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[GMW #2379] Waste and Garbage Resolutions at World Level

[GMW #2379] Waste and Garbage Resolutions at World Level

2012-01-27T06:14:00.000-08:00

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1241 ~
3 December 1997

It is high time to convene a first world conference on waste and garbage, a subject which has never been considered in its global dimensions. The results would be staggering and show that humanity is on the course of disaster. Watching every day from our hill in Costa Rica the huge fires of garbage in the valley below, spreading fumes over the city of Alajuela, Barbara and I are deeply concerned. And the people down there do not see the blanket extending over their heads, the same way as in huge cities in the world they do not see the brown blanket of pollution over their homes, affecting the lungs of their families.

The world conference I propose could give birth to two much needed new sciences, strategies and methodologies under the names of:

wastology
and
garbology

These should be worked on and taught in Universities and schools in the world.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 9 - Of Spirituality - Annex - My Spiritual Journey
There are now many good signs of a spiritual Renaissance in the world: the World Bank has meetings with spiritual leaders to see how poverty in the poor countries can be healed. Harvard University has conducted a vast survey of the contributions of the religions to the environment and safeguard of the Earth. Secretary General Kofi Annan has meetings with the leaders of the main religions of the world. A World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality has been created. Dr. Karan Singh of India and I are its Co-chairmen.

Daily Ray of Hope

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WORD FOR THE DAY Feeling gratitude and not expressing it  is like wrapping a present and not giving it. -- William Arthur Ward

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[GMW #2378] World People's Assembly Makes NATO Obsolete

2012-01-26T07:59:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2378] World People's Assembly Makes NATO Obsolete

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1240 ~
2 December 1997

I cannot repeat it enough, NATO has lost its justification now that the cold war is over. NATO should be transferred to the UN as a regional arm of a world security system. Its forces would become blue-beret Peace-keeping forces. Its resources would do a lot of good to the UN. As proposed earlier in these 2000 ideas its War Room, which monitors the world situation should become a United Nations World Peace Room. How long will people tolerate the ongoing waste of expenditures of NATO and SEATO? A peoples' world movement for their abolishment should be formed. The subject should be taken up by The Hague Centennial Peoples' World Conference in 1999 and by the World Peoples' Assembly 2000, accompanying the UN's General Assembly 2000.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Every morning, when we wake up, we should say:
"Dear God, I promise You not to complain today.
I will be joyful and grateful to You
for Your wonderful, incredible gift of my life."

Photo by Nancy Davenport. Location: Ulysses, NY.

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[GMW #2377] Kiwas Opening toward Heavens and into Earth Remind All of Cosmic Consciousness

2012-01-24T13:55:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2377] Kiwas Opening toward Heavens and into Earth Remind All of Cosmic Consciousness

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

Idea 1220 ~
12 November 1997

Today, Barbara and I decided to build on our peace park a wooden kiwa benches arrangement on the indigenous observation platform overlooking the magnificent Monument of Peace of the University for Peace. I remember how I was invited years ago by the Hopi Indians in Shongopavi-Hautevilla to meet with elders in kiwas to meditate and exchange views on the state and future of the world. The kiwas are round adobe structures inside of which benches are arranged in circular fashion. In the middle of the roof of the kiwa there is a hole towards the heavens, and in the middle of the ground is a hole covered by a slab of stone which is removed when meetings begin. As a result the attendants are reminded that they are sitting around a line which goes from the center of the Earth into the infinite heaven. They must therefore have a cosmic consciousness.

I tried in vain to have the same done in the vast General Assembly Hall of the United Nations where there is an opening in the cupola towards the sky, but no hole in the middle of the floor. If there is one place on Earth where delegates from all around the world need to have a cosmic consciousness, it is the UN General Assembly Hall

Well, we will have an open-air kiwa here, with a hole in the Earth but without a roof because the indigenous people of this sunny country do not believe in closed western buildings required by cold and rainy weather.

When we will have meetings with friends we will ask them to sit on the circle of benches and will remove the stone slab on the hole in the middle of the ground.

