Idea Dream - Robert
Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 298 ~ 4 May 1995
Each UN agency and world program should examine its situation in a
vastly changing world and determine if some of its subjects do not
warrant the creation of a new world agency.
For example: The UN Food and Agricultural Organization has such a vast
task and the forests of this planet have such a priority that a UN
World Forestry Agency should be created.
Robert's The Miracle, Joy
and Art of Living,
Volume III Chapter I - The Span Of
Life
Life
is a journey so rich, so beautiful: it can be a journey into ourself,
into others, into the entire world and universe, into the past, present
and future.
It can be a constant journey holding hands with God on this splendid planet in the star-filled heavens.
UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service , UN Wire News Archive
References: Earth
Charter, Universal
Declaration
of
Human
Rights
Rights
of:
Children, Women,
Indigenous
People
To Be
Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.
Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.
Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little
more than a century ago?
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, WORD FOR THE DAY
Mohandas Gandhi
Address at Kingsley Hall
Listen and Watch here.
There is
an
indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything. I feel it, though
I do
not see it. It is this unseen power which makes itself felt and yet
defies all
proof because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. It
transcends the senses.
But it
is possible
to reason out the existence of god to an [unintelligible] exchange. Even
in
ordinary affairs we know that people do not know who rules, or why, and
how he
rules. And yet they know that there is a power that certainly rules.
In my
tour last
year in Mysore I met many poor villagers and I found
upon inquiry that they did
not know who ruled Mysore. They simple said some god ruled it. If the
knowledge of these poor people was so limited about their ruler, I, who
am
infinitely lesser in respect to god than they to their ruler need not be
surprised if I do not realize the presence of god, the king of kings.
Nevertheless
I do
feel as the poor villagers felt about Mysore, that there is orderliness
in the
universe. There is an unalterable law governing everything and every
being that
exists or lives. It is not a blind law, for no blind law can govern the
conduct
of living beings. And thanks to the marvelous researches of
Sir J.C. Bose, it
can now be proved that even matter is life.
That law
then
which governs all life is god. Law and the lawgiver are one. I may not
deny
the law or the lawgiver because I know so little about it or him, just
as my
denial or ignorance of the existence of an earthly power will avail me
nothing. Even so, my denial of god and his law will not liberate me from
its operation. Whereas, humble and mute acceptance of divine authority
makes life’s journey
easier even as the acceptance of earthly rule makes life under it
easier.
I do
dimly
perceive that whilst everything around me is ever dying, ever guiding,
there
is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that
holds all
together; that creates, dissolves, and recreates. That informing power
of
spirit is god. And since nothing else that I see merely through the
senses can
or will persist, he alone is.
And if
this power
is benevolent or malevolent, I see it as purely benevolent. For, I can
see that
in the midst of death, life persists. In the midst of untruth, truth
persists. In the midst of darkness, light persists. Hence I gather that
god is life,
truth, light. He is love. He is the supreme good. But, he is no god who
merely satisfies the intellect, if he ever does. God to be god must rule
the
heart and transform it. He must express himself in ever smallest act of
his
[goodery?]. This can only be done through a definite realization more
real than
the fives senses can ever prove use.
Sense
perceptions
can be and often are false and deceptive however real they may appear to
us. Where
there is realization outside the senses it is [imperial?], it is proved
not by
extreme extraneous evidence, but in the transformed conduct and
character of
those who have felt the real presence of god within. Such testimony is
to
be found
in the experiences of an unbroken line of prophets and sages in all
countries
and climes. To reject this evidence is to deny oneself. This realization
is
preceded by an immovable faith. He who would in his own person, test the
fact
of god’s presence can do so by a living faith.
And
since faith
itself cannot be proved by extraneous evidence, the safest course is to
believe
in the moral government of the world and therefore in the supremacy of
the
moral law, the law of truth and love. Exercise of faiths will be the
safest
where there is the clear determination summarily to reject all that is
contrary
to truth and love.
I
confess that I
have no argument to convince through reason. Faith transcends
reason. All that
I can advise is not to attempt the impossible.
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HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
Happy 87th Birthday
Robert Muller ...
You are invited to send your favorite ideas and dreams for a better
world to Robert for his birthday celebration Thursday, March 11, 2010.
To send your happy birthday note you can reply to this email or here: Contact.
Here are two of the happy birthday notes:
Happy Birthday Robert,
Robert, May this next year be your best so
far. Your work continues to inspire me deeply. You are a true Citizen
Diplomat every moment representing the world you live in. You are the
pioneer Citizen Diplomat.
These words came together for me today and describe you so
clearly.
Tell Us The Story Of What You Did To Nurture A Better World
"Advancing peace one journey, one room at a time. We are
Citizen diplomats giving our well-being to the kindness in like-hearted
strangers. We are Citizen Diplomats holding the well-being of
like-hearted strangers in our hands.
We are grass roots
philanthropists bending our money, our rooms, our travel, our table,
our culture in the direction of our values. We Citizen Diplomats live
in a future that works for everyone and have returned to model how
people live with one another and the planet there.
It is where your
grandchildren and their children live. We know the story because these
children always draw it from us. They ask us what we in a tumultuous
world contributed that made it safe for them to live and grow, and
laugh, and play.
They never get tired of that story and ask it time
and time again.
'Please, Grampa and Grama, tell us again what you did
to turn the world around.'"
Blessings to you.
John
A Movie To Bring Special Memories Of Growing Up In France
Happy Birthday, Joyeux Anniversaire Monsieur Muller,
Je vous souhaite une très belle journée avec beaucoup de joie et de bonheur,
Merci pour vos message positifs pour un monde meilleur.
Voici une vidéo avec ma mère faisant des gateaux de Noël, des Bredeles,
peut être que cela vous rappelle quelques souvenirs
http://www.youtube.com/user/speakerfrancis#p/a/u/2/eX4KD_1emVo
Chaleureusement
Francis
Waldhambach près de Sarralbe, Alsace-Lorraine
Translated:
Happy Birthday, Anniversary Joyous Mister Muller,
I wish you a very beautiful day with a lot of joys and of happiness. Thank you for your positive messages for a world better.
Here a video with my
mother doing the gateaux of Christmas, Bredeles, can be that that recalls you some memories
http://www.youtube.com/user/speakerfrancis#p/a/u/2/eX4KD_1emVo
Warmly Francis
Waldhambach close to Sarralbe, Alsace-Lorraine |
Drew
Johnson who "had an epiphany one morning in the shower." The epiphany?
To travel around the country volunteering -- one state per week for 48
weeks. Since his journey began in South Dakota, he's done everything
from building houses for Habitat for Humanity to working with hospice
caretakers to supporting environmental initiatives. But on his trip,
which is supported by gifts from strangers, Drew is also promoting a
lifestyle that focuses on "STO" -- service to others. [ 
