Thursday, December 2, 2010

[GMW #2099] Global Day Of Visions And Dreams In The Memory Of Gandhi And Martin Luther King



[GMW #2099] Global Day Of Visions And Dreams In The Memory Of Gandhi And Martin Luther King
Friday 3 December 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1299 Part 2 ~    30 January 1998

Two years ago, John Denver visited me at the University for Peace, on his way to sing for hope to young people around the world.  In my little wooden farmlet he went to the bathroom and I was waiting for him outside. 

After a while he came out, with tears in his eyes and said to me: "Robert, you have rendered me a great service." 

I looked at him astonished, and he answered: "I read your text hanging on a wall, 'Decide to Forgive' and it gave me the answer to a nightmare I am going through: my Australian wife has abandoned me, taking with her our daughter.  I was desperate and did not know what to do.  You gave me the answer: I forgive her."

Also, after a speech somewhere in the world, a lady approached me and said: "Mr. Muller, I was in Hawaii where I found your poem 'Decide to Forgive'.  It changed my life because I decided to forgive the people who killed my husband.  Ever since I have tried to do good work for the world and I found peace and happiness."

I expressed the hope that the Season of Non-violence will be repeated every year.  I made the announcement that the Peace Monument of the University will henceforth be a monument to all known and unknown peacemakers in the world and a memorial to all peacemakers and peacekeeping personnel of the United Nations who lost their lives in the service of peace.

I also proposed that the United Nations should proclaim 30 January as an International Day of Visions and Dreams in memory of Gandhi and Martin Luther King who had both fundamental visions and dreams for the world.


Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
A positive human is one who has eliminated from his body the notion of sickness.
A positive human is one who has uprooted from his heart the notion of unhappiness.
A positive human is one who has suppressed from his mind the notion of age.
A positive human is one who has eradicated from his soul the notion of death.

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I am so honored to send this to you..love, Barbara Muller
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TCV’s Caregiver of the Month of December
Barbara Gaughen-Muller

CONGRATULATIONS, Barbara Gaughen-Muller for capping off 2010 as
The Caregiver’s Voice Caregiver of the Month of December!

Barbara submitted her self-nomination after checking to see if The Caregiver’s Voice would consider a caregiver who recently lost her loved one. (Yes, we will, providing your loss is within a few months.) Barbara’s beloved husband, Robert, passed away in September and hers is an inspirational love story of how to make one’s last years happy ones despite the enormity of caregiving. (Ed.)
Barbara Gaughen-Muller reflects upon her late husband
(Barbara Gaughen-Muller, TCV's Caregiver of the Month)The Caregiver's Voice Caregiver of the Month - Barbara Gaughen Muller
My dear husband passed exactly two months ago. I’m sitting in my favorite chair gazing at the garden he loved so much, in warm reflection of the many years we had together. I married the former United Nations Assistant Secretary General, Robert Muller, who spent an illustrious forty years working and writing for Peace and a Better World.
I remember the first time we met at a conference where his speech allowed me to see the optimism he held for a world he said was still in its infancy. His words thrilled everyone in the audience and inspired me too to the global challenge.
Seventeen magical and romantic years
We married shortly after and shared seventeen magical romantic years together. We traveled the world for speeches, shared workshops, book signings, and wrote 7,000 Ideas and Dreams for a Better World. I was always with this great spirited force on the planet; speaking and writing, and living in Costa Rica and Santa Barbara. We were true partners of hope for our beloved planet. We shared our passion and our love with our combined families that included six children and eleven grandchildren.
The sacred gift of caregiving is not easy and yet
the blessings are there to take with us to the end of our lives.
Our workshops went from a global view into the theme of his previous books on happiness and we were genuinely happy to be together.
He would forget he had just called me.
It broke my heart to see how this brilliant man, dedicated to saving our planet, became ill and began to forget things. I think it was our happiness seminars and speeches that sustained me for three difficult years. There wasn’t a moment when he was not calling my name. He would forget he had just called me, even when I answered over and over again, often loudly as his hearing was also failing. Every time he said my name, I found a strength that helped me smile and answer.
Two TCV Caregiver of the Month selection committee members, who are currently family caregivers, wrote:
This kind of love is a once-in-a-lifetime love.
Her story really touched my whole being with her devoted love for her husband. She triumphed in the complete meaning of the sacred gift of caregiving for someone with brain impairment. She placed herself in her husband’s world. Her last paragraph says it all. She is very inspiring.
Learned a whole new way to relate to him to make sure he was happy
Barbara Gaughen-Muller and her beloved late husband Robert Muller
(Barbara Gaughen-Muller and her beloved late husband, Robert Muller)

