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Testament to Life -
Volume
I - The Great Scene of Creation
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The Miracle,
Joy and Art of
Living - My Testament to Life, Volume
I
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-
Robert
Muller
Former UN Assistant Secretary General
Co-founder and Former Chancellor
of the UN University for Peace
The
Miracle, Joy
and
Art of Living
My
Testament to Life
Volume
I - The Great Scene of Creation
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
The
Great Scene of Creation
|
The
Art of Personal,
Happy Living
|
The
Seasons of Life
|
Volume
I
|
Volume
II
|
Volume
III
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- Preface
- Chapter
1
- Our
Place in the Universe
- Decide
to AggrandizeYourself
- UN
Acronyms
- Chapter
2
- Our
Miraculous Planetary Home
- Decide
to Love Planet Earth
- Chapter
3
- Our
Genial Human Family
- Decide
to be a Great Human
- Chapter
4
- Our
Place in Time
- My
Dream 3000
- Proposals
for a Strategy of Concerns for the
Future
- Chapter
5
- The
Miracle of Individual Life
- Decide
to be a Miracle
- Chapter
6
- I
and Creation
- Decide
to Love All Creation
- Books
by Robert Muller in various
languages
Index
|
- Chapter
1
- The
Joy of Living
- Decide
to be Joyful
- Chapter
2
- Of
Happiness
- Decide
to be Happy
- Chapter
3
- Of
Consciousness
- Decide
to be Conscious of the Universe
- Framework
for Planetary and Cosmic
Consciousness
- Chapter
4
- Of
Positive Living
- Decide
to be Positive
- Chapter
5
- Chapter
6
- Chapter
7
- Of
Optimism
- Decide
to be Optimistic
- Chapter
8
- Of
Health
- Decide
to be Healthy
- Chapter
9
- Of
Spirituality
- Decide
to be a Spiritual Person
- Chapter
10
- Of
Dreams, Visions and Ideals
- Decide
to Dream
- Chapter
11
- Of
Gratitude
- Decide
to be Thankful
- Chapter
12
- Of
Forgiveness
- Decide
to Forgive
- Chapter
13
- Of
Speaking
- Decide
to Speak
- Chapter
14
- Of
Writing
- Decide
to Write
- Chapter
15
- Of
Beauty and Art
- Decide
to be Beautiful
- Framework
for Planetary Cosmic Role of Art and
Culture
- Chapter
16
- Of
Power, Wealth and Glory
- Decide
Not to Seek Power
- Chapter
17
- Of
Peace
- Decide
to be Peaceful
- Chapter
18
- Of
Education
- A
World Core Curriculum for a Global
Education
- Decide
to Inducate
- Index
|
- Chapter
1
- The
Span of Life
- Decide
to Live the Longest, Fullest, Happiest
Life
- Chapter
2
- The
Miracle of Life Giving
- Decide
to be Married
- Decide
to Value the Act of Conception
- Chapter
3
- The
Miracle of Childhood
- My
Dreams as a Child
- Decide
to Remain a Child
- Chapter
4
- The
Highpoint of Human Life, Youth
- Decide
to Network
- Chapter
5
- Of
Adulthood
- Decide
to be a Great Adult
- Chapter
6
- The
Rich Age
- Decide
to be a Happy Elderly Person
- Annex:
An Example
- Chapter
7
- Return
to Mother Earth
- Decide
Never to Die
- Chapter
8
- The
Life beyond
- Decide
to Live after Death
-
- Texts
which have Guided me in my Life
-
I
Believe
-
Ten
Commandments of Humanity
-
Ten
Commandments of all Groups and
Institutions
-
Decide
to do at Least One Good Action a
Day
-
NewGenesis
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- Annex
-
- Index
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Dr.
Robert Muller
Born
in Belgium in 1923 and raised in the Alsace-Lorraine region
in France, Robert Muller experienced constant political and
cultural turmoil during his youth. His grandparents had five
successive nationalities (French, German, French, German,
French) without leaving their village as a result of three
wars (1870-1871, 1914-1918, 1939-1945). Often as a child,
Robert Muller would look out of his window at the border he
could not cross and long for the day when he, like the
birds, the clouds, the sun and the stars, would no longer
have to observe the imaginary line. Today, thanks to the
dream and effort of his compatriot Robert Schuman who
similarly hated these borders, Robert Muller's passport
reads, "European Union" with the sub-title France, and he is
free to cross the abolished borders of fifteen western
European countries.
Robert
Muller knew the horrors of World War II, of being a refugee,
of Nazi occupation and imprisonment. During the war he was a
member of the French Resistance. After the war he returned
home and earned a Doctorate of Law from the University of
Strasbourg. In 1947 he entered and won an essay contest on
how to govern the world, the prize of which was an
internship at the newly created United Nations.
Dr.
Muller devoted the next 40 years of his life behind the
scenes at the United Nations focusing his energies on world
peace. He rose through the ranks at the UN to the official
position of Assistant-Secretary-General. He has been called
the "Philosopher" and "Prophet of Hope" of the United
Nations. Robert Muller is a deeply spiritual person. From
his vantage point of a top level global states-person he has
seen a strong connection between spirituality and the
political/cultural scene.
Robert
Muller created a "World Core Curriculum" and is known
throughout the world as the "father of global education."
There are 43 Robert Muller schools around the world with
more being established each year. The "World Core
Curriculum" earned him the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in
1989. Based on this curriculum and his devotion to good
causes, Dr. Muller has drawn up a "Framework for World Media
Coverage" as a public service, as well as a "Framework for
Planetary and Cosmic Consciousness" and a "Framework for the
Arts and Culture".
Now
Dr. Muller is in active "retirement" at the UN University
for Peace he co-created with President Rodrigo Carazo in
demilitarized Costa Rica. He is in great demand to make
speeches to educational, environmental, spiritual and
political conferences around the world. Dr. Muller
concentrates his efforts on promoting greater human
understanding and global awareness. He has received many
awards, e.g. the Albert Schweitzer International Prize for
the Humanities, the Eleanor Roosevelt Man of Vision Award
and was nominated 21 times for the Nobel Peace
Prize.
Dr.
Muller lives most of the year at his small farm overlooking
the University of Peace, on a sacred indigenous hill, Mt.
Rasur, from which according to indigenous prophecy, a
civilization of peace will extend to the entire world. His
traditional Costa Rican house is located just up the hill
from the Peace Monument of the University. In addition to
his duties at the University, he devotes time to his
writings and is an internationally acclaimed, multi-lingual
speaker and author of many books published in various
languages. He has published his Testament to the UN as well
as his plans and dreams for a peaceful, happy
world.
At
the prompting of many of his friends, admirers and
non-governmental organizations Robert Muller was a candidate
as a global citizen in 1996 for the post of Secretary
General of the United Nations.
In
1998 he was appointed co-chairman, with Dr. Karan Singh, of
a World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality.
The Global Peoples' Assembly in Samoa in April 2000 honored
him as its Lifelong Honorary President. In 2002 he received
the prestigious World Citizenship Award of the Nuclear Age
Peace Foundation in California. After his Testament to the
UN, (see at end of this volume the list of his books in
various languages) he wrote also his Testament to Life in
three volumes of The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living. On 24
October 2002 - United Nations Day and the day of the award
ceremony of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - the first
volume of his biography by Douglas Gillies Prophet, The
Hatmaker's Son was launched to the public.
Preface
At
this beginning of the third millennium I offer these
reflections on the miracle, joy and art of living, written
during a half of century of service with the first universal
organization on Earth, the United Nations. May they be of
help to the individual and collective search for peace,
happiness and fulfillment on our beautiful planetary home
circling in God's vast, mysterious universe.
The
art of optimum happy human living and fulfillment, of proper
love and care for our miraculous Earth are the next phase of
our evolution. May these markings from my life be a
contribution to it.
VOLUME
I - THE
GREAT SCENE OF CREATION
Chapter 1
Our
Place in the Universe
-
- Only
a cosmic or heavenly approach, i.e., a correct view of
our place in the universe and in time can help us find
our right attitude and feelings towards life, our planet,
our fellow humans and ourselves.
- Life
then appears as a true miracle, a tremendous gift of
cosmic consciousness, a fabulous glimpse into the
incredible, fathomless universe, an opportunity to be
co-Creators with God and evolution. Yes, it is an immense
luck to be alive.
- *
-
- We
humans must still learn to see the largest realities
around us: the vastness of the universe and the eternity
of time. And yet, how many people pay attention to them?
Most of us live blindly, glued to the immediate sights
and sounds around us, seldom lifting our eyes, hearts,
minds and souls to the heavens and to the breathtaking
beauty of the universe.
- Spiritual
people are blessed with that ability. This is why they
are usually happy and serene people: They "know"
better.
- And
the priests say rightly: Sursum corda, lift your
hearts.
- We
should never forget our heavenly, cosmic origin and
nature.
- *
-
- I
would advise every searching human being to place his
search and to search his place within these four vastest
realities:
- the
total universe
- total
time
- the
total Earth
- the
total human family.
- *
-
- No
dog, no cat, no animal looks at the sky and the stars.
They see only their immediate environment. Humans alone
can extend their senses into the infinite and eternity. A
cell of my body cannot rise above itself and try to
understand the secrets of my being, much less of the
Earth and of the universe. Only humans can do that. This
is the divine, cosmic spark in us. This is why our search
for knowledge, or science, is in reality a spiritual
quest. This is why we have the privilege and the duty to
govern and manage our planet as a sacred trust, as a
unique, miraculous, still evolving achievement of the
universe.
- *
-
- Perhaps
in the evolution of the universe there comes a time when
a species has discovered most secrets of its environment
and becomes the master and manager of a planet. We seem
to have reached that stage in our evolution. It entails
vast, staggering responsibilities.
- *
-
- The
central challenge of our time, as of all times, is to
find the right relationships between humanity, the Earth,
the heavens and eternity.
- *
-
- From
the mail I receive, from the articles and books I read,
from conferences I attend, from UN debates and documents,
I have the unmistakable impression that the whole human
race is now engaged collectively in seeking its meaning
and ways on this planet in the universe. From individual
seeking we are passing to collective seeking. We are
entering a great new phase of evolution!
- *
-
- The
universe is an infinite, eternally changing cosmos of
cosmoses, from the infinitely large to the infinitely
small. And among these cosmoses, blessed with my thirty
trillion cells, my brain, my will, my heart and my soul,
I am a stupendous cosmos of my own, made of an infinite
number of cosmoses linked through matter, energy, senses,
heart and soul to the entire Earth and heavens. What
immense, beautiful opportunities and responsibilities to
do good this implies! What happiness, what luck to be
alive!
- *
-
- A
durable fame can be achieved in our time only by those
who seek the ultimate meaning of life and help formulate
the right framework and philosophy of life on our planet,
i.e., those who see it correctly within the total
Creation and time. We need a new ideology for humanity
and for our planet. This is progressively being done in
the world's first universal, meta-biological evolutionary
organization of the Earth and humanity, the United
Nations.
- *
-
- Humanity
fully depends on the sun and on this Earth for living.
Hence we must respect our star and our planet, cherish
them and treat them as sacred. And yet, we seem to have
lost contact with them. We sleep and no longer pray when
the sun rises. We live imprisoned in cities of steel and
cement. We hear radio and watch television instead of
contemplating Mother Earth's nature and her wondrous
gifts. We are mistaken. We are on a wrong trail, as our
Indian brothers say. We should make daily offerings to
the sun and to the Earth and say with our brethren and
sisters in the monasteries: "This is a good day to live
and to glorify God."
- *
-
- We
are linked with everything in the heavens and on Earth.
And yet, like every blade of grass and grain of sand, we
are each unique and unrepeatable in all eternity. What a
wonder to be alive!
- *
-
- The
sky is so beautiful, so infinitely blue, and yet an
astronaut flying to the moon, soon after leaving the
Earth enters a world of darkness. Our "infinite" blue is
only a few miles thick, a minuscule layer in the immense
universe. How lucky we are to live on such a beautiful
planet! How intensely we must cherish it, protect it,
preserve it! It is all we have and will ever be given in
the universe. Nothing will be added to it.
- *
-
- The
Earth is a solar child. All life on it derives from the
sun. Ancient cultures which worshipped the sun were not
wrong.
- *
-
- We
should not see the Earth as separate from the sun. We
should see the sun, the Earth and all teeming, evolving
life forms on our planet as one interdependent whole, as
a Sun-Earth reality.
- *
-
- We
take our sun and Earth for granted. And yet, they are
incredible, mystery-filled, mind-boggling phenomena in
the universe. We should be in endless awe and admiration
before them, in communion with them.
- *
-
- According
to one of the most ancient peoples of this planet, the
Yanomami people of Brazil, keepers of the memory of
Creation, the role of humans is to protect the continuity
of life in our solar system. In order to do that we must
all be "lamps of concordant tension".
- *
-
-
- In
the vast universe, we humans are true kings, almost Gods.
We know so much, feel so much, dream so much, query so
much, discover so much. We will not rest until we see,
know, feel and understand all there is in the heavens and
on Earth. We unquestionably are of a cosmic nature. We
want to reach the outer expanses of the universe. We are
a transcending species capable of lifting itself beyond
its capacities and senses by a universal urge. We are
stupendous little nebulas of life on a tiny, solid,
watery, warm planet, trying to reach out for the stars
and the outer limits of heaven. What a prodigious species
we are! What an exciting adventure it is to be human!
What a teeming laboratory, what a palace full of
treasures our planet is in the vast universe!
- *
-
- And
how could it be otherwise, since we are energy, matter
and soul of the universe which has passed through many
starforms before our present planetary incarnation? Hence
the instinct of our divine or cosmic origin and our
longings for the heavens and prayers to God. In each of
us is all the past experience of the universe, of all
past life forms and all our ancestors. You can therefore
best learn the meaning of life by looking deeply into
yourself.
- *
-
- We
should be ready to report at any time to a celestial
inspection team. I hope the United Nations will someday
publish a yearly report to the Universe, and the
religions yearly reports to God or the gods.
- *
-
- Our
planet is so small and part of such a tiny solar system
among trillions of solar systems of a small galaxy among
trillions of galaxies of a cluster of galaxies among
trillions of super-galaxies, that our efforts to
understand Creation resemble those of a flea trying to
understand the whole planet Earth! And yet, we are doing
it!
- *
-
- We
live in the universe. Hence we are universal beings. We
must pursue our evolutionary elevation into fully
transcended cosmic beings. We are a rare, unique form of
life at the spearhead of cosmic evolution. It is our duty
toward the universe, from which we come and receive
everything, to fulfill our cosmic destiny. As a first
step, we must define that destiny!
- *
-
- Every
year, the UN receives a report on radio waves in the
universe to detect if there are any other life forms in
the heavens. Not a single one has so far been received.
We might well be all alone and unique in the
cosmos!
