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Thursday, December 24, 2020

[GMW #4709] Obedience To World Objectives & Ways To Fulfill Them - Not Blind Obedience To Any Institution

[GMW #4709] Obedience To World Objectives & Ways To Fulfill Them - Not Blind Obedience To Any Institution Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000

~ Idea 6094~
I came across St. Francis’s testament of three pages of five main paragraphs. I jotted down the following notes to work on them some day as my commitment or testament to the world.

First paragraph: He changed his life from the wrong to the right side after having seen the lepers and the horrible killings when he was a military.

I was shocked in my early childhood by a ‘border’ I was not allowed to cross, by the militaries and their weapons, and by the extreme poverty of the people.

Second paragraph: St. Francis was struck by the role of the churches and of the holy cross. He decided to build and rebuild churches everywhere.

I decided to help build a peaceful, just and happy world, a great united peoples.

Paragraph three: For St. Francis, obedience to the church hierarchy.

Not I: no blind obedience to any institution, but obedience to world objectives and ways to fulfill them.

Paragraph four: The Lord showing St. Francis the holy gospel. He followed it and did not attempt to attract followers and create a new religion. His ways were poverty, preachings, prayers and love.

Not I: I live a simple, frugal life, have dreams and ideas, love and work for humanity and the Earth. His main prayer was “Our Father in heaven”. That is mine too, but adding Mother Earth.

Paragraph five: His manual work in the world of the poor and the peasant farmers.

My work too in nature, with farmers and global citizens.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II - The Art of Personal Happy Living
Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude


We see a straw in the eye of the neighbor but not the beam in our own eye.
~ French proverb
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juvenile black-crowned night heron Photo by Rick Derevan, Atascadero, California | A juvenile black-crowned night heron

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.

 But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
~ Rudyard Kipling

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The first 4000 Ideas & Dreams
For A Better World

The Idea Dreams
- With An Index

Robert's Harmonic & Talk
Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
DecideTo Index
DecideTo Poems

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

[GMW #4149] Materialized The Biggest Dreams And Biggest Ideas Of Your Life

[GMW #4149] Materialized The Biggest Dreams And Biggest Ideas Of Your Life    Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4539 ~
If I were asked what was my biggest dream and biggest idea during my life, I would answer:

As a child I lived on a border and heard only of wars and divisions between my country and the country beyond that border.  I dreamt of a world in which all borders would disappear.  I put all my efforts behind that in the United Nations, and friends in Alsace-Lorraine did it at home and were able to obtain the suppression of the borders between 15 European countries.  The border in my hometown has disappeared.  My new passport reads: European Union and under it France.

The second biggest idea in my life came from my wife Barbara who said to me on 11 July 1994: "Since you have so many ideas and dreams I recommend that you write down every day one idea or dream for a better world and obtain a total of 2000 by the year 2000."  I did.  It became a very important part of my life.  I arrived at the year 2000 with 2,500 ideas and continued.  As I write this on 26 February 2002 I have finished 4500 Ideas and Dreams for a Better World and five hundred more are following.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation
Chapter 4 - Our Place in Time
If our globe could speak, the globe would say to us:

"You make me laugh, you humans. I have been twirling around for four and a half billion years. I have seen many upheavals in my flesh, I have seen continents disappear, seas change place, mountains surge, ice covers come and go, an atmosphere be born, vegetation arise, life develop, species' evolve and disappear.  You came into being only a million years ago.  I have seen you crawl in utter ignorance for most of that time.  Only a few hundred years ago did you at long last discover that I was round and older than just a few thousand years.  I have observed you and I must tell you this:

You will go nowhere if you do not remember that I will be around for several more billion years, that my body will be shaken by many more physical and climatic changes; that for your maximum enjoyment and survival you must treat and manage me with care; that you must put yourself in my place and lift your eyes, as I do, to the sun, to the universe, to infinity and eternity of which I am only a tiny part.

After your cave age, after your crawling age, after your tribal age, after your feudal age, after your national age, you have at long last entered my age: the Age of the Globe, the global age.

But this is still insufficient, for you will have to enter the cosmic age in which you will see your proper place and responsibilities in the universe and in time.  This will be the next great period of your journey. 