And I will remember that I was named by the Hopis, Kogyun Deyo, Spider Boy with the task of making a big spiderweb to catch all evil in the world and then throw it far away into the universe.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
The greatest chance given to me was the invitation to be the opening speaker of the second World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1993. I made a passionate appeal to the religions to create a world organization similar to the United Nations. Why? Because it was not sufficient for the religious leaders to meet, there was need also for a permanent organization with an inter-religious Secretariat to study in common all religions of the world and their contributions to a global spirituality as we have done at the UN for peace and other common ideals and needs of humanity. In my view there was an absolute need for a spiritual Renaissance on planet Earth. I also made an appeal that the Parliament of Religions should not wait another hundred years to meet again but should meet before the year 2000. Bishop Edmund Tutu heard me and invited the Parliament to meet in South Africa in December 1999. Six thousand people from around the world attended it.
--
My proposal to create a world organization of religions is being implemented. The Charter of a United Religions Organization, still called Initiative was created on 26 June 2000, the anniversary date of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations. That organization will help the peaceful resolution of the several religious conflicts we still have on this planet, develop a common modern global science of spirituality, a strategy and a methodology of spirituality (e.g. prayer, forgiveness, sanctity, thanksgiving, confession and so many other helpful practices). It will create a different, better, spiritual world, with religions united in a wonderful, non-fundamentalist diversity.

HeartMath

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work.
We must feel and be affected by it. "
- Voltaire

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[GMW #2376] Primitive Political and Economic Management of our Planet

2012-01-24T13:25:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2376] Primitive Political and Economic Management of our Planet

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1219 ~
11 November 1997

In a hundred years people will be astonished at the state of the world of today. They will admit that we made many progresses, as we admit it when we look back one hundred years, but they will hardly understand that we could be so primitive in the political and economic management of our planet, stagnating in philosophical, social and spiritual retardedness. It will be rewarding for me to see that from heaven and to rub my hands for having written unorthodox ideas, considered crazy or at best ahead of their time, which helped that evolution. I will keep a record at that time of all my ideas which were implemented during the 21st century.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
What is this concept of spirituality? In my view it is very simple. It is what I felt as a little boy. It is to receive from the religions help to understand the mystery of the universe and time. This is what all religions have in common. They help us, they elevate us, while the mysteries of the universe and time have never been resolved by the scientists, not even by Einstein. They will always remain mysteries. Religions give us hope that there is a soul in us which binds us as sentient beings with the entire universe and time, that we are children of God, active, living cosmic beings, each one the true miracle I felt already to be as a child.
As a consequence I created several spiritual associations in the UN and brought many outside spiritual organizations in contact and relation with the UN. I had contact with the Mayor of Assisi who at my suggestion arranged for the Pope to have yearly meetings in Assisi with the heads of other religions. I convinced U Thant to invite the Pope to the UN and was put in charge of that visit. I could write a whole book What the UN Taught Me About Spirituality as I wrote "What War Taught Me About Peace".

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- Confucius -

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Nearly 21 years ago, Patty Webster landed her dream job as an adventure tour guide in the Peruvian Amazon. But as she shared the area's beauty and culture with tourists, she realized there was a darker side to the rainforest paradise. "I saw how poor they were and realized that people were dying because they didn't have medical care," Webster said. She started sharing her supplies with the locals and soon began waking up to find people waiting outside her mosquito net to ask her for medicine. At one point, Webster -- who had no medical training -- gave someone stitches, following instructions from a book. "It was kind of scary," she recalled. "If they're depending on me for their health care ... we're all going to die." That's when she decided to stay and do something more. { read more }

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[GMW #2375] Each Birthday an Earthday to Celebrate by Planting a Tree

2012-01-05T12:25:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2375] Each Birthday an Earthday to Celebrate by Planting a Tree

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1267 ~

29 December 1997

Barbara suggested that every birthday of the 5.9 billion persons of this planet should also become their own Earthday to celebrate the Earth which is their mother, to give thanks for the miracle of life and to promise to take good care of the Earth. If a tree would be planted on the birthday of each person on Earth, 5.9 billion trees would be added to our capital of trees every year.

We promised to do it on each of our birthdays and will recommend it to our children and grandchildren. Eighteen trees will thus be planted by us in 1998.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
I will never be able to thank God enough for having granted me the tremendous miracle of life. From the millions of seeds of my father and tiny eggs of my mother, mine were the only lucky ones. Thank you dear God a million times.