- *
-
- Kepler
was right when through astronomy and astrology he tried
to determine the cosmic laws which should rule life on
Earth. And we are right when we try to lift ourselves by
our bootstraps through science, religions and world
organizations to the heavens in order to fully grasp our
cosmic nature, celestial home and destiny.
- *
-
- The
spinning of our planet around the sun seems immense to
us. And yet, in the vast universe, the Earth is so small
that it can barely be seen from the sun! At a distance of
a few light years, our planet becomes invisible, a mere
speck of dust in the universe. And yet, we are. We are
even a lot! The cosmic microbe I am is able to be
conscious of most of the universe, from the infinitely
large to the infinitely small!
- *
-
-
- Once
in a museum I saw on a huge wall the photograph of the
Milky Way, our galaxy. I looked for our sun and planet
and found only an arrow with these words: "The sun cannot
be seen but is located somewhere in this
area."
- I
was dumbfounded: "If not even our sun and Earth can be
seen, how small and irrelevant I must be in the
universe!"
- But
after a while, my optimism took over again and I said to
myself: "No, I am not irrelevant and minuscule! I am as
big as that galaxy because I belong to a species which
was able to take that picture."
- *
-
- In
the past, it was only exceptional, genial, godly beings
like Jesus, the Buddha, Confucius, or sensitive artists
like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Mozart, Bach and
Beethoven who were cosmic beings. Today every child can
be educated (inducated) into a cosmic being, thanks to
the tremendous knowledge humanity now
possesses.
- *
-
- Humanity
has now a computer-photography of the remotest milky way
of galaxies. Its distance is 15 billion light-years away!
Multiply 300.000 km (the distance covered by light in a
second) by 60, again by 60, then by 24, then by 365 and
finally by 15 billion, and you will obtain the staggering
figure of kilometers of 142 followed by 21
zeros!
- *
-
- On
a clear night, the human eye can see about 6000 objects
in the sky: satellites, planets, stars and galaxies.
Through the biggest telescope on Earth, astronomers can
see 40 billion objects. With the first telescope in
space, we can see from 5 to 10 trillion objects in
heaven! And with the first under-sea telescope we will
even "see" black holes, quasars and galactic nuclei!
- The
same is happening with the infinitely small. More than
200 sub-particles of the atom have been discovered. The
distance of one of them to the next higher particle is
comparable to the distance between our Earth and the
sun!
- Tell
this to a cave-man, to Socrates or to George Washington
to see their reactions! We must be proud to be living
today. This is said to all children on the first day of
their attendance of a Robert Muller School, the new
schools of global, cosmic education.
- *
-
- Remark
of a little boy to his mother when he came home from a
Robert Muller school:
- "Mammy,
did you know that we are living in heaven?"
- Every
head of state and every human being should remember this
and derive from it a deep joy and sense of
responsibility.
- *
-
- Someday
soon we will discover our true cosmic meaning. Then
everything will fall into place on planet Earth. Then
government will become a sacred duty, a respect for
divine, cosmic laws and no longer the object of narrow
humans wills, whims, interests, gains and
ambitions.
- *
-
- A
face glued to another face cannot see that face. Until we
saw our total Earth from space, we could not see the
Earth, we could not understand her. We saw the stars and
the heavens and we discovered God, the Father. Now we can
see the Earth, and we discover beautiful goddess Eartha,
Gaia, our Mother in all languages.
- *
-
-
- The
first duty of Earth government will be to determine what
is right in the total framework of the universe, of time,
of our planet and of humanity. Then the real, most
advanced human history will begin!
- *
-
- If
you want to have a sense of infinity and of eternity,
look at the sky and the stars. If you want to see the
beauty of the small, look at a flower or a grain of
sand.
- As
William Blake said so beautifully:
- "To
see a world in a grain of sand
- And
a heaven in a wild flower
- Hold
infinity in the palm of your hand
- And
eternity in an hour."
- *
-
- If
you wish to give children a glimpse of the immensity of
the universe, of the vast expanses of the infinitely
large and of the teeming complexity of the infinitely
small, i.e. the colossal range of human knowledge, take
them on the same day to an astronomical observatory and
to an atomic bubble chamber!
- *
-
- On
a wall in my office on the top floor of the United
Nations I had this list of major segments of our place in
the universe. It reaches from the infinitely large to the
infinitely small. On each of these layers, humanity has
begun to cooperate actively in one or several of its
world agencies:
- Our
planetary home in the universe
- Astrophysics
and outer space
- Our
relations with the sun
- The
Earth's physics
- The
Earth's climate
- The
atmosphere
- The
biosphere
- The
seas and oceans
- The
polar caps
- The
arable lands
- The
deserts
- The
mountains
- The
Earth's water
- Plant
life
- Animal
life
- Human
life
-
- The
Earth's energy
- The
Earth's crust
- The
Earth's minerals
- Microbial
life, genetics
- The
world of the atom
- UN,
UNESCO, ITU*
- UN,
UNESCO, FAO, WMO
- UNESCO,
WMO
- WMO,
UNEP
- WMO,
UNEP, UNESCO, ICAO
- UNEP,
UNESCO, FAO
- UN,
FAO, IMO, UNESCO
- UNEP,
UNESCO
- FAO,
IFAD
- UNEP,
FAO, UNESCO
- UNEP,
UNESCO, FAO
- UN,
UNESCO, FAO, WMO, WHO
- UNEP,
FAO
- UNEP,
FAO
- UN,
WHO, FAO, UNESCO, ILO
- IBRD,
WFP
- UN,
UNESCO, IAEA
- UN,
UNESCO
- UN,
UNESCO, IBRD
- UNESCO,
WHO
- IAEA
-
- This
is the first of the four cosmic frameworks of our place
and fate in the universe.
-
- *For
the meaning of the acronyms, see Annex.
- *
-
- Within
this vast framework, the human species is exploring and
probing our planetary home in every possible angle. The
world conferences held for the first time in human
history reflect this new phase of our evolution. Such
conferences were:
-
- -
a world conference on the utilization and conservation of
resources in 1949;
- -
two world conferences on new and renewable sources of
energy in 1961 and 1981;
- -
three law of the sea conferences in 1959, 1970 and
1973;
- -
a world conference on the biosphere in 1968;
- -
two world conferences on the environment in 1972 and
1992;
- -
two outer space conferences in 1968 and 1982;
- -
a world food conference in 1973;
- -
a world desert conference in 1977;
- -
a world conference on the ozonosphere in
1978;
- -
three world climate conferences in 1979, 1982 and
1989;
- -
a world water conference in 1979;
- -
a world science conference in 1979;
- -
two special sessions of the UN General Assembly on a new
international economic order;
- -
several international conferences on the peaceful uses of
atomic energy.
-
- These
UN conferences were pathbreaking first foundations for
the next phase of government: Earth
government.
-
- All
along this Copernican framework, individuals, groups,
firms, governments, associations and world entities work,
search and help humanity fulfill its destiny in the
universe. We are now universal, cosmic beings. Think,
consult your heart and find your right place and
contribution as co-workers in this extraordinary, vast
cosmic adventure.
- *
-
- Not
a single encyclopedia on Earth presents our total
knowledge within the two most obvious and logical
frameworks which impose themselves upon us so glaringly,
namely: the total universe, from the infinitely large to
the infinitely small, and total time, from the infinite
past to the infinite future.
- The
editors of the world's great encyclopedias should meet
and agree on that new common table of contents of human
search and knowledge.
- *
-
- We
are minuscule entities in the universe and in time. We
will never fully understand the infinitely large and
infinitely small. We will never grasp the beginningless
beginning and endless end. And yet, within these
limitations we can live miraculous, joyful, confident,
searching, fulfilled, extraordinary lives and acquire an
incredible consciousness of the stupendous universe and
of our miraculous Earth.
- *
-
-
- If
the stars and sun would begin to doubt, they would soon
extinguish themselves. So it is with humans.
- *
-
- Even
if Einstein proved to me a thousand times that time is a
function of space, I will have no use for it. For me,
indeed, the two greatest realities in which we live are
space and time. No mathematical formula or mental
reasoning can take this fundamental reality away from me.
The real, true, infinite variations in relationships in
the vast universe escape all human understanding. They
are beyond the grasp of our human words.
- *
-
- In
the United Nations one is promoted from a national human
being to a global, Earth, universal being. It is the
greatest school of an expanded consciousness and art of
living at this stage of our evolution.
- *
-
- Dag
Hammarskjöld and U Thant, two Secretaries-General of
the UN, were the most universal human beings I have known
in my life.
- *
-
- Seen
in the four infinites, human life becomes a tremendous
privilege. We could as well have never been born and
never received the gift of life in the vast universe and
eternity. We must therefore be "good" cosmic units,
children of God, in order to merit our lives and
contribute to a higher level of evolution. This ancient
religious truth is beginning to reappear in the science
of "genetic codification" and in the work of the United
Nations, the first global genetic memory
bank.
- *
-
- The
four infinites, planet Earth, humanity and the individual
will henceforth constitute the great human agenda of
evolution.
- *
-
- The
measurements we use to "see" the infinitely large are
pretty well "frozen" on our planet: a parallel might not
be parallel in the universe, but is on our Earth; time
may be a factor of speed in the universe, but we live
within a firm earthly time. As for the relationships
within the infinitely small, they are safely locked in by
nature, unless the scientists and the military let them
loose and destroy this planet.
- *
-
- Time,
light, speed, space, energy, atomic weight, attraction,
gravity, black holes, white dwarfs, quasars, leptons,
weak force, etc., I admire you all, you discoveries by
great minds of some of the basic factors and
relationships in the universe. Thanks to you, we have
machines, factories, electricity, longer lives, better
lives, and we can see into the infinitely large and
infinitely small. But please do not forget this: I have
been able to live for many years a prodigious life
without ever worrying about my atoms and sub-atoms.
Humanity has lived for millions of years, and most of its
6 billion people wake up every morning without knowing or
minding about their atomic structure. We live on a
specific planet with a specific weight, time, speed,
texture and place in the universe. I live on it with my
specific genes, weight, time, speed, texture and reality.
And none of your laws explains my dreams , my loves, my
cravings, my sleep, my conscience, my growth, my life, my
divinity and my death. You help me greatly and I am
thankful to you. But I would prefer to live without you
as humans have done for so long rather than do without my
loves, my dreams, illusions and my God.
- *
-
- The
instruments we use to "see" the infinitely large and the
infinitely small are a function of our human senses and
perceptions. We stand somewhere on the fathomless
universal scale of distances and volumes, and we judge
Creation and time from our point of view. In the
universe, "great" and "small," "brief" and "long" may
have no meaning. In the universe everything is probably
equally important. Perhaps not even "to be or not to be"
may be important. But I cannot conceive it. To me
everything seems important on this planet.
- *
-
- In
the end, it is all a question of joyful surrender to the
miracle of life, Creation and God. With our limited human
senses and means in the vast unfathomable universe we
will never make it. The acceptance of an original force,
of a Creator, of a supreme being with whom we can talk
and feel one through prayer, faith and love, is still for
innumerable people the simplest and greatest way out of
the insoluble mysteries.
- *
-
- Humanity
must concentrate again on the definition of God, of what
the divine intentions are for this planet and for our
life in the universe and eternal time. Only then will we
find the ways of right human behavior and relationships
and of making this planet a haven of peace, beauty,
justice and happiness. We must reestablish the reign of
God on Earth. We must think, feel and act like universal
beings. We must find the rules and laws of the universe
as they apply to our planet. This is what is expected of
us.
- *
-
- Who
and what should guide us on this planet? The vast
majority of the people do not even know what they want,
much less how to govern the world. Their values, wants
and beliefs have been programmed into them by education,
religion, ideology, nationalism, politics, business,
advertisement, marketing, monopolies, the media. What is
needed for our future destiny is the determination of the
cosmic laws which should guide us and our planet. That is
the gigantic challenge to the United Nations. That is
what two Popes came to say to us in the world
organization.
- *
-
- It
is not so much the world which we should govern or manage
well but ourselves.
- *
-
- If
we look into the windows of a Cathedral from the outside
we see only darkness. If we look through its windows from
the inside we see heavenly sights. Humanity should never
neglect to look through the window of its skies to the
sun, the stars and the breathtaking beauty of the
universe.
- *
-
- If
we do not believe in God, if we think that we can do it
all by ourselves on this little planet, we simply shut
out the entire infinity and eternity, which is the
blindest thing we could no. No "primitive" people have
ever done it.
- *
-
- When
humanity will have solved its material, political and
social problems, its intellectual, emotional and moral
problems, it will be faced with the most fundamental
question of all: the spiritual quest, namely what is our
place and meaning in the universe and in time? Then will
start the cosmic, divine age of our fabulous journey.
Then we will find at long last the right answers to our
problems. At the entrance of a new century and the third
millennium the UN should convene a world conference on
the meaning and spirituality of life.
- *
- After
the Gaia hypothesis will come the Uranus (solar)
hypothesis. Then will come the Zeus or Whole Cosmos
hypothesis and we will find God again.
- *
-
- Beautiful,
satisfying music required the search for the laws of
harmony. Similarly, a beautiful, happy human society will
require the search for the laws of harmony of the Earth
and of the universe. This will be the role of tomorrow's
universal, human and Earth preserving, embellishing
government.
- *
-
- It
takes a great act of courage to try to make sense of life
and Creation: it requires faith, love, passion,
commitment, dream, enthusiasm, poetry and music as much
as mathematics and science. There is more in Shakespeare
and Beethoven than in Darwin and Einstein. I sometimes
wonder if humanity would not be better off by foregoing
its investigations and conquests of the infinitely large
and infinitely small. We could as well be content with
seeing Creation as it is in all its breathtaking beauty
and wholeness manifested on Earth. For will we ever be
able to control the forces we unlock? That is the great
question.
- *
-
- Of
the vast expanses of the universe only a tiny part is of
concern to us: our solar system, our outer space and our
biosphere. Beyond that we are perfectly safe: we are
located in such a remote corner of the cosmos that no
explosion of a nova nor a galactic upheaval is likely to
affect us for billions of years. Our only danger and
potential enemy is ourselves.
- *
-
- During
most of human history, people thought that the Earth was
the center of the universe. Then we learned that the sun
was not turning around the Earth but that the Earth was
circling around the sun. So we thought that the sun was
the center of the universe. Then we learned that the sun
is only a small star turning around the axis of a galaxy
of stars. Then we learned that this galaxy is circling
around the pole of a cluster of galaxies which in turn is
rotating around the pole of a spheric expanding universe!
How small and diminished we have become! Scientists
further tell us that time, distance, speed, mass and
energy are all relative. But, if this is so, then perhaps
we are not so small after all! We might even be the only
planet with life in a universe of fire, gases, atomic
explosions and interstellar voids! Our conditions might
be unique: the right distance from a sun not to burn and
not to freeze, the right mass to retain water and an
atmosphere, the right rotation and orbit, the right
atomic density and chemical composition. So we might
after all be a true showpiece, a unique, miraculous
success of the cosmos. What responsibility this would
mean!
