Thursday, June 7, 2012

[GMW #2498] Co-creating Earth By Correcting Past Great Errors Of Capitalism, Religions, Nations



[GMW #2498] Co-creating Earth By Correcting Past Great Errors Of Capitalism, Religions, Nations
Tuesday 10 July 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1101 ~ 16
July 1997 Part 1

Some of the great errors of our time were these:

- humanity rushed into economics, changing our home before ecology, the knowledge of that home;
- we accepted capitalism as the dominant ideal of the human society and not the environment or love and preservation of our Earth;
- we let business globalize itself and become the master of the world and of our lives, while governments, the entrusted defenders of justice, of the poor and the downtrodden did not globalize themselves and even became the servant of business;
- and religions did not globalize themselves at all.

These errors were not basically wanted:

- capitalism did wonders for humanity at the beginning when the world population was small and the resources of the Earth were unexploited and seemingly unlimited;

- governments were still in the era of consolidating nations recently born from ethnic groups fighting each other;

- religions still believed that their truths were absolute, immortal and meant to spread to the entire world.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 13 - Of Speaking
Only a cosmic or heavenly approach, i.e., a correct view of our place in the universe and in time can help us find our right attitude and feelings towards life, our planet, our fellow humans and ourselves.

Life then appears as a true miracle, a tremendous gift of cosmic consciousness, a fabulous glimpse into the incredible, fathomless universe, an opportunity to be co-Creators with God and evolution.  Yes, it is an immense luck to be alive.
*

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

WORD FOR THE DAY
I am, therefore I thank.
-- Cindy Lubar Bishop

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

[GMW #2497] Peace Occurs Within Every Aspect Of Government




[GMW #2497] Peace Occurs Within Every Aspect Of Government
   Monday 9 July 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ From ANNEX After Ideas 1001 - 1100 ~
16 July 1997 - Part 2

Ministries Of Peace - A Proposal By Generals For Peace Read the full article at this link:
http://goodmorning-world.blogspot.com/2012/06/ministries-of-peace-proposal-by.html

The Minister of Peace presents an overview of the past five years.  They dwell, with a certain wry humor yet also with understanding, on the difficulties that had lain in the way in the establishing a new Ministry which had been accorded a status somewhat higher than other departments in that the issue of peace occurs within every aspect of government.  The Minister therefore has the lead task of taking a holistic view and making clear how all aspects of government are interconnected.  Having made this clear beyond all dispute, other Ministers or Heads of Department are invited to make their individual presentations.  One interesting development has been the development of a departmental ethic, taking up the challenge of the World Parliament of Religions in 1993, urging the major professions to adopt their equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 13 - Of Speaking

Two of the most important events in my life were circumstances when I had nothing to do.  In 1946, after the war I was once sitting in a very slow train without any passengers and without anything to do or to read, not even a newspaper or a book.  I then remembered the announcement at the University of Strasbourg of a prize offered by the United Nations Association of France to the student who would write the best essay on world government.  I thought that this was addressed to me, composed it in my mind and typed it when I arrived home.  It won the prize which opened to me the doors of the United Nations!

In 1964, during a UN conference in India, I was sitting in a bus to Agra in the evening, without lights, for several hours.  I remembered a beautiful Hindu girl dressed in a magnificent Saree I had seen at a Rest House where we had been served tea.  Having nothing to do, I dreamt that I interrupted my trip, stayed at the Rest House, fell in love with her and married her.  I wrote a novel, Sima, Mon Amour, (Sima, My Love), which was published and received a French literary prize and opened to me the doors as a writer.
*


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Heart Math
"When you arise in the morning,
think of what a precious privilege
it is to be alive -
to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
-- Marcus Aurelius

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[GMW #2496] Generals For Peace



[GMW #2496] Generals For Peace
   Friday 6 July 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ From ANNEX After Ideas 1001 - 1100 ~
16 July 1997 - Part 1

Ministries Of Peace - A Proposal By Generals For Peace Read the full article at this link:
http://goodmorning-world.blogspot.com/2012/06/ministries-of-peace-proposal-by.html

The time is set in the year 2000, five years after the 50th  anniversary celebrations of the United Nations.  These five years have been a crucial awareness that the old international order must be changed.  During the 1990's, two important documents had been prepared by the UN: AGENDA 21, following the 1992 conference on environment and development at Rio de Janeiro, and Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali's AGENDA FOR PEACE.

The chaos that was evident in Rwanda, Somalia and former Yugoslavia, when politicians rode roughshod over the separate principles of peacekeeping and peace enforcement, muddling them, depriving commanders on the ground of essential personnel, equipment and guidelines, eventually aroused public opinion to the extent that governments were forced to rethink the principles of government – locally and globally.

The most significant development was the establishment of Ministries of Peace.  It was a logical step from the earlier renaming of Ministries of War to Ministries of Defense.  It was not achieved without much protestation from the Old Establishment; but it was achieved.

