Showing posts with label Saint Francis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saint Francis. Show all posts

Saturday, December 21, 2019

[GMW #4461] Like St. Francis - Write Your Own Canticle, Testament, Goodbye To Earth & Life

[GMW #4461] Like St. Francis - Write Your Own Canticle, Testament, Goodbye To Earth & Life Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000

~ Idea 4847 ~
Saint Francis devoted his Canticle at his death to Brother Sun, Sister Water and to the Lord. This text has survived the centuries. 

It should inspire all humans to write their own canticle, testament, goodbye to the Earth and to life. We are all living Earth and since the Earth the sun we are also children of the sun. And since the sun receives her energy from the cosmos we are also children of the cosmos, of God.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II - The Art of Personal Happy Living
Chapter 6 - Of Hope


Where there is no hope,
the nature of a human changes.
Where hope ends,
despair and decadence begin.

To pessimists:
Since you cannot escape from this planet,
you might as well enjoy it.
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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.


The wisdom that begins with surprise
is the wisdom of a grateful heart.

~ Br. David Steindl-Rast

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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, May 29, 2015

[GMW #3292] Philosophies and Movements For A Simple And Frugal Way Of Life


[GMW #3292] Philosophies and Movements For A Simple And Frugal Way Of Life Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3692 ~
India and the city of Assisi in Italy could launch the idea of a world association of all groups, philosophies and movements for a simple and frugal way of life, as professed and practiced by Gandhi and Saint Francis.

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

Churches and temples are still the greatest clinics on Earth and priests and pastors the best psychiatrists. They are free and generally unused, perhaps precisely because they are free!
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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
Pine Siskin
Michele Weisz  |Pine Siskin | Los Poblanos Open Space, Albuquerque, New Mexico

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
~ Benjamin Franklin

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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)

Monday, September 8, 2014

[GMW #3097] Saints Expect Cities Of Beauty To Be Named After Them


[GMW #3097] Saints Expect Cities Of Beauty To Be Named After Them
Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500

~ Idea 3496 ~
God convened a meeting of all the saints in heaven and asked them which ones wanted their name withdrawn from cities on Earth which were overpopulated, over-polluted and beset with many social problems and violence.

Quite a few requested it following the example of the angels for Los Angeles and Saint Francis for San Francisco (see Idea 2743 in Volume VII).

But one, Santa Barbara took the floor and said:

"I do not want this to be done for Santa Barbara in California. I love that city. All her inhabitants and many visitors and people love it. It is a jewel of well-preserved nature and I was killed in the Middle Ages for loving nature. It has trees lining all its streets. Its air is the purest one can have. Its traffic is fluid. It is famous for its cleanliness and for the prohibition of advertisements beyond a very modest size. It should be a model for many other cities in the world.

I continue to recommend to it further improvements. For example, it has a Chamber of Commerce, but not a Chamber of the Environment. It has a Bank of America, but not a Bank of Nature. It has a Santa Barbara Bank and Trust but should have a Santa Barbara Earth and Beauty Trust. It has a Washington National Bank but I would like to see a Santa Barbara Natural Bank. I am sure they will do it and therefore I ask you dear God to maintain my name for that city of which I am so proud."

God:
"Okay, it is agreed."

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume  II Chapter 14 Of Writing 


A good writer must convey hope and happiness. The reader wants to be reassured about life, aggrandized, not diminished. Why should he receive your unhappiness and adversities? He has enough of his own. You might interest him, but he will put your book aside and never return to it. He will re-read only inspiring, positive, hopeful, helpful books.*


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
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

More from Robert Muller: RobertMuller.org
Subscribe to/or unsubscribe from Robert Muller's GoodMorningWorld.org

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