Showing posts with label Cyprus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cyprus. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

[GMW #3818] Have The Intelligence, Audacity, Vital Imagination To Face And Solve New Problems World Problems


[GMW #3818] Have The Intelligence, Audacity, Vital Imagination To Face And Solve New Problems World Problems  Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4213 ~
After a lifetime of work in the UN I consider that international peace is no longer the main issue in the world.

Yes, there remain the three main unresolved conflicts of the Middle East, Kashmir and Cyprus, all of a religious, fundamentalist nature which hopefully can be resolved by the new United Religions Initiative.

Yes, there remain active sovereignty claims and conflicts such as those of Iraq over Kuwait. Yes there remain several ethnic conflicts in Africa due to the arbitrary borders drawn by the former colonial powers. But basically nations do not dream anymore of invading other nations. They are content and busy enough with what they have and sometimes even are creating unions with other nations such as the very outstanding European Union of fifteen formerly quarreling nations.

The two major new world problems and challenges are: 1. the unprecedented war against nature, 2. the rising violence between the increasingly excessively rich humans and the increasingly poor ones in the world and inside nations. Yes, two completely new, very sizable problems have arisen in the world as we enter a new century and millennium.

We must have the intelligence, the audacity and the vital imagination to face and solve them.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 7 - Return to Mother Earth
I tried to make my life a progress, a sanctification of humanity and of this planet.  I tried to be a cosmic being.  And cosmic beings continue to live through their works.  For example, I will live through my descendants, through the United Nations and through the University for Peace.
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Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

WORD FOR THE DAY
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
~Jacques Prevert

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

Decide to - poems
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

[GMW #3776] An International Year Of Villages

[GMW #3776] An International Year Of Villages Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4171 ~
Reading in my Cyprus journal of visits to villages in troubled areas I noted this thirty-seven years old idea:

"The United Nations should proclaim an International Year of the Villages."

This is more than ever needed today.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 7 - Return to Mother Earth
The precious miracle and greatness of life you can see only, really and fully when you are at the death-bed of someone you love.
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UN News: UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service, UN Wire Archive
References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

WORD FOR THE DAY
The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.
~Brother Lawrence

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

Decide to - poems
DecideTo Index
DecideTo Poems

Monday, December 5, 2016

[GMW #3770] All Political Leaders Adopt Peace And Justice As The Topmost Priority


[GMW #3770] All Political Leaders Adopt Peace And Justice As The Topmost Priority   Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4165 ~
Reading in 2001 the journal of my six months mission to Cyprus in 1964 I wrote this after visiting some extraordinary, old, beautiful places of human civilization:

Sunday 1 November 1964 I think once again that life is too short to embrace all the beauty, all the wealth, all the treasures offered by this marvelous planet.

The twentieth century has finally opened to humans the vast spaces of the world and its most distant places.

But progress has been less rapid to increase the duration of human life, although here too successes have been achieved.

Should not all political leaders adopt peace and justice as the topmost priorities so that all living beings could enjoy the happiness, the miracle to live on planet Earth?

What treasures of life I will take along with me in eternity. What a gratitude I will express to God!

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 7 - Chapter 7 - Chapter 7 - Return to Mother Earth
Pray for a good, peaceful death during your sleep. Pray God to take you gently to Him when you are least conscious and have already half left this world, for instance during an out-of-the-body experience.
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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
-- Pismo Dunes Natural
        Preserve, Oceano, San Luis Obispo County, California --
Photo by Dan Weisz | Osprey flying over Indian Creek on the middle fork of the Salmon River in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho

A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
~ William Wordsworth

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Friday, September 23, 2016

[GMW #3713] Resolve 3 Remaining Long Term Conflicts - Cyprus, Kashmir, Palestine


[GMW #3713] Resolve 3 Remaining Long Term Conflicts - Cyprus, Kashmir, Palestine Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4108 ~
I recommend that the Secretary General of the UN and the President of South Africa should appeal to the parties of the three remaining international conflicts on this planet (the Middle East, Cyprus and Kashmir) to solve these conflicts in time to be announced as a major achievement at the heads of states world meeting in Johannesburg in September 2002.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 6 - The Rich Age
How lonely I was in drawing a synthesis, conclusions and advice from all the knowledge gained during my many years of work at the United Nations.

May it at least benefit and inspire others.  Dear God, please grant me a few more years to complete my symphony.
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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.

Heart Quotes
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
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Friday, January 29, 2016

[GMW #3430] Making Your Fullest Contribution To A Better World


[GMW #3430] Making Your Fullest Contribution To A Better World Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3829 ~
I am telling and repeating to Barbara that she should not be working for me, helping me, but should work in total equality with me, each one making his fullest contribution to a better world.

I underline the fact that I am eighteen years older than she is and that in all likelihood she will live beyond my death. I gave her the example of General Harbottle from the United Kingdom who was the head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Troops in Cyprus and I was his political advisor.

I recommended to him when he left that office that he should create a World Association of Former Generals and Admirals for Peace. He did. It is a very important, prestigious movement established in England. And when he died it was his wife, Eirween Harbottle who continued his job, became the new president of that association and wrote among others, a magnificent model for Ministries of Peace, which should be created in all governments on the Earth. I reproduced her text in Vol. III.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II The Art of Personal Happiness
Chapter 3 - Of Consciousness
Life is trying
Life is learning
Life is searching
Life is asking
Life is growing
Life is never-ending
For life is the universe
become conscious of itself in every one of its sentient beings,
its children, its living cells, in you and in me.
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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
Photo by Don Henderson | Female yellow-headed blackbird taken
in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountain range, California

In a gentle way,
you can shake the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

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The first 4000 Ideas & Dreams
For A Better World

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