Wednesday, March 21, 2012

[GMW #2420] The Cost of Trash is More than Not Creating it in the First Place


[GMW #2420] The Cost of Trash is More than Not Creating it in the First Place
Thursday 22 March 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
Idea 1311 ~
11 February 1998
The time will soon come when the packaging of goods, the disposal of trash and the throwaway of so called obsolete goods will be more expensive than the production of all goods on Earth. And people should have no illusion: all this packaging, waste and throwaways are included in the price of their purchase. These new elements in the so-called "economic system" should be studied as a major factor of inflation, the constant increase of prices and costs of living.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 12 - Of Forgiveness
We see a straw in the eye of the neighbor but not the beam in our own eye.
French proverb
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Photo by Stanley Zimny. Location: Skylands Botanical Garden, NJ

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
-- Alfred Sisley

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Monday, March 19, 2012

[GMW #2419] Peace Education & Training is Less Costly & More Effective Than Military Education & Training


[GMW #2419] Peace Education & Training is Less Costly & More Effective Than Military Education & Training
Wednesday 21 March 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1310 ~
10 February 1998
I suggest to UNESCO to make a comparative survey of the costs of military education and training and peace education and training on this planet. The results would be eye openers.

It would show something similar to the statistic that there are:

556 militaries per 100,000 inhabitants of this planet.
85 doctors
1 world servant

What a poor image of our 20th century!

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
The best proof that we love ourselves is that we forgive ourselves so easily, while we forgive others so reluctantly. Don't our human brothers and sisters deserve the same willingness to be forgiven? It would be a much better world if we could practice equal readiness to forgive.

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Photo by Janet Tarbox. Location: Edgefield County, SC.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
-- Ivan Illich

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[GMW #2418] Global Cease-fire for an Entire Year


[GMW #2418] Global Cease-fire for an Entire Year
Tuesday 20 March 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1309 ~
9 February 1998
I applaud the plan of the United Religions Initiative for a Global Religious Cease-Fire on December 31, 1999. I even wish that it should be a Global Cease-fire for the entire year 2000. Nothing would please more Jesus in heaven and other great founders, leaders and prophets of religions.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Decide to be Thankful

Be thankful
Render others thankful
Start every day with overflowing
thanks to God

Be thankful for every moment
of your life
Never complain, never be bitter
or ungrateful

Switch on and keep on in you
the grateful buttons
those marked thanks, joy and love,
happiness, kindness, generosity

Make your entire being and life
a feast of thanksgiving
Rejoicing immensely and jubilantly
at the prodigy of life

Be the miracle God intended you to be

Thank God for your wonderful body,
mind, heart and soul
Thank God for our beautiful planet
for the stars and the sky
the mountains and seas
your human brethren and sisters
your friends the animals
your sisters the plants and flowers

Thank God for the seasons of your life
Repay God with your best deeds,
thoughts, feelings and prayers

And be convinced of your divine,
eternal, cosmic nature.
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HeartMath
"Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it."

- Rumi

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

[GMW #2417] World Consumers Agency


[GMW #2417] World Consumers Agency
Monday 19 March 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1308 ~
8 February 1998
The day will soon come when no one will be able to find a pound of sugar, or salt or flour in a food store. Marketing which is taught in Universities to the intelligentsia of young business people will make sure that everything is sold at higher prices in small packages, flasks and containers. Salt is being sold in small salt shakers with garlic taste, cinnamon taste and a whole series of other tastes. This is one more subject for the World Consumers Agency to tackle.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
In the end, it is all a question of joyful understanding and surrender to the greatness of God and His Creation.
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Daily Good
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ~~~~ Good News of the Day: "We have not yet learned to make use of our most civilizing capacities: the creativity and wisdom we all have as our birthright. When even one person comes into full possession of these capacities, our problems are shown in their true light: they are simply the results of avoidable -- though deadly -- errors of judgment. Gandhi formulated a series of diagnoses of the modern world's seemingly perpetual state of crisis, which he called 'the seven social sins.' I prefer to think of them as seven social ailments, since the problems they address are not crimes calling for punishment but crippling diseases that are punishment enough in themselves. The first -- and the one we will focus on here -- is knowledge without character. It traces all our difficulties to a simple lack of connection between what we know is good for us and our ability to act on that knowledge." The late Gandhian scholar Eknath Easwaran shares further. http://premiere.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=16A692D:7ABA61CC19AE219F26BA82C4B32266E7B4B847859706E37D& ~~~~ Be The Change: "I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. [...] I still believe that we shall overcome." An inspiring passage from MLK's Nobel acceptance speech. http://premiere.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=16A692E:7ABA61CC19AE219F26BA82C4B32266E7B4B847859706E37D&

