth Rights

2012-02-01T16:37:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2385] Universal Responsibilities and Duties, and Upgrading World Human Rights and Earth Rights

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1248 ~
10 December 1997

In 1998 the world will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It will be a great occasion to review this essential field in human progress, its successes and failures, and the new vital human rights and Earth rights which should be considered. We must also take up for the first time human responsibilities and duties including our duties towards the Earth. I foresee that soon the UN Commissioner for human rights will become the Commissioner for Human Rights and Duties.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
During the war, I often heard my father exclaim:
"I promise to God that when this war is over,
I will never complain again as long as I live."

But he did not keep his promise.
He was only human.

Dream and give yourself permission to
envision a You that you
choose to be.

-- Joy Page

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[GMW #2384] Annual World Prizes for Halting and Limiting Unsustainable Development Given to Countries, Local Governments and Firms

2012-02-01T16:26:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2384] Annual World Prizes for Halting and Limiting Unsustainable Development Given to Countries, Local Governments and Firms

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1247 ~
9 December 1997

A World Association Against Unsustainable Development should be created. It should give yearly prizes to countries, local governments and firms which have put a halt or limit to Earth destructive, non-essential development.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
To say thank you is not enough.
To do good is the real thanks.

A poem should not mean. But be.  -- Archibald MacLeish

Inspiration of the Day:   "I started writing this terrible, I call it an awesomely bad, novel. I was going out with this French woman and I told her about it. I told her 'This book is just juvenile. I don't know how to do this.'   She said, I have a friend of the family, a writer, and maybe he can help you with it. I agreed with that. So the next thing I know, I meet this little French guy with the glasses.   He says to me, 'I don't want to read your manuscript, but from what you've been telling me, it seems to me you need to get control over the language. So it might be good for you to read poets. Read poets and try to get control over the language.'   That person, I didn't know who he was at the time, turned out to be Jean Paul Sartre."   --Basketball player turned renowned poet, Quincy Troupe,  eloquently describes his one-of-a-kind journey. Here.

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[GMW #2383] Creative Financing for World Projects Benefiting All Humanity and Earth

2012-02-01T14:02:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2383] Creative Financing for World Projects Benefiting All Humanity and Earth

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1246 ~
8 December 1997

As we enter the next century and millennium, it is absolutely indispensable for nations to consider a new system of financing the United Nations. The more advanced and more effective method of financing of the European Union should serve as a model.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Being old, and losing my eyesight, I might say:
"O God, why do you take away my eyesight?"

Or:
"Dear God, thank you for having
allowed me to see so well for so many years."

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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

-- Rabindranath Tagore

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[GMW #2382] A World Consultative Parliament and a World Budget and Taxes for Projects to Benefit All Humanity and Earth

2012-02-01T11:27:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2382] A World Consultative Parliament and a World Budget and Taxes for Projects to Benefit All Humanity and Early

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1245 ~
7 December 1997

The next session of the Interparliamentary Union should be held in Costa Rica at the seat of the University for Peace and deal with the following subjects:

- Parliamentarianism and democracy in the 21st century

- Creation of a UN Consultative Parliament

- Establishment of a yearly world budget including proper financing of international and regional institutions, actions and projects for the benefit of all humanity and the Earth;

- Equitable taxation for all people of the world and elimination of international tax evasion.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
At least once in a while, if not often we should
thank every organ of our body,
our heart, our brain, our lungs,
the trillions of little cells who
faithfully, day and night,
give us such wonderful service.

They need, they are thirsty of some
encouragement to function well and
not to fall sick or give up.

Gratitude might be
a very important factor of good health.

Why not try it.
It is so simple.

WORD FOR THE DAY
Grace and gratitude
go together
like heaven and earth.
Karl Barth

Photo by Deborah Rudy, Dauphin, PA. Location: near Dauphin, PA.

Now and then it's good to pause
in our pursuit of happiness and
just be happy.
-- Guillaume Apollinaire

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[GMW #2381] Yearly Peace Price to Country Achieving Highest Record of Peace and Non-Violence

2012-01-29T06:26:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2381] Yearly Peace Price to Country Achieving Highest Record of Peace and Non-Violence

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1243 ~
5 December 1997

The Japanese foundation created in the memory of Ryoichi Sasakawa who gave me a million dollars for the construction of the United Nations Peace University in Costa Rica should establish a yearly Sasakawa Peace Prize given by the University for Peace to the country having achieved the highest record of peace and non-violence.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 9 - Of Spirituality - Annex - My Spiritual Journey
But there is still so much to do. It is not even governments who are responsible for the current disorders in the world. It is the lack of spirituality, the lack of respect for God, for His miraculous creation which I loved so much already as a child. Please, dear readers, be the active defenders of these miracles so that we can at long last become the paradise of peace, beauty and happiness God and all religious leaders want us to become, a true jewel in the universe. And the progress I have seen achieved since the horrible World War II gives me good hope, even the conviction that we will succeed.

