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Thursday, May 24, 2018

[GMW #4096] A Just World Tax & Income System

[GMW #4096] A Just World Tax & Income System   Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4489 ~
The time has come when the United Nations, the world financial agencies (World Bank, International Monetary Fund, etc.) and all United Nations agencies and world programs should have before them as a major item: world inequalities, the adoption of policies for more justice, equalization of the peoples' income, monetary resources, a redistribution of wealth, a just world tax system and the creation of more world service institutions as recommended by Jan Tinbergen, the first Nobel Prize winner in Economics.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation
Chapter 2 - Our Miraculous Planetary Home

Declaration of The Sacred Earth Gathering
at the UN Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED II) in Rio de Janeiro, 1992

The planet earth is in peril as never before.  With arrogance and presumption, humankind has disobeyed the laws of the Creator which are manifest in the divine natural order.

The crisis is global. It transcends all national, religious, cultural, social, political and economic boundaries.  The ecological crisis is a symptom of the spiritual crisis of the human being, arising from ignorance. The responsibility of each human being today is to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light.  We must therefore transform our attitudes and values, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior law of Divine Nature.

Nature does not depend on human beings and their technology. It is human beings who depend on Nature for survival. Individuals and governments need to evolve "Earth Ethics" with a deeply spiritual orientation or the Earth will be cleansed.

We believe that the universe is sacred because all is one. We believe in the sanctity and the integrity of all life and life forms. We affirm the principles of peace and non-violence in governing human behavior towards one another and all life.

We view ecological disruption as violent intervention into the web of life. Genetic engineering threatens the very fabric of life. We urge governments, scientists and industry to refrain from rushing blindly into genetic manipulation.

We call upon all political leaders to keep a spiritual perspective when making decisions. All leaders must recognize the consequences of their actions for the coming generations.

We call upon our educators to motivate the people towards harmony with nature and peaceful coexistence with all living beings. Our youth and children must be prepared to assume their responsibilities as citizens of tomorrow's world.

We call upon our brothers and sisters around the world to recognize and curtail the impulses of greed, consumerism and disregard of natural laws. Our survival depends on developing the virtues of simple living and sufficiency, love and compassion with wisdom.

We stress the importance of respecting all spiritual and cultural traditions. We stand for preservation of the habitats and life style of indigenous people and urge restraint from disrupting their communion with nature.

The World Community must act speedily with vision and resolution to preserve the Earth, Nature and humanity from disaster. The time to act is now. Now or never.
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WORD FOR THE DAY
We are not alone.
There is always an unseen power
working for righteousness.
~ Olympia Brown

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

[GMW #3434] Reduce The Income And Lifestyle's Differences Between Rich And Poor


[GMW #3434] Reduce The Income And Lifestyle's Differences Between Rich And Poor  Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 3833 ~
There are two ways for individuals and families to reduce the income and lifestyle's differences between the rich and the poor countries:

Rich people can obtain visas and give employment to poor people from the poor countries as domestic aides, gardeners, drivers or other jobs. Or they can move to poor countries, buy a piece of land, live on their financial income or pension and provide labor to local people.

We did both, getting domestic help from Latin America when we raised four children in the New York area and we did the second upon retirement. Here in Costa Rica we have our own peasant's land and employ a farm manager and three workers. They are happy to have steady jobs and so are we. We also let a bee grower and bean grower till part of the land to make a living.

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

To know beyond oneself, to know beyond the planet, to understand ever more of infinity and eternity, that was the human destiny until now. To act as knowledgeable, loving, responsible actors in this majestic cosmic scenario will be the next.
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Daily Ray of Hope --                        Morro Bay Sand Spit, Morro Bay, California --
Photo by Barney Koszalka, Chapel Hill, NC | Morro Bay Sand Spit, Morro Bay, California

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
~ Hermann Hesse

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Friday, June 5, 2015

[GMW #3314] Sell A House Only If You Must - Keep Land & Housing


[GMW #3314] Sell A House Only If You Must - Keep Land & Housing Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3708 ~
Dear people, do not sell a house unless you must or sell it only in order to buy a cheaper one in another location. Why? Because governments will not cease putting more money into circulation to keep the economy and your income growing. But the national economic product and the income you receive will represent to a large degree inflation, not growth. The land and most housing on the other hand represent a growing capital.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II The Art of Personal Happiness
Chapter 2, Of Happiness

A few simple rules for happiness:
-good nutrition
-good thinking
-love for life
-meditation and prayer
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DailyGood
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw

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Friday, October 3, 2014

[GMW #3129] Preserving and Beautifying Earth By Paying People To Live Simple, Frugal Lives In Modest Homes In Rural Areas


[GMW #3129] Preserving and Beautifying Earth By Paying People To Live Simple, Frugal Lives In Modest Homes In Rural Areas

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500

~ Idea 3529 ~
The Earth:
"Dear Robert, since economic development and capitalism justify their existence by giving employment to people, I suggest that people who do not want to 'work' be financed by governments to live simple, frugal lives in modest homes in rural areas taking care of, preserving, beautifying my nature and restoring it in many places where it has been destroyed. They would be productive too: they would produce oxygen.

Moreover, since their income would be modest they would not consume and buy all the unnecessary products and activities of the current society which are causing my death and in the future that of humanity too."

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,

Volume II Chapter 14 Of Writing
I am reading my stories and essays at least ten to twenty times until I finally no longer change a word. Then I am satisfied: the writing is the flesh of my flesh; I have given it all my soul; the child can go and live its own unpredictable, mysterious life.


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Heart Math
Wisdom comes from metabolizing what we learn from others and from experience to a point
where it can be shared.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson

Spoken at Legacy of Wisdom
conference, April 17, 2011

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

[GMW #2981] World Treasury To Fund World & Local Common Services Providing Income To All Peoples Of The World


[GMW #2981] World Treasury To Fund World & Local Common Services Providing Income To All Peoples Of The World


Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3375 ~
The main objective of money should no longer be to create new factories, new productions and more consumption but to permit the financing of world and local common services, especially public services and activities that would give an income to all peoples of the world. This thought came to me this morning when I saw several gardeners working on the grounds of the UN University for Peace. They create beauty, not anything essential, consumable but they receive an income which permits them to live and to have a family. Perhaps the World Treasury proposed by the Nobel Economics Prize winner Jan Tinbergen of Holland should be created.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I Chapter 6 I and Creation
One of the great lessons I have learned from my religion is to make an examination of conscience, a daily balance sheet of good and bad every evening before going to sleep.

It is a practice which should be followed by all religions and peoples of the Earth and made part of the new global, world-wide spirituality. It is a subject which the United Religions Initiative created after the second World Parliament of Religions should place on its agenda.
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The Economics Of Happiness


Peaches Help Grow Slovenia’s Gift Economy
An amazing initiative happened in Slovenia this summer. It started with a man who decided to buy a box of peaches from a local farmer while on a business trip to Vipava – a fruit-growing region.  He was very pleased about the price – 1 euro per kg – which is roughly half the price… { More }

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