And I can assure you that you will find it exciting and very uplifting."
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To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

Photo by John Behrends | Powers Marine Park Park, Multnomah County, Oregon
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Saturday, February 15, 2014

[GMW #2921] Addictionology - The Study & Science Of Addictions & How To Reduce Them



[GMW #2921] Addictionology - The Study & Science Of Addictions & How To Reduce Them
Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3315 ~
Soon there should be a new field of study and science, an addictionology covering the vast, growing field of addictions. It should study scientifically the methodology and strategies of making people addicts how to reduce addictions. A World University on Addictions could render humanity a great service. Just to mention a few addictions:
- to drugs
- to smoking
- to alcohol
- to over eating
- to power
- to over work
- to excessive television
- to excessive buying
and there are many others.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I Chapter 5 The Miracle of Individual Life
From INTRODUCTION of PART V IDEAS 3401 TO 3500

Preface to a statement by a Coalition for the Children of the Earth
submitted to the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations

Dear Children,

When I was a small child I considered that to be alive was the most beautiful thing on Earth, a true miracle. I used the biggest word I could find and said that life was divine.

The grown-ups smiled at me when I said that. But when I looked out of my window I saw a border between France and Germany beyond which other people lived, enemies, and I was not allowed to cross that border. There were armies on both sides. But I saw the moon, the clouds and the birds overfly freely that border and I wondered why humans could be so wrong.

Well, the war came and made me become a refugee, a prisoner, a freedom fighter in the mountains. You cannot imagine all the horrors I saw done by humans to other humans. When the war was over, I decided to devote my life to peace. I am still doing it as Chancellor of the first University for Peace in one of the first demilitarized countries on this planet.

I am so happy that thanks to the Coalition for Children of the Earth, the children from all around the world will be given a voice and tell the grown-ups of the United Nations on its fiftieth anniversary what kind of world they want.

I wish that somewhere on this planet there were a United Nations of Children which would tell their elders what they should do and how they should manage this beautiful planet in peace, kindness, justice, love and happiness for all. Please consider it.

It could be located on the heavenly grounds of the University for Peace where from Rasur, the god of the indigenous children, prophecized to them that a civilization of peace will extend to the entire world. How happy I will be in my old age and in my grave knowing that you would work near me and fulfill the dream I had as a little boy.

I love you very much,

Robert Muller, Chancellor
Universidad para la Paz
Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
Established by the UN in 1980
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Thursday, April 9, 2009

[GMW #1689] Dreams I Dreamt And Dreams For The Fulfillment Of Some Of The Dreams Of Albert Schweitzer



[GMW #1689] Dreams I Dreamt And Dreams For The Fulfillment Of Some Of The Dreams Of Albert Schweitzer
Friday 10 April 2009, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500


THE THIRD ONE HUNDRED IDEAS (Ideas 201 to 300, from 27 January to 6 May, 1995)

Introduction Planet of Dreams

Acceptance speech by Robert Muller
of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for the Humanities,
University of North Carolina, 19 March 1993, at Wilmington.

(Part 1)
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends,

Receiving here tonight the Albert Schweitzer Prize for the Humanities, thanks to the work, vision, devotion and generosity of so many people, especially from your beautiful city and university, makes me feel that I am living on a Planet of Dreams.

As a little boy in Alsace-Lorraine, I dreamt that the border between France and Germany which I saw from my window would disappear. On 31 December last it was abolished.

I dreamt that God would allow me to work at the top of the world for peace, the greatness of life and the beauty of our miraculous planet. I worked for 38 years in the United Nations and am now the Chancellor of the first University of Peace on this Planet.

I dreamt of living in a region without militaries, and l live today in Costa Rica, one of the first demilitarized countries on Earth.

In the United Nations, I dreamt that colonization would disappear. It disappeared. That the UN would become universal. It became universal. That the cold war would end. It ended. So many dreams of mine became true, that I left a Testament to the UN which outlines a host of further dreams for a peaceful, better, beautiful and happy planet.

Since I seem to have been born as a dreamer, let me express to you my dreams concerning the fulfillment of some of the dreams of Albert Schweitzer.

I dream:

1. That for the second UN World Conference on human rights this summer in Geneva, a paper outlining the great man's views, dreams and actions for human rights be published and promoted.
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Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III Chapter 6 The Rich Age

No person is ever completely self-realized or fulfilled.

We learn and enrich ourselves until we die.

We gain new capacities and we lose old ones.

The art of living has no end.

It is too rich to be exhausted by a single life.

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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

-- Emily Dickinson



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