Monday, October 24, 2016

[GMW #3755] Holy Merchants Are Most Needed Inspired To Pray And Thank God For Their Blessings


[GMW #3755] Holy Merchants Are Most Needed Inspired To Pray And Thank God For Their Blessings Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4150 ~
Since most churches and temples of the world are most of the time empty here is a suggestion to fill them: allow supermarkets to be built or get installed in them and soon they will be filled by buyers. Some buyers might even be inspired to pray and thank God for their blessings. The parishes would receive rent payments from the shopkeepers and the merchants using the church. It is true that Jesus threw the merchants out of the temple. Perhaps there was already a precedent at his time.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living
Volume III - The Seasons of Life   d
Chapter 7 - Return To Mother Earth
Cousin Marthe's adaptation to her new condition was slow at first. She suffered three more attacks and hospitalizations. But progressively she found her good old self again, and today one can hear her once again exclaim in a cascade of laughter: "Heart attack?  What heart attack?  I have seen much worse than that in my life. My heart will just be another anatomical curiosity for the students, since it is now equipped with a pacemaker.  They are going to have some fun finding all the hardware located in me, I assure you! I have resumed my normal life and have erased the whole affair from my mind. The time is not yet ripe for the devil to catch me. Death may strike at any moment. We all have to go sooner or later. But I am going to resist it as long as I can.  I am just not going to give in; no sir!" And I looked at her in utter amazement.  Her aged, heavy, over-weight, battered, cut-up, patched-up body seems to have wings and to be animated by the spirit of a young girl who has just discovered the beauty and joys of life. Her blue, irradiating eyes are full of sunshine, flowers, and stars.  She seems to have caught a piece of paradise on Earth, of cosmic origin, of the cause of eternal life and resurrection. If this can be true of an individual, it can also apply to humanity. Social groups are living entities. They require a brain, a heart, a nervous system, a will to live, an objective, a dream, an ideal.  What we need most at this juncture of evolution is leaders with vision, with eyes full of peace, goodness, and a beautiful future. Humanity needs common goals, lofty goals, joie de vivre, and a strong belief in a peaceful, wonderful future. The worst we could ever do would be to let go, to despair, and to lose control over ourselves. We need a Cousin Marthe at the helm of each government and of the world.  And they should all work for the achievement of paradise on Earth.
*

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

Daily Ray of Hope --
                        Gargantua Harbour is located within the Lake
                        Superior Provincial Park, between Sault Ste.
                        Marie and Wawa, Ontario --
Photo by Brian Gardner | Gargantua Harbour is located within the Lake Superior Provincial Park, between Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa, Ontario

The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.

Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage

To look up and out upon me,
the Rock, the River, the Tree,
your country.
~ Maya Angelou

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[GMW #3754] Children With Nothing To Do Can Do Some Of The 7000 Ideas And Dreams For A Better World


[GMW #3754] Children With Nothing To Do Can Do Some Of The 7000 Ideas And Dreams For A Better World Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4149 ~
If your children tell you that there is nothing to do on this planet ask them to go to a public library and consult my nine volumes of 4000 (Over 7000) Ideas and Dreams for a Better World and the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potentials published by the Union of International Associations in Brussels at my suggestion. It describes 12,203 world problems.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 6 - The Rich Age
The sage has discovered his nature, your nature and the common nature of all humans. The sage shows you with a smile and a few words how to be most happily, most fully yourself.
*

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

Daily Ray of Hope --
                        East of El Capitan before the 4 Mile Trail on
                        the bank of the Merced River, Yosemite National
                        Park, California --
Photo by Samir | East of El Capitan before the 4 Mile Trail on the bank of the Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California

Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth
find reserves of strength that will
endure as long as life lasts.
~ Rachel Carson

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[GMW #3753] For The Future Of The Earth And Humanity Convene A World Conference


[GMW #3753] For The Future Of The Earth And Humanity Convene A World Conference Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4148 ~
Letters to Sweden Dear Mr. Ambassador,

Mr. John McConnell, a dear friend for many years, called me to underline again the importance of Earth Day of which he was the father. In our conversation I mentioned to him that he should not be too unhappy because substantial progress has been achieved since Sweden's initiatives in 1968 for the holding of UNESCO's world conference on the biosphere and the first UN conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972. I thought that I should send him a copy of a letter to the Ambassador of Sweden in 1994. He asked me to send you a copy too, which I am doing herewith.