The Free Farm

The Free Farm in San Francisco, run fully by volunteers, is dedicated to bringing fresh, local, organic produce for free to under-served communities in the San Francisco area. In 2009 alone, they gifted over 20,000 lbs of produce. A remarkable activist describes his experience in serving at the Free Farm. "We are not growing fruits and veggies. We are facilitating the growth of soil and community. The food is a by-product. We're mostly giving back to Mother Earth, and in the process, enjoying the co-creation of noble friendship. This is the revelation I got when I met "Tree" (the founder of the Free Farm). From my perspective, this is Gandhi's constructive program at its best, revamped for the 21st century. Gandhi used the spinning wheel as both physical embodiment and symbol for radical change. Today, the foundation for social justice is local and healthy food -- our "spinning wheel" for the 21st century." { read more }

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[GMW #2374] A World Strategy for Simple, Frugal Living with No Unnecessary Earth Destruction

2012-01-05T12:19:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2374] A World Strategy for Simple, Frugal Living with No Unnecessary Earth Destruction

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1264 ~

26 December 1997

I recommend a world strategy for simple, frugal living in order to save and preserve our mother Earth.

A first point is: do not admire the rich, the golfers, the yachts, the private airplanes, the villas, the tourism and lavish hotels of the rich, etc. turn your back on them, because they mean in large part unnecessary Earth destruction.

Please, people, create urgently a World Association or Movement for Simple and Frugal Living.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Every morning we must thank God for our resurrection.

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[GMW #2373] Honor The Declaration of Vision of the United Indigenous People at the World Parliament of Religions

2012-01-05T12:11:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2373] Honor The Declaration of Vision of the United Indigenous People at the World Parliament of Religions

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1263 ~

25 December 1997

On this day of celebration of the birth of Jesus, I wonder what the Christ is thinking in the heavens looking down upon the Earth. He cannot fail to bemourn the millions of his beloved human brothers and sisters who were killed over the last 1997 years in his name and in the name of other prophets and emissaries like him. May I place in His mouth this prayer to His representative on Earth, Pope John Paul II:

"I pray you to rescind on Christmas 1999 the Papal Bull Inter Cetera of your predecessor in the 15th century requesting the colonialists of the Americas to subjugate and kill the indigenous people for the propagation of the Christian Empire and faith.

No papal bull was ever so contrary to my teachings and message to the world. Please do not invoke papal infallibility.

No human being on Earth, not even I in heaven am infallible, given all the killings and sufferings which were committed in my name.

Please do it out of love.

Please read the Declaration of Vision of the United Indigenous People at the World Parliament of Religions in 1993 in Chicago, which my son Robert Muller reproduces at the end of these 1300 ideas for a better world on my bimillennial birthday in 2000."

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Life is a great miracle, a most beautiful gift, an incredible mystery.
Our planet is an even more magnificent wonder.

We must therefore be thankful and
be in love with
our Earth,
with humanity,
with all living beings,
with the universe and
with God and God's angels.

Photo by Devra Cooper. Location: San Luis Obispo, Ca.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
-- Giorgio Morandi

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[GMW #2372] Celebrate Remembered People Who Did Good and Who Had No Power, No Army, No Wealth

2012-01-05T12:05:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2372] Celebrate Remembered People Who Did Good and Who Had No Power, No Army, No Wealth

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1262 ~

24 December 1997

I love to remember on Christmas eve this comment of Napoleon to his aides when he was an exile and prisoner on the island of Elba: "I conquered most of the world and I am sitting here as a prisoner, having lost all my power and conquests. And tonight the people are celebrating the birth of someone who had no power, no army, no wealth, was a total destitute, and is still remembered after more than a thousand years."

Well, most heads of states, of world institutions and of big firms you better prepare yourselves to hold the same reflections on Christmas eve 1999 and 2000: have I lived a life which will be remembered in the hearts and annals of humanity? Will at least my children and grandchildren celebrate the fact that I was born?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
As I was washing the windows of our little farmhouse, I was thinking:
"What would a Roman Emperor say if he saw those beautiful, flat, perfectly transparent window-panes, which are so common and cheap today, which the poorest people can afford? He would not understand how such wonders can be made."

We of course take them for granted and seldom look at them with love and gratitude for letting light come into our homes. For thousands of years scores of humans lived without them. He would express the same astonishment at electricity, cooking stoves, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, television and radio.

He would not believe his eyes, and would exclaim: "You must be the happiest people who ever lived."

Alas, too many people would look at him, disgruntled, taking all these blessings for granted, and would come up with a long list of complaints.

He would not understand it. I believe God does not understand it either.

This is why our troubles on Earth continue: since we do not have the gratitude to count our blessings,
God is not encouraged to help us solve the new problems before us.

