Showing posts with label Capacities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capacities. Show all posts

Saturday, November 7, 2020

[GMW #4671] Decide To Forgive & To Be Happy

[GMW #4671] Decide To Forgive & To Be Happy Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000

~ Idea 6056 ~ 
A lady showed me my exhortation “Decide to Forgive…” which she had cut out of a newspaper and kept in one of my books.

She said: “My husband divorced me, but thanks to your message I have remained a happy woman. My children cannot understand it.”

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II - The Art of Personal Happy Living
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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WORD FOR THE DAY
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~ Melody Beattie

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

[GMW #2955] A Politician Should Be A Philosopher In Action


[GMW #2955] A Politician Should Be A Philosopher In Action


Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3349 ~
Edmund Burke said, "A politician should be a philosopher in action."

I would also say: A United Nations official, a world servant should be a philosopher in action.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I Chapter 5 The Miracle of Individual Life
All humans are equally important. The extra capacities of geniuses are no more than small bushes on a mountain.
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Daily Ray of Hope
Birds

Flickr user Jacqueline Deely | Jougla Point, Wiencke Island, Antarctica

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that
each successive generation is invested in
the welfare of each new generation.
~ Fred McFeely Rogers

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

[GMW #2807] Global Ethics In An Earth Charter Is Essential - The Separation Of Humans From Earth Is An Error


[GMW #2807] Global Ethics In An Earth Charter Is Essential - The Separation Of Humans From Earth Is An Error Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3202 ~
I read in the plane from Costa Rica to Los Angeles a speach I delivered in 1978 at a meeting of the Audubon Society and Sierra Club on 'A Knot In Time. - We Are Traversing an Extraordinary Moment of Evolution', a Real Knot In Time, a Singular Hinge Between All the Past and All the Future of our Planet.

Among other things I said:

The number, complexity and significance of scientific, technological, economic, social and ecological interdependencies on planet Earth are so great that the subject would warrant being a new discipline, a science of interdependencies or total Earth science.  Separate notions such as technology, economics, social science, ecology, political science are losing much of their distinctness.  The separation of man from the Earth is also an error.  Humans are part and product of the Earth and her evolution.  A comprehensive scientific and ethical approach is needed which will help maximize the physical, mental, affective and spiritual fulfillment of humans, present and future, within inherited conditions and the further evolution of our planet henceforth dominated by the human race.  We are still far from such a concept of planetary science and ethics but several major elements have been pressing in this direction of late.

Well, a quarter of a century later not very much has changed: we have now the beginning of a planetary science called biosphere science, the sphere of life, but not yet of a total Earth science including the biosphere, and we are still far away from a global ethics.  The first serious step is the Earth Charter drafted by the Earth Council and being circulated in 2000 to all governments  (see its text in Annex of Volume VI).

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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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.


Daily Ray of Hope

Erik R Walker | Big Bend National Park, TX

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche



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Sunday, January 2, 2011

[GMW #2124] Fair And Proper Distribution Of World Agencies Throughout The World



[GMW #2124] Fair And Proper Distribution Of World Agencies Throughout The World
Friday 7 January 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1332 ~    4 March 1998

The seat of the League of Nations was located in Switzerland because it is a "neutral" country.  For the same reason it was selected as the seat of the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the International Telecommunications Union, and GATT.  It became also the seat of numerous international non-governmental organizations accredited with these organizations.

The US was selected as the seat of the United Nations to avoid that the absence of the US from the UN would lead to the disastrous situation of the League of Nations which was incapable to stop nazism and fascism, leading to World War II.

Today the situation is entirely different.  Prime Minister Chou En Lai pointed out to us when Secretary General Waldheim and I visited him after the reentry of China into the UN that all the world agencies are located in the West, not a single one in vast Asia which has two-thirds of the world's population.  He complained bitterly about it, "Not even the Security Council would have the decency of holding once a session in Asia."  To introduce a correction in that situation, China decided to use their veto to make sure that at least the position of Secretary General would rotate on a regional basis, which is now the case.

To top it all, Switzerland is not even a member of the United Nations, only an observer, and cashes in the substantial resources spent by all these agencies on its land, and the US refuses to pay its contributions to the UN budget, cashing in on the local expenses of the UN and of 185 national delegations in New York.

This scandalous, unjust situation should be revised thoroughly as we enter a new century and millennium.  The General Assembly of the UN should inscribe it on its agenda, and a World Commission of Eminent Personalities on the Geographic Location of World Agencies should be created.


Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
Use stubbornly your capacities to the full, pray God and you will become a genius or a saint.

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Heart Quotes
"Who is the happiest of people?
One who values the merits of others,
and in their pleasure takes joy,
even as though 'twere their own"
- Goethe

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