Tuesday, January 8, 2013

[GMW #2635] Moving Back To The Land For A Happier Planet


[GMW #2635] Moving Back To The Land For A Happier Planet Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3032 ~   

It is so good in the early morning to take care of nature, her plants and animals, to have the feeling to be of service.  It is much better than to read newspapers.  That is why peasants and people living in nature are happier than city dwellers.  The more people will move back to the land the more happy people there will be on this planet.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
Forget any adversity, past, present or future.  It will only poison your life.  Or consider it with sympathy, look it right into the face and determine the good and the lessons you can derive from it.
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Forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet and
the winds long to play with your hair.
-- Kahlil Gibran


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[GMW #2634] Like The Saints - Ask What Good Will I Do Today?


[GMW #2634] Like The Saints - Ask What Good Will I Do Today? Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3031 ~   

I always dreamt that St. Francis and St. Claire would be declared saints of the United Nations.  I recommended it to Pope John Paul II.  At least I obtained the following blessing for the UN University for Peace:

The Franciscans International decided to erect a beautiful prayer place and bust of the saint in the gardens of the University for Peace.  The event was in honor of the common ideals of St. Francis and of the University: peace, love for God's nature and simple and frugal lives, not to tax unduly our Mother Earth.

On 11 March 2000 the Franciscans held a celebration and a Mass for the bimillennium at that shrine.  It happened to be also my birthday, the reaching of the age of seventy-seven.  At that ceremony I expressed these dreams:

- that in this new millennium every country will celebrate a saint, a noble woman or man who left behind a great inspirational model of life and a message of elevation and hope for all humanity;

- that in many places on Earth church bells, gongs and muezzins will announce again everyday the resurrection of light and day;

- that radio and television programs around the world will start each day with a sacred song e.g. the Ave Maria by Gounod or the Ode to Joy by Beethoven, as thanks to God for the miracle of life;

- that all humans, be they heads of states, artists, religious leaders, business people, educators, scientists, fathers and mothers will ask themselves the question: what good will I do today?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
Weed out of your life carefully all bad elements.  If not, they will proliferate and smother the good ones.
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Byron R. Chin | San Ramon, CA

"Each day provides its own gifts."
-- Marcus Aurelius


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[GMW #2633] Live Memorial Messages Of Hope And Resurection


[GMW #2633] Live Memorial Messages Of Hope And Resurection Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3030 ~   

We celebrate today a memorial to Ruth Schneider, a remarkable woman who died recently after a life of great achievements and inspiration to many people.  The event will take place on the terrace of Rasur, the God of the indigenous children who appeared to them and prophecized that from his hill a civilization of peace will extend to the entire world.  That was the goal of all her life. 

I am wide awake thinking of Teilhard de Chardin who wanted a Mass of Resurrection in white at his death and the playing at it of the Ode to Joy by Beethoven and I had to fulfill the same wish for Father Emanuel de Breuvery, his Jesuit companion and my director at the United Nations, when he died.  I was thinking of my wishes for my death.  They were the same.  I imagined the same memorial on this terrace and decided to dictate on tape my message of hope and resurrection for that ceremony.  I then discovered that I had done it already: the tape is called Passion for Life.  How moving it would be to hear Ruth Schneider's message today instead of only testimonies of those who knew and loved her.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
Like a wanderer in nature
Love the paths of your life
there is so much beauty to see
so much music to hear
so many flowers to smell
so many thoughts to be thought
so much love to give
so much divinity to be felt.
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WORD FOR THE DAY
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive.
--Eleanora Duse


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Monday, January 7, 2013

[GMW #2632] Establishing Human & Nature's Rights For Future Generations


[GMW #2632] Establishing Human & Nature's Rights For Future Generations Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3029 ~   

The general conference of UNESCO deserves congratulations for opening a new chapter of human rights:  the rights of future generations.  It is circulating a Draft Declaration of the Responsibilities of the present generation towards future generations.  It provides for the safeguarding of vital aspects of life and well-being of future generations including "freedom of choice in political, economic, social, cultural and religious matters; maintenance and perpetuation of humankind and life on Earth; protection of the environment, bio-diversity, the human genome and the common heritage of humankind; preservation of cultural diversity and heritage, peace development, education and non-discrimination".

I hope that these human rights of our descendants will be given high priority on the agenda of world affairs.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
Collect, produce your own coffer of pearls filled with happiness.  This is what I have done with my life.  And I have reaped untold joys.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to people as it is -- infinite.
-- William Blake

Landfill Harmonic: An Orchestra Like No Other

A cello made from an oil can and pieces of wood thrown in the garbage; a saxophone made of spoons and buttons. These are the instruments crafted by Nicolas, a recycler with no previous experience making musical instruments, living hand-to-mouth by the garbage dump in Catuera, Paraguay.

Inspired by this initiative and creativity, Maestro Luis Szaran, director of "Sounds of the Earth," formed a "recycled orchestra" with children living at the dump. "Our main goal isn't to form good musicians, but to form good citizens."

Now 30 members strong, listen to the breathtaking sounds of these recycled instruments and the hopes and dreams of the children who play them. { read more and watch the film }


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[GMW #2630] Universal Duty Of Nations To Solve Conflicts Only With Peaceful Means


[GMW #2630] Universal Duty Of Nations To Solve Conflicts Only With Peaceful Means Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3027 ~   

In Ideas 301, 418, 1214 and 1785 I speak and reproduce some of several declarations of human duties and responsibilities known to me.  I think that a Universal Declaration of Duties and Responsibilities should now be drafted and adopted by the United Nations as was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1949 which had a deep impact on human history since then.

Two duties should be considered in such a declaration:

- the duty of nations to solve conflicts exclusively with peaceful means and not to train and force their citizens to kill other human beings in wars.

- the duties of nations not to keep stockpiles of nuclear arms, the use or accidental activation of which would kill innumerable humans and destroy vast segments of our vital nature.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness

Work on your internal life and radiate your happiness externally.
Work on your external life and enrich your internal happiness.
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WORD FOR THE DAY
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating.
The paths are not to be found, but made.
And the activity of making them
changes both the maker and their destination.
-- John Schaar


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[GMW #2629] Volunteer World Servants Nurturing A Better World


[GMW #2629] Volunteer World Servants Nurturing A Better World Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3026 ~   

My example and that of a number of other retired world servants of the UN and of International Organizations who donate their services to new ventures like the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica has given birth to this wonderful idea: Maurice Strong, the new President of the University for Peace intends to create near the university a Village of Peace for retired world servants who would continue to work for peace and a better world part-time or full-time with or without salary.

Maurice Strong also intends to create near the University for Peace a World Center for Inner Peace, another wonderful idea.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II  Chapter2  Of Happiness
When Norman Cousins wrote the Preface of my book on happiness, he became fascinated with the effects of happiness on health.  Today the subject is being seriously studied at Harvard University where they discovered and proved scientifically that the decision to feel happy has very beneficial effects on the whole body.  At long last, science is looking into a fundamental recipe, known to every mother, peasant and indigenous people on Earth.
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Edison Farmer | Louisville, KY

"The poetry of the earth is always alive."
-- John Keats


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