Showing posts with label Dag Hammarskjold. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 19, 2014

[GMW #3045] Meditation Room To Convey Humans Are Cosmic Living Heavenly Beings


[GMW #3045] Meditation Room To Convey Humans Are Cosmic Living Heavenly Beings
Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3439 ~

The United Nations Meditation Room, conceived by Dag Hammarskjold is incomplete in my view.

It shows a ray of light beaming in obscurity from the ceiling of the room on the top of a high, rectangular block of fine iron ore he imported from Sweden, his country of origin.

Its symbol is that this iron block was created by the energy of the cosmos. It is part of the cosmos as is all matter of the Earth. He considered himself to have come from Sweden as a hard, rational economist and was transformed by the United Nations into a mystic. This iron ore block was shown floating in the universe in a famous film by Stanley Kubrik: Space Odyssey 2000.

The change that I would introduce is that after a while the ray should fall on the head of the meditating person to convey to him or her that the human being is a cosmic reality too: we are born from the Earth which is all born from the cosmos, hence we are all cosmic, living, heavenly beings, the most advanced of all on this particular planet.

Such a realization can change our life and the entire human society and its relations with the Earth and with the heavens.

The great founders of religions were not wrong. This was the message of all of them. Most of them gave it the name God. A United Religions has now been created to bring back spirituality, the belief of humans in their heavenly cosmic nature, origin and role.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume  II Chapter 13 Of Speaking
Sanskrit means: divine language. Dewanagara, the script in which it is embodied, means "the city of God" (Dewa: God, nagara: city). All languages are divine, cosmic expressions and communications of the phenomenon and mystery of life evolving from cosmic forces.
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Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
~ Omar Khayyam

6 Mindfulness Practices For Leaders
(And Everyone, Really)

As Jon Kabat-Zinn puts it, mindfulness "wakes us up to the fact that our lives unfold only in moments." If we're not fully present for those moments, we may miss what's most valuable in our lives, both personally and professionally. Simply put, mindfulness is about not living in your head all the time and is about paying attention to where you are, what you're doing, or who you're talking to so that you are in touch with the right here, right now. Research shows that mindfulness reduces stress and increases concentration and clarity. Read on for five simple ways to practice mindfulness to improve your personal and professional life. { read more }


Be The Change

Establish mindfulness triggers in your daily routine so you can regularly take time to reconnect to the here and now. You could decide to take a moment of silence before each meal to reconnect to and savor the present. Or, you could decide that when the phone rings you will put everything aside and be fully present to the person on the other line. You could also use a desktop mindfulness app to remind you to take a 60 second mindful breathing break every hour during your work day. Find something that works for you!

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Monday, June 3, 2013

[GMW #2736] Cosmic Light, Cosmic Energy, Cosmic Miracles


[GMW #2736] Cosmic Light, Cosmic Energy, Cosmic Miracles Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3129 ~
The Earth:
"Can't humans understand that my nature and species are incredible, perhaps unique miracles in the universe, the result of billions of years of evolution?  Your planet is nothing less than a cosmic miracle and you destroy it with big and small materialistic greeds, games and meaningless lives with unhappiness as the result.  You have not yet realized that you are cosmic miracles too."

I:
Among those who understood this was Dag Hammarskjöld the second Secretary General of the United Nations.  This is why he created at the UN a room of rest, peace and inner silence, a meditation room in which the universal answer to all world problems was a ray of light falling from the universe on the shining surface of a block of iron ore.  Cosmic light gives life to all matter and all beings.  It speaks to all nations and people the same language.

Yes, our planet and all its living beings are created by cosmic energy, an energy still transmitted by the sun.  This is why we must look up to the sky, see the heavenly cosmic light, receive the rays of light and realize that we must reflect that light in our lives.  All religions give us that message, usually calling that energy God, thus bringing it closer to people, for it is easier to pray and love a God than a form of energy.  Energy is also a word coined by us humans.  The cosmos uses no words.  Perhaps no human word will ever be appropriate for it.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 3 Of Consciousness
Human senses and perceptions constantly range from the general to the particular.  The art of living is therefore largely an exercise in scanning and focusing our attention to become full universal beings.
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WORD FOR THE DAY
When we begin to believe that there is greater joy
in working with and for others,
rather than just for ourselves,
then our society will truly become
a place of celebration.
~ Jean Vanier


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Sunday, April 28, 2013

[GMW #2712] World Peace Makers Incentive


[GMW #2712] World Peace Makers Incentive Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3105 ~
Dear God,
Why didn't you decide that those who want to achieve world peace and make your Earth a paradise would live longer, let us say ten or twenty years more?  With such an incentive they would have a better chance to achieve these objectives.