- What
change of thinking, concerns, policies and behavior it
would require from our political leaders! What immense
human pride, gratitude and truly religious feeling it
would command from us! Why not try loving and managing
well that miracle?
- *
-
- The
sun to humans:
- "Look
at my nine planets. Three of them are pure ice. Two are
masses of gas. Two are fiery balls and one is icy rock.
On only one, namely yours, after sending out my rays for
5 billion years, have I succeeded to produce life, a very
rare phenomenon, perhaps unique in the universe. And see
what a mess you are doing with it. I am ashamed of you.
You are playing with my Creation without the slightest
comprehension of the miracle it is and of the magnitude
or your misdoings. Why are you incapable to manage your
planet in peace, harmony and with untold
love?"
- Our
answer: "Soon we will, please give us a little more time.
We are only in the kindergarten of figuring it
out."
- *
-
- Sometimes
when I see nature, people, cars, airplanes, buildings, I
stop walking and I say to myself:
- "What
an incredible globe this is, turning at 1666 kilometers
per hour with so much life on it, with people standing on
it, their heads pointing like antennas into all the
directions of the universe, with leaves, plants, diatoms
and algae avidly absorbing the energy emitted by our
star. And to think that we are the only planet of our
sun, and perhaps of the entire universe, to possess life!
How can we not stand in endless awe before such a
miracle, preserve it and make it the most perfect cosmic
success in the universe.
- *
-
- Secretary-General
U Thant once asked an astrophysicist:
- "Is
it true what the Buddha believed, namely that humans will
never be able to leave their solar system?"
- The
astrophysicist confirmed it: humans are for all eternity
prisoners of our minuscule solar system. They will never
be able to travel beyond its limits, despite all the
fantasies of science fiction.
- How
lucky we are, therefore, to have our little planet to
stand on, our oxygen to breathe, our sun to heat,
illuminate and nourish us, our waters to quench our
thirst. But alas, to those who destroy it, to the
pessimists who denigrate life we cannot even say: "Love
this planet or leave it," for there is no other place to
go. They will die on this Earth and be recycled in its
ground, hopefully to be reborn as optimistic, life-loving
creatures.
- *
-
- Humans
will now enter a fascinating new period of evolution:
added to Darwin's thesis of the survival of the fittest,
to Mendell's law of heredity, to the genetic codification
of our experiences in DNA and RNA, we are now blessed
with the birth of a universal, global, planetary
consciousness, which makes us recognize our false
avenues, wrong values, and errors. A new anthropology,
economics, sociology, values systems, ethics, philosophy,
morality, spirituality, and politics are being born under
our eyes at the beginning of this new century and
millennium.
- *
-
-
- In
the Robert Muller schools the children are taught about
their place in the universe in a very simple way: they
are asked to fill out the following form and to draw at
the end a picture of their home. A child who has done
this will not forget it for the rest of his
life:
-
- WHERE
ARE WE?
-
- UNIVERSE
___________________________________________________________________
-
- GALAXY
_____________________________________________________________________
-
- SOLAR
SYSTEM
_______________________________________________________________
-
- PLANET
______________________________________________________________________
-
- HEMISPHERE
_________________________________________________________________
-
- CONTINENT
__________________________________________________________________
-
- COUNTRY
____________________________________________________________________
-
- STATE
_______________________________________________________________________
-
- CITY
OR VILLAGE
_____________________________________________________________
-
- STREET
______________________________________________________________________
-
- NAME
_______________________________________________________________________
-
- You
are truly a citizen of the Universe!
-
- A
PICTURE OF MY HOME
-
- *
-
- Decide
to Aggrandize Yourself......
-
- to
the vastness of the universe
- to
the greatness of God
- to
the beauty of Creation
- to
the genius of humanity
- to
the magnificence of our planet
- to
the unique treasure you are.
-
- Aggrandize
your mind
- Aggrandize
your heart
- Aggrandize
your soul
-
- Extend
all your senses
- to
the stars in heaven
- to
the beauty of the Earth
- to
the potential of the human race
- to
the infinity of your inner life.
-
- And
you will become the universe
- You
will become Creation
- You
will become humanity
- You
will become infinity
- You
will at long last be your real
- divine,
miraculous self
- in
total communion with all there is
- in
heaven and on Earth.
-
- Then
you will contribute your peace and happiness
- to
our miraculous humanity and well-preserved, heavenly
planet in the universe.
-
- UN
ACRONYMS
-
- FAO
- Food
and Agriculture Organization
- IAEA
- International
Atomic Energy Agency
- IBRD
- International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- ICAO
- International
Civil Aviation Organization
- IFAD
- International
Fund for Agricultural Development
- IFC
- International
Financial Corporation
- ILO
- International
Labour Organization
- IMF
- International
Monetary Fund
- IMO
- International
Maritime Organization
- ITU
- International
Telecommunication Union
- UNCHS
- UN
Centre for Human Settlements
- UNDP
- UN
Development Program
- UNEP
- UN
Environment Program
- UNFPA
- UN
Fund for Population Activities
- UNESCO
- UN
Educational, Science and Culture Organization
- WFP
- World
Food Program
- WHO
- World
Health Organization
- WMO
- World
Meteorological Organization
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Volume
I
Chapter 2
Our
Miraculous Planetary Home.
-
- We
admire cosmonauts who travel in small space capsules or
set foot on the moon or space platforms, but we forget
that we are ourselves cosmonauts traveling on a space
globe the like of which no humans will ever be able to
construct. Our artificial satellites are entirely made of
materials from spaceship Earth. We must set our values
and admirations straight. Human creations can never be
more admirable than nature's, for we are part, tools and
products of nature and of the mysterious forces of the
universe. All our achievements must be traced back to our
given miraculous planet and to the Creator or creative
forces of the universe. They alone are unfathomable,
admirable and sacred. We are admirable and sacred only
for being part of them, for being their creation,
caretakers and co-creators.
- *
-
- We
wrongly say: we live on this planet. We must say: we are
part of this planet, in flesh, in liquids, in air, in
mind, in heart, in life, in death and in rebirth. We are
part of it as long as it will live and beyond our
life.
- *
-
- Being
born from the Earth and being an intimate part of her, we
must understand Her, listen to Her, cherish Her, blend
with Her and not conquer Her. We must not destroy or
wound our miraculous Mother Earth from whom proceeds all
we are, all we have and all we will ever be.
- *
-
- When
there is a planet as rich and beautiful as ours,
inhabited by a species as astonishing as ours, then we
must be patient with the latter's efforts to find its
proper place, harmony and fulfillment on it. No one,
indeed, can prove that we are not a unique and miraculous
planet and species in the universe. We should consider
our planet unique in the universe, benefiting from very
extraordinary cosmic circumstances and endowed with truly
exceptional conditions. From such a point of view, our
planet becomes forthwith sacred and infinitely precious,
human life and all life on it true miracles, and the
government of that planet a sacred, holy function. Yes,
we must visualize a possibly lifeless universe to
understand our immense responsibility as the trustees,
children and caretakers of our incredible, miraculous
planet Earth alive.
- *
-
- Astrophysicists
tell us that the conditions necessary for the birth of
life on any planet in the universe are so innumerable
that they represent the most astronomical mathematical
improbability figure humans can conceive.
- *
-
- Even
if there were other life-bearing planets in the universe,
ours would still be unique because it is with planets as
it is with humans and all living beings: there will never
be two identical ones.
- *
-
- If
you feel lost, desperate and hopeless about the human
condition, just remember that only 500 years ago we did
not even know that the Earth was round, that there
existed another continent beyond the seas and that the
Earth was turning around the sun and not the contrary. We
are still in the kindergarten of the new global age. Have
patience and a sense of wonder. We will learn infinitely
more and see further extraordinary progress.
- *
-
- Thanks
to the UN and to its 32 specialized agencies and world
programs, we have now for the first time in evolution an
adequate inventory and information on our planetary home,
from the stratosphere to the depths of the oceans, from
the world's climate to the atom and genes, from the
deserts to arable lands, from the polar caps to the
tropics and equator, etc. Nations have even agreed to
bore holes of at least 1000 meters into the Earth's crust
to better know its interior.
- As
a result, for the first time, our species is in a
position to treat and manage well its planetary home. And
we will do it. It will be the most exciting period of our
history.
- *
-
- There
are places on this Earth, natural or human-made which are
so beautiful that one wishes to exclaim: "Oh, please
remain forever as you are, you are so beautiful." Such
places should be protected from change, and someday the
entire planet would be a paradise, a cherished world
heritage. Then economics will be reduced to our planet's
maintenance and to our essential, reasonable needs. Then
humanity will be a peaceful, fulfilled species living in
incredible happiness and harmony on its beautiful
planetary home.
- *
-
- In
many respects we do live already in Palace Earth, in
paradise Earth, but we have not yet learned to live
peacefully and properly in it. We will.
- *
-
- Scientists
tell us that a species that does not take good care of
its habitat is doomed. Humanity must become a caring one
instead of a conquering, destructive, overconsuming
one.
- *
-
- There
are no greater books than the Earth and humanity
themselves. There are no greater novels than our own
lives. From morning to evening we can read and write
these Godgiven, wonderful works. There should be two
basic textbooks in all schools of this planet: the Book
of the Earth and the Book of Humanity. And we should all
contribute to them.
- *
-
- Once
we have seen a picture of our incredible planet from
outer space, we are never the same person anymore. That
picture should be hanging in all schoolrooms of the
world.
- *
-
- It
is incredible, albeit miraculous, what we human species
have been able to do on this little planet! But now we
must beware, for we are beginning to do some serious
damage. Thus,
-
- Each
minute
- we
destroy 21 hectares of tropical forests
- we
consume 34,725 barrels of oil
- 50
tons of fertile soil are washed or blown off
cropland
- 12,000
tons of carbon dioxide are added to the
atmosphere.
-
- Each
hour
- 685
hectares of productive dryland become desert
- 120
million dollars are wasted on military expenditures, a
trillion a year
- 55
people are poisoned and 5 are killed by
pesticides
- 60
new cases of cancer are diagnosed in the United States
alone,
- over
5000,000 cases each year with 20,000 cases leading to
death, because of the thinning of the
ozonosphere.
-
- Each
day
- 25,000
people die of water shortage and
contamination
- 10
tons of nuclear waste are generated by 485 nuclear
plants
- 250,000
tons of sulfuric acid fall as acid rain in the northern
hemisphere, damaging lakes and millions of hectares of
forests
- 60
tons of plastic packaging and 372 tons of fishing nets
are dumped into the seas by commercial fishermen, killing
thousands of fishes, sea birds and sea
mammals.
-
- Every
five hours a species becomes extinct...
- *
-
- How
does our dear, precious Mother Earth feel about that? For
in practically all languages, the Earth is a mother or
goddess: Matri Bhumi, mother Earth in Sanskrit; Gaia, the
goddess Earth in Greek; Eartha, the goddess Earth in
Germanic languages; Ixmucane, mother Earth in the Maya
language, etc. Someone should collect and publish the
etymologies of the word Earth in all
languages.
- *
-
- This
beautiful planet of ours is fragile like a crystal. We
must therefore treat it with utmost care.
- *
-
- I
dream of a world in which no bird would fly away and no
animal flee at the approach of a human.
- *
-
- O
God, let us become the Planet of the Loving
People
- the
Planet of the Smiling People
- the
Planet of the Peaceful People
- the
Planet of the Beautiful People
- the
Planet of the Healthy People
- the
Planet of the Happy People
- the
Planet of the Just People
- the
Planet of the Virtuous People
- O
God, let us become Your People
- O
God, let us become like You.
-
- Perhaps
we are already part of You, but we have not yet realized
it or have forgotten it.
- *
-
- How
beautiful you are, O my planet Earth! The yearly UN Earth
Day on the spring equinox in March should become the most
important day of the year.
- *
-
- Let
us proclaim the third millennium the Millennium of
Paradise Earth.
- *
-
- These
incredible living trees, these beautiful flowers, these
flying and singing birds, these mountains, these valleys,
these seas and oceans, who created them? No human being
could have. So who did? What is the mysterious creative
force, still active and invisible around us? We call it
God. May it not be in us too? May we not have become the
most active manifestation of this creative force, the
spearhead of further positive, non-destructive evolution?
How wonderful it will be when we realize
that.
- *
-
- Oh!
how can some people not love, adore life! How can youth
not believe in life! I will never understand it. We
should remember at all times that our planet is one of
the most beautiful ones in the universe. We are blessed
with life, waters, plants, animals, seas and oceans, a
teeming biosphere and senses which reach far into time
and into space. We can see, feel, hear, talk, sing,
think, love, understand, dream, embrace the heavens and
the Earth. What more do we want? We are probably the most
advanced life form in the universe, one of the greatest
successes of the cosmos or God, living on one of the
luckiest, unique planets, and yet we do not rejoice at
all times and do not administer it yet with the divine
care it requires. Yes, please let us rejoice, rejoice,
constantly rejoice.
- *
-
- Poor
little bird on my porch. You will never know all I know.
You will never fly where I fly. But to each his God-given
world and happiness. For I too am only a little bird on a
porch of the vast incomprehensible universe.
- *
-
- I
observed a little hen on a hill in Switzerland: it never
looked at the beautiful mountains and lakes nor at the
sky, as I did. I felt so grateful, so happy to be a
human.
- *
-
- In
our dreams of a perfect planet, there are no wars, no
violence, no hatred, no injustices, no drugs, no alcohol,
no armaments, no nuclear dangers, no fouled air, water
and soils. All these dreams converge for the first time
ever on a universal scale in the United Nations. So are
their violations, obstacles and birthpains. Humans should
be enthralled with this unprecedented, gigantic,
beautiful enterprise, all children of the world should be
taught about it.
- *
-
- Human
life is truly an astonishing mystery. So much is involved
in the constitution and functioning of a single human
being: trillions of cells, each a prodigious little
factory, thousands of miles of vessels, hundreds of
automated clocks, an amazing brain with 100 billion
neurons whose mechanical reproduction would require the
volume of a cathedral, senses, a mind, a heart and a soul
capable of embracing the entire planet and universe. So
much is involved in the education of a human: years of
learning in the family, in school, in university and the
never ending experience of life. So much is involved in
his participation in life: the wish to be of use, to
create, to be recognized, to be remembered, to leave
something behind. And then, when the peak of experience
and wisdom is reached, that immense cosmos begins to
wobble and to weaken until it returns to Mother Earth.
What was the purpose of it all? What kept such an
incredible cosmos together? The inborn will for life?
Yes. But why? It all makes sense only if we suppose that
we are part of an incomprehensible but grandiose design
in the universe and in time. The discovery of the reason
and ultimate objective of that design remains the
fundamental prerequisite of proper human government. This
is one of our most exciting tasks. We are still at the
surface of things. We still need further Copernican
revolutions.
- *
-
- How
can people lose their time in trifles, unconcerned,
unamazed by the miracle of life?
