Monday, February 25, 2013

[GMW #2667] All Children Born Are Declared Citizens Of The World & Exempt From Military Service


[GMW #2667] All Children Born Are Declared Citizens Of The World & Exempt From Military Service Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3060 ~   

All children born in the year 2000 and thereafter should be declared citizens of the world.  All boys should be exempt from military service in all countries.  Could some countries take the lead?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
Why should the search for happiness be only material and mental?  Aren't there untold riches in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?
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WORD FOR THE DAY
Only gratefulness,
in the form of limitless openness for surprise,
lays hold of
the fullness of life in hope.
-- David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer


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[GMW #2666] Establishing Ministries of Peace, Happiness, Beauty & Dreams In All Government


[GMW #2666] Establishing Ministries of Peace, Happiness, Beauty & Dreams In All Government Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3059 ~   

The trouble with our current civilization is that everything has to be measured, quantified in exact, precise terms.  This is why the predominant idea of contemporary humanity is to make money because money is an exact measurement, supposedly, of life and happiness.  This is also why a main purpose of education is to teach how to make money and to produce more goods and services.

Typical of this situation is that we have Ministries of Finance, Economy, Industry, Science and Technology in all governments.  But we do not have any Ministries of Peace, Happiness, Beauty and Dreams.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
Do not expect happiness to fall from the skies.  Earn it, affirm it, cultivate it, treat it with loving care.
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WORD FOR THE DAY
I've learned from experience that the greater part of
our happiness or misery depends on
our dispositions and
not on our circumstances.
-- Martha Washington


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[GMW #2665] YESs & NOs For A Better World For Everyone


[GMW #2665] YESs & NOs For A Better World For Everyone Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3058 ~   

Humanity has still to get its 'yeses' and its 'nos' straight.  Here is a beginning of the two lists.

YESes
Yes to peace
Yes to love
Yes to cooperation
Yes to friendship
Yes to democracy
Yes to unity
Yes to solidarity
Yes to altruism
Yes to well-being
Yes to talk
Yes to negotiation
Yes to justice
Yes to human rights
Yes to individual freedom
Yes to a good environment
Yes to beauty
Yes to satisfying employment
Yes to everything that is good on this planet

NOs
No to war
No to violence
No to armaments
No to militaries
No to dictatorship
No to monopolies
No to injustice
No to hunger
No to sickness
No to illiteracy
No to colonialism
No to apartheid
No to racism
No to early death
No to child abuse
No to slavery
No to sexism
No to prostitution
No to damage to the Earth
No to smoking, drugs and alcohol
No to violent sports

Dear reader, please add your own.  It will reveal how we can make it a better world.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
Make your life a garden of happiness.  Devote to your precious life no less care than you would to your flowers.
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Daily Ray of Hope

Cheryl Strahl
| Pavlof Harbor, Inside Passage, AK

Accept this moment fully.
You are then at ease
in the here and now and
at ease with yourself.
-- Eckhart Tolle


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[GMW #2664] Being Beautiful In The Eyes Of Earth



[GMW #2664] Being Beautiful In The Eyes Of Earth 
Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3057 ~   

Beautiful on this planet is really only the Earth, her nature and all her kin and products.  Humans can never please her by any other means than by being beautiful ourselves, beautiful admirers and beautifiers of the wonders of nature. 

Our monuments and works of art are little compared with her and with us when we are beautiful. 

Our ideal must therefore be not to make money, to become rich and powerful, to win wars, to build skyscrapers and enormous houses but to

be beautiful in the eyes of the Earth. 
This must become the ideal of humans in the third millennium.  We should conceive a new science, the science of being beautiful in the eyes of the Earth and of God, a 'beautyology'. 

In every government there should be a Ministry of Art and Beauty.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
An unhappy day is a lost precious day.
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WORD FOR THE DAY
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth
find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
-- Rachel Carson



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[GMW #2663] Thus Resurrected The World From Global First World Catastrophe


[GMW #2663] Thus Resurrected The World From Global First World Catastrophe Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3056 ~   

It was a miracle that for the first time in all evolution and human history a universal grouping of humans in nations was achieved in the United Nations.  It required the horrors, killings and destructions of World War II to give it birth.

It miraculously grew a little and was not abolished as was its predecessor the League of Nations.  But governments did not accept to give it a real global role and necessary means and were thus overtaken by global world businesses which now rule the world with many governments as their servants.

This will lead to world disaster if governments do not wake up.  Perhaps only a first world catastrophe will wake them up, but they are not even prepared for that.

I was tempted to end the last volume of 3000 ideas with the words, "AMEN to Planet Earth.  You will get extinct, filled with dead monstrous cities, abandoned skyscrapers, automobiles, airplanes, yachts, museums, overflowing with objects and garbage."  After these words I would have drawn a circle with the Latin words inside, Sic transit gloria mundi, thus passes the glory of the world.  Such a big sign could be placed on the surface of our Earth to be seen by outer space beings visiting it.

But my wife Barbara objected and said, "You cannot finish a book with such an ending."  I answered, "Well, I give you the last word."  And she drew another circle with these Latin words in the middle of it, Sic resurexit mundus, thus resurrected the world.  And I wrote my Dream 3000.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
When as a young man I wrote my thesis in my room in an attic, my father sometimes visited me and said:  "Why do you whistle all the time?  Doesn't it prevent you to work?"
"I whistle because I am happy and it helps my work."
I was simply doing what the dwarfs in Snow White's story were doing:
"We whistle while we work."
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WORD FOR THE DAY

I am not afraid of storms, for
I am learning how to sail my ship.
-- Louisa May Alcott


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Sunday, February 17, 2013

[GMW #2662] True Global & Local Democracy Without Being Ruled By Corporations, Governments, Military, Marketing, Media


[GMW #2662] True Global & Local Democracy Without Being Ruled By Corporations, Governments, Military, Marketing, Media Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3055 ~   
There is no longer a true democracy,
if there ever was one, on this planet. 

What we have is:
A nationcracy
An armies and armamentscracy
A corporatecracy
A moneycracy
A marketingcracy
A mediacracy
An advertisementcracy, etc.

Our Earth is ruled by 200 giant corporations, by 189 governments, by the military and by advertisement, marketing and media magnates.  Is this the right sociology of an intelligent species on one of the most unique, marvelous planets in the universe?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
A teacher who heard me speak about happiness, commented:
"I believe that children are born happy or unhappy,
and that one cannot teach them happiness."

I retorted:
"Why then are you a teacher? 
Your belief condemns all education."
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We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
-- David Brower

Are You Building Your Legacy?
"What are you going to be remembered for? Will people talk about the relationships you had with friends and family? The once-a-year dish everyone looked forward to? The impact you made on a company and its employees? How is a legacy created and cultivated, and what can you do to build your own legacy? These are all huge questions with small and critical answers. Here's the story of my legacy, and a few pointers on how to build yours." A research assistant-turned-science teacher shares her insights here. { read more }

*Start looking for your calling immediately*
*My work is a part of my legacy*
*Find work that will help you to build your legacy*
*Remember what a true legacy is about*

Be The Change
Reflect on your own legacy and how you are building it.

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