Showing posts with label Norman Cousins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norman Cousins. Show all posts

Sunday, December 13, 2020

[GMW #4703] Think Of Yourself As A Magnificent Miraculous World Citizen

[GMW #4703] Think Of Yourself As A Magnificent Miraculous World Citizen Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000

~ Idea 6088 ~
“People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.”   ~ Norman Cousins

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II - The Art of Personal Happy Living
Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude

When I write early in the morning it is with an immense feeling of joy and love. To write is my form of prayer, of thanking God for His magnificent gift of life.
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WORD FOR THE DAY
Deep trust in life is not a feeling but a stance that you deliberately take. It is the attitude we call courage.
~ Br. David Steindl-Rast

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Thursday, January 23, 2020

[GMW #4502] Deeply Feel What You Treasure Most & Become What You Feel


[GMW #4502] Deeply Feel What You Treasure Most & Become What You Feel Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000

~ Idea 4888 ~
A characteristic of my life:

I always deeply feel what I treasure most and I become what I feel. This has been in short the story of my life devoted to peace and a better world.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II - The Art of Personal Happy Living
Chapter 7 - Of Optimism


Norman Cousins divided the world not into East and West, North and South, black and white, but into optimists and pessimists, namely those who believe in life and those who do not. Someday, indeed, this might be the main division of humans, and someday it will disappear too, leaving only a humanity that rejoices in the miracle of life.
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Daily Ray of Hope
Great egret at the Audubon Rookery in Venice,
                      FloridaPhoto by Gary Powell | Great egret at the Audubon Rookery in Venice, Florida
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
~ William Hazlitt



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The Idea Dreams
- With An Index

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

Decide to - poems
DecideTo Index
DecideTo Poems

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

[GMW #3462] Create A Democratic World Government For The People & Nature Of Planet Earth


[GMW #3462] Create A Democratic World Government For The People & Nature Of Planet Earth Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 3861 ~
There is much condemnation and criticism against tribalism surviving in certain parts of the world, but I have seldom heard anyone except Norman Cousins (see story on No More World Wars in my Dialogs of Hope), consider national sovereignties to be the biggest, steadfastest, uncompromising, totalitarian tribalisms which have ever existed on this planet.

Tribal nations had even the intelligence to give people false hopes and illusions by creating a 'United' Nations, a world organization deprived of all the powers they have: no legislative power, no executive power, no judicial power, no taxing power, no borrowing power, no military power and no territorial role. It is the most powerless institution ever devised on Earth in the face of the most serious and largest numbers of world-wide global problems.

But it gives the illusion that something can be done which therefore gives hope to the people.

This situation immediately after World War II has not changed and improved an inch in the last fifty-five years, but has considerably worsened: the world population explosion; the Earth beginning to be destroyed by humans; more armaments than ever, especially nuclear armaments. The situation is much worse than it was thirty - forty years ago. I think it would be better to close the United Nations in order not to maintain false hopes and illusions.

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

O God, guide my steps upwards so that I may climb the peaks of life towards the full consciousness of Your magnificent Creation and earn my utmost happiness.
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Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
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Daily Ray of Hope --                        Morro Coast Audubon Society Sweet Springs Nature                        Preserve, Los Osos, California --
Photo by Alice Cahill | Morro Coast Audubon Society Sweet Springs Nature Preserve, Los Osos, California
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
~ Maya Angelou

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Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

[GMW #3338] Find Creative Ways To Implement World Wide Spending For Peaceful Ways


[GMW #3338] Find Creative Ways To Implement World Wide Spending For Peaceful Ways  Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3732 ~
Who will get us out of the mess of 189 sovereign nations dividing among themselves this planet and wasting each year 800 billion dollars - one half of all their tax revenues - on armaments and militaries?

Dear reader, if you have an idea to stop that please send it to your head of state and representative to parliament and network it by every possible means.

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

When Norman Cousins wrote the Preface of my book on happiness, he became fascinated with the effects of happiness on health. Today the subject is being seriously studied at Harvard University where they discovered and proved scientifically that the decision to feel happy has very beneficial effects on the whole body. At long last, science is looking into a fundamental recipe, known to every mother, peasant and indigenous people on Earth.
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Rights of: Children, Women, IndigenousPeople
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WORD FOR THE DAY
Not one single atom opposes us.
~ Zen Master Hongzhi

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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)