Pancho Ramos Meditating And Arrested At Occupied Oakland Watch & listen to Pancho on Democracy Now here.

Non-Violence And Enlightened Self Controlled Individuals [Full article by Pancho Ramos here.]   "I do not want to be governed except by myself."  “Political power, in my opinion,  cannot be our ultimate aim. ...  "Representatives will become unnecessary if ... life becomes so perfect as to be self-controlled.   It will then be a state of enlightened  [individuals]... in which  each person will become their own ruler. They will conduct themselves in such a way that  their behavior will not hamper the  well being of their neighbors.   In an ideal State there will be no political institution and therefore no political power.”

“The very right to live is only afforded to us if
we fulfill our duty as citizens of the world.

Nationalism is not the highest concept.
The highest concept is a world community.”
–M.K. Gandhi

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[GMW #2380] World Public Administration Agency

2012-01-27T06:30:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2380] World Public Administration Agency

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1242 ~
4 December 1997

As a progress towards a better administration of planet Earth (planetics) I recommend that an autonomous World Public Administration Institute or Agency be created similar to the European Institute for Public Administration which would become one of its regional arms with others being created on other continents of the world.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 9 - Of Spirituality - Annex - My Spiritual Journey
This is where we stand. I have offered my views, hopes and proposals in many writings. One of them describes my vision of a spiritual world in the year 2013, twenty years after the Chicago session. Another is a chapter on the UN and Spirituality in my Testament to the UN. The excerpts on the subject of religion and spirituality from my 5000 Ideas and Dreams for a Better World count almost 100 pages. They could be published as a book of its own.

But there is still so much to do. It is not even governments who are responsible for the current disorders in the world. It is the lack of spirituality, the lack of respect for God, for His miraculous creation which I loved so much already as a child. Please, dear readers, be the active defenders of these miracles so that we can at long last become the paradise of peace, beauty and happiness God and all religious leaders want us to become, a true jewel in the universe. And the progress I have seen achieved since the horrible World War II gives me good hope, even the conviction that we will succeed.

Daily Ray of Hope

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Let nature be your teacher.  -- William Wordsworth

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[GMW #2379] Waste and Garbage Resolutions at World Level

[GMW #2379] Waste and Garbage Resolutions at World Level

2012-01-27T06:14:00.000-08:00

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1241 ~
3 December 1997

It is high time to convene a first world conference on waste and garbage, a subject which has never been considered in its global dimensions. The results would be staggering and show that humanity is on the course of disaster. Watching every day from our hill in Costa Rica the huge fires of garbage in the valley below, spreading fumes over the city of Alajuela, Barbara and I are deeply concerned. And the people down there do not see the blanket extending over their heads, the same way as in huge cities in the world they do not see the brown blanket of pollution over their homes, affecting the lungs of their families.

The world conference I propose could give birth to two much needed new sciences, strategies and methodologies under the names of:

wastology
and
garbology

These should be worked on and taught in Universities and schools in the world.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 9 - Of Spirituality - Annex - My Spiritual Journey
There are now many good signs of a spiritual Renaissance in the world: the World Bank has meetings with spiritual leaders to see how poverty in the poor countries can be healed. Harvard University has conducted a vast survey of the contributions of the religions to the environment and safeguard of the Earth. Secretary General Kofi Annan has meetings with the leaders of the main religions of the world. A World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality has been created. Dr. Karan Singh of India and I are its Co-chairmen.

Daily Ray of Hope

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WORD FOR THE DAY Feeling gratitude and not expressing it  is like wrapping a present and not giving it. -- William Arthur Ward

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[GMW #2378] World People's Assembly Makes NATO Obsolete

2012-01-26T07:59:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2378] World People's Assembly Makes NATO Obsolete

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1240 ~
2 December 1997

I cannot repeat it enough, NATO has lost its justification now that the cold war is over. NATO should be transferred to the UN as a regional arm of a world security system. Its forces would become blue-beret Peace-keeping forces. Its resources would do a lot of good to the UN. As proposed earlier in these 2000 ideas its War Room, which monitors the world situation should become a United Nations World Peace Room. How long will people tolerate the ongoing waste of expenditures of NATO and SEATO? A peoples' world movement for their abolishment should be formed. The subject should be taken up by The Hague Centennial Peoples' World Conference in 1999 and by the World Peoples' Assembly 2000, accompanying the UN's General Assembly 2000.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Every morning, when we wake up, we should say:
"Dear God, I promise You not to complain today.
I will be joyful and grateful to You
for Your wonderful, incredible gift of my life."