- How
can we be blind? The universe is in a child, in a flower,
in a garden, in a house, in one's work, in a song, in a
painting, in every human being. God is everywhere, as
long as our attitude is one of respect, gratitude and
endless wonder at the prodigy of life. The beauty of the
universe is in my home and in the immensity of the
heavens.
- *
-
- These
words uttered by Pablo Casals have been a great guide in
my life:
- "The
child must know that he is a miracle, a miracle, that
since the beginning of the world there hasn't been and
until the end of the world there will not be another
child like him. He is a unique thing, from the beginning
to the end of the world. Now, that child acquires a
responsibility: `Yes, it is true, I am a miracle. I am a
miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a
miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing?
No, I can't, because I am a miracle."
- "God,
Nature. I call God Nature, or Nature God. And then comes
this other thought: I am a miracle that God or Nature has
made. Could I kill? Could I kill someone? No, I can't. Or
another human being who is a child like me, can he kill
me? I think that this theory can help to bring forth
another way of thinking in the world. The world today is
bad; it is a bad world. And it is because they don't talk
to the children in the way that the children
need."
- *
-
- God
has given us an inestimable capacity to focus our senses,
our mind, our heart and our lives from the infinitely
large to the infinitely small. We can see both the stars
and heavens and the traces of atomic sub-particles in a
bubble chamber. We can love the sky afar or a flower or
brook near by. We can tremble at the passionate sound of
Beethoven or at the humble song of a bird. We can live
with a gigantic mind embracing the entire universe or as
a passionate collector of little stamps. We can live with
a religious heart encompassing God and all living beings
or as parents loving dearly each other and their
children.
- *
-
- A
being from outer space who would see our planet for the
first time would expect it to be inhabited "inside", as
is a spaceship. But we live "on" it, stand on it,
cultivate it, build above it, breathe the oxygen emitted
from it, heat ourselves at its sun, and do not have to
live inside it. A strange, lucky, planet indeed with its
thin biosphere of constantly renewed life which warms and
feeds itself revolving around a glowing overhanging star
called the sun.
- *
-
- I
had in my office at the UN a drawing made by UN
cartographers: it showed the biosphere or sphere of life,
a little layer of no more than a few miles reaching into
the atmosphere and into depths of the seas. In it all
life of our solar system is located. Beyond and below it
there is not a microbe left. I asked the cartographers to
reduce the radius of the Earth to one meter: the
biosphere appeared merely as a line not bigger than an
egg shell! To politicians who visited my office I said:
"This is what you are playing with. This is what you are
filling with conflicts, games of power, money, interests,
nations and weapons. Why are you harmful to that
incredible, delicate so precious biosphere? Please be
their healing, loving guides and statues will be erected
to you."
- *
-
- There
is still so much to do in our home. A world inspection
team should go around, distributing marks of achievements
and failures. If I were a member of it I would give
highest marks to Holland for having transformed
uninhabitable marshes into a beautiful land, to Israel
for having made deserts bloom and to Costa Rica for
having demilitarized itself, made ten percent of its
territory national parks and created the first University
of Peace on Earth.
- *
-
- Yes,
there is still so much to do on our planet. There is not
even a Napoleon who would look at it and say:
- "I
want these canals and tunnels to be dug; I want this
overflow of water brought to this desert; I want these
solar and hydroelectrical power plants to be build; I
want these new lakes to be formed; I want these deserts
to be stopped and made to bloom; I want these world
railroads and roads to be build; I want these world
satellites to be launched; I want all people to be
decently fed, educated and employed; I want world laws; I
want world justice; I want a World Treasury; I want
proper Earth government; and so forth. Alas, very few
talk like that. Doesn't any politician want to become
famous?
- *
-
- Nature
and evolution have tried so many incredible combinations
and forms of matter, energy and life that no idea
conceived by humans will ever be able to match them.
- *
-
- With
its marvelous life-giving atmosphere, waters and nature,
planet Earth is a true miracle in the universe. On it
dwell many extraordinary living creatures, including
humans which hopefully will not destroy it.
- *
-
- When
I was a young UN official, my superiors always deleted
the word "world" from my writings and replaced it by
"international". Today, the words most often used at the
UN are: the world, the planet, the globe, interdependent,
planetary, global. The human mind has expanded its vision
considerably. But the words universe, cosmic, God,
Creation, infinity, eternity, love, soul and spirituality
are still rare or missing. They will come too, hopefully
fast.
- *
-
- To
think that in the universe there is a species with
limited brains and senses which tries to understand the
entire fathomless Creation and time! What a pity that
such a wonderful species has not yet learned to live in
peace with itself and to preserve and cherish its
miraculous planetary home.
- *
-
- The
instruments, frameworks, institutions, forms, formalities
and procedures of tomorrow's whole Earth government are
much less important than the principle of such government
and its planetary, cosmic and all-human objectives. Even
the very imperfect UN could serve the
purpose.
- *
-
- We
are so lucky in the universe: a few thousand miles
further from our sun and we would freeze; a few thousand
miles closer and we would burn. A less heavy mass and we
would retain no water and no atmosphere. A stronger
nuclear force and we would be a small, compact ball. A
lighter nuclear force and we would be star dust. We must
therefore remember at all times that our planet is a true
miracle and we should ask ourselves what role and
behavior the cosmos or God expect from us humans in the
further evolution of this planet?
- *
-
- The
Earth is the macrocosm of each individual and each
individual is a microcosm of the Earth. We are born from
the Earth and will return to Her. Each person therefore
has a shared life and responsibility for the
Earth.
- *
-
-
- Our
first and foremost experience of God or of the mysterious
forces of the universe is in the glory, brilliance and
infinite beauty of our planet.
- *
-
- The
most important treasure we humans have in common is our
planet. Each person, therefore, must be a custodian, a
caretaker, a loving child and inhabitant of
it.
- *
-
- When
the children of a Robert Muller School celebrated Earth
Day, a teacher asked them what they thought of that
event. A little boy answered:
- "Why
do we celebrate Earth Day only once a year? Every day
should be Earth Day."
- *
-
- Dear
God, I offer You all my actions of today, because I am
part of Your wonderful Creation. It would be a sacrilege
to separate myself from Your works. I am part of Your
paradise. I live in Your Paradise. I am one of Your
gardeners, caretakers, protectors, guardians and
beneficiaries.
- *
-
- When
I am in nature, I ecstatically feel that every day is
Easter, a Resurrection of the miracle of life. We can be
so at peace, so happy in the arms of Mother
Earth.
- *
-
- I
am so much in love with nature, with planet Earth, with
beautiful goddess Gaia, that I often lie down on her,
kiss her, embrace her and wish I could make love with
her.
- In
reality I do, because my spouse is all made of Earth, of
sunshine and of the universe's mysterious life. Our union
is a process of the living Earth, of the living cosmos.
It is the most sacred, most transcendent consciousness we
can expect as a reward for doing our evolutionary duty.
Ecstatic happiness is given to us, for we are cosmic
couples giving birth to further life.
- *
-
- We
should kiss nature more often, the Earth being our
mother. We are her children, one of her innumerable forms
of life.
- *
-
- I
do not even believe in death as an end, as an
annihilation. It is simply a return to Mother Earth which
will transform us into other matter and life forms. And
our children and good works will continue to live in
evolution.
- *
-
- In
an old textbook I found this statement by the French
historian Michelet of the nineteenth century: "Humanity
has been roaming about this Earth, making wars,
conquests, invading each other, and yet the French Alps
are exactly the same as they were at the time of
Hannibal's crossing. Humans cannot change the
Earth."
- He
would be surprised today to see how humans now change
their planet, including the Mont Blanc which is losing
its glaciers, is perforated by a tunnel, is capped with
pollution and was damaged by the Olympics.
- *
-
- I
know a young man who wanted to study both ecology and
economics. This was denied to him by his University. He
then dropped out and undertook his interdependent studies
on his own. Today it should be a requirement in all
Universities of the world that ecology (the study or
science of our home, from the Greek oikos) and economics
(management, use of our home) should be either studied
simultaneously, or preferably ecology first and then only
economics. Most of the current trouble on this planet is
due to the fact that we started with economics (oikos,
nomos) the changing of the home, before ecology (oikos,
logos) the knowledge of our home.
- *
-
- In
a few short decades we will see
- a
government of the Earth
- for
the good of the Earth
- by
the people, the children of the Earth.
- It
will be the Earth Republic dreamt of by George
Washington.
- *
-
- Declaration
of The Sacred Earth Gathering
- at
the UN Conference on Environment and
Development
- (UNCED
II) in Rio de Janeiro, 1992
-
- The
planet earth is in peril as never before. With arrogance
and presumption, humankind has disobeyed the laws of the
Creator which are manifest in the divine natural
order.
-
- The
crisis is global. It transcends all national, religious,
cultural, social, political and economic boundaries. The
ecological crisis is a symptom of the spiritual crisis of
the human being, arising from ignorance. The
responsibility of each human being today is to choose
between the force of darkness and the force of light. We
must therefore transform our attitudes and values, and
adopt a renewed respect for the superior law of Divine
Nature.
-
- Nature
does not depend on human beings and their technology. It
is human beings who depend on Nature for survival.
Individuals and governments need to evolve "Earth Ethics"
with a deeply spiritual orientation or the Earth will be
cleansed.
-
- We
believe that the universe is sacred because all is one.
We believe in the sanctity and the integrity of all life
and life forms. We affirm the principles of peace and
non-violence in governing human behavior towards one
another and all life.
-
- We
view ecological disruption as violent intervention into
the web of life. Genetic engineering threatens the very
fabric of life. We urge governments, scientists and
industry to refrain from rushing blindly into genetic
manipulation.
-
- We
call upon all political leaders to keep a spiritual
perspective when making decisions. All leaders must
recognize the consequences of their actions for the
coming generations.
-
- We
call upon our educators to motivate the people towards
harmony with nature and peaceful coexistence with all
living beings. Our youth and children must be prepared to
assume their responsibilities as citizens of tomorrow's
world.
-
-
- We
call upon our brothers and sisters around the world to
recognize and curtail the impulses of greed, consumerism
and disregard of natural laws. Our survival depends on
developing the virtues of simple living and sufficiency,
love and compassion with wisdom.
-
- We
stress the importance of respecting all spiritual and
cultural traditions. We stand for preservation of the
habitats and life style of indigenous people and urge
restraint from disrupting their communion with
nature.
-
- The
World Community must act speedily with vision and
resolution to preserve the Earth, Nature and humanity
from disaster. The time to act is now. Now or
never.
- *
-
-
- Decide
to Love Planet Earth...
-
- With
all your heart, mind and soul,
- With
enthusiasm, passion
- and
endless wonder.
- You
are a part of her
- You
are living Earth
- You
are born from her,
- You
grew in her fold,
- you
are nourished by her
- You
will return to her
- And
be reborn from her
- in
endless, different forms of life
- Study
your miraculous
- planet
Earth, know her, understand her,
- Care
for her, love her
- It
is the only home we have
- And
will ever have in the universe
- She
is so beautiful, so incredible,
- So
unique in the fathomless cosmos
- Be
proud of her
- Be
in peace and harmony with her
- Be
in ecstasy with her
- And
she will return to you
- your
love a thousandfold.
-
-
Volume
I
Chapter 3
Our
Genial Human Family
-
- This
beautiful text by UNICEF should be taught to every child
on Earth:
-
- I
am a member of the world family
- I
am related to those who stand next to me
- by
the air we breathe, by the light we share,
- the
hopes we have for a better world.
- I
have a responsibility to give, to receive,
- to
be open, tolerant, free.
-
- I
have inherited the world from those who have lived
before.
- I
occupy space and time for a few short years.
- I
hold this world in trust for those who will
follow.
- My
life, with others, can fashion this world
- toward
PEACE rather than strife,
- HOPE
rather than despair,
- FREEDOM
rather than slavery.
- I,
with those about me, can make the HUMAN BROTHER AND
SISTERHOOD a living thing.
- I
pledge my willing spirit to this thought.
- WE
WILL DO THIS TOGETHER.
- *
-
- Yes,
let us above all be humans. Let no sectarism, no
religion, no fundamentalism, no nationalism, no colors,
no language, no North, South, East or West divide us. We
are all dependent on each other. We must all be members
of one peaceful, loving family, living happily together
on our extraordinary, beautiful, so rich planet Earth in
the universe.
- *
-
- In
my office at the UN I had a table with this list of the
major segments of the human family. It reaches from the
total world population to the individual. On each of
these segments, humanity is cooperating actively in one
or several of its world organizations:
-
- Our
Human Family
-
- The
total world population and its changes
- Human
settlements and migrations
- Human
longevity
- Races
- Sexes
- Children
- Youth
- Adults
- The
elderly
- The
handicapped
- The
individual
- Our
levels of nutrition
- Our
levels of health
- Our
standards of life
-
- Our
skills and employment
- Our
levels of education
- Our
moral levels
- Our
spiritual levels
- The
family
- Local
communities
- Professions
- Corporations
- Institutions
- Nations
- Federations,
regional communities
- Religions
- Multinational
business
- Transnational
networks and associations
- World
organizations UN, UNFPA
- UNCHS
- UN,
WHO
- UN
- UN
- UNICEF
- UN
- UN
and most agencies
- UN,
WHO
- UN,
WHO
- UN
and all agencies
- FAO,
WHO
- WHO
- UN,
UNDP, IBRD, IMF,
- IFC
- ILO
- UNESCO
- UN
- UNESCO
- UN
- UN
- ILO
- UN
- UN
- UN
and all agencies
- UN
- UNESCO
- UN
- UN
- UN
-
-
- This
is the second great planetary framework produced by the
United Nations as a basis for proper Earth government and
human fulfillment.
- Within
this social and institutional framework, humanity has
probed and studied itself from every possible angle. The
first world conferences and International Years ever held
in human history point at a new age of our evolution.
Here are the highlights:
-
- -
3 UN world conferences on population, in 1974, 1984 and
1994, and a World Population Year in 1974;
- -
a UN Conference on Human Settlements in 1976;
- -
2 world conferences on racism in 1972 and
1982;
- -
2 world conferences on human rights in 1968 and in
1993;
- -
an International Year of Peace in 1986;
- -
an International Year of the Child in 1979;
- -
4 UN world conferences on women in 1975, 1980, 1985 and
in 1995;
- -
an International Year of Youth in 1985;
- -
a UN World Conference on Aging in 1982;
- -
An International Year of the Disabled Persons in
1981;
- -
An International Year of the World's Indigenous people in
1993;
- -
An International Year of the Family in 1994;
- -
An International Year of the Elderly in 1999.
-
- These
UN Conferences and Years are the first attempts in all
human history to appraise, study and express concern for
the fate of the entire human family. Until 1952, we did
not even know how many people lived on this
planet!
- All
along the above social framework, individuals, groups,
firms, governments, associations and other institutions
and entities can find a place to see themselves, to work,
to search, to be useful, to contribute, to help humanity
fulfill its destiny in the unfathomable universe. We are
all cosmic co-workers.
