Showing posts with label Materialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Materialism. Show all posts

Monday, October 16, 2017

[GMW #3872] Create A New World Organization With Proper Peoples' Representation

[GMW #3872] Create A New World Organization With Proper Peoples' Representation Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4267 ~
Yes, I pray and hope that great minds will produce, propose and obtain a new world organization with proper peoples' representation.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation
Chapter 5 - The Miracle of Individual Life
In the end, we must be concerned not with materialism or spirituality, religion or atheism, capitalism or communism, nationalism or internationalism, individualism or altruism, but with the immensely more profound question:

what do these vast, stupendous mysteries around us mean,
what is the purpose of life,
why do we live and die,
what sense does it make,
what is our ultimate reason for being,
how can we enjoy and fulfill our extraordinary gift of life

instead of believing, doing, learning, reading and coveting what a few privileged, often misguided individuals tell us or sell us to do?
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Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

Photo by Tony Varela | Cedar waxwings taken at the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in Washington

The things that we love tell us what we are.
~ Thomas Aquinas

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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
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

[GMW #3277] Act As If Souls & Spirituality Has Surpassed Materialism


[GMW #3277] Act As If Souls & Spirituality Has Surpassed Materialism Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3677 ~
Former UN Secretary General U Thant often said that spirituality had to catch up with materialism, science and technology. In order to illustrate his point he used to tell the following story:

One day a party of native bearers in Africa suddenly stopped, discharged their loads, sat down and refused to go forward. When asked for the reason their leader said: "our bodies have gone too fast for our souls. We must wait for our souls to catch up with us."

I believe the whole western society should learn from that story.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II The Art of Personal Happy Living
Chapter 8, Of Health

If we want to enjoy the beauty and purity of life, we must not becloud our eyes, mind and heart with poisons and wrong nutrition.
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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.

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One who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
~ M. C. Escher

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For A Better World

The Idea Dreams
- With An Index

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

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

[GMW #2915] Oikos Nomos - Devise A New Planetary Economic System




[GMW #2915] Oikos Nomos - Devise A New Planetary Economic System
Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3309 ~
Capitalism has done wonders for humanity and we must be thankful for it.  But its growth and success has created a lopsided power which is now destroying the Earth due to over-population and the over-consumption of the Earth's elements and resources. 

We must urgently remedy this situation and devise a new planetary economic system (oikos nomos, Greek the management of our home) for the benefit of all humanity, the preservation of the Earth and the proper survival and evolution of both.  This is our most urgent task and duty toward the future generations.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I Chapter 5 The Miracle of Individual Life
In the end, we must be concerned not with materialism or spirituality, religion or atheism, capitalism or communism, nationalism or internationalism, individualism or altruism, but with the immensely more profound question:

what do these vast, stupendous mysteries around us mean,
what is the purpose of life,
why do we live and die,
what sense does it make,
what is our ultimate reason for being,

how can we enjoy and fulfill our extraordinary gift of life instead of believing,  doing, learning, reading and coveting what a few privileged, often misguided individuals tell us or sell us to do?

*

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.

HeartMath.com
"The ultimate measure of a person
is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy."
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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The Idea Dreams
   With An Index

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Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

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Monday, October 31, 2011

[GMW #2319] Better Ways of Life Transcend Idolatry Of Materialism On Planet Earth


[GMW #2319] Better Ways of Life Transcend Idolatry Of Materialism On Planet Earth
Wednesday 2 November 2011, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1172 ~ 25 September 1997
I find the US much worse than when I came for the first time from Europe to the United Nations in Lake Success in 1948. And it will be worse in the 21st century until this whole way of life will collapse and the Earth will no longer be able to sustain the American dream and idolatry of materialism.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love
A little boy said to his mother when his friends left their house: "I hate them, I dislike them, they came to bother me." His mother replied: "Yes, I noticed it, because I saw your face reflected on their faces."
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To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

HeartMath
"It is not in the pursuit of happiness
that we find fulfillment,
it is in the happiness of pursuit."
- Denis Waitley

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

[GMW #2313] Speak Of Consumer Explosion, Skyscraper, Advertising, Media, Irreligiosity And Materialism Explosions


[GMW #2313] Speak Of Consumer Explosion, Skyscraper, Advertising, Media, Irreligiosity And Materialism Explosions
Tuesday 25 October 2011, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1161 ~ 14 September 1997
We speak of the building and population explosion. Why don't we also speak of the consumer explosion, the skyscraper explosion, the marketing and advertising explosion, the media explosion, the irreligiosity explosion, the materialism explosion, etc.?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love
After a life of thinking, experiencing and searching, I found love to be the ultimate answer:
love for the whole Creation and its mysterious source;
love for our Paradise Earth and for all her living beings and nature;
love for my own miraculous life and for all the loves I feel in me.
This is what I felt already when I was a child. The circle is complete.

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Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

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Barry Lopez: A Sense of Reverence for                               Life
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
- Barry Lopez -

Barry Lopez: A Sense of Reverence for Life

His travels have taken him to some of the most inhospitable places on the earth, outside the furthest reaches of human civilization. But Barry Lopez always returns to his home in Oregon to write about what he has seen. And though nature is often his inspiration, it is not his subject, Lopez tells Bill Moyers, "I'm not writing about nature. I'm writing about humanity. And if I have a subject, it is justice. And the rediscovery of the manifold way in which our lives can be shaped by the recovery of a sense of reverence for life." Lopez defines reverence as understanding "that the world will always be there, no matter how sophisticated our technologies of probing reality become. The great mystery will be there forever. Lopez was Bill Moyers' last guest on his show, the Journal. The transcript of that program follows. { read more }

Be The Change

Move through the day today with a sense of reverence, whatever that means to you.


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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

[GMW #2199] Ending Violence In All Forms, Millitarism, Armaments, Poverty, Earth Destruction, Corruption, Materialism, Religious Fundamentalism, Extreme National Sovereignty, Lack Of Ethics




[GMW #2199] Ending Violence In All Forms, Militarism, Armaments, Poverty, Earth Destruction, Corruption, Materialism, Religious Fundamentalism, Extreme National Sovereignty, Lack Of Ethics
Friday 22 April 2011, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1486 ~    5 August 1998

Humanity has won some great victories during its history:
it has won against slavery
    "            "    colonialism
    "            "    racism
    "            "    apartheid
    "            "    discrimination of women
    "            "    discrimination of indigenous people
Out of these victories, the last five were won under UN leadership.

I propose that we engage vigorous action on the following:
violence in all its forms
militarism
armaments
extreme poverty
Earth destruction
corruption
excessive materialism and overconsumption
religious fundamentalism
extreme national sovereignty
lack of ethics
I am sure that humanity can win all these victories within a few decades.

Nothing is impossible for the human species if it decides so.  And we have gained a lot of experience!

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
Why be half dead before being dead?  Death comes early enough.

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Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

Borrow the Beloved's eyes. Look through them and you'll see the Beloved's face everywhere. No tiredness, no jaded boredom...things you have hated will become helpers.
Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
We Are Three

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