I had to learn a whole new way of relating to my husband and I was going to make sure he was happy. I had to be tremendously creative every day, taking him on drives, out to restaurants, to the beach, even if he forgot the next day. Each and every morning, I greeted him with a smile and put one of his DVD interviews on the television to remind him of who he was and made scrapbooks of his family and put familiar items in his room.
I was on call twenty-four hours a day as his primary caregiver. My decision to be happy helped me care for him and the sound of “Ode to Joy” from his harmonica which he played to his last day.
Every year we continued to celebrate his birthday at our favorite pizza parlor with friends and relatives. When friends came to visit, we watched old DVDs together.
He would often ask if we were married. He was delighted when I said, “You bet.”
I felt honored to help this great man in his last years, to love him in a different way, and when his time came, we were both at peace.
My decision to be happy helped me care for him.
Caregiving …a gift of love
He touched me, expanded me as a person, and I became stronger; developing a compassionate and caring nature for others, especially friends, who also are dedicated caretakers. The very thing that seemed so hard and challenging ended as a gift of love given and received, a strength that will stay with me forever. I am grateful for the memories and the way he touched my life. The sacred gift of caregiving is not easy and yet the blessings are there to take with us to the end of our lives.
Self-Nomination by Barbara Gaughen-Muller
Former Caregiver

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

[GMW #2098] Global Forgiveness



[GMW #2098] Global Forgiveness
Thursday 2 December 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1299 ~    30 January 1998

On this anniversary day of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, a Season of Non-violence in the World was opened until 4 April 1998, anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King.  We held memorial services at the Monument of Peace and at the Gandhi monument of the UN University for Peace, during which I gave my views on how to achieve in the next century a civilization of non-violence.  I also distributed the following text:

University for Peace
30 January 1998
WORLD SEASON FOR NON-VIOLENCE
30 January to 4 April 1998
in memory of
Mahatma Gandhi
and
Martin Luther King
Create Global Awareness of the
Need to Forgive

Jesus on the cross asked the Father in heaven to forgive those who crucified him.

Mahatma (the Great Soul) Gandhi, as he was shot in his garden, on the way to prayer, exclaimed: "O God, forgive him."

Pope John Paul II went to the prison cell to pray with his intended assassin.

Nelson Mandela, when he was inaugurated president of South Africa, had his jailer at his side on the platform during the ceremony.

Martin Luther King said: "Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you."

Permit me to give you my exhortation "Decide to Forgive" and to tell you two anecdotes related to it.
Decide to Forgive
For resentment is negative
Resentment is poisonous
Resentment diminishes
and devours the self.

Be the first to forgive,
to smile and to take
the first step,
And you will see happiness bloom
On the face of your human brother
or sister,

Be always the first
Do not wait for others
to forgive

For by forgiving
You become the master of fate
The fashioner of life
The doer of miracles.

To forgive is the highest,
most beautiful form
of love.
In return you will receive
untold peace
and happiness.

- Robert Muller

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
The Wizard of Oz to the Tin-man:
Believe in yourself,
right from the start,
And you will have brains,
you'll have a heart,
You'll have courage to last
your whole life through.