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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates,  should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas  - a place where history comes to life.  -- Norman Cousins  Good News of the Day: Libraries have a special place in history as a hearth of culture that kindled the greatest feats of science and the grandest works of art. Yet today, they're in danger of being left precisely there -- in history. As our collective use of libraries dwindles in the digital age, five brave efforts are innovating the concept of "the library" in ways that make it as culturally relevant today as it ever was. {More}

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[GMW #2377] Kiwas Opening toward Heavens and into Earth Remind All of Cosmic Consciousness

2012-01-24T13:55:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2377] Kiwas Opening toward Heavens and into Earth Remind All of Cosmic Consciousness

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

Idea 1220 ~
12 November 1997

Today, Barbara and I decided to build on our peace park a wooden kiwa benches arrangement on the indigenous observation platform overlooking the magnificent Monument of Peace of the University for Peace. I remember how I was invited years ago by the Hopi Indians in Shongopavi-Hautevilla to meet with elders in kiwas to meditate and exchange views on the state and future of the world. The kiwas are round adobe structures inside of which benches are arranged in circular fashion. In the middle of the roof of the kiwa there is a hole towards the heavens, and in the middle of the ground is a hole covered by a slab of stone which is removed when meetings begin. As a result the attendants are reminded that they are sitting around a line which goes from the center of the Earth into the infinite heaven. They must therefore have a cosmic consciousness.

I tried in vain to have the same done in the vast General Assembly Hall of the United Nations where there is an opening in the cupola towards the sky, but no hole in the middle of the floor. If there is one place on Earth where delegates from all around the world need to have a cosmic consciousness, it is the UN General Assembly Hall

Well, we will have an open-air kiwa here, with a hole in the Earth but without a roof because the indigenous people of this sunny country do not believe in closed western buildings required by cold and rainy weather.

When we will have meetings with friends we will ask them to sit on the circle of benches and will remove the stone slab on the hole in the middle of the ground.

And I will remember that I was named by the Hopis, Kogyun Deyo, Spider Boy with the task of making a big spiderweb to catch all evil in the world and then throw it far away into the universe.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
The greatest chance given to me was the invitation to be the opening speaker of the second World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1993. I made a passionate appeal to the religions to create a world organization similar to the United Nations. Why? Because it was not sufficient for the religious leaders to meet, there was need also for a permanent organization with an inter-religious Secretariat to study in common all religions of the world and their contributions to a global spirituality as we have done at the UN for peace and other common ideals and needs of humanity. In my view there was an absolute need for a spiritual Renaissance on planet Earth. I also made an appeal that the Parliament of Religions should not wait another hundred years to meet again but should meet before the year 2000. Bishop Edmund Tutu heard me and invited the Parliament to meet in South Africa in December 1999. Six thousand people from around the world attended it.
--
My proposal to create a world organization of religions is being implemented. The Charter of a United Religions Organization, still called Initiative was created on 26 June 2000, the anniversary date of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations. That organization will help the peaceful resolution of the several religious conflicts we still have on this planet, develop a common modern global science of spirituality, a strategy and a methodology of spirituality (e.g. prayer, forgiveness, sanctity, thanksgiving, confession and so many other helpful practices). It will create a different, better, spiritual world, with religions united in a wonderful, non-fundamentalist diversity.

HeartMath

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work.
We must feel and be affected by it. "
- Voltaire

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[GMW #2376] Primitive Political and Economic Management of our Planet

2012-01-24T13:25:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2376] Primitive Political and Economic Management of our Planet

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1219 ~
11 November 1997

In a hundred years people will be astonished at the state of the world of today. They will admit that we made many progresses, as we admit it when we look back one hundred years, but they will hardly understand that we could be so primitive in the political and economic management of our planet, stagnating in philosophical, social and spiritual retardedness. It will be rewarding for me to see that from heaven and to rub my hands for having written unorthodox ideas, considered crazy or at best ahead of their time, which helped that evolution. I will keep a record at that time of all my ideas which were implemented during the 21st century.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
What is this concept of spirituality? In my view it is very simple. It is what I felt as a little boy. It is to receive from the religions help to understand the mystery of the universe and time. This is what all religions have in common. They help us, they elevate us, while the mysteries of the universe and time have never been resolved by the scientists, not even by Einstein. They will always remain mysteries. Religions give us hope that there is a soul in us which binds us as sentient beings with the entire universe and time, that we are children of God, active, living cosmic beings, each one the true miracle I felt already to be as a child.
As a consequence I created several spiritual associations in the UN and brought many outside spiritual organizations in contact and relation with the UN. I had contact with the Mayor of Assisi who at my suggestion arranged for the Pope to have yearly meetings in Assisi with the heads of other religions. I convinced U Thant to invite the Pope to the UN and was put in charge of that visit. I could write a whole book What the UN Taught Me About Spirituality as I wrote "What War Taught Me About Peace".

