Monday, October 9, 2017

[GMW #3867] A Vision, A Dream For The Whole Human Family That Nurtures Everyone

[GMW #3867] A Vision, A Dream For The Whole Human Family That Nurtures Everyone Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4262 ~
I have observed during my lifetime that it is difficult to hold together any human group for long if there is not a vision, an ideal, an objective, a dream.

To bind the human family together, to foster its further ascent, to prevent it from losing ground and falling into despair we must have a vision, a dream for the whole human family.

We will not be able to swim forever in the current sea of complexities if we are not shown a shore. Yes, let us create a United Humanity, a World Union, the United States of the World or the United Nature envisioned in my wife Barbara's book under that title.
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Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 7 - Return to Mother Earth
Each individual should be considered sacred until proven contrary.
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Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

Daily Ray of Hope
Alabama
                  Hills, Lone Pine, California
Photo by Steve Corey |  Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
~ Bernard Williams

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[GMW #3866] Live Well With Nature And Peacefully & Cooperatively With Each Other

[GMW #3866] Live Well With Nature And Peacefully & Cooperatively With Each Other Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4261 ~
As we enter the third millennium we must remember the two momentous questions put to us during the preceding two decades: - How are we going to deal with our environment? How will we manage it, survive and grow, develop in it without destroying certain vital conditions inherited from billions of years of evolution?

How will we manage to live peacefully and cooperatively among races, nations, cultures and so many other human groups and interests? In particular, will we be able to refrain from using the minute ready, life-annihilating nuclear arms developed by certain nations?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume III - The Seasons of Life
Chapter 7 - Return to Mother Earth
I often feel that our four qualities go in pairs:  body and mind are close relatives, and so are heart and soul.  The mind seems to be more at the service of the body while the heart seems to be mostly nurturing the soul.
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Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
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Put the principles of right human relations into practice each day. One reminder is from Buddhist teaching.

Only think, say and do that which is kind, helpful and true.
~ Michael Lindfield

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

[GMW #3865] Spirituality - A Fundamental Human Need

[GMW #3865] Spirituality - A Fundamental Human Need Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4260 ~
On the way to the first meeting of the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality I was reminded of this during my life:

From the moment I became interested in the spiritual dimension of life everything began to change.

I read Dag Hammarskjöld's Markings. I discovered that in the United Nations he had found God as the Master and that he had to interpret His will as the Secretary General of the UN.

I would have never thought that I would rediscover spirituality in the United Nations. Perhaps spirituality is such a fundamental human need that it always reappears in one form or another in life and history and that we might be on the eve of a World Spiritual Renaissance.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation
Chapter 5 - The Miracle of Individual Life

Seen in the context of the four infinites, human life becomes a tremendous privilege, a gift, a miracle of the highest order in the universe.  The Hindus are probably right when they say that we must be good people in order not to fall back into darkness or into lower life forms endowed with dimmer perceptions.  This truth is dawning ever more clearly upon us.  It should receive a modern, scientific formulation and be part of education.
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To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

Daily Ray of Hope
Seljalandsfoss, Iceland
Photo by Andrew Mills, www.a-mills.com |  Seljalandsfoss, Iceland
To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and
in the same fields, it beholds, every hour,
a picture which was never seen before, and
which shall never be seen again.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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[GMW #3864] The United States Of The World - Is Possible - For A Better World

[GMW #3864] The United States Of The World - Is Possible - For A Better World Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4259 ~
The United States of America is taken for granted today while a United States of the World is considered unthinkable, impossible. Well, let us be reminded that in 1787, when the representatives from the Colonies argued whether or not to write a common Constitution the following situation prevailed: troops under General Washington refused to pledge loyalty to the United States because they said, "Virginia is our country." Maryland and Virginia argued over oyster and crab harvesting rights in the Potomac River.

Nine states had their own navy. New York protected its fuel interests by putting a tariff on wood from Connecticut and its farmers by levying a tariff on New Jersey butter. Settlers from Connecticut were attacked by Pennsylvania's army for crossing its borders. Virginians objected to paying taxes to the union of states because, "that smells like parliament." Merchants in Philadelphia would not accept New Jersey's money.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation
Chapter 5 - The Miracle of Individual Life

I often feel that my life is a lamp: a temporary container filled with light, a flow of energy, condensed and held together for a while in a mysterious, marvelous living cosmos linked with the rest of the Earth and the heavens through material, touchable, and immaterial, invisible ties.  Someday the lamp will extinguish. The material elements will be reabsorbed and reborn by Mother Earth in her flows of life and energy.  The immaterial elements will return to a universal pool to be reborn in other forms on this planet or elsewhere in the universe.

My light will shine brightest, longest and happily if I take good care both of my material and immaterial forms, i.e. my body, my mind, my heart and my soul.
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San Luis
                                                    Obispo, California
Photo by Alice Cahill | San Luis Obispo, California

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
~ Albert Einstein

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[GMW #3863] See Earth As A Beautiful Whole

[GMW #3863] See Earth As A Beautiful Whole Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4258 ~
The following words written by astronaut Russell Schweickart looking down to planet Earth can be significant for the future of humanity.

"You go around it in an hour and a half. You begin to recognize that your identity is with that whole Earth and that makes a change. You look down there and you can't imagine how many borders and boundaries you cross again and again and again and you do not even see them.... Hundreds of people killing each other over some imaginary line that you are not even aware of, that you cannot see.

And from where you see it the Earth is a whole and is so beautiful. You look down and you see the surface of that globe on which you have lived all this time and you know all those people down there are like you, they are you... From where you see it the Earth is a whole and is so beautiful." (see also pages 28, 29):


Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation
Chapter 5 - The Miracle of Individual Life

We still seem to be at the point when the serpent said to Eve:
"God knows that from the day you eat from that tree, your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be gods, knowing good and evil."

After Adam and Eve ate from the tree, their eyes opened and they knew that they were naked.
They hid and when God found them, He asked them this momentous question:  "Who told you that you were naked?"

From that consciousness on we were challenged to organize our own paradise, to manage the Earth and to try to become like God. We are still trying.

No other animal or life form knows that it is naked.
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The Enlivenment Manifesto
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Science as a Practice of Empathy
As the crickets' soft autumn hum
is to us
so are we to the trees
as are they
to the rocks and the hills.
~ Gary Snyder, Frontline

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