- *
-
- The
question remains: what is our meaning, our ultimate
destiny in the universe? Have we ever asked and resolved
this question?
-
-
- Think
hard
- Consult
your heart
- Find
your right place
- As
a weaver of the great cosmic tapestry.
- *
-
-
- Who
said this?:
- Humanity
ought to be like one body with many parts. All the parts
should work together, each according to his or her
special gifts. Some should preach, some teach, some heal,
and so on. Each part should understand the importance of
all the other parts, feeling pain with them, feeling
gladness with them.
-
- It
was St. Paul, but I replaced the words at its beginning,
namely A religious group by Humanity.
- *
-
- Humanity
is really incredible! We have extended the capacity of
our eyes millions of times into the infinitely large and
infinitesimal small through telescopes, space probes,
television, microscopes, picoscopes and atomic bubble
chambers. We have extended our hearing to the entire
world through telephones, radio and satellite
communications. We have multiplied the range of our legs
with cars, airplanes, boats, trains and space capsules.
We have extended the power of our hands with incredible
machines and the capacity of our memory and mind with
computers. We have become a new, extended species on this
planet, incomparable with what we were in prehistory. But
we still have to extend our love and skills to the entire
planet and humanity, and our soul to the entire universe
and God. We now have global senses, global limbs, a
global brain and a global nervous system, but we still
need a global heart and a global soul. This will be the
next stage of our evolution. Deep concern for nature and
for our Mother Earth are the first
manifestations.
- *
-
- Each
of us is a drop of water in the ocean of humanity, but
without drops there can be no ocean.
- *
-
- Young
people love to display a poster proclaiming a monumental
truth:
- "Humanity
is greater than all nations."
- *
-
- God
looking down upon the Earth does not see any borders,
nations, races, religions or corporations but only the
Earth, its living creatures and the human
family.
- *
-
- We
are all brothers and sisters of the same family, because
we are all children of Mother Earth and of Father
God.
- *
-
- As
an Alsace-Lorrainer I learned that only elevation to a
higher plane - namely Europe - could solve the divisions
and conflicts between France and Germany. Humanity too
will be able to solve its problems, if it seeks the
highest elevations and broadest common denominators,
namely the world, humanity and God. These are the highest
points of reference conceivable to judge what is good or
bad for humanity. In the last instance, all our earthly
human efforts must be related and reported to God who is
the highest ideal, dream, perfection and ultimate
apotheosis of human evolution. If God did not exist, we
would have to invent Him and endow Him or Her with all
our ideals. God is the heavenly personification of our
dreams and answer to all our questions.
- *
-
- Wisdom
is the ability to distinguish between good and bad.
Hence, there is a wisdom for every particular entity or
group: a personal wisdom, a family wisdom, a corporate
wisdom, a national wisdom. The greatest wisdom still
needed at this point of our evolution is world wisdom,
namely the ability to distinguish between what is good
and bad for humanity and for the Earth as a whole. It is
the fundamental role of the United Nations to help
develop that wisdom.
- *
-
- O,
what a better world it would be if people and nations
spoke less badly of each other! This was U Thant's first
law for personal as well as international behavior. His
son-in-law, Tyn Myint U, once told me:
- "There
is one thing I did not understand about my father-in-law.
For example, when a new Ambassador was invited to our
home, invariably after he left, U Thant would say: "What
a nice man he is." I retorted to him: "How can you say
that? Why don't you wait and see how he behaves before
pronouncing judgment? He might turn out to be quite bad."
U Thant answered:
- "In
my eyes he is a human brother and a nice man until proven
contrary."
- U
Thant had another rule: if he disliked or disapproved of
someone, he would never say it, he simply remained
silent, even if asked for his opinion.
- *
-
- If
the human body ceases to grow why should humanity
ceaselessly grow, the world economy grow, production
grow, construction grow, consumption grow, transportation
grow, dissatisfaction grow, waste grow, the destruction
of nature grow? Why don't we follow the example of nature
which changes slowly? Why are we in such a hurry? If we
grow at four percent a year for the next two hundred
years, this planet will be finished. We want already
population not to increase. Why do we want economic
development to grow, especially in the rich countries?
Why do we not reduce the injustices between the poor and
the rich?
- *
-
- Please,
governments, give us peace so that we may enjoy the
miracle of life;
- please,
governments, suppress your ugly armaments so that our
children might sleep in peace and all human beings on
this planet have bread and schools;
- please,
governments, work together to manage this planet for the
benefit and happiness of all;
- please,
governments, do not interfere with but fulfill our basic
needs.
- *
-
- All
too often many entities and groups are created, led and
promoted by individuals who are unable to fulfill
themselves as simple, great human beings, members of one
human family under the rule of God.
- *
-
- I
have thirty trillion cells in my body but my entire being
is only one cell in a human family of 6 billion people.
The total biomass of humanity consists of thirty trillion
cells multiplied 6 billion times!
- *
-
- Intellectual
qualities are superior to physical qualities; moral
qualities are superior to intellectual qualities; and
spiritual qualities are the highest of all. This is borne
out by our daily observations: a person endowed with a
good physique and a fine mind is superior to one having
only a good body; a person who has also good moral
qualities is superior to the former; and most admirable
is he or she who has a good physique, a great
intelligence, a good heart and a soul in communion with
all humanity, with God and the universe.
-
- The
same is true of any social group, from the family to the
entire human race. Our present human family is still very
imperfect because:
-
- -
it has not yet assured good physical lives to all its 6
billion members: more than a billion still go
hungry;
-
- -
it has not yet provided for good mental lives for all:
there are still 800 million illiterates;
-
- -
it has not yet become a moral world: there are still many
wars, injustices, inequalities, violence, hatred, lies,
miseducation, misinformation, corruption and dishonesty
on our planet;
-
- -
it is not yet a spiritual world: we have mostly earthly,
materialistic concerns and seldom lift our minds, hearts
and souls to the universe and to the eternal stream of
time.
-
- Humanity
has still a good way to go.
- *
-
- What
have reason, science, art, love, religion, poetry and
philosophy in common? They all wish to be king, but in
reality none can be it.
- What
then is the ultimate motor of human ascent? Is it the
will for life? Happiness? The fulfillment of life? Union
with God? Supreme consciousness?
- Why
has the universe or God or evolution created human
life?
- What
can be my satisfactory answers to these momentous
questions? I do not know, but of one thing I am sure: my
reason, my science, my art, my love, my religion, my
poetry and my philosophy are all a hymn of praise to the
splendor of Creation and to the miracle of
life.
- *
-
- We
world servers are a new breed of human beings: we come
from all parts of the planet, we are most knowledgeable
about our globe and human family, we work for the entire
Earth and for all our human brothers and sisters. From us
will come a new world philosophy, world spirituality,
world sociology, world psychology, world ideology, world
political science and world vision. We are the midwives
of the birth of new paradigms for our species' prodigious
planetary journey.
- *
-
- UN
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld and U Thant had
different views regarding the allegiance of world
servants: for Dag Hammarskjöld world allegiance was
the rule, superseding national allegiance. U Thant for
his part was allegiant to himself, to his family, to his
culture, to his nation, but also to humanity and the
Earth. His belief in multiple allegiances is closer to
the true reality of life, namely diversity in
unity.
- *
-
- The
human family, emerging from its checkered past, is still
dominated by competition, power contests and glory
seeking, while in the natural family cooperation and love
are the dominant values. A wonderful, new historic era
will soon begin, when cooperation and love will
predominate the world. The first examples we see at the
United Nations are full of promise.
- *
-
- One
happy human family of several billion individuals on one
little planet in the fathomless universe and eternal
stream of time, that is the central, marvelous challenge
of tomorrow's Earth government.
- *
-
- Let
there be no illusions: armaments will only disappear when
national sovereignties will disappear, for their main
purpose is to protect, maintain, assert, strengthen and
expand these sovereignties. To discuss disarmament is
therefore fruitless. We must discuss instead the
disovereignization of nations and create a common world
security system and Republic.
- *
-
- We
have made great progress of late towards the concept and
concerns of the Whole Earth or globe or planet. We must
make similar progress towards the concepts and concerns
of the whole human family, the global human race and
planetary citizenship.
- *
-
- To
obtain a better humanity, we must validate others, love
them, not diminish them.
- *
-
- Our
globe could say to us:
- "At
long last you have one place on my crust, the United
Nations, to which you send representatives from all
around my body to figure out your fulfillment, destiny
and proper action for my environment. Bravo, a thousand
bravos! It is the most intelligent thing you have done in
a long time. But I have yet to understand why so many of
you throw stones at that place instead of loving it as
the most important sacred place on me. Your blindness
never ceases to astonish me. Why are you so slow to
understand the most obvious values and
assets?"
- *
-
- When
the Bangladesh upheaval broke out, the Ambassador of
Pakistan exclaimed in response to a speech by India:
"What you call right to self-determination, we call
treason." How many times do we hear people called
patriots by one side and traitors by the other! This can
end only after humanity has organized itself into one
family under one government, one world morality and one
world law and ethics. The world's 189 nations must be
molded into one Earth community, a democratic World
Republic.
- *
-
- I
wish the people of this planet would cease to "belong" to
groups or to be "special people" who proclaim that they
are superior to others or that they hold the ultimate
truth given to them by nature, by God, by sacred
scriptures or by social reformers. If we found another
planet in the universe with so many "ultimate truths" -
economic, social or religious - we would consider its
people utterly misguided and would ask them to put their
thinking and house in good order. Why don't we start with
ourselves?
- *
-
-
- Once
I saw a woman write on an official immigration form:
"World citizen with a Swiss passport." We should all
follow her example.
- *
-
- I
once asked an Asian attendant of a gasoline station of
what nationality he was.
- He
answered: "What does it matter to you? I am a human being
like you."
- *
-
-
- As
long as highjacking took place from the communist
countries to the West, the highjackers were received as
heroes and the word highjacking could be found nowhere.
In the western press it was called: "detouring from
normal air routes." After highjacking took place from the
United States to Cuba, the West went into uproar and it
was then called air piracy or highjacking. Different
sides, different words. Even today, in the western media,
an airplane is not "highjacked" from Cuba but
"commandeered"!
- *
-
- Society
can never consider individual human life as precious and
foremost enough.
- *
-
- The
last Ministers on Earth who refuse international
cooperation are the Ministers of Armies, of Justice and
of the Interior, all ministries par excellence of
national sovereignty. And it is precisely in disarmament,
world justice and world violence that most urgent
progress is needed. No wonder, therefore, that the
situation remains the same or worsens year after year in
these three fields on our little planet. Whose fault is
it?
- *
-
- We
must become one planetary society on a vast orderly
evolving planet.
- *
-
- Planetization
will force the global community to undertake new tasks
for the happiness of all human beings in the global
community. This is the awesome challenge to impending
planetary management or proper Earth
government.
- *
-
- Earth
government has two ways of behaving: like a good mother
give the breast to the baby when it is feeding time, or
feed it only when the baby cries of hunger. Good Earth
government consists of foreseeing needs and preventing
cries.
- *
-
- Outcries
of injustice resemble the human body's pains: they point
at a malfunctioning of the system.
- *
-
- It
is typical that in the attempted coup against President
Gorbachev, the three main instigators were the head of
the armed forces, the Minister of Interior and the KGB.
Two of the three committed suicide.
- *
-
- It
is not Germany nor any other country that should be above
the world, as their national hymn proclaims. It is the
world which should be above all countries. Menschheit,
Menschheit über Alles, not Deutschland, Deutschland
über Alles.
- *
-
- How
can a planet be properly run by 189 heads of totally
distinct sovereign states?
- *
-
- Once
in a corridor of the UN I commented to a colleague that
within a few minutes we had met three heads of states. He
replied: "Never mind. If you have seen one, you have seen
them all."
- *
-
- Who
ever was the sick mind who invented nationalism and
national sovereignty? We need today humanism, globalism,
humanity sovereignty, Earth sovereignty.
- *
-
- When
people ask me if I feel more French or more German, I
answer: "I do not feel either. I am a human being, not a
Frenchman, not a German nor anything else. If you insist
and ask me where I come from I will answer: from a
beautiful region of Earth called Alsace-Lorraine. And my
love for it does not require that it be a nation. On the
contrary, I am happy it is not. If it were, I would love
it less."
- *
-
- "I
am not an Athenian, I am not a Greek, I am a world
citizen," said Socrates
- *
-
- The
world would be a much better place if we considered
ourselves to be angels or saints, i.e., fulfillers of the
will of God and doers of good on Earth. Just try to be an
angel for a day or two and you will be astonished by the
results. We should all try.
- A
world of angels and saints? Why not?
- *
-
- It
is not only the world-wide demand for greater justice,
physical well-being and education which is at the root of
the present world crises. Even deeper is the process of
planetization, a major phase in the Earth's and
humanity's evolution.
- *
-
- I
am always astonished by the admiration of so many people
for Ambassadors, Ministers, heads of government and
state, etc. They are just human beings. Some are good and
others are not. Admiration of a title or function blinds
the concern for the real value of the person. It might
even prevent seeing the deeper realities: the
nation-states of the world with all the pomp and glory of
their rulers, generals, flags, anthems, armies, history,
monuments, arts and literature often conceal the
immensely more important beauty of the human family, of
the Earth and of each human being. They make humanity
look like a woman who would never be visible in her
entirety, because attention is directed to
over-ornamented, made-up parts.
- *
-
- Above
all, be a good human being, a loving, concerned member of
the human family, a loving instrument of life and of a
better world.
- *
-
- Decide
to be a Great Human...
-
- An
Earth citizen
- A
global being
- A
good member of the human family
- To
place humanity before anything else
- To
love your human brethren and sisters
- As
your own family
-
- Never
to kill
- not
even in the name of a nation
- Never
to exercise physical
- or
verbal violence
-
- To
know, love and respect your beautiful
- planetary
home
- To
live in it as a grateful, joyful guest
- To
contribute to humanity your peace,
- kindness
and
- happiness
- To
help the further ascent of the human race
- To
cherish its endless, beautiful diversity
- To
educate your children as world citizens
- and
loving servants of God
-
- To
leave behind you the memory
- of
a joyful, kind human being
- And
to spend your heaven doing good on Earth.
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Volume
I
Chapter 4
Our
Place in Time
-
- If
our globe could speak, he would say to us:
- "You
make me laugh, you humans. I have been twirling around
for four and a half billion years. I have seen many
upheavals in my flesh, I have seen continents disappear,
seas change place, mountains surge, ice covers come and
go, an atmosphere be born, vegetation arise, life
develop, species' evolve and disappear. You came into
being only a million years ago. I have seen you crawl in
utter ignorance for most of that time. Only a few hundred
years ago did you at long last discover that I was round
and older than just a few thousand years. I have observed
you and I must tell you this:
- You
will go nowhere if you do not remember that I will be
around for several more billion years, that my body will
be shaken by many more physical and climatic changes;
that for your maximum enjoyment and survival you must
treat and manage me with care; that you must put yourself
in my place and lift your eyes, as I do, to the sun, to
the universe, to infinity and eternity of which I am only
a tiny part. After your cave age, after your crawling
age, after your tribal age, after your feudal age, after
your national age, you have at long last entered my age:
the Age of the Globe, the global age. But this is still
insufficient, for you will have to enter the cosmic age
in which you will see your proper place and
responsibilities in the universe and in time. This will
be the next great period of your journey. And I can
assure you that you will find it exciting and very
uplifting."
