Showing posts with label World Movement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Movement. Show all posts

Sunday, February 17, 2013

[GMW #2660] World Movements Saying No to Non-Essentials


[GMW #2660] World Movements Saying No to Non-Essentials Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3053 ~   
A World Movement of People saying No to Non-essentials (NONE) should be created as a new world non-governmental association accredited to the United Nations.  It should say no:

to consuming thirty times more goods and services in the rich countries than in the poor countries.

to read magazines flooded with advertisements to buy more, mostly unnecessary goods.

to children of the rich countries having so many toys;

and there is a long list of more no's.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
Under no circumstance wait for a better world to be happy.  You might wait for ever and miss your earthly turn!
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"There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth,
beyond the highest, the very highest heavens.
This is the light that shines in your heart."
-- Chandogya Upanishad


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Thursday, March 29, 2012

[GMW #2425] World Movement of Optimism to Help Resolve World Issues


[GMW #2425] World Movement of Optimism to Help Resolve World Issues
Thursday 29 March 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1334 ~
6 March 1998
From a Costa Rican newspaper I learn that two young men in England have launched a National Movement for the Renaissance of Optimism. They consider that there is no problem in the country that cannot be resolved with optimism. The same is true of world problems. Perhaps we need a World Movement for the Renewal of Optimism. Having been given the epithet of Chief Optimist in Residence at the UN I would be delighted to be a Board Member.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 12 - Of Forgiveness
If all nations and religions could only forgive each other for their misgivings, misdeeds and killings, what a progress that would mean! See the Dismal Alphabet (Idea 3035 in Volume VIII of my 6000 Ideas and Dreams for a Better World)
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Photo by Frank Neighbors. Location: near Sherman, TX.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
-- William Arthur Ward

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

[GMW #2227] Joining The Unwritten, Anonymous World Movement Of Volunteers For The Cleanest Mile On Earth



[GMW #2227] Joining The Unwritten, Anonymous World Movement Of Volunteers For The Cleanest Mile On Earth
Wednesday 1 June 2011, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

It seems that beautiful stories never end.  There is a magic built in them.  In May 1998 I was invited with President Gorbachev and former UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali to a conference on Globalization and the Fate of the Nation-State, in Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia.  I was asked to submit to it a paper on the next stage of the international system (it is reproduced at the end of my ideas 1501 to 1600).  At the conclusion of the conference a public and press meeting was held at which questions were asked by the audience. 

I got the question: "What can one poor, lonely individual do to improve the world situation?" 

I told them the story of the cleanest mile and the effect it would have if 5.6 billion people would each clean a mile: we would be the cleanest planet in the universe. 

I told them also that early at sunrise on this very day, I had cleaned the beach in front of our hotel: I received not only the applause of the audience, but also a few days later, from someone in the audience the following fax:

Dear Dr. Muller,

Since you were so kind to clean one of our beaches, I am happy to send you the following information on beach cleaning just published by the leading Italian newspaper Il Messaggero:

(1) 200 Italian beaches were cleaned yesterday by 120,000 volunteers.  (2) Hundreds of boats and 5,000 underwater cleaners went hunting for plastic bottles and sacks in an operation named "clean sea-bottom".  (3) In Grosseto (Tuscany), 500 people met on the beach with delegations of young environmentalists from 9 Mediterranean countries for the operation "Clean up the Mediterranean Sea"; this operation will reach its climax on June 5, world day for the environment organized by the United Nations Environment Program.  (4) In the Marche region (center Italy, on the Adriatic), the project "clean beaches" is becoming a permanent project financed by the Region, that will utilize 200 boats for the cleaning of the sea-bottom.

With warmest greetings to you and to your wife Barbara,
Dr. Sergio Tripi

And on Father's Day, a few days later, in my US hometown of Dobbs Ferry in the Hudson Valley, we walked with my wife on the marvelous wooded old Croton aqueduct and helped remove from it trash to make it the cleanest aqueduct on Earth.

Please, dear reader, help me implement this simple idea.  Join the unwritten, anonymous world movement of volunteers for the cleanest mile on Earth.  Mother Earth will rejoice and recompense us with much happiness.  I am placing this dream on my Bench of Dreams.

Better to pick up a piece of refuse than to curse the garbage.


Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love
The heart has its reasons which reason ignores.    -Pascal
How right he is.  Reason might tell me to dislike, while the heart asks me to love instead.  And the same is true between nations, religions, all human beings and groups.

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"This is the soulful meaning of happiness: to live the life that is truly ours, to give the most of who we essentially are."
- Jack Weber

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Monday, January 24, 2011

[GMW #2136] World Movements And Alliances Accredited To The United Nations


[GMW #2136] World Movements And Alliances Accredited To The United Nations
Tuesday 26 January 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1362 ~    3 April 1998

Movements or world alliances of national and international associations should apply for accreditation to the UN where they will acquire world-wide hearing, visibility and impact.

The launching of such movements and alliances could be a major achievement of the Peoples' World Assembly 2000.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living

Get your importances straight:
The body is more important than clothes
The mind is more important than books
Hearing is more important that radio
Seeing is more important than television
Life is more important than glory and wealth.

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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma,
I felt my legs were praying.
--Rabbi Abraham Heschel

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[GMW #2135] World Movements For Love, Cooperation, Justice, True Democracy, Repentance, Forgiveness, Simplicity, Spirituality, Well Being, Hope



[GMW #2135] World Movements For Love, Cooperation, Justice, True Democracy, Repentance, Forgiveness, Simplicity, Spirituality, Well Being, Hope
Monday 25 January 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Ideas 1353 to 1361 ~    25 March to 2 April 1998

After having launched successfully a world movement for peace, the peoples and their associations in the world should now launch several new world movements.  Here are those I recommend:

Idea 1353        a world movement of love

Idea 1354        a world movement of cooperation

Idea 1355        a world movement for justice

Idea 1356        a world movement for well-being of all

Idea 1357        a world movement of hope

Idea 1358        a world movement of spirituality

Idea 1359        a world movement for simple, frugal life

Idea 1360        a world movement of repentance and forgiveness

Idea 1361        a world movement for true democracy

and there are many other good ones whose time has come.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living

O God, help me to see only the good on this planet and by expanding the good, to help reduce evil.

God:
"Dear son, you do not need my help.  You will do it because it is deep in you.  And I will thank you and embrace you for it when you will come to heaven."

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Photo Credit: Maureen QuinlanLocation: Boone, NC
Wherever you are -- be all there.

-- Jim Elliot


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