Wednesday, September 18, 2013

[GMW #2812] Spend Vastly More On Health Of Earth, Nature, World Organizations, Peace


[GMW #2812] Spend Vastly More On Health Of Earth, Nature, World Organizations, Peace Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3207 ~   

Humans should devote as much care and resources to the health of our Earth, of the world's nature, to world organizations, to conflict resolution and solution, to peace and non-violence as they are now spending on health.

Part or all of the 800 billion dollars of military armaments expenditures should be directed to the urgent human social and Earth needs we are facing today.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 Of Gratitude
We must open ourselves to every potential,
to everything we can be,
to the vast world out there,
to the heavens, to God and to eternity.
To be the vastest, the longest, the greatest,
the fullest living being in the universe,
serenely and gratefully, that should be our purpose.
*

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Don Henderson | San Luis Obispo County, CA

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
~ Stendhal


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[GMW #2811] A Peace Education Department At The United Nations (& Each Country & City)


[GMW #2811] A Peace Education Department At The United Nations (& Each Country & City) Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3206 ~   

I love these ideas of Cora Weiss, President of the Hague Appeal for Peace, in her speech to the Millennium Forum held at the United Nations on 22 May 2000:

1. Create an International Disarmament Organization
2. Give life to the Military Staff Committee foreseen in Chapter 7, Article 47 of the United Nations Charter
3. Re-open the United Nations Peace Education Unit.  I would even recommend that it should be a major United Nations department.  The UN University for Peace could become it.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 Of Gratitude
During the war, I often heard my father exclaim:
"I promise to God that when this war is over, I will never complain again as long as I live."  But he did not keep his promise.  He was only human.
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Imagine all the people living life in peace.
~ John Lennon


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[GMW #2810] Planet Wide Dreams & Ideas Nurturing Fulfillment Of Humanity & Nature



[GMW #2810] Planet Wide Dreams & Ideas Nurturing Fulfillment Of Humanity & Nature
Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3205 ~   

I do not know why to produce endlessly more and more goods and services continues to be a fundamental aim and principle of the western world and life on this planet.

In the poor countries the first priority is still to live or not to live, but it is no longer in the rich countries.  There happiness should be the principal objective but it is achieved all too often at the expense of nature.

We should set up a list or inventory of human ideals and dreams expressed all over the planet.  It might open the door to new higher ways of fulfillment of humanity on a well-preserved planet.  Why not a new science of dreams or dreamology and an ideaology?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 Of Gratitude
To say thank you is not enough.  To do good is the real thanks.
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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world."

~ Anne Frank


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Sunday, September 15, 2013

[GMW #2809] Idea & Dream Boxes For Our Earth & Humanity On Each Floor Of The United Nations


[GMW #2809] Idea & Dream Boxes For Our Earth & Humanity On Each Floor Of The United Nations Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3204 ~   

There should be idea boxes or ideas and dream boxes on each floor of the United Nations and of its specialized agencies, regional offices and country offices.  The ideas and dreams of the first world officials on this planet might be of great value and effect for our Earth and for humanity.

When I said this to my wife Barbara she commented: "They have idea boxes in practically all multinational corporations.  Your idea of dream boxes is even better."  I exclaimed: "If the heads of the UN and specialized agencies learn that there are such boxes in the multinational corporations perhaps my idea will be implemented."

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 Of Gratitude
Being old, and losing my eyesight, I might say:
"O God, why do you take away my eyesight?"
Or:
"Dear God, thank you for having allowed me to see so well for so many years."
*

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Steve Whiston, Fallen Log Photography | Torres Del Paine National Park, Chile

"All my life through,
the new sights of nature
made me rejoice like a child."
~ Marie Curie


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[GMW #2808] Turning Point Words Changing People In Favor Of Earth & Nature


[GMW #2808] Turning Point Words Changing People In Favor Of Earth & Nature Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3203 ~   

We have plenty of current words for changing the Earth and nature in our favor: e.g. economic growth, development, construction, production, income, profit, gain, valuation, capital, etc. and also names for the professionals who do it: economists, businessmen, developers, bankers, architects, constructors, etc.

But seeing a dozen yellow bulldozers at rest during a Saturday and Sunday across from my wife's house in Santa Barbara, destroying during the remainder of the week a whole hill to build mansions, I wondered what the word bulldozer and bulldoze means and I read in the Webster Dictionary: bulldoze, to bully, to move, clear or level off by pushing with a bulldozer; to force insensitively or ruthlessly; bulldozer, a tractor driven machine having a broad, blunt, horizontal blade or ram for clearing land, road building and comparable activities.

The Earth spoke to me at that point:
"Dear Robert, the words "to force insensitively or ruthlessly" are correct.  Their operators never think of what they do to me, that by "clearing" land and roads and many other "building activities" they progressively, inexorably destroy me.  Will they ever stop in your economic system?  I don't believe they can.  You better review all these words which illustrate values and ideals which are becoming wronger and wronger in your over-producing, over-consuming and over-populating world.  The situation has fundamentally changed.  There is now a turning point in the evolution of this planet in which I am progressively being destroyed and together with me most other species, living beings, vegetation and humans too."

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 Of Gratitude
At least once in a while, if not often we should thank every organ of our body, our heart, our brain, our lungs, the trillions of little cells who faithfully, day and night, give us such wonderful service.  They need, they are thirsty of some encouragement to function well and not to fall sick or give up. Gratitude might be a very important factor of good health.  Why not try it.  It is so simple.
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WORD FOR THE DAY
Happiness is not what makes us grateful.
It is gratefulness that makes us happy.
~ David Steindl-Rast
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

[GMW #2807] Global Ethics In An Earth Charter Is Essential - The Separation Of Humans From Earth Is An Error


[GMW #2807] Global Ethics In An Earth Charter Is Essential - The Separation Of Humans From Earth Is An Error Idea Dream -Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3202 ~
I read in the plane from Costa Rica to Los Angeles a speach I delivered in 1978 at a meeting of the Audubon Society and Sierra Club on 'A Knot In Time. - We Are Traversing an Extraordinary Moment of Evolution', a Real Knot In Time, a Singular Hinge Between All the Past and All the Future of our Planet.

Among other things I said:

The number, complexity and significance of scientific, technological, economic, social and ecological interdependencies on planet Earth are so great that the subject would warrant being a new discipline, a science of interdependencies or total Earth science.  Separate notions such as technology, economics, social science, ecology, political science are losing much of their distinctness.  The separation of man from the Earth is also an error.  Humans are part and product of the Earth and her evolution.  A comprehensive scientific and ethical approach is needed which will help maximize the physical, mental, affective and spiritual fulfillment of humans, present and future, within inherited conditions and the further evolution of our planet henceforth dominated by the human race.  We are still far from such a concept of planetary science and ethics but several major elements have been pressing in this direction of late.

Well, a quarter of a century later not very much has changed: we have now the beginning of a planetary science called biosphere science, the sphere of life, but not yet of a total Earth science including the biosphere, and we are still far away from a global ethics.  The first serious step is the Earth Charter drafted by the Earth Council and being circulated in 2000 to all governments  (see its text in Annex of Volume VI).

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 Of Gratitude
Suppose humanity lost its eyesight or its hearing, speaking, thinking or loving capacity?  Would it not be a catastrophe?  Shouldn't we therefore be grateful for being endowed with these stupendous senses and capacities?  Is "stupendous" too strong?  Well, think how you would feel, if you lost a single one of them!
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Erik R Walker | Big Bend National Park, TX

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche



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