- *
-
- We
have learned to see into the infinitely large and
infinitely small. We have made immense progress in
investigating our planet's present and past. But we are
barely beginning to conceive our future, our place and
role in evolution. The most important dimension of
planetary management is still to come.
- *
-
- There
are scientists who believe that everything can be
explained by evolution. Yet evolution is only a small
period of time of a few million years on our minuscule
planet in a minor solar system. Creation is infinitely
vaster and more mysterious than what we can ever
comprehend. Evolution is just a drop in the cosmic
sea.
- This
does not mean that we are not a marvelous planet, a
tremendous achievement, a true jewel in the universe.
Everything in Creation is a manifestation of a sublime,
stupendous force, of cosmic blueprints or designs. But
scientists must not limit life on our planet to a theory
of evolution. There is infinitely more in the heavens and
on Earth than in any human theory.
- *
-
- On
the eve of the year 1000 humans believed that the world
would come to an end. It didn't, and cathedrals were
built to thank God. We were more hopeful as we neared the
year 2000 and had a great Celebration of the
Bimillennium. Now we must settle the last conflicts on
Earth and develop for the 21st century a novel vision of
the human destiny on our miraculous, celestial planet.
Let us plan one positive decade and century after another
toward an unprecedented world-wide Trimillennium
Celebration.
- *
-
- I
would like to see a whole series of studies and articles
published, showing how the world, nature, the continents,
the regions, countries and local communities looked like
in the years 2000 BC, 1000 BC, 1,1000 and 2000 A.D. It
would show the incredible extent of our journey, our
successes and failures, give us a clue to the deeper
meaning of life and guide our future destiny in the next
1000 years.
- *
-
- For
each of the layers of our place in space, of our planet
and of the human family, there is a time dimension. Add
to them the past, the present and the future and you will
have an image of the fathomless ball of intensities and
complexities our planet constitutes in the universe. We
might never be able to grasp it all. We can only try and
partake in it.
- Our
consolation is that there is still immense leeway for our
further search and that we are a lucky species which is
able to transcend itself into such a prodigious knowledge
and time dimension.
-
- Our
Place in the Universe
-
- the
universe: past present future
- the
stars: " " "
- our
solar system: " " "
- our
Earth: " " "
- the
atmosphere: " " "
- the
biosphere: " " "
- the
seas and oceans: " " "
- the
polar caps: " " "
- the
arable lands: " " "
- the
deserts: " " "
- the
mountains: " " "
- the
Earth's climate: " " "
- the
Earth's water: " " "
- Plant
life: " " "
- Animal
life: " " "
- Human
life: " " "
- the
Earth's crust: " " "
- the
Earth's minerals: " " "
- the
Earth's heat: " " "
- infinitely
small life: " " "
- infinitely
small matter
- or
energy: " " "
-
-
-
- The
Human Family
-
- world
population past present future
- human
settlements " " "
- and
migrations " " "
- Human
longevity " " "
- Races
" " "
- Sexes
" " "
- Children
" " "
- Youth
" " "
- Adults
" " "
- The
elderly " " "
- The
handicapped " " "
- The
individual " " "
- Our
levels of nutrition " " "
- Our
levels of health " " "
- Our
standards of life " " "
- Our
skills and employment " " "
- Our
levels of education " " "
- Our
moral levels " " "
- Our
spiritual levels " " "
- The
family " " "
- Local
communities " " "
- Professions
" " "
- Corporations
" " "
- Institutions
" " "
- Nations
" " "
- Federations,
regional
- organizations
" " "
- Religions
" " "
- Multinational
business " " "
- Transnational
networks " " "
- and
associations " " "
- World
Organizations " " "
-
-
-
- This
is the third great canvass produced by the United Nations
for a better understanding of our place and journey in
the universe and as a framework for proper Earth and
human guidance and government.
- In
each UN agency, the above facets are examined from the
three points of view of the past, the present and the
future. Each agency is concerned about the future in its
field of competence: Population 2025, 2050, 2100;
Environment 2013; Food 2010; Health 2010; Education 2010;
Climate in the next centuries; etc.
- *
-
- In
the 17th century, Bishop Usher thought that the Earth was
4000 years old. Then the French naturalist Buffon
estimated that it was at least several hundred thousand
years old. Today we believe that our planet is more than
4 1/2 billion years old and that our sun and Earth will
remain in existence for another 6 to 8 billion years
until we explode and vanish again into the universe to
become other stars and planets.
- We
are therefore beginning to wonder how much longer we can
grow "economically" at the expense of the planet. Limits
to growth have been recognized and the concept of
sustainable development is now predominant. Concern about
the future is arising and spreading rapidly throughout
the human society.
- *
-
- There
are not yet Ministries of the Future in governments, but
the new European Union has created the position of
Commissioner of the Future.
- *
-
- "In
our way of life
- with
every decision we make
- we
always keep in mind
- the
seventh generation to come...
- When
we walk upon Mother Earth, we
- always
plant our feet carefully,
- because
we know that the faces of our
- future
generations are looking up at us
- from
beneath the ground.
- We
never forget them."
- Oren
Lyons
- Faithkeeper
of the Onondaga
- *
-
- Jacques
Cousteau has correctly raised the question of the rights
of future generations.
- I
have myself raised the following new rights:
- -
the right of humans to a proper planning of the future by
governments and world agencies;
- -
the right to a well-preserved planet
- -
the rights of the Earth and implementation of the UN
Charter of Nature and Earth Charter
- -
the right to a preserved past
- -
the right to life of other species
- *
-
-
-
-
- There
is no need for a new revolutionary expansion of the human
brain in order to grasp the unprecedented complexities of
our human and planetary conditions. We must learn to
reorganize our brain and to utilize it better. There is
need also to recognize the birth of a global brain of
which the UN and its agencies are the nascent core. The
dinosaurs died out because their brains were too small.
The human species might die too if it does not acquire
and nourish a greatly expanded, improved global
brain.
- *
-
- The
extreme span and diversity of our knowledge is luckily
accompanied by an extreme diversity of human capacities
and inventions. We have sufficiently diverse talents and
professions to deal with the complexity. We have
telescopes and space probes to study the universe,
satellites to observe our planet, microscopes, picoscopes
and bubble chambers to study the infinitely small; we
have the necessary computers to store our immense
knowledge and make calculations of which our brain would
not be capable. For all practical purposes, we have
become a new species with tremendously expanded senses,
transformative and reactive capacities, and global means
of forecasting, action, adaptation and course
correction.
- *
-
- The
time dimension of human disciplines varies enormously:
the exact sciences are generally very future oriented,
while the social sciences usually relish with the past
and with limited areas. In order to foster the emergence
of a global human family and prepare for proper Earth
government we need more future oriented social sciences.
In particular we need:
-
- a
global anthropology
- a
global philosophy
- a
global sociology
- a
global psychology
- a
global spirituality, etc.
-
- Margaret
Mead used to say to her students:
- "Go
and study the United Nations which is for young
anthropologists today what New Guinea was during my
youth."
- *
-
- A
good comparison is to see the entire history of our
planet reduced to the span of one day: the birth of the
human race occurs only 5 minutes before midnight, the
industrial civilization only at the first strike of
twelve, and the environmental crisis at the second
strike.
- Another
view is to see that we have still two long days before us
and that the strikes of midnights are in reality opening
our global age.
- *
-
- Humanity,
like an individual, needs a purpose, dreams, new visions,
shores to swim at, peaks to climb. Our next target must
be the year 3000.
- *
-
-
- The
study of organic deposits in the ice layers of our Poles
has revealed that the last million years were divided
between ice ages of about 100,000 years and warm periods
of 20,000 years. The question now arises: are we entering
a period of accelerating warming due to our activities or
are we coming to the end of the current warm period and
heading towards a new ice age? In the series of world
conferences convened by the UN for a better knowledge of
Planet Earth, the first world climate conferences in
history met 1979, 1982 and 1989. Opinions were divided
among scientists, but a world-wide climate watch and
study program was agreed upon. The most vivid proof of
human optimism is that means for avoiding a warming up of
the planet and techniques for the avoidance of a new ice
age are being considered, for example reflection of solar
heat by satellite and spraying ice masses with
heat-absorbing carbon black! Imagine! A species ready to
change the geophysical course of a planet! We are really
a tremendous race in the universe! God may even have some
admiration for us.
- *
- To
believe in the future is the best contribution to
humanity's progress. No one should ever commit the sin
not to believe in the success of the human species. It is
the most inhuman, damaging error.
- *
-
- A
Hindu UN colleague kept telling me that I was in the
hands and power of a Hindu Goddess who had a special fate
in store for me. Each time we met, he had an allegory
ready. For instance:
- "A
Chinese emperor assembled his wisest philosophers on top
of a mountain to agree on a single sentence that would
contain the ultimate wisdom of life. After several days
they gave him this answer:
- "Everything
has an end."
- My
colleague was watching me intently with his deep, dark,
mysterious eyes. My mind caught his challenge and I
answered:
- "They
were wrong, utterly wrong. The idea of a beginning and of
an end is a very poor human concept derived from our
limited senses. The notions of beginning and end are even
more incomprehensible than those of eternity and
infinity. There is no end. There is only a change of
worlds. If one sentence could encompass the incredible
mystery of life, I would say:
- "Thank
You, O God, for the astonishing miracle of
life."
- His
eyes brightened up and he seemed satisfied.
- *
-
- Human
history so far has been a rather primitive history. Only
now, with planet-wide knowledge and consciousness, can we
cope with the real challenges to our species: the proper
management of our planet, the global age, the planetary
age. That global story began with the birth of the United
Nations and its specialized agencies, the first world
conferences on outer space, population, the environment,
water, energy, habitat, the deserts, the seas and oceans,
the climate, the children, youth, women, the aging, the
handicapped, etc.
- *
-
- History
is the recording of a journey through time. Nations hold
the forefront and monopolize the word: national history
is the only history taught in schools. Neglected are: the
history of the universe, of our solar system, of our
globe, of humanity, of world organizations, of continent,
bioregions or regions, of cities, of village, of families
and individuals. Local history and world history are the
worst off. The national histories of 189 nations are all
pervasive. There must be a revolution, the introduction
of a rational logic in the concepts and teaching of
history, of the time frame in which we
evolve.
- *
-
-
- Our
life-long learning and search must have a reason. Is it
for ourselves? Partly yes, but largely no, for we will
die. So it must be to enrich humanity and its future
journey. My life makes therefore sense only as part of
the total flow of human life through time. I am part of
the whole flow. Perhaps we do not even die: we simply go
through a special life form, the human form.
- *
-
- This
planet perhaps needed a bloodstream, a nervous system, a
brain, a heart and a soul in order to become fully
conscious of itself. So it developed the human species.
It took only a short evolutionary period of a million
years for humans to reach the stage when today we can
perform these tasks. But we must realize that we are not
performing them for ourselves but for the Earth, as
integral parts of the Earth and of the
universe.
- *
-
- Since
the Earth is part of the universe and is made of cosmic
matter and energy, we humans are living cosmic units
driven forward to incessant further cosmic consciousness
and responsibility. We are co-Creators in the evolution
of this planet and of the universe.
- *
-
- Once
when I delivered a speech, a man put in front of me a
cosmic clock which showed the speed at which the Earth
was rotating around itself, around the sun and around our
galactic center. When I finished speaking, I could see
the millions of miles covered by our little globe during
my speech! Such clocks should be available in every home,
in every meeting and on the desk of every head of
state.
- *
-
- Suppose
the universe is producing innumerable stars - like a tree
produces innumerable seeds, like a fish lays innumerable
eggs - and heats innumerable planets for billions of
years until one of them produces a miracle: life, matter
and energy become life of ever more complex and marvelous
forms! What a responsibility that would mean for us! What
a change of politics, attitudes and values it would
demand!
- *
-
- I
am part of a vast interdependent flow, from the I through
the family, the group, the nation, humanity and the globe
to the heavens and universe. Pantha rhei as the Greeks
said: i.e. everything flows. I, my family, my group, my
nation, humanity, the globe, the heavens and the
universe, everything is interdependent and flows in the
eternal stream of time.
- *
-
- Each
day is a self-contained unit of eternity. Use it
preciously and with utmost care. Every moment is great,
for it is part of a precious cosmic journey.
- *
-
- A
13 year old girl of a Robert Muller School
wrote:
- "We
should study the mistakes we made in the
past.
- We
should correct our current mistakes.
- We
should prevent mistakes in the future and prepare a
better world."
- What
a wonderful concept of history this is: history as the
study of our mistakes! Few are the historians who have
conceived it in such a useful way!
- *
-
-
-
- The
great Renaissances in human history were all due to
fundamental new advances in human understanding and
consciousness of the mysteries of life and of the
universe: the Greek Renaissance was due to the discovery
of the power of the mind. The Renaissance after the
Middle Ages was due to science and the spread of
discovery and knowledge. Today's Renaissance will be due
to the grandiose framework of our knowledge of the
universe, from the infinitely large to the infinitely
small, of our planetary home in all its aspects, of the
entire human race down to the miracle of individual life,
from the remotest past to the most distant future. It
will be the birth, the flowering of a tremendous global,
cosmic, transcendental, spiritual age.
- *
-
- The
philosopher Leibniz predicted that humanity would be so
thrilled by the power of science that humans would
dissect and analyze reality for centuries, with endless
excitement, but that there would come a time when the
complexities of our discoveries would be such that a
renaissance of universal, global thinking would arise. We
have reached that stage when all our knowledge must be
put in good order, in a comprehensive all-including
framework which shows the sense and directions of our
further evolution and behavior on this planet. In the
Universities it is called the need for an
"interdisciplinary" or "interdependent" or "holistic"
approach.
- *
-
- Once
I met an expert who had been hired by a big foundation to
evaluate the UN's first world conference on the
environment held in Stockholm in 1972. He stopped me and
said: "Robert, you will be interested in my conclusion,
the environment is basically a spiritual
issue."
- He
saw surprise written on my face and continued: "Yes. If a
businessman or a politician takes a decision thinking
only of its effects during his lifetime he will not care
about the environment. But if he thinks of the effects on
his children, grandchildren and future generations, he
will care for it. It is therefore a spiritual
question."
- *
-
- If
you called the 189 heads of state of this planet and
asked them what the world population will be in the year
2025 or 2050, probably not one would know the answer.
They might not even know the figure for their own
country. And yet, it is one of the most crucial factors
for the future of their nation and of the world. It is
high time that we change our outlook, that we futurize
it.