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"Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't even have to make your subject and verb agree to serve...You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Monday, November 29, 2010

[GMW #2097] Not Shopping Or Buying Anything At Least Once A Week




[GMW #2097] Not Shopping Or Buying Anything At Least Once A Week
Wednesday 1 December 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1298 ~    29 January 1998

Perhaps all Catholics in the world should return to the holy practice of not buying anything and not visiting any stores on Sundays, a holy day to be devoted to spirituality.  They could remember the example of Jesus chasing the merchants from the Temple.

Perhaps all Jewish people should do the same on Sabbath and all the religions of the world on their sacred, holy day.

The subject should be taken up by the United Religions Organization when it enters into function.  This would be a great contribution of the world's religions to a better ecology.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
Decide to be Beautiful
    To make your life a work of art
    To create beauty
        through your hands
        with your heart
        through your mind
        with your soul
    Feel and render the breathtaking beauty
        of Creation
        of the miracle of life
    Have harmony, peace and beauty
        always on your mind
    Be you a father, a mother,
        a youth or an elderly
    In any profession
    In whatever you do
    At every moment of your life
    Be in love with beauty
    Be a master of life.
    Conceive beauty
    Celebrate through your art
    the beauty of your home
    the beauty of the Earth
        the beauty of humanity
        the beauty of the stars and heavens
    Leave behind you
    a great heritage of art


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 WORD FOR THE DAY

Within us is the soul of the whole,
the wise silence,
the universal beauty,
the eternal One.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sunday, November 28, 2010

[GMW #2096] What Would Jesus Say About The Mountains Of Trash And Discarded Packaging After Christmas




[GMW #2096] What Would Jesus Say About The Mountains Of Trash And Discarded Packaging After Christmas
Tuesday 30 November 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1296 ~    27 January 1998

If Jesus had seen the mountains of trash and discarded packaging thrown away in the western world after Christmas, He might have decided not to be born.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
Barbara Gaughen, my wife, has said this about the role of art and culture: "A true artist should be a whole, indivisible, planetary life and cosmos-conscious being.  Artists, musicians, poets and writers have the vocation to become immortal."

How right she is: a Leonardo da Vinci, a Michelangelo, a Mozart, a Beethoven are immortal through their works while not a single politician, powerholder or wealthholder of their time is remembered.  Try to name one.

I wrote this framework for the planetary cosmic role of art and culture so that an artist can select any subject from it to celebrate it, to make it a work of art, to augment in us the understanding of the incredible meaning of the miracle of the universe, of our Earth, of all life, especially human life which now embraces the entire globe.

Yehudin Menuhin wanted to write his views on the back of the table which follows the dream herewith, but alas he died prematurely.  Artists should be the longest living humans on Earth.  Dear God, why did you let one of the most genial sculptors ever, my friend Domenico Mazzone, die so young?  (Read "Domenico Mazzone, the Faith of a Great Artist" in my book Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness.)

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Photo Credit: Cindy ZackowitzLocation: Anchorage, AK
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

-- Victor Hugo

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[GMW #2095] Writing Letters Every Day - For The Good Of The World - Leave Moon Unexploited As Agreed To In Moon Treaty



[GMW #2095] Writing Letters Every Day - For The Good Of The World - Leave Moon Unexploited As Agreed To In Moon Treaty
Monday 29 November 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1295 ~    26 January 1998

Dear Mr. Secretary General,

During a recent conference I attended in Paris, Edgar Mitchell, one of the US astronauts who set foot on the moon told me that a group of powerful US businesspeople was exercising pressure and lobby with the US government to allow exploitation of the moon.  This would be in total violation of the Moon Treaty elaborated and adopted by the member countries of the UN.  I am sure that the Outer-space unit of the UN and you are aware of it.  Just in case I wanted to convey to you what I have learned.

