Monday, January 10, 2011

[GMW #2125] Work Relentlessly With Conviction For A Better, Perfect World Even If It Seems Hopeless. Follow My Example.



[GMW #2125] Work Relentlessly With Conviction For A Better, Perfect World Even If It Seems Hopeless. Follow My Example.
Monday 10 January 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1342 ~    14 March 1998

I decided in my 76th year to work relentlessly for a better, perfect world, even if it seems hopeless.  I do not need hope to do it.  I do it because since I was a child I considered life to be a miracle and the Earth a paradise.  This is not hope, it is a conviction.  I am sure that it is also the conviction of every mother on Earth, looking at her child.

Please dear reader, follow my example.  Do something good for the world.  To be told that it is hopeless is the best reason and challenge to work even harder.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
There are immense virtues in encouragement (to put heart into).  We must stimulate each other to be good, happy, positive people.  We must validate each other.

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Sunday, January 2, 2011

[GMW #2124] Fair And Proper Distribution Of World Agencies Throughout The World



[GMW #2124] Fair And Proper Distribution Of World Agencies Throughout The World
Friday 7 January 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1332 ~    4 March 1998

The seat of the League of Nations was located in Switzerland because it is a "neutral" country.  For the same reason it was selected as the seat of the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the International Telecommunications Union, and GATT.  It became also the seat of numerous international non-governmental organizations accredited with these organizations.

The US was selected as the seat of the United Nations to avoid that the absence of the US from the UN would lead to the disastrous situation of the League of Nations which was incapable to stop nazism and fascism, leading to World War II.

Today the situation is entirely different.  Prime Minister Chou En Lai pointed out to us when Secretary General Waldheim and I visited him after the reentry of China into the UN that all the world agencies are located in the West, not a single one in vast Asia which has two-thirds of the world's population.  He complained bitterly about it, "Not even the Security Council would have the decency of holding once a session in Asia."  To introduce a correction in that situation, China decided to use their veto to make sure that at least the position of Secretary General would rotate on a regional basis, which is now the case.

To top it all, Switzerland is not even a member of the United Nations, only an observer, and cashes in the substantial resources spent by all these agencies on its land, and the US refuses to pay its contributions to the UN budget, cashing in on the local expenses of the UN and of 185 national delegations in New York.

This scandalous, unjust situation should be revised thoroughly as we enter a new century and millennium.  The General Assembly of the UN should inscribe it on its agenda, and a World Commission of Eminent Personalities on the Geographic Location of World Agencies should be created.


Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
Use stubbornly your capacities to the full, pray God and you will become a genius or a saint.

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Heart Quotes
"Who is the happiest of people?
One who values the merits of others,
and in their pleasure takes joy,
even as though 'twere their own"
- Goethe

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[GMW #2123] Just Reparations For Each Person Killed By A Land Mine




[GMW #2123] Just Reparations For Each Person Killed By A Land Mine
Thursday 6 January 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1331 ~    3 March 1998

For every person killed by a land mine, the government should introduce a law suit to the International Court of Justice or to the International Criminal Court when established, and ask for just reparations to the family of the victim.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
Get up and walk.  Don't say:  I can't.  And if you can't, do something else.

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Klaus Altmann
Subject: Love and blessings
World Peace Meditation - Proposal, Idea for today:

We can practice for ourself, with friends, family in groups - and radiate love and peace. Remind ourself that we are connected in our mind and hearts with love as one world.
With love and blessings, Klaus

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[GMW #2122] International Day Of Atonement, Reparation, Asking For Forgiveness



[GMW #2122] International Day Of Atonement, Reparation, Asking For Forgiveness
Wednesday 5 January 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1330 ~    2 March 1998

Several people have written to me that the UN should proclaim an International Day of Atonement and Reparation. 

Each year nations would review their wrongdoings, ask for forgiveness and offer reparation to the victims. 

Cases would be: colonialism, racial discrimination, atomic bombings and tests, the robbing of indigenous lands, the destruction of the Earth and nature, the protection of nazi gold and assets in foreign banks, the keeping of land mines in the soil of foreign lands, etc. 

Yes, an International Day of Atonement would be justified.  (see Annex: The Dismal Alphabet)

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
Become a Master of Life even if no University on Earth teaches it and grants that degree.  The new UN University for Peace might do it.