God:
"How can you be so blind?  I did it already: for example I saved you several times during the war; you are still alive and healthy at the age of seventy-seven; and I have made all great peacemakers immortal.  What else do you want?"

I:
You have a point but why did you let so many great peacemakers get killed, your own son for example and others like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Dag Hammarskjöld and many more?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 3 Of Consciousness

Human evolution began
when the first human looked up
at the stars and wondered.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou: Still I Rise
From the moment it was published in 1978, "Still I Rise" has been one of Maya Angelou's best-loved and most influential poems. It has inspired figures as diverse as Bill Clinton and Tupac Shakur and has become a staple in the canon of American poetry. Dr. Angelou's directness and candor affirms the power of individual strength over collective history, as well as to the power of individual lives to shape our shared future. Watch and listen as the great poet introduces and recites her paean to resilience and dignity. { read more }

Be The Change
Refuse to be catalogued or stereotyped.
Resolve to be more than the world may perceive you to be. Rise.


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Sunday, October 24, 2010

[GMW #2069] Global Spirituality Is What All Religions Have In Common




[GMW #2069] Global Spirituality Is What All Religions Have In Common
Friday 22 October 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1188 ~    11 October 1997

I remember that Dag Hammarskjöld used to go to a different church, temple or house of worship every week to learn what they had in common.  He then reported it to God. 

Thus he discovered that global spirituality is what all religions have in common.

I discovered it too and wrote the book New Genesis, Shaping a Global Spirituality.  He must be happy in heaven to learn that a United Religions Organization similar to the United Nations is now on the way of being created.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
The Renaissance of nature is the first sign of humanity's spiritual and artistic rebirth.

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To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

-- Terry Tempest Williams

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Monday, October 4, 2010

[GMW #2056] Proclaim Global Saints - Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant and Robert Schuman



[GMW #2056] Proclaim Global Saints - Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant and Robert Schuman
Tuesday 5 October 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1083 ~    28 June 1997

There is a great need for global saints.  My candidates would be Dag Hammarskjöld, U Thant and Robert Schuman.  I am glad to be a member of the canonization committee of the latter.  Perhaps the United Religions Organization could proclaim global, planetic saints.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
Look out for good and beauty, cultivate good and beauty, and you will live a heavenly, beautiful life.  Perhaps this is the way.

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WORD FOR THE DAY
When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Jalaluddin Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks
We Are Three

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

[GMW #2001] A Global Foundation Nurturing The World



[GMW #2001] A Global Foundation Nurturing The World
Tuesday 13 July 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 152 ~    9 December 1994

The UN Secretary-General should convene a group of experts to draw up the statutes of a World Foundation to which people and philanthropists from around the world would be able to contribute tax-exempt donations.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 14 - Of Writing
If only all heads of state and of world agencies jotted down a few of their philosophical thoughts, wisdom, perceptions, ideas, dreams and conclusions, as Dag Hammarskjöld did in his Markings, what a richer world it would be! 

They live in a much vaster world, with vaster duties and a vaster audience than any Socrates, Confucius, Marcus Aurelius or Lincoln.

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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
- Rachel Carson

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Sunday, April 26, 2009

[GMW #1700] We Must Study The Wholeness Of The Universe, Of Our Planet, Of Life And Out Being



[GMW #1700] We Must Study The Wholeness Of The Universe, Of Our Planet, Of Life And Out Being
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500

~ Idea 202 ~ 28 January 1995

We must study the wholeness of the universe, of our planet, of life and of our being at least as much as we study their components and dissection down to the atom.
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Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III Chapter 6 The Rich Age

Each human being, each professional should leave behind a testament to the next generation, an Art of Living, or at least some fundamental reflections or anecdotes on life.

Among world servants, Dag Hammarskjöld left behind his Markings, and I leave behind my Testament to the UN and this Art of Living to humanity.
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But only the dance is sure! Make it your own. Who can tell What is to come of it?
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