This simulation is therefore located at a historic time in human history – the beginning of a new millennium, looking back on the suffering of the 20th century, but also its achievements in freeing the human spirit.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 13 - Of Speaking
Decide to Speak

Use well this greatest gift of God
Speak clearly, beautifully, convincingly

Put all your heart, mind and soul in what you say
Make any conversation, talk or speech
A magnificent fruit of your life

Elevate, inspire, render happy
those who listen to you

Make them proud to be human
And to carry your message to others

Let God and the universe speak through you

Be always elevated, in company of God
When you speak

Nourish your words with prior silence,
reflection, heart and spirituality

Know that you are representing God, the universe
and our beautiful Mother Earth

Let your preferred saint and angel
Inspire you

Feel yourself intensely, lovingly
Feel how the universe speaks
Through you
Listen to it while your speak

And you will be recompensed
By untold happiness

Your words will never be lost
In all eternity.
*

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Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.


Heart Math
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
-- Helen Keller

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[GMW #2495] Primeval Forest Conservation - Oxygen By The Poor For The Rich



[GMW #2495] Primeval Forest Conservation - Oxygen By The Poor For The Rich    
Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1100 ~
15 July 1997

My idea 620 has received the beginning of a modest implementation: during his recent visit to Costa Rica, President Clinton offered US aid for the conservation of primeval forests in that country.  It is a program which could be called, "oxygen by the poor for the rich".  As a result the Costa Rican Parliament is now considering a legislation which would give 10,000 colones (about forty dollars) per hectare (2.5 acres) of primeval forests which are conserved by private owners.  A good little first step.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 13 - Of Speaking
I will repeat and repeat with all my mind, heart and soul what I have to say again and again until nations and all institutions on Earth will work harder for the good of all humanity and of the Earth.
*

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



Photo by Forrest Stanley. Location: Sequoia National Park, CA.

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise L. Hay
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[GMW #2494] Simplicity And Frugality Of Governments



[GMW #2494] Simplicity And Frugality Of Governments
Wednesday 4 July 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1099 ~
14 July 1997

I attended today the reception by the Embassy of France for the celebration of the French Revolution on 14 July 1789.  I went there only because the Ambassador was new and I left him a documentation and an invitation to visit the University for Peace where we will try to convince him to get France to ratify that University.  I was shocked by the lavish party for the local diplomats and Costa Rican high officials.  A party like that costs money which would have fed several hundreds of poor children.  And I was reminded of one of my favorite subjects: the need for the publication of a world budget showing the expenditures of all nations.  Just the cost of 185 countries giving parties to each other on their national holidays and other occasions would create a shock in world public opinion.

I was thinking also that if the young French revolutionaries who were celebrated were alive today they would blast the bottles of champagne against the walls because it is exactly against such practices of the powerful aristocracy of their time that they made the revolution.  What about simplicity and frugality of governments?  The UN and its 32 specialized world agencies should give the good example and suppress all receptions.  It will be the last reception I attend in my life.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 13 - Of Speaking
Sometimes during a speech I suddenly feel like crying.  The tears come to my eyes.  I cannot stop them.  And some people in the audience cry too.  I apologize and finish my speech by playing Beethoven's Ode to Joy on my ten-holes harmonica.  This and the tears they never forget.
*

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WORD FOR THE DAY
When we come upon beautiful things . . .
they act like small tears in the surface of the world that
pull us through to some vaster space.
-- Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just

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[GMW #2493] Multi Millionaires And Billionaires Repentance Come To Be Remembered As Peacemakers




[GMW #2493] Multi Millionaires And Billionaires Repentance Come To Be Remembered As Peacemakers
Tuesday 3 July 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1098 ~
13 July 1997

The same phenomenon will happen at the end of this century as happened at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, when industrialists and arms manufacturers like Alfred Nobel and Andrew Carnegie were seized by repentance and wanted their names to be remembered as peacemakers and created peace prizes or commissioned good thinkers to draft the statutes of a League of Nations or created foundations like the Rockefeller foundation:

Many multi millionaires and billionaires of today will seek ways to clear or immortalize their names by becoming philanthropists and gaiaphilists.  In anticipation of that I delivered already several speeches over the last few years on that subject.  To guide them I will reproduce my 1991 speech at the Second World Congress on Philanthropy in Miami as an Introduction to my next 100 ideas.  Its many specific ideas will provide them with guidance beneficial to all humanity and to the Earth.*

* My friend Ted Turner whom I acquainted with the United Nations many years ago has opened this new page by announcing on 28 September 1997 his decision to donate 1 billion dollars to United Nations humanitarian programs over the next five years.  Thank you, dear Ted.  You are showing the lead and follow the recommendation in my Miami speech on global philanthropy through the United Nations and its agencies which have the widest beneficial effects, give the donors maximum world recognition and visibility and receive the smallest percentage of world philanthropic aid.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 13 - Of Speaking

O, God, help us to reach far beyond what we are saying.  Isn't it possible to unlock the ultimate mystery, to hear You speak?
*


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You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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[GMW #2492] Peaceful Ways With NATO and SEATO Integrated Into A World Security System



[GMW #2492] Peaceful Ways With NATO and SEATO Integrated Into A World Security System
  Monday 2 July 2012, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500
~ Idea 1096 ~
11 July 1997

The Romans had the lapidary statement:

Carthago delendum est
Carthage must be deleted (destroyed)

I have this lapidary statement:

NATO delendum est
NATO must be deleted (destroyed)

A peaceful way of doing that would be to integrate NATO and SEATO into a UN World Security System (see idea 499).

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 13 - Of Speaking
O God, grant me many more years to sing and celebrate the greatness of Your Creation, of the miracle of human life and of our miraculous Earth.
*

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You must pass your days in song.
Let your whole life be a song.
-- Sai Baba
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