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[GMW #2416] Replacing the Obsolete Earth-wide Sky-High Business Dream Turned Nightmare



[GMW #2416] Replacing the Obsolete Earth-wide Sky-High Business Dream Turned Nightmare
Friday 16 March 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1302 ~
2 February 1998
The communists must be happy that they got out of the power race and that the world crisis to come will not be attributable to them.

The US and its obsolete Earth-wide and sky-high business dream will have to bear the full responsibility of the nightmare.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
When I write early in the morning it is with an immense feeling of joy and love. To write is my form of prayer, of thanking God for His magnificent gift of life.

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y Elaine Richardson. Location: near Seward, AK.


Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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[GMW #2415] Save a Forest Each Month - Newspapers Print No More than One Page One Day Each Month


[GMW #2415] Save a Forest Each Month - Newspapers Print No More than One Page One Day Each Month
Thursday 15 March 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1297 ~
28 January 1998
All governments of the world should adopt a law that on at least one day each month the newspapers would not be allowed to have more than one page. This would save sizable forests in the world, diminish trash by huge amounts and provide more oxygen.

Which will be the first government to do it?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Sometimes when I see nature, people, cars, airplanes, buildings, I stop walking and I say to myself:
"What an incredible globe this is, turning at 1,666 kilometers per hour with so much life on it, with people standing on it, their heads pointing like antennae into all the directions of the universe, with leaves, plants, and algae avidly absorbing the sun's energy and giving us oxygen to breathe and nourishment. And to think that we are the only planet of our sun, and perhaps of the entire universe, to possess life!

How can we not stand in endless gratitude and awe before such a miracle?"
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Photo by Maciej Ciupa. Location: Yellowstone National Park, WY.


Daily Good
The idea that some lives matter less
is the root of all that's wrong with the world.
-- Paul Farmer

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[GMW #2414] World Ideas Bank & Network with Annual Reports of Ideas Implemented



[GMW #2414] World Ideas Bank & Network with Annual Reports of Ideas Implemented
Wednesday 14 March 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1292 ~
23 January 1998
I recommend that the UN should launch a World Ideas Bank or Network, starting with an Ideas Office at the UN and in each of its specialized agencies and world programs. Officials in those units would channel the good ideas received to the appropriate Departments or officials and keep a record of follow-up and implementation.

Each year a report on ideas received and their implementation would be submitted by the UN Secretary General and the heads of the agencies to member governments, to non-governmental organizations and to the people.

This idea could be launched by the World Peoples' Assembly 2000.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
De Gaulle wanted to give France the best chance in the world.
Robert Schuman wanted to give Europe the best chance in the world.
I want to give all humanity the best chance in the world.

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HeartMath

Joy is the holy fire
that keeps our purpose warm and
our intelligence aglow.
- Helen Keller

Robert Alan Silverstein posted on Facebook
"Use every letter you write, every conversation you have, every meeting you attend, to express your fundamental beliefs and dreams. 

Affirm to others the vision of the world you want. You are a free, immensely powerful source of life and goodness. 

Affirm it. Spread it. Radiate it. 

Think day and night about it and you will see a miracle happen: the greatness of your own life." 

-- Robert Muller, "Father of Global Education" , "Philosopher of the UN" and one of my most inspirational Better World Heroes was born on March 11, 1923. 

Be a hero for a Better World. 

We miss you Robert. 

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