- *
-
- The
majority of politicians of tomorrow should be biologists,
no longer lawyers and economists.
- *
-
- From
the mail I receive, from the articles and books I read,
from conferences I attend, from UN debates and
documentation, I have the definite impression that the
whole human species is now engaged collectively in
seeking its meaning and ways on this planet in the
universe. From individual seeking we are passing to
collective seeking. It is a fantastic, unprecedented new
page of history. From a pessimistic young man after World
War II when I entered the UN I have become an optimistic
believer in the success and fulfillment of the human
species.
- *
-
- MY
DREAM 3000
-
-
- I
dream that we humans,
- the
most advanced miracle
- of
life in the universe
- will
lift our sights, hopes and dreams to the year
3000
- and
make the third millennium
- a
tremendous, unbelievable cosmic success.
-
- I
dream that all governments will join their minds and
hearts
- to
manage this beautiful Earth and its precious
humanity
- in
peace, justice and happiness,
-
- That
all religions will join
- in
a global spirituality,
-
- That
all people will become
- a
caring family,
-
- That
all scientists will join
- in
a united, ethical science,
-
- That
all corporations will unite
- in
a global cooperative
- to
preserve nature and all humanity.
-
- I
believe that once and for ever,
- we
will eliminate all wars, violence and armaments from this
miraculous planet.
-
- I
dream that the incredible and
- growing
distance between rich and poor,
- between
and inside nations
- will
be eliminated as a blemish
- to
the miracle of life.
-
- I
dream that we will stop the destruction
- of
our miraculous, so richly endowed planetary
home.
-
-
- I
dream that we will eliminate all lies, corruption and
immoral advertisements for purely monetary
purposes.
-
- I
dream that we will all live
- simple,
frugal lives in order
- not
to waste unduly the precious
- resources
of our planet.
-
- I
dream that each decade and centennial
- will
be celebrated as a great
- world
wide thanksgiving for our successes.
-
- I
dream that we will succeed in making our
planet
- the
ultimate success of God,
- of
the mysterious forces of the
- universe
of which each of us
- is
a miraculous, cosmic unit.
-
- I
dream that the United Nations will
- declare
a yearly World Thanksgiving Day
-
- Dear
brothers and sisters,
- dear
children, youth, adults and elderly,
- dear
spirits of all the departed
- let
us join forces in fulfilling God's loving destiny
intended for all of humanity
-
- Let
us prepare the year 3000
- as
the most extraordinary celebration
- of
our grandiose, mysterious journey
- in
the star studded heavens.
-
- Let
us make this third millennium
- a
Jubillennium filled with overflowing peace, love,
happiness and thanksgiving.
-
- Robert
Muller
-
-
- *
-
- ANNEX
- Proposals
for a Strategy of Concerns for the Future
-
- Objective:
how is the future dealt with and treated by those who
govern, guide or deeply influence the future of the world
and humanity?
-
- These
are:
-
- national,
provincial and local governments
- heads
of states
- parliaments
- business,
especially big business, the multinationals and world
corporations
- the
military
- scientists,
mostly employed by governments, business, the military
and universities
- universities
and education
- the
media and advertisement
- religions,
many international, with cosmic views and millions of
followers
- international
organizations
- world
organizations
- continental
organizations (e.g. the European Union)
- regional
organizations
- world
non-governmental, peoples' organizations
-
- A
major first step would be to survey to what extent and
how the future is being considered and dealt with or not
by these main actors. It would be a vast project but it
seems essential to consider it. Examples: the UN
University or the UN Institute for Training and Research
(UNITAR) could produce a survey of how the future is
dealt with in the United Nations, by its 32 specialized
agencies, world programs, and regional Commissions. The
Union of International Associations in Brussels could
make a survey of the international non-governmental
organizations which deal with the future. The United
Religions Initiative could make a survey of how the
future is treated in the world's religions. The same for
universities, etc. projects like that could be financed
with grants from the Foundation for the
Future.
-
- The
above actors should take organizational steps. For
example, the UN should create a Main Commission of the
Future as part of the General Assembly, or a World
Council of the Future or an entire new specialized
agency. All governments should create Ministries of the
Future, universities Departments of the Future. The US
Vice-presidency for Global Affairs could become a
Vice-presidency for Global Affairs and the Future, an
example to be followed by other countries. One major
regional organization, the European Union has a
Commissioner for the Future, an example to be followed by
other regional organizations.
-
- The
result would be a quantum leap into concern about the
future and might save us from major future
disasters.
-
- Three
fundamental elements must be remembered when dealing with
the future and its treatment in the current human
society:
-
- 1.
the conclusion of astrophysicist Eric Chaisson and Nobel
Prize winner biologist Christian de Duve that we have
reached a point of evolution when new values, a new
wisdom are needed on this planet if evolution is to
continue. This must be learned and accepted by the above
actors, and implemented by them in their
constituencies;
-
- 2.
institutions are a major factor of world government and
further evolution. Alas, they are generally closed to
change and to adaptation to new requirements of
evolution. They resist the creation of new institutions
or institutional reforms which would make them lose their
power. How can that obstacle be surmounted?
-
- 3.
people often act only when compelled by legislation
(e.g., to pay taxes). The 1997 special UN General
Assembly revealed that almost the entire recommendations
of the second world conference on the environment in Rio
de Janeiro in 1992, the famous Rio Agenda 21, were not
implemented by governments! Further evolution of our
planet might be seriously impaired as a result of
non-coercive implementation through national and world
laws.
-
Volume
I
Chapter 5
- The
Miracle of Individual Life
-
- What
a miracle it is just to be alive! How we will regret to
have underestimated it, when we die!
- *
-
- What
a stupendous happening it is in the universe when on a
tiny planet of rocks and water, innumerable species' can
see, hear, walk, fly, swim, sing, build, and that one of
them has been able to transform itself into a new species
by multiplying:
-
- -
the power of its hands through incredible machines and
factories;
- -
the distance of its legs through boats, trains, cars,
airplanes and space vessels;
- -
the range of its eyesight through telescopes, television,
microscopes and atomic bubble chambers;
- -
the range of its hearing through telephone, radio, sonars
and satellites;
- -
the capacity of its mind, memory and imagination through
electronic brains and computers.
-
- We
must be proud to belong to that species and through right
knowledge and behavior be worthy of the privilege of
living on that planet and of not impairing its
future.
- *
-
- It
is amazing how little humans are aware of the incredible
phenomenon they are in the universe, of how great human
life is, of what wonders their lives can be. This planet
must be governed so that each individual human life can
be a miracle, a work of art. Each human must be taught
and helped to be the artisan and artist of his miraculous
life.
- *
-
- A
fourth framework produced by the UN for a better
understanding of our place and role in the universe is
this:
-
- The
miracle of individual human life
-
- -
good physical lives
-
- knowledge
and care of the body
- the
human ability to see, to hear, to observe,
- to
create, to do, to use well and expand all our
- senses
and physical abilities
-
- -
good mental lives
-
- knowledge
- the
ability to question, to think, to imagine, to dream, to
analyze, to synthesize, to conclude, to
decide
- to
communicate
- the
ability to focus from the infinitely
- large
to the infinitely small, from the distant past and
present to the future
-
-
-
- -
good moral lives
-
- the
ability to love
- the
human needs for truth, understanding, liberty, reverence
for life, compassion and altruism
-
- -
good spiritual lives
-
- spiritual
exercises of interiority,
- meditation,
prayer, and communion with the universe, eternity and
God.
-
- Again
the UN and its agencies are actively working and
cooperating on all these aspects of human life, the lead
agencies being:
-
- On
individual life in general
- On
good physical lives and well being
- On
good mental lives
- On
good moral lives
- On
good spiritual lives The UN
- UN,
FAO, WHO
- UN,
UNESCO
- UN,
UNESCO
- UN,
UNESCO
- *
-
- Human
medicine thinks it has done a miracle when it is able to
repair a malfunctioning of our body. But what an
infinitely greater miracle it was to create that body
with its 30 trillion constantly renewed cells, all
working harmoniously together in a stupendous variety of
organs and automatic functions!
- *
-
- If
we were to command our heart to beat every second, our
lungs to breathe, our brain to interpret the millions of
bits of information received by our eyes and ears, we
would get crazy and die within minutes. But all this, and
much more, functions during a whole life automatically,
without our intervention. What an infinity of miracles
our body consists of! Just think that during 75 years -
the longevity in the rich countries - a heart beats 3
billion times! What an extraordinary, faithful life
servant this is!
- *
-
- Every
day we should thank our body, our cells, our eyes, our
ears, our heart, our hands, our brain, our lungs, our
legs, our stomach, our bowels and all other organs for
serving us so well, so faithfully and so long. We should
ask them for forgiveness when we mistreat them, poison
them with drugs, tobacco and alcohol, risk them and do
not love them dearly enough.
- *
-
- There
is not a moment in life when we cannot learn something,
see a new wonder of Creation, have an unexpected thought,
be thrilled by the profusing beauty of our Mother Earth.
We should be constantly all smiles, open eyes, open
minds, open hearts, and drink avidly from the marvelous
waters and sights of life.
- *
-
- My
aim is to live a wholesome, happy very long life and to
belong, body, heart, mind and soul to the wholeness of
Creation.
- *
-
- From
a reader:
- "Your
book Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness puzzles me
more and more. Every evening I read or reread a chapter
and each time I discover a new truth. I now find myself
being grateful for every day of my life and thanking God
for that extraordinarily precious gift. I had never done
this before. I have learned more from your book than from
my Ph.D. in philosophy."
- *
-
- Human
life is a many-sided marvel. Our little cosmic unit
reaches out into every possible direction: the past, the
present, the future, the small, the infinitely large, the
above and the below, the most immediate events, objects,
persons, feelings and thoughts, and the entire planet and
human family. We seem to contain the nuclei of the entire
universe and time. And yet our little, intensively packed
cosmos has difficulty to understand itself, the mystery
of life, Creation and evolution! Could full
self-knowledge be a built-in "limitation" of the
infinite, eternal reality? Might Paradise simply be to
feel, to enjoy, to be happy, to let flow and not try to
analyze and understand the miracle of life?
- *
-
- I
can love my life without understanding why,
- like
a mother loves heavenly her child
- And
my life will love me simply for loving it.
- *
-
- 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.
- *
-
- 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.
- *
-
- 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.
- *
-
-
- 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.
- *
-
- Each
individual should be considered sacred until proven
contrary.
- *
-
- When
we cry the loss of a dear one, we bemoan above all the
loss of life. Hence life must be something incredibly
valuable, to judge from our grief. But why wait until
death to recognize the miracle of life?
- *
-
- At
the end of my French novel, Sima Mon Amour, I wish that
the following be inscribed on my tomb:
- "O
you who passes by, I beg you: love your life with
passion, embrace it with fervor, cherish every moment of
it, do not lose any of it, for it is an astounding
miracle. Contemplate the blue sky and the passing clouds,
your human companions, your sisters the flowers, your
friends the animals. Be drunk with sunshine and
starshine. Be convinced that this Earth is
paradise.
- Here
rests under some soil from various lands he loved, a body
who was inhabited by the miracle of life. I would give a
thousand years of my death for a brief ray of light, for
a flower touched by my hands, for a kiss of my beloved
one, for a smile of my child...
- O
humans who are still alive, do not lose your precious
time in sterile wars, in useless hatred, in mediocre
ambitions. Ceaselessly love life, your enchanted planet,
God and the universe. They are incredible treasures. Love
with passion the miraculous world which surrounds you.
Here where I am, a few feet from you, there is only
darkness."
- *
-
- Life,
life, life, o God-given life, how I love you, how I am in
passion with you!
- *
-
- My
schoolfriends used to laugh at me when I said: "Das Leben
is göttlich", "Life is divine". Today after a half a
century of living all over the globe, through war and
peace, I still hold that view, more firmly than ever and
proclaim that life is godlike, is divine.
- *
-
- In
the end, we must be concerned not with materialism or
spirituality, religion or atheism, capitalism or
communism, nationalism or internationalism, individualism
or altruism, but with the immensely more profound
question: what do these vast, stupendous mysteries around
us mean, what is the purpose of life, why do we live and
die, what sense does it make, what is our ultimate reason
for being, how can we enjoy and fulfill our extraordinary
gift of life instead of believing, doing, learning,
reading and coveting what a few privileged, often
misguided individuals tell us or sell us to
do?
- *
-
- The
human journey on this planet in the universe is so
fabulous that no one should ever tarnish it with hatred,
injustice, falsehood, harming and unhappiness. Such a
story commands unlimited respect, thanksgiving, wonder
and joy. Wars and violence have no place on miraculous
planet Earth.
- *
-
-
- Never
commit the mortal sin not to believe in life, not to love
passionately the incredible miracle it is.
- *
-
- The
first thing we see when we meet another human being is
that he is alive. Those who are sick and dying are out of
sight in their homes or in hospitals, and those who are
dead have been removed. Hence the supreme value for
humans is life itself, not youth, not beauty, not
intelligence, not prosperity. A poor, old, ugly living
human has an immense advantage over a dead child, a dead
beautiful woman, a dead wealthy, powerful man: he is
alive.
- Therefore,
the great truth for us is not "I think, therefore I am",
but "I live, therefore I am." "To be or not to be, that
is the question."
- *
-
- Many
indigenous people of the world greet each other with the
words: "I am happy that you are alive." What a great,
meaningful greeting this is!
- *
-
- In
Latin America one is greeted in the morning with the
words: Como amaneció? How did you wake up? I
always answer: Amanecí! I woke up. That alone is
vital.
- *
-
- The
first and greatest commandment on planet Earth should
be:
- "Thou
shall not kill, not even in the name of a nation nor a
religion, nor anyone else."
- War
and its killing tools must be totally eliminated from
this planet. Under no circumstance can they ever be
justified, for they are against the sanctity, the
miracle, the uniqueness of individual human life. All
problems and conflicts on this planet must be solved by
peaceful means and methods. Any other ways which harm or
kill human lives must be declared inhuman and outlawed.
There can be no excuse.
-
- *
-
- From
a reader:
- "My
husband has found your thought that each individual is
"unique" and unrepeatable quite rewarding. He now sees
something good in every person he meets."
- *
-
- Life
is divine. Period.
- And
this planet must be governed so that each individual life
can be divine.
- *
-
- O
God, what means the breathtaking, fathomless mystery of
life? Please tell us.
- *
-
- What
an incredible miracle I see in every human being! I can
observe them with endless fascination, especially when
they are kind, smiling and beautiful!
- *
-
- What
an endless, delicate, complex miracle life is! We will
never be able to fathom its depth. But we must never
cease to try, to be astonished and to be in deep love
with it.
- *
-
-
- I
cannot thank God enough for His miraculous gift of my
eyes through which the minuscule creature I am can see
the stars, the heavens and our beautiful Mother Earth!
How lucky we are!
- *
-
- We
must let the best flower in each individual.
- It
would have been wrong to make of Jesus a lawyer or an
economist.