Dear reader, look for a few moments at the marvel of a windowpane, smile to it, give thanks for it and give it a little kiss.

WORD FOR THE DAY

The whole idea of compassion is based on a
keen awareness of the
interdependence of all these living beings, which are all
part of one another, and all
involved in one another.

-- Thomas Merton

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[GMW #2371] Keep Record of Plans and Projects for a Better World for Everyone - People and Nature

2012-01-05T11:58:00.001-08:00

[GMW #2371] Keep Record of Plans and Projects for a Better World for Everyone - People and Nature

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1260 ~

22 December 1997

When Barbara called Jay Gary, author of Star 2000, to inform him that I was prepared to offer 1000 dollars to the winner of his best Ideas 2000 contest, because he was the first man on Earth who began collecting 20 years ago information on projects planned for the Year 2000, he replied:
"No, the first man who to my knowledge thought of the preparation and celebration of the year 2000 and suggested to me to keep a record of plans and projects, was Robert Muller."

Thank you, dear Jay for implementing my idea. The truth is that to come up with the idea took me only a little time, but to implement it took you an enormous time.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Let us make our world
a world of giving and thanking
instead of wanting and complaining.

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[GMW #2370] Education Globally Nurturing Cultures of Non-Violence for All Children and All of Humankind

[GMW #2370] Education Globally Nurturing Cultures of Non-Violence for All Children and All of Humankind

2012-01-05T11:19:00.000-08:00

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1239 ~
1 December 1997

I applaud the following appeal which adds to the strategy for a non-violent world which I submitted to the State of the World Forum in San Francisco in 1995 and reproduced as Introduction to ideas 601 to 700:

AN APPEAL FOR CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

From 23 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Fall 1997

In every single country throughout the world many children are silently suffering the effects and consequences of violence. This violence takes many forms – physical, psychological, socio-economic, and environmental.

In order to reduce the suffering of children these Laureates are addressing an appeal to all Heads of State of all member countries of the General Assembly of the United Nations, for the UN General Assembly to declare:

b That the first decade of the new millennium, the years 2000-2001, be declared the "Decade for a Culture of Nonviolence."

b That the year 2000 be declared the "Year of Education for Non-violence."

b That non-violence be taught at every level in our societies, to make the children of the world aware of the practical meaning and benefits of non-violence in their daily lives.

Together, we can build a new culture of non-violence for humankind which will give hope to all humanity and in particular, to the children of the world.

With deepest respect,
The Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
From my experiences and lessons at the United Nations I decided to write a book on spirituality recommending that all religions should work together, with spirituality as their common values and objective. I called it New Genesis, the Birth of a Global Spirituality, published in several languages. Ever since that time I have been working toward the recognition of a global, all-human spirituality, out of which the various religions were born, either with one God, several gods, or nature and the Earth herself as the manifestation of the Great Spirit, or even a deeply spiritual person doing good for the Earth and humanity without belonging to any religion.

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If police are stepping up their violence,
we need to go and step up our nonviolence."
- Pancho Ramos Stierle -

If You Want to Be a Rebel, Be Kind
The night before, Pancho Ramos Stierle heard about growing tensions in the community and thought, "If police are stepping up their violence, we need to go and step up our nonviolence." So on that Monday morning at 3:30AM, Pancho and his housemate Adelaja went to the site of the Occupy Oakland raid. With an upright back and half-lotus posture, they started meditating. The photos of Pancho meditating while being arrested by the police have become iconic. Yet that was just one blip in the story of an everyday hero with a truly remarkable tale. { read more }

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[GMW #2369] An Annual Jose Figueres Demilitarization Prize from Costa Rica

2012-01-05T09:27:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2369] An Annual Jose Figueres Demilitarization Prize from Costa Rica

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1238 ~
30 November 1997

Since Costa Rica has been for years the most peaceful and most prosperous country in Central America, thanks to the genial decision of former President Jose Figueres to demilitarize the country by Constitution in 1949, I recommend that wealthy people of Costa Rica and sympathetic foreign philanthropists contribute to a fund which would give a yearly Jose Figueres Demilitarization Prize to the country which has demilitarized itself or made most progress towards demilitarization.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
Another surprise to me was U Thant, the Buddhist Secretary General whose direct aide I was for two years. He was the most deeply spiritual person I have ever known. He once said to me: "Robert, I cannot understand you Catholics who limit spirituality to an hour in church on Sunday. I am a spiritual person from the moment I wake up until I go to rest." One day I said to him: "When you receive visitors, why don't you tell them to do something for peace and a better world?" He answered: "How could I do that? These people come to see me to tell me something. I must therefore open myself to them, empty myself of my self, so that I can receive them entirely as a human brother or sister."

