[GMW #1733] Happiness And Not Consumption As The Objective And Ideal Of Life And Our Efforts

[GMW #1733] Happiness And Not Consumption As The Objective And Ideal Of Life And Our Efforts Thursday 11 June 2009, Editor: Easy | RobertMuller.org | Contact | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | | GMW Blogs: English | Portuguese | Spanish | Tagalog | Dutch | Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500 ~ Idea 353 ~ 28 June 1995 I recommend that humanity should adopt happiness and not consumption as the objective and ideal of life and of our efforts. Peace, education, beauty, love, welfare, security, etc. are only instruments to achieve happiness. If we tried, we would obtain wonderful results at incredible low cost. The first step would be to create a World University of Happiness and to place the subject on the agenda of the United Nations. The drafters of the US Constitution did not shy from the word: the main purpose of the Constitution was "the pursuit of happiness." The World Constitution we desperately need should have the same goal plus the preservation of the Earth. * Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living, Volume III Chapter 6 The Rich Age Do not look at your lost beauty and youth when you are an elder. Look instead at the youth inside you: the enthusiasm, the thrill of knowing so much, of having lived and experienced so much and being now able to transmit your wisdom and enthusiasm to youth. What a beautiful relationship this can be between the elderly and posterity! It is a whole new chapter of a fundamental new sociology, the sociology of evolution, of the passage into the future. I can see Faculties created on it in Universities. * UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service, UN Wire News Archive New: References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -- Mark Twain Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness by Dr. Robert Muller To order: Phone: 800-727-2782 Email: Becky@ParaPublishing.com Fax: 805-968-1379 Mail: Amare Media c/o Para Publishing, PO Box 8206 Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206. Paperback, $12.95 PROPHET - THE HATMAKER'S SON The Life of Robert Muller by Douglas Gillies To order: Phone: 800-942-7617. For those of you who are interested in my life, there is a beautiful biography which I love very much. Order from www.robertmullerbiography.com . - Robert Muller Poems and Reflections for a Better Life by Kathy J. Ward "A book for anyone anticipating a lovely older age..and a perfect gift for anyone over 50..I read a page or two every single day and have since Kathy sent it to me. I love her book so easy to hold in my hands and read everyday." - Robert Muller - Click here to order. * Subscribe to other lists moderated by GMW's editor Easy: - Better World News: http://at7l.us/mailman/listinfo/bwn_at7l.us - Learning News - children learning, how mind works: http://at7l.us/mailman/listinfo/learn_at7l.us - Health News - better ways of healthy living: http://at7l.us/mailman/listinfo/health_at7l.us View these blogs: Better World News, Learning News, Health News