Yours always for the good of the world,

I write letters like this almost every day to the UN Secretary General, to heads of states, heads of world institutions and people of influence.  One must watch out that achievements of the world community are not impaired by people of limited interest who suddenly discover that such agreements are not of benefit to them.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
As a result of our emergence from the analytical, dissecting, cutting up period into a holistic, interdependent, universal age we will witness a Renaissance of art which will stress again the beauty and harmony of nature, of the universe, of the human person and of all that is good and beautiful on Earth.

We will see a great holistic Renaissance of all forms of art to glorify peace, love, justice, harmony, faith, hope, happiness, forgiveness, thanksgiving and all other great, noble concepts which helped humanity to progress on its ascending path in the vast, mysterious universe.  Please, dear artists of the world, join that Renaisaance.

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New Robert Muller Videos

Kazu Furuta has released two new videos with Robert speaking in them. They are available to everyone on his Facebook video page and YouTube. There have been several positive comments about the videos which follow the video descriptions.

The videos are:
Toward a Democratic United Nations for the 21st Century! [HQ] and
2006 Annual Meeting: United Nations for a Better World! [HQ]

Descriptions:


a
© The KAZU TIME Show (Kazu Furuta). The KAZU TIME Show -HOPE- The Toward a Democratic United Nations for the 21st Century a conference on the reform and revitalization of the United Nations at San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA June 24-27, 2004 Keyno...te Speaker: Dr. Robert Muller (1923 - 2010) Former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General, Chancellor Emeritus of the U.N. University for Peace in Costa Rica, and Recipient of the 1989 UNESCO Peace Education Prize http://robertmuller.org/ http://goodmorningworld.org/
Length:15:00

b
© The KAZU TIME Show (Kazu Furuta). The KAZU TIME Show -HOPE- UNA-USA Annual Meeting: "United Nations for a Better World" + UNA-USA So Cal Division Meeting at American Red Cross Santa Barbara, CA January 28, 2006 http://www.unasb.org/ Keynote Speakers: Dr. Rober...t Muller (1923 - 2010) Former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General, Chancellor Emeritus of the U.N. University for Peace in Costa Rica, and Recipient of the 1989 UNESCO Peace Education Prize http://robertmuller.org/ http://goodmorningworld.org/ Douglas Noll, Esq. Lawyer and Peacemaker Noll Associates, Inc. http://www.nollassociates.com/
Length:14:59

We live on this beautiful planet, Mother Earth, breathe the same air, and drink the same water. We are all brothers and sisters and members of the human family. Life is a precious gift to enjoy, celebrate, and appreciate! Life is a choice, and we need to choose to be happy! We make things happen by wishing them! Ask, Believe, then Receive! Golden Rule: Treat others as you would like to be treated! Thank you! I appreciate the people who can respect our differences and can treat others with respect, gratitude, good manner and positive attitude! Thank you for reading this note, and thank you for choosing to watch my video! Have a wonderful day to you all!

Recent Comments On The Videos:

Suzanne Schecker commented on Kazu Furuta's video.
Suzanne wrote: "thank you so much for this video. I do not know much about Frank Kelly but Gene Knudsen Hoffman was the foundr of the Compassionate Listening Project that I am deeply involved with and Robeert Mulller has been a great inspiration to all of us who are students of peacebuilding."

Siddhartha Banerjee commented on Kazu Furuta's video.
Siddhartha wrote: "Excerpts from another speech by Dr. Muller: "Today I Dream Excerpts from acceptance speech by Robert Muller, as the Laureate of the UNESCO Prize 1989 for Peace Education (Full Text, PDF) - that all schools of this Earth will teach about the United Nations, which is the young people's greatest hope and will be their instrument of global action when they are grown up; - that all schools and universities of this Earth will teach peace and non-violence and will become schools and universities of peace; - that many philanthropists will ... help global and peace education at the world level and continental, national and local levels; - that the media who have a major role as educators will inform, teach, illustrate and make audiences participate in the building of a better world. In particular, it is imperative that they inform the public of the world information, achievements and constructive work of the United Nations; - that the film industry will produce noble inspiring films devoted to the great visionaries, prophets and artisans of peace, past and present. I dream of great films similar to that on Gandhi, devoted to the lives of Dag Hammarskjöld and U Thant; and Robert Schuman....""
"Domo arigato, Mr. Furuta. I didn't know about this wonderful sensei."

