Showing posts with label Privilege. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Privilege. Show all posts

Sunday, September 17, 2017

[GMW #3852] Be Worthy Of Living Well With Nature

[GMW #3852] Be Worthy Of Living Well With Nature Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4247 ~
Nature is for me my immediate vision and television.
I can look at her endlessly with utmost fascination and love.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation
Chapter 5 - The Miracle of Individual Life

What a stupendous happening it is in the universe when on a tiny planet of rocks and water, innumerable species' can see, hear, walk, fly, swim, sing, build, and that one of them has been able to transform itself into a new species by multiplying:

- the power of its hands through incredible machines and factories;
- the distance of its legs through boats, trains, cars, airplanes and space vessels;
- the range of its eyesight through telescopes, television, microscopes and atomic bubble chambers;
- the range of its hearing through telephone, radio, sonars and satellites;
- the capacity of its mind, memory and imagination through electronic brains and computers.

We must be proud to belong to that species and through right knowledge and behavior be worthy of the privilege of living on that planet and of not impairing its future.
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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.

Daily Ray of Hope Mount Susitna
              (Sleeping Lady) - Anchorage, Alaska Photo by Andrew Renkert | Mount Susitna (Sleeping Lady), Anchorage, Alaska

The earth never tires,
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd, I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
~ Walt Whitman

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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
DecideTo Index
DecideTo Poems

Sunday, August 28, 2016

[GMW Special 3501-4000 Annex] Our Home - Planet Earth As Seen From Outer Space


[GMW Special 3501-4000 Annex] Our Home  - Planet Earth As Seen From Outer Space
ANNEX
Astronaut's Reflections
Our Home: Planet Earth as seen from Outer Space
Reflections of astronauts who had the privilege to look down on Earth from heaven. See also Idea 4258.

My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. Edgar Mitchell, USA. Now I know why I'm here, not for a closer look at the Moon, but to look back at our home The Earth. Alfred Worden, USA. The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart.

Seeing this has to change a person, has to make them appreciate the creation of God and the love of God. James Irwin, USA. When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole. Loren Acton, USA.

If everyone could see the Earth from the moon, as we saw it, all the problems before the UN would be solved. Alan Shepard, USA.

The artistic genius who painted our planet worked from a fantastic assortment of His palette and with unusually pure colors. We flew across the Crimea. It was autumn and corn was ripening in the Cuban area, the delicate yellows of the grain iridescent in a hundred shades. Fifteen minutes later we saw the soft green of the forest in the Taiga, then the dark brown of the Himalayas, and once again the long stretch across the lovely sapphire ocean. Anyone who has been in space knows that the impatiently awaited unearthliness quickly loses its charm. It is not the boring uniform blackness of the cosmic abyss that engages your attention, but the spectacle of our small planet haloed in blue.

Suddenly, you get a feeling you never had before, that you are an inhabitant of Earth. Those who have been in space realized that, in spite of the complete disparity between them, they are one in an important way, namely, an acute feeling of being an inhabitant of Earth, a feeling of a personal responsibility to preserve the only planet we have. They realize that any predicament, disagreement, or obstacle can be overcome. Oleg Makarov, USSR.

The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home must be defended like a holy relic. Aleksei Leonov, USSR. The Earth at night looks even more magical than it does during the day. There is always a storm happening somewhere. Flashes of lightening sometimes cover up to a fourth of a continent. At first you see this as a natural disturbance, the eruption of splashes as a majestic spectacle. ...All of a sudden, against your will, you imagine that the lightening comes not from a natural storm, but from the explosions of bombs. No. This must never occur. Let only the northern lights and lightening blaze above our precious Earth. Valdimir Shatalov, USSR.

During a space flight the psyche of each astronaut is reshaped. Having seen the sun, the stars, and our planet, you become more full of life, softer. You begin to look at all living things with the people around you. At any rate that is what happened to me. Boris Volynov, USSR.

For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light — our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance. Ulf Merbold Federal Republic of Germany.

Before I flew I was already aware of how small and vulnerable our planet is; but only when I saw it from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations. Sigmund Jahn German Democratic Republic.

The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth. Sultan Bin Salman al-Saud Saudi Arabia.

From space I saw the Earth — indescribably beautiful with the scars of national boundaries gone. Muhammad Ahmand Faris, Syria.

I have been in love with the sky since birth. And when I could fly, I wanted to go higher, to enter space and become a 'man of the heights'. During the eight days I spent in space, I realized that humankind needs height primarily to better know our long-suffering Earth, to see what cannot be seen close up. Not just to love her beauty, but also to ensure that we do not bring even the slightest harm to the natural world. Pham Tuan, Vietnam.

The tears come to my eyes each time I read these moving statements. They should be known and inspire every school, every government, all institutions, all media, all corporations of the Earth.

All heads of states and of major institutions and corporations should fly to outer space and look down to Earth. The whole future of the world would depend on it.

~ Robert Muller


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Thursday, July 21, 2016

[GMW #3624] Do Your Utmost To Be Worthy Of Life

[GMW #3624] Do Your Utmost To Be Worthy Of Life Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4019 ~
I am so incredibly privileged with an exciting, wonderful, endlessly varied, multi-faceted life. David Gaughen, the son of my wife Barbara said to me: "A million people would exchange their life with yours." I must never forget this remark. When I appear before God I must be able to say to Him that I did my utmost to be worthy of it.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 3 -
The Miracle of Childhood

Parents should ask their children at an early age what their strongest, real dream or dreams are, before society and the media impose their artificial, often distorted, wrong dreams.  They are a deep, instinctive indication of the child's God-given capacities, intended purpose and contribution to the further evolution of humanity.
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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.

Daily Ray of Hope
-- Loranger,
                                                      Louisiana --
Photo by Seth GaleWyrick | Loranger, Louisiana
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~ William Shakespeare

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The first 4000 Ideas & Dreams
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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

Thursday, May 19, 2016

[GMW #3560] The Structure Of World Peace Rests On The Cooperative Effort Of The Whole World


[GMW #3560] The Structure Of  World Peace Rests On The Cooperative Effort Of The Whole World Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 3955 ~
A Fate of Our Planet outstanding statement:
"The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world."

FD Roosevelt's Address to the US Congress on the Yalta Conference
Washington D.C. 3/1/45

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 1 -
The Span of Life

My fascination with life has no end.  It is such a miracle, such an incredible privilege that I ask myself: how is it possible that I am alive?  What is the miracle behind it?  For what mysterious purpose was I born?  And God always answers me: to be happy, to be fulfilled, to render service to others and to live again.
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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.

Daily Ray of Hope -- Glacier Peak
        Wilderness, North Cascades, Washingtona -- Photo by Andy Porter | Glacier Peak Wilderness, North Cascades, Washington
And suddenly you know:
It's time to start something new and
trust the magic of beginnings.
~ Meister Eckhart

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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
DecideTo Index
DecideTo Poems

Friday, June 5, 2015

[GMW #3318] Departments In All Governments For The Earth, Nature And Natural Elements


[GMW #3318] Departments In All Governments For The Earth, Nature And Natural Elements Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3712 ~
The western countries need as many ministries caring for the Earth, nature and the natural elements as they have now for war, economics, trade and finance.

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

There are two principal ways to happiness:
to recognize that life is a true miracle, an incredible privilege;
to thank God for it every day.
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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
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
~ St. Francis of Assisi

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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)