Santa Barbara, 9 July 2001

In my 4000 Ideas and Dreams for a Better World I often give Sweden as a model country, for example the agreement of the government with Swedish toy manufacturers not to produce war toys, and the prohibition of advertisements addressed to children below a certain age.

If you have more such examples I would be happy to report them in the next volumes.

Ambassador Lars-Goran Engfeldt Ministry of the Environment Sweden

Dear Mr. Ambassador,
I send you my very warmest greetings
Robert Muller Former UN Assistant Secretary General
Co-founder of the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica

Santa Barbara, 11 July 2001

I take pleasure in sending you pages 90 to 91, Volume VI, from my 4000 Ideas and Dreams for a Better World, mentioned in my earlier fax to you. I add two more ideas in which Sweden which has been in the foreground of caring for the Earth might take an interest.

Combined, the idea would be to obtain the convening of a World Conference on the Future of the Earth and of Humanity to the Year 3000. It would be a great historic event with profound effects on what will happen on this planet in the years and centuries to come.

We absolutely must take a long term view of the future, to avoid potentially irreversible, negative events. We owe it to the next generation. Ambassador Lars-Goran Engfeldt Ministry of the Environment Sweden

Yours sincerely, Robert Muller

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 6 - The Rich Age
The role of grandparents in the development of children and transmission of the wisdom of life, especially through story-telling, is of paramount importance.

Some of the greatest lessons in my life I received from my only grandparent alive, my grandfather the hat maker.

Today, many more children have the benefit of their grandparents, due to increased longevity.  They should be happy and grateful and take full advantage of it.

A grandparent is alive and a blessing. Television is not.
*

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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

WORD FOR THE DAY
No matter what accomplishments you achieve,
somebody helps you.
~ Althea Gibson

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[GMW #3752] Convene A Wisdom Summit For Creating A New Global Dream


[GMW #3752] Convene A Wisdom Summit For Creating A New Global Dream  Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4147 ~
Letter to the Mayor of San Francisco - Dear Mr. Mayor, May I recommend to you that the city of San Francisco, the birthplace of the United Nations, convene at the beginning of this new millennium a Wisdom Summit on Creating a New Global Dream for the World, a title suggested by Mrs. Lola Kristof in a conversation during the recent first San Francisco Peoples' Assembly, on 29 June - 1 July 2001.

1. the heads of states General Assembly of the UN in 2000 which was supposed "to focus on means to solve our primary global problems and to reform the means of global governance in order to meet the challenges of the 21st century" did not come up with any proposals or initiatives;

2. Maurice Strong who was Secretary General of the two UN world conferences on the Environment in 1972 and 1992 is so concerned that he has come out with a book Where on Earth Are We Going, in which he predicts that within the next thirty years planet Earth will go to pieces;

3. In a recent study 600,000 middle and high school students across the US were asked if they thought the world would be a better place thirty years from now. Only 1% replied yes. When asked if they wanted it to be better thirty years from now, almost all replied yes; Santa Barbara, 9 July 2001

4. Have a glance also at the complaints of the Earth at the beginning of a speech of mine, excerpts sent herewith.* There exists an avalanche of similar views and preoccupations all around the world. Since no hope, light, plans and dreams come from governments, it would be wonderful if one of the great visionary cities of the world, San Francisco, the birthplace of the United Nations, would give the world reasons for hope by convening a Wisdom Summit of the best brains, thinkers and dreamers of your country. The US has given its dreams several times to the world, with the plans for the League of Nations, the Marshall Plan, the creation of the United Nations and others. The world is expecting a great new dream from the US for humanity and the whole world. That dream could come from the great inspiring city of San Francisco. The first ideas for such a Summit should come from you. If you desire I would be happy to give you my views too after a lifetime of service with the United Nations since the end of World War II. I wish you a great meeting with inspiring Mrs. Lola Kristof who is the mother of the idea of a World Wisdom Summit. Mr. Willy Brown Mayor of the City of San Francisco Yours very warmly, Robert Muller Former UN Assistant Secretary General Life-long Honorary President of the Global Peoples' Assembly *Pages 142-144 of Volume IV of 4000 Ideas and Dreams for a Better World.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 6 - The Rich Age
She listened attentively, remained silent for a while, and then commented:
"My mind has been functioning at high gear while you spoke. I believe your friend is right, and I will give you a proof of it.