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Kindness is the language
which the deaf can hear &
the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

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[GMW #2368] Transferring the United Nations Seat to Other Countries

2012-01-05T09:09:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2368] Transferring the United Nations Seat to Other Countries

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1237 ~
29 November 1997

I congratulate the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Jean Chretien, for having challenged the United States' world policy at the meeting of heads of states of industrialized countries in Denver in June of this year. He did not accept "the notion that one or two countries dictate the policy of an international organization." He suggested and repeated recently in a US television interview that the seat of the UN should be transferred to Montreal, Canada. Because the US Congress since then again refused to pay the US obligatory dues to the UN I suggest that the item of the transfer of the UN seat be placed officially by Canada or a group of countries, e.g. the French speaking countries, on the agenda of the UN.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
-from My Spiritual Journey
Another surprise was our second Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld. He came to the United Nations as a very rational economist. But he went every Sunday to a church or meeting place of another religion. When he died we found on the night table of his bedroom in New York the book of a mystic, Thomas Kempis. When you read his Markings, or Journal, now published in many languages, you will see how from a pure rationalist and economist at the beginning he became himself a mystic, almost in constant communion and dialogue with God.

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HeartMath
"Until humankind can
extend the circle of their compassion
to include all living things,
they will never, themself,
know peace."
- Albert Schweitzer

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[GMW #2367] Employing The Unemployed For Peace Service Projects - Paid From Military Budgets

[GMW #2367] Employing The Unemployed For Peace Service Projects - Paid From Military Budgets

2012-01-05T09:04:00.000-08:00

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1236 ~
28 November 1997

I hope that the European Union, our greatest hope for a world-wide Organization better than the UN, will implement many of these 2000 ideas as far as Europe is concerned. For example, being beset by unemployment of many young people, why not create a European Volunteer Peace Service. The money for it would be taken from the military budgets. Such service in poor countries could be in lieu of military service. Young Europeans working together in the rest of the world would begin to feel proud as Europeans and would get closer to becoming the world citizens of tomorrow.

Why not also revive the idea of a Conference to create a European army as Churchill and my compatriot, Robert Schuman from Alsace-Lorraine, wanted to do in the year 1991 when he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of France?

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
-from My Spiritual Journey
The first surprise I had at the United Nations was that they had a meditation and prayer room and that the meetings of the General Assembly started with a minute of silence for prayer or meditation. I said to myself: "This is wonderful. That is exactly what we should do when we meet among nations and people: we should invoke spirituality to fully understand what we are doing and pray for good results."

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
-- Mohandas Gandh

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[GMW #2366] A World Party of Humans Whose Rights, Participation and Needs Are Not Satisfactorily Heard

[GMW #2366] A World Party of Humans Whose Rights

2012-01-05T08:56:00.000-08:00

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1235 ~
27 November 1997

I sincerely hope, I pray that entire groups of humans whose rights, participation and needs are not satisfactorily heard in the United Nations, in regional organizations and national governments will submerge these institutions with numerous, concrete ideas as we move to the year 2000 and a new century and millennium. I am thinking in particular of youth, mothers, indigenous people, the poor and the unemployed of the world. I do not know why no one has created a world party of the poor. It should have been done at the UN Copenhagen world conference on poverty, as I had recommended.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
-from My Spiritual Journey
When the war was over and I returned home, I learned that my father had spent several months in prison because I had escaped from the Germans. He asked me what I was going to do with my life. I replied: "I will work for peace. I do not want my children and grandchildren to see the horrors I have seen in this war." He said that there were no peacemakers on this planet and that I would lose my time. But during my doctorate of law studies at the University of Strasbourg I participated in a French essay competition on the subject "What do you think of world government?" I won the essay which led to an internship with the new United Nations in an abandoned war factory near New York City. I was hired as an official and stayed with the UN for the rest of my life.

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WORD FOR THE DAY
The heart is right to cry
even when the smallest drop of light,
of love, is taken away....

You are right to do so in any fashion
until God returns to you.

Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz

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[GMW #2365] World Mountain Agency Vital Role

2012-01-04T22:03:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2365] World Mountain Agency Vital Role

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1232 ~

24 November 1997

I am happy to hear that the government of Kyrgyzstan, a member of the United Nations as a result of the dissolution of the USSR, has proposed that the United Nations proclaim an International Year of the Mountains. This reminds me of my idea in which I say how wonderful it would be to have a Himalayan Forum, an Andes Forum, a Rocky Mountains Forum, an Alps Forum as we have the Arctic Forum conceived by governor Walter Hickel of Alaska. The mountain areas of our planet merit the creation of a World Mountain Agency considering their vital role in weather formation, water sources, forest cover, health areas and places of prophecies closer to God.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
-from My Spiritual Journey
Then came World War II. We were refugees twice. The Nazis occupied us. I had many adventures because I did not want to serve in the German army. I experienced German prison. I was a partisan, a member of de Gaulle's mountain fighters in France. I saw the most horrible acts between two white, highly civilized countries. There was no spirituality in all that. But there was an incident which I have never forgotten: we had captured a group of French people who had collaborated with the Germans. They were condemned to death. When they were taken to their place of execution in the woods where they had been forced to dig their graves, I saw the men protest, throwing themselves on the ground, having to be pulled by their legs. But there was one woman who walked in peace, praying. When she was shot she was reciting the Hail Mary and her last words before falling into her grave were to forgive us. I finished her prayer and never forgot her example of deep spirituality.

Photo by Joanne Cornelius. Location: Cuyahoga Valley National Park, OH.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic,
intellectual, cognitive, and even
spiritual satisfaction.
-- E. O. Wilson

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[GMW #2364] Courageous United Nations Secretary General Speaks Opening with Fire-side Chats with People and Great Thinkers

2012-01-04T11:36:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2364] Courageous United Nations Secretary General Speaks Opening with Fire-side Chats with People and Great Thinkers

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1231 ~

23 November 1997

I just cannot understand why someone who is appointed Secretary General of the United Nations for five years does not have the courage to have more audacity and to speak more openly. Nothing prevents them for example to have weekly fire-side chats with people, great thinkers, Nobel and other Prize winners, reactionaries like Gary Davis, Helen Caldicott, Betty Williams etc.

He is the servant general of the world. He can launch innumerable ideas, big ideas and small ones. People would begin to listen to him and implement them. They would have a greater love for the UN.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
-from My Spiritual Journey
Then came education. French education prohibited religious education. This was due to the separation between church and state established by the Revolution against the Church leaders of France coalesced with the King and the aristocrats to exploit the people. In Alsace-Lorraine we got a separate statute allowing religious education, but it was voluntary, did not count for the grading and it was ridiculized by our professors. As a result I began to forget my spirituality, replaced by the values of French education. My deep love for nature however persisted as well as my respect for old people. I will never forget the death of my 80 years old grandfather at which I saw a Catholic Sister hold his hand and help him to die peacefully, praying with him and telling him about heaven.

Photo by Ben Davison. Location: Silver Springs State Park, IL.

WORD FOR THE DAY
To be grateful is
to recognize the
Love of God
in everything.
-- Thomas Merton

Thoughts in Solitude

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[GMW #2363] United Nations Supreme Council of World Care Appeals to People to Send Their Ideas, Dreams for a Better World

2011-12-14T14:07:00.000-08:00

[GMW #2363] United Nations Supreme Council of World Care Appeals to People to Send Their Ideas, Dreams for a Better World

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1230 ~

22 November 1997

If I were the Secretary General of the United Nations I would change the name of the Administrative Committee of Coordination which brings him together every year twice with all the heads of the 32 specialized agencies and world programs of the UN. I would call it the Supreme Council of World Care, would use it as such and have its proceedings televised world-wide for the people to see. I would appeal to the people to send to this world cabinet meeting their ideas, dreams, wishes and proposals for a better world.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude
I would leave the house early in the morning to go to church and attend the mass at dawn, attended mostly by old people. There I was fascinated by the prayers, the playing of the organ by an old invalid and above all by the "elevation" of the host by the priest. That represented to me the consciousness and union with the heavens, the infinite, mysterious universe and God.

Photo by Margie Zebell, MZgallery on Flickr.com.
Location: Arches National Park, UT.

WORD FOR THE DAY
Asking good questions
is half of learning.
--attributed to Muhammad

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