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An Amazon Tour Guide's Inspiring Story
Nearly 21 years ago, Patty Webster landed her dream job as an adventure tour guide in the Peruvian Amazon. But as she shared the area's beauty and culture with tourists, she realized there was a darker side to the rainforest paradise. "I saw how poor they were and realized that people were dying because they didn't have medical care," Webster said. She started sharing her supplies with the locals and soon began waking up to find people waiting outside her mosquito net to ask her for medicine. At one point, Webster -- who had no medical training -- gave someone stitches, following instructions from a book. "It was kind of scary," she recalled. "If they're depending on me for their health care ... we're all going to die." That's when she decided to stay and do something more. { read more }

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[GMW #2375] Each Birthday an Earthday to Celebrate by Planting a Tree

2012-01-05T12:25:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2375] Each Birthday an Earthday to Celebrate by Planting a Tree

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1267 ~

29 December 1997

Barbara suggested that every birthday of the 5.9 billion persons of this planet should also become their own Earthday to celebrate the Earth which is their mother, to give thanks for the miracle of life and to promise to take good care of the Earth. If a tree would be planted on the birthday of each person on Earth, 5.9 billion trees would be added to our capital of trees every year.

We promised to do it on each of our birthdays and will recommend it to our children and grandchildren. Eighteen trees will thus be planted by us in 1998.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
I will never be able to thank God enough for having granted me the tremendous miracle of life. From the millions of seeds of my father and tiny eggs of my mother, mine were the only lucky ones. Thank you dear God a million times.

The Free Farm

The Free Farm in San Francisco, run fully by volunteers, is dedicated to bringing fresh, local, organic produce for free to under-served communities in the San Francisco area. In 2009 alone, they gifted over 20,000 lbs of produce. A remarkable activist describes his experience in serving at the Free Farm. "We are not growing fruits and veggies. We are facilitating the growth of soil and community. The food is a by-product. We're mostly giving back to Mother Earth, and in the process, enjoying the co-creation of noble friendship. This is the revelation I got when I met "Tree" (the founder of the Free Farm). From my perspective, this is Gandhi's constructive program at its best, revamped for the 21st century. Gandhi used the spinning wheel as both physical embodiment and symbol for radical change. Today, the foundation for social justice is local and healthy food -- our "spinning wheel" for the 21st century." { read more }

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[GMW #2374] A World Strategy for Simple, Frugal Living with No Unnecessary Earth Destruction

2012-01-05T12:19:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2374] A World Strategy for Simple, Frugal Living with No Unnecessary Earth Destruction

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1264 ~

26 December 1997

I recommend a world strategy for simple, frugal living in order to save and preserve our mother Earth.

A first point is: do not admire the rich, the golfers, the yachts, the private airplanes, the villas, the tourism and lavish hotels of the rich, etc. turn your back on them, because they mean in large part unnecessary Earth destruction.

Please, people, create urgently a World Association or Movement for Simple and Frugal Living.

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Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Every morning we must thank God for our resurrection.

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[GMW #2373] Honor The Declaration of Vision of the United Indigenous People at the World Parliament of Religions

2012-01-05T12:11:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2373] Honor The Declaration of Vision of the United Indigenous People at the World Parliament of Religions

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1263 ~

25 December 1997

On this day of celebration of the birth of Jesus, I wonder what the Christ is thinking in the heavens looking down upon the Earth. He cannot fail to bemourn the millions of his beloved human brothers and sisters who were killed over the last 1997 years in his name and in the name of other prophets and emissaries like him. May I place in His mouth this prayer to His representative on Earth, Pope John Paul II:

"I pray you to rescind on Christmas 1999 the Papal Bull Inter Cetera of your predecessor in the 15th century requesting the colonialists of the Americas to subjugate and kill the indigenous people for the propagation of the Christian Empire and faith.

No papal bull was ever so contrary to my teachings and message to the world. Please do not invoke papal infallibility.

No human being on Earth, not even I in heaven am infallible, given all the killings and sufferings which were committed in my name.

Please do it out of love.

Please read the Declaration of Vision of the United Indigenous People at the World Parliament of Religions in 1993 in Chicago, which my son Robert Muller reproduces at the end of these 1300 ideas for a better world on my bimillennial birthday in 2000."

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Life is a great miracle, a most beautiful gift, an incredible mystery.
Our planet is an even more magnificent wonder.

We must therefore be thankful and
be in love with
our Earth,
with humanity,
with all living beings,
with the universe and
with God and God's angels.

Photo by Devra Cooper. Location: San Luis Obispo, Ca.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
-- Giorgio Morandi

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