Do you know when exactly I had my heart attack?  It was on the anniversary date of the death of my husband.  I was sitting here in the kitchen all day long alone, crying my soul out, and lamenting about the beautiful bygone days. I just let go. Life had no meaning for me anymore. It was worthless, purposeless. I had no reason to go on living and fighting.  Living for what?  For me alone?  Well, at ten o'clock in the evening after several hours of such treatment, I suffered my heart attack and was taken to the hospital.

What happened to me proves the correctness of your friend's theory."

ANNEX
An Example - My Friends Theory


In the 1970's, when we were stationed at the UN in New York I learned from a friend who is a neurologist that the human brain is the last organ of the body to age: It becomes apparently more effective or 'younger' over most of a person's lifetime, as it creates ever more diversified and finer chains of neurons.  The human brain is an admirable, incredibly complex computer capable of branching out inwardly and of refining endlessly its capacity to store information, synthesize, summarize, conclude, and give with lightening speed instructions to the billions of cells and parts which compose the human body  But the brain 'grows' only as long as it is stimulated by the will, imagination, drive, or curiosity of the individual.  Once the stimulus disappears, neurons stop growing.  They atrophy and the brain loses its effectiveness as the central command unit of the human being.  Disruptions and malfunctions appear in the form of all kinds of physical and psychological ills.  Death not infrequently occurs after an individual has lost his will for life or basic drive.  This often happens when a person retires from a very active life and is confronted with idleness and a lack of objectives.  Indeed, why should a life continue if there is no will for it?

What I had learned might have subsided from my mind after a while, had I not been given shortly thereafter a vivid illustration of its truth.

We were visiting in Danbury, Connecticut, a cousin of mine from Alsace-Lorraine, Marthe Bogen, who had immigrated after the war with her husband and child to the United States.  My cousin Marthe is one of those extraordinary persons I have known in my life.  Few people in this world have gone through the amount of torment and miseries she and her family have suffered.  Her stories would fill a sizable volume.  Nevertheless, she has always remained the happiest and most optimistic person on Earth.  Her happiness engenders a tonic aureole all around her and accounts for the innumerable friends she has.  One spends a few minutes with her and life becomes beautiful, cheerful, bouncing, exciting, full of interesting stories, and laughter.  She irradiates a joie de vivre  that catches everyone who comes near her.  And of course people seek her friendship in order to benefit from this tonicity.  She is quite capable of stating in a great outburst of laughter:

"Do you know the latest news?  I have decided to donate my body to a medical school so that scientists and students may figure out by what miracle I have survived for more than seventy years with one lung, one eye, one kidney, an artificial hip, several sectioned nerves, and a host of other lesser defects.  They are going to have some fun with me on the dissecting table, believe me!"

We were therefore utterly dismayed when we learned one day that she had suffered a heart attack.  But she recovered soon and after her release from the hospital she invited us to her house in order to celebrate.  At coffee time, I told her of my friend's theory, for it seemed to me that her whole life was a living proof of it, except for her recent heart attack.
*

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Daily Ray of Hope
-- San Simeon,
        California --
Photo by Pamela Link | San Simeon, California

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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[GMW #3751] Create A Proper World Security System And Disarm The Planet


[GMW #3751] Create A Proper World Security System And Disarm The Planet Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4146 ~
Since the five big powers of the UN Security Council do not want the Military Staff Committee to meet in order to design a proper world security system and then disarm the planet as foreseen in the UN Charter, I recommend that all other nations of the world convene the heads of their armies in order to propose and create a world security system of their own. It would perhaps induce the veto powers to join such a conference or to convene the Military Staff Committee, as recommended in the UN Charter. It is high time to try it.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 6 - The Rich Age

Decide to be
a Very Happy Elderly Person...

who has reached
the highpoint of human life:
    the age of wisdom
    the age of reflection
    the age of recollections
    the age of transmission
    the age of story-telling

To be a building block
of the world of tomorrow,
a wise contributor to humanity's
    global brain, global heart
    and global soul

You are a treasure house of
human experience and wisdom

May God bless you and
when the time comes, receive
you with love in God's arms and use
you as one of God's latest
saints and heavenly angels.
*

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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

WORD FOR THE DAY
If you want to build a ship,
don't herd people together to collect wood and
don't assign them tasks and work but rather,
teach them to long for the endless
immensity of the sea.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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