- *
-
- Thank
You, O God for having allowed me to write Most of All,
They Taught Me Happiness, were it only for engendering
this beautiful sentence by Norman Cousins in the
preface:
- "The
tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die in us
while we live."
- Having
found it, I would like to help others to see the
incredible beauty and meaning of human life.
- *
-
- How
strange that not many people are interested in the most
stupendous, most miraculous, most unique, most
fascinating treasure on Earth: their own life and being.
Try to understand your physical, mental, sentimental,
spiritual and total life, and you will be astonished
beyond belief. This should be taught in all schools of
the world as it is in the schools which bear my
name.
- *
-
- Life
is our most precious gift, treasure, capital, belonging,
wealth, stock, worth, asset, jewel, miracle, etc. Nothing
can equal it.
- *
-
- I
do not want life to have a meaning, I know that it has a
meaning, a tremendous one!
- *
-
- I
love the Hindu concept of Trilokonath: one who is able to
live on three planes - the plane of inner life, of outer
life and the life above, the heavenly, cosmic, angelic or
spiritual life. This is the cosmic, divine characteristic
of us humans: we can aggrandize ourselves from our inner
and daily life to the totality of humanity, of the
planet, of the universe and of infinity. It applies to
any group which has an inner, an outer and a spiritual,
cosmic life. To participate in these lives aggrandizes
our own personal lives.
- *
-
- I
similarly love the Hindu concept of Trikaldarshi: one who
is able to live in the past, in the present and in the
future.
- Humans
are the only species which can do that.
- We
are very advanced cosmic beings: we try to comprehend the
time dimension of the universe through paleontology,
archaeology, history, current knowledge and futurology.
Each human group tends to do that from the individual
family to humanity. As a cosmic unit of perception, I can
derive much happiness from my own trikaldarshism as well
as from the trikaldarshism of the human
society.
- *
-
- The
human being is a tremendous multi-oriented
miracle:
- we
can be inward-looking
- -
people-oriented
- -
nature-oriented
- -
heaven-oriented
- -
past-oriented
- -
present-oriented
- -
future-oriented
-
- No
human-made robot will ever match the multi-capacities of
a living human being.
- *
-
- President
Franklin Roosevelt used to place memorabilia on his desk
to remind him of happy events and people. He changed them
once in a while in order to broaden and diversify his
sources of happiness and inspiration. I did the same at
the United Nations, adding also objects which reminded me
why I was there. Among these was a picture of me as a
young underground fighter in France and a German helmet
pierced with bullet holes from World War II. Gandhi
recommended to Indian officials to have on their desk the
picture of the poorest person they ever saw to remind
them of their duties. Every human person can do that. I
do it at the University for Peace. Many display pictures
of their loved ones.
- *
-
- We
should be happy to be born at a time when we know so much
and live longer than at any time before.
- *
-
- No
one can conquer the world. But you can conquer yourself
and make a masterpiece of your life. Take this as your
objective and you will find untold
unhappiness.
- *
-
- A
human being is something so miraculous, so well-built, so
extraordinary, so incredible, that God or evolution or
the cosmos must have had a special reason and design for
creating us. To find that reason should be our main
concern and research if we are to progress in our cosmic,
ascending journey. Yes, what is our ultimate reason in
the universe?
- *
-
- At
the core of each human being there is a power house, a
center of command, a chip of cosmic memory, a genetic
bank which judges all our actions, successes and errors
in trying to be fully human, i.e. to fulfill the cosmic
function for which we were born on this planet in the
universe.
- In
the end, each human being is therefore the judge of his
or her own actions and an interpreter of God's or the
universe's will.
- *
-
- Never
come up with the excuse that someone else is greater than
you and that you cannot be like him or her. Be fully what
you desire to be and you will be it. The results will
astonish you.
- *
-
-
-
-
- I
am incredibly egotistic: I want to be the happiest, most
fulfilled, optimistic human being on Earth. To achieve
that, I open myself to everything around me, to every
happening, to every encounter. My total, global,
universal outreaches enrich me to an incredible degree.
It is with enrichment of life as it is with enrichment of
wealth: you must seek it wide and far and let it
in.
- *
-
- When
I do not like the present, I dream of a beautiful event
of the past or of a brighter future.
- When
I do not like the world, I think of the
heavens.
- When
I do not like my body, I think of my soul.
- *
-
- Even
in the worst circumstances one can at least try to find
happiness. Arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into a cell
filled with prisoners, unable to sit or to lie on the
floor, I moved towards the door and with a pencil wrote
on it a love scene on top of a mountain with a beautiful
girl, view and the freshest air in the world. My body was
in the prison, but not my mind and my heart: they were
outside, in heaven.
- *
-
- There
is a world of food out there. We eat, digest and
transform it. There is a world of sights out there. We
see, digest and transform them. There is a world of ideas
and values out there. We take, digest and transform them.
We are both external and internal beings. We are part of
everything and at the same time incredibly distinct. What
a marvelous unique, sacred creation each human person
is!
- *
-
- Always
go home to yourself, the way a tourist returns home after
visiting the world. We are all tourists of life. We need
to go home to ourselves every evening.
- *
-
- Do
not admire me. Do not consider me great, for it would
mean an abandonment of your own greatness. You are great.
You are a miracle. You are a divine cosmos. Never have
any inferiority complex towards others. I only want to
show you the path, not to be admired. If you admire me,
you defeat my purpose. Be yourself, respect yourself,
cultivate yourself, validate yourself. This will be your
best way of thanking me for my innumerable writings,
speeches and actions..
- *
-
- Every
human being is unique and precious. My father the
hatmaker was as precious as Jesus, Mozart and
Shakespeare. This is what Jesus, Mozart and Shakespeare
were trying to tell us!
- *
-
- To
be alive! What wonders, what riches we can extract from
the mere fact of being alive! No wealth on Earth can ever
match the worth of a single human life.
- *
-
- Do
not concentrate on your little woes and worries. See the
beauty and uniqueness of your miraculous being. Little
imperfections and accidents are your
safeguards.
- *
- How
marvelous human perceptions are! I think of you and
forthwith I am with you.
- *
-
- My
fundamental, most sacred allegiance is not to a nation,
to an ideology, to a religion, but to life itself. As
long as all humans do not follow this rule, there will be
no peace on Earth.
- *
-
- All
humans are equally important. The extra capacities of
geniuses are no more than small bushes on a
mountain.
- *
-
- We
have all limits and unlimits. Our nature is both limited
and unlimited. Observe and utilize well both realities of
your astonishing being.
- *
-
- What
is your greatest treasure? Most people will answer: "to
be in good health, to have a good family, to be well-off,
etc. Yes, but the first answer should be: to be
alive."
- *
-
- Each
of us is a crossroads of eternity and of
infinity.
- Each
of us is a creator of eternity and of
infinity.
- No
human words will ever be able to express the real meaning
and greatness of life!
- *
-
- Truth
cannot be found outside of a human person. It is deeply
enfleshed in our being. Know thyself and you will find
truth, fulfillment and happiness.
- *
-
- All
great projects begin with one single person with one
thought, with one idea. From that person, vibrations will
reach out to like-minded people in the world. The
individual person is the alpha and omega of all great
changes on Earth.
- *
-
- What
is the most fascinating thing on Earth?
- My
own life.
- All
external things are fascinating only inasmuch as I see
them as such.
- My
own life, my own functioning, my own complexity, my own
capacity to think, to dream, to imagine, to love, to act,
those are for me the most fascinating things on Earth: I,
a microcosm of the universe.
- *
-
- Dear
philosopher Descartes,
- I
believe that I am infinitely more than what you thought
when you said "I think, therefore I am". In my
opinion.
-
- I
breathe, therefore I am
- I
see, therefore I am
- I
hear, therefore I am
- I
think, therefore I am
- I
love, therefore I am
- I
feel, therefore I am.
-
- Of
course, you might return:
- "You
thought everything you just said. Therefore I am right
after all!" No, you are not right, because when I
breathe, when I see, when I hear, when I love, when I
feel I do not necessarily think.
- *
-
-
- What
a tremendous amount of potential life, what an intensity
of feelings, what a power of thought and imagination
there can be in one single human being! Please, dear
reader, do not miss to explore the wealth, the miracle,
the divine work of art you are.
- *
-
- If
human beings probed the power of their imagination, they
would be endlessly astonished.
- *
-
- Everything
has been lived, everything has been thought, everything
has been dreamt, everything has been felt, everything has
been said, but the great art of living is to live it all
over again, to think it again, to dream it again, to feel
it again, to say it again yourself. Each human being
repeats the entire story of the universe. And while we
are all fundamentally the same, we are each unique and
forever unrepeatable. This is one of the beauties of
Creation.
- *
-
- God
has placed us on this planet to take good care of it and
to chant the miracle, the glory of life.
- *
-
- Decide
to be a Miracle....
-
- Open
yourself widely
- To
God
- To
the Universe
- To
humanity
- To
all your brethren and sisters
- To
your vast inner life.
-
- Open
your mind
- Open
your heart
- Open
your soul
- Open
all your being and senses
- To
the greatness of Creation
- To
the beauty of the Earth
- To
the potential of the human race
- To
the riches of your inner self
-
- And
you will become the Universe
- You
will become Creation
- You
will become the Earth
- You
will become humanity
- You
will become infinity
-
- You
will be at long last your real,
- divine,
miraculous, intended self.
Volume
I
Chapter 6
I
and Creation
-
- To
count the grains of all the sands of our planet would
yield an infinite number.
- To
count the drops of water of all the seas and oceans would
give an infinite number.
- To
count all the molecules of the Earth's atmosphere would
yield an infinite number.
- To
count all the atoms of the sands, water, air, rocks,
plants and beings of our planet would produce an infinite
number,
- And
yet, in the infinite universe, our planet is only a small
mass of matter.
- And
yet, on this small planet, humans feel, love, dream,
think and act as cosmic, divine beings.
- And
yet, as all those billions of fellow humans I am unique
and unrepeatable, a world or cosmos of my own linked with
all there is in the heavens and on Earth.
- And
the greatest marvel is that I could understand and write
what I just wrote!
- *
-
- To
live one's life optimally is the road to happiness and
God. This entails optimum physical, mental, sentimental
and spiritual lives. It also means optimizing one's life
over time: to live a long life, to learn during all one's
life, to love at every age, to seek God and a perfect
union with the universe at all times.
- *
-
- If
you feel lost in life, put your arms around a tree, hug
it, talk to it, and you will feel the reassuring energy
of the universe.
- *
-
- When
I was a little boy I had a sense of wonder at the miracle
of life and at the Creation around me.
- Then
I was taught to hate other nations, I knew war and the
horrors done by men to God's Creation and to
others.
- Then
God led me to the United Nations and I learned to love
the entire Earth and all humanity.
- I
ended where I started: I considered life to be divine and
I regained my sense of wonder at the whole
Creation.
- *
-
- A
Catholic sister once explained to me why I had become a
spiritual person at the United Nations:
- "You
were at the crossroads of all nations, at a center of the
universal. You discovered that, you lived it and you
became a universal, spiritual being. You had been cut
from this source by your previous education and more
limited interests."
- This
remark could be valid for many human beings. Perhaps the
ultimate role of the United Nations will be to transform
all humans into fulfilled members of a universal,
cooperative, loving, fulfilled spiritual
family.
- *
-
- We
must admire life and Creation with the wondering eyes of
a child.
- *
-
- I
once said to a Trappist monk:
- "I
often feel that my education programmed me wrongly about
the meaning of life and my place in the universe. It took
me many years at the United Nations to "deprogram" myself
of my national educations in France, Germany and the US
and discover that all that really counts are the world,
humanity, one's family and the individual human
being."
- He
commented:
- "And
then you found enlightenment"
- "Yes,
this is what I felt. Everything fell into place. Soon
thereafter I also learned to see myself constantly as
part of total Creation and time, and I experienced an
even higher enlightenment which I am tempted to call
"Cosmic consciousness."
- He
commented:
- "And
then you found God."
- "Yes.
I found Him again."
- *
-
- We
should not tighten ourselves and be full of barriers and
obstacles. We should open ourselves vastly and serenely
to the great streams of life and of the universe. They
are so wonderful.
- *
-
- I
sometimes feel that there are flocks of mysterious,
invisible forces, unemployed saints and ancestors
floating around this Earth. They would like to help us
but they cannot if we are closed to them. When they find
someone like me who is wide open, they stream into us and
create all kinds of wonderful circumstances, coincidences
and sometimes even miracles. Hence the importance of
prayer which opens us to them. Then God, the invisible
forces, the saints, the angels and our ancestors are
happy and can work with us and for us.
- *
-
- The
most beautiful question a human can ask himself is: "How
can I be of service to Creation, a carer of it, a lover
of it?"
- *
-
- There
is need for a science and art called "individual
cosmology". Each individual being a unique cosmic unit,
there is indeed need for a "personal cosmology or art of
living".
- *
-
- It
is usually at dawn, when I write, dream, watch the
sunrise and am alone with myself that I feel closest to
God.
- Happiness
in solitude and in good actions: the two most direct
communications with God.
- *
-
- How
wonderful it is to be able to say in the evening before
closing one's eyes that one has been a good, kind, just
and happy person during the day, helping to fulfill the
divine or cosmic designs for humanity on this miraculous
planet.
- *
-
- One
of the great lessons I have learned from my religion is
to make an examination of conscience, a daily balance
sheet of good and bad every evening before going to
sleep. It is a practice which should be followed by all
religions and peoples of the Earth and made part of the
new global, world-wide spirituality. It is a subject
which the United Religions Initiative created after the
second World Parliament of Religions should place on its
agenda.
- *
-
- How
wonderful it is to be able to say at the moment of death
that one has been a good, honest, just and kind person
during one's life, helping to improve the human condition
and preserve our beautiful Earth. As we proceed on the
trail of life, we should often visualize this very last
moment of reckoning, of total review of our passage on
Earth as one of her and God's children. And then why not
consider leaving this earthly incarnation with a smiling
face?
- *
-
- The
greatness of life depends on our capacity to expand our
mind and heart to the entire world, to all peoples, to
the infinite universe and to eternity. Humans are so
lucky, compared with animals: we can extend ourselves to
the godhead, we can lift our eyes and hearts to the
heavens.
- *
-
- As
a member of the human family and a beneficiary of the
miracle of life, it is my duty to be peaceful, good,
just, kind, generous and cheerful in order to contribute
to the peace, goodness, justice, kindness, generosity and
happiness of the whole human family. The more numerous we
are to do that, the better the world will be. Under no
circumstance must we allow a different attitude by others
to deter us from our determination. Virtue and action
begin with the self. Humanity cannot be miraculously
different from its billions of members for it is the sum
total of our virtues and actions.
- *
-
- A
Sister wrote me:
- "I
am constantly in awe and amazement as to how God speaks
to people. Each person is uniquely communicated with in
their own particular way of understanding."
- How
right she is! Each human being is