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WORD FOR THE DAY

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw
From a speech given at the 
Municipal Technical College and School of Art in Brighton


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[GMW #2121] Full And Fair Reparations For Indigenous Peoples Robbed Lands, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes



[GMW #2121] Full And Fair Reparations For Indigenous Peoples Robbed Lands, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes
Tuesday 4 January 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1329 ~    1 March 1998

Indigenous people who owe money on loans from the banks or governments should say: "We owe you money but you owe us the lands you robbed from us."

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
Cultivate your being.  It will bring you immortal harvests.

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To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

 WORD FOR THE DAY

No despair of ours can alter
the reality of things, or stain
the joy of the cosmic dance
which is always there.

Thomas Merton

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[GMW #2120] Fair Taxation Without Tax Evasion & Tax Heavens Benefiting Rich And Disproportionate Taxes On Poor & Medium Incomes



[GMW #2120] Fair Taxation Without Tax Evasion & Tax Heavens Benefiting Rich And Disproportionate Taxes On Poor & Medium Incomes
Monday 3 January 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1328 ~    28 February 1998

By the year 2000, for a more proper entry into the new millennium, the UN should publish a report on world tax evasion and tax heavens which benefit the rich while the poor and medium income peoples of the world are taxed pitilessly, especially through sales taxes.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
Garcia Lorca wrote: "Why should we work at all, why should we write at all in a world where one wants to shout all the time?  I protest, I protest, I protest."
My answer:  Because it is good to protest and to redress.

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"Never think twice about doing something nice for someone." --One Lucky Lady, from A Circle of Kindness Started by a 10 Year Old Girl 

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

[GMW #2119] Reparations For Poor Countries Including Annul Their Debts, Create Revolving Fund To Help Poor Countries



[GMW #2119] Reparations For Poor Countries Including Annul Their Debts, Create Revolving Fund To Help Poor Countries
Friday 31 December 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1327 ~    27 February 1998

I repeat my hope that in 2000, as a celebration of the bimillennium, all rich countries will annul the debts due to them by the poor countries.  It would be in reparation of all the robberies of land, mineral resources and works of art over the centuries, for their own enrichment.  The poor countries should ask their economists to calculate the astronomical debts due to them by the rich countries.

I also repeat that it was short-sighted of the US not to ask for the reimbursement at some future date of the interest-free Marshall Aid.  Now that the recipient countries are rich, they should in the year 2000 reimburse that aid into a UN Revolving Fund to help the poor countries which would reimburse it in turn when they have become rich.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
If every human being used positively, optimistically his hands, his mind, his heart and his soul, the world would be a fabulous place.

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"Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne


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[GMW #2118] Beautiful Inscriptions And Ads Nurturing Love, Beauty, Peace, Kindness, Friendship, Cooperation, Faith, Prayer, Forgiveness, etc




[GMW #2118] Beautiful Inscriptions And Ads Nurturing  Love, Beauty, Peace, Kindness, Friendship, Cooperation, Faith, Prayer, Forgiveness, etc
Thursday 30 December 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1326 ~    26 February 1998

I saw this inscription on the T-shirt of a young man during the ceremony of inauguration of a bench of dreams at Unity Village:

WILDERNESS IS THE PRESERVATION OF NATURE
THOREAU

How admirable such an inscription is compared with Coca Cola and cigarette advertisements.  I wish that all inscriptions on T-shirts will be of a natural or philosophical nature: love, beauty, peace, kindness, friendship, cooperation, faith, prayer, forgiveness, etc.  I wish also that there were T-shirts and kitchen, towels with my Decide to exhortations: Decide to be happy, decide to be peaceful, decide to forgive, etc.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
We must say yes to life, always and unreservedly.  What could be better?  It is such an incredible gift.

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Photo Credit: Dave ToussaintLocation: near Wrightwood, CA
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
-- Victor Hugo

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[GMW #2117] Put A Halt To Destruction Of Earth By Governments And Big Business



[GMW #2117] Put A Halt To Destruction Of Earth By Governments And Big Business
Wednesday 29 December 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1325 ~    25 February 1998

I wish sometimes that all indigenous people, peasants and poor people of the world would create a world party to put a halt to the destruction of the Earth by governments and big business.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
Be a good gardener of your life:  have a green life thumb.
Be a good goldsmith of your life:  make it a jewel, develop a golden life thumb.

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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
-- Ursula Le Guin

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