Rabbi Gershon Steinberg-Caudill commented on Kazu Furuta's video.
Rabbi wrote: "Thank you Rabbi Lerner for turning me on to this video. I am one who believes in the POTENTIAL (not yet realized) of the United Nations, once veto power is removed as a weapon from the hands of certain special Countries."
Elizabeth Lambaer commented on Kazu Furuta's video.
Elizabeth wrote: "Thank you Kazu so much for sharing this! I had the blessed opportunity to meet Dr. Mueller and hear him speak at Agape several years ago. What an extraordinary & inspiring man and peacemaker!"
Michael Guarnieri commented on Kazu Furuta's video.
Michael wrote: "Thank you for bringing us back this wonderful memory! We enjoyed seeing this again. Michael & Barbara"

Barbara Gaughen-Muller commented on Kazu Furuta's video.
Barbara wrote: "Dearest Kazu, Thank you for all your efforts to bring the wisdom of Robert Muller to the world he often said was still in its infancy. I know how carefully you edited his speech to capture the essence of Roberts words.YOU are a messenger and ambasador of good and a dedicated peace maker. I thank you with all my heart."
Rebecca Tobias commented on Kazu Furuta's video.
Rebecca wrote: "Thank you so much for posting this--I remember the energy at this meeting and was so inspired to redouble my efforts to work for peace. Life is a Miracle--and our directed intention to work in its service is our highest honor."
Catherine Margerin commented on Kazu Furuta's video.
Catherine wrote: "Thank you for posing this video. It is a joy to witness Robert's lovely creative energy again. I sit on my Bench of Peace often and feel gratitude for his friendship, humor and inspiration.

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Thursday, November 25, 2010

[GMW #2094] Moving Quickly From Democracy To Gaiacracy Or Earthcracy



[GMW #2094] Moving Quickly From Democracy To Gaiacracy Or Earthcracy
Friday 26 November 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 1294 ~    25 January 1998

From democracy we will now move quickly to Gaiacracy or Earthcracy. 

From the power of government and the moneycracy of big business, we will now see the power of nature, of the Earth itself. 

The retribution will be terrible.  The Earth will take revenge against her most advanced species which has begun to destroy her.  She will retaliate with lack of oxygen, ultra-violet rays, lack of water, mounting cancers, the breakdown of the immune system of the human body, etc. 

God will not allow us to destroy His Creation and to put an end to the Earth's careful, miraculous evolution over billions of years.  God is more likely to let humanity be destroyed.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
Modern art will remain a mere curiosity of a time of aberration in human evolution.

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Photo Credit: James 'Dan' O'DonnellLocation: Grover Beach, CA
Activism is my rent for living on this planet.

-- Alice Walker

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

[GMW #2093] World-wide Thanksgiving Day



[GMW #2093] World-wide Thanksgiving Day
Thursday 24 November 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
    ~ Idea 1293 ~    24 January 1998

I hope that on the American Thanksgiving Day, which should become a world-wide Day, and during the International Year of Thanksgiving 2000: proclaimed by the UN General Assembly, we also give the floor to the Earth which should have an opportunity to give thanks for actions saving, preserving and embellishing her.  The UN Environment Program could offer the world a list of substantial progresses achieved in favor of the Earth.  The yearly Earth Day could also serve that purpose.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
Furrows in the human face are the result of worries.  People don’t believe that I am almost 82 years old, because I do not yet have a single furrow in my face.  I am also trying to smile with much happiness on it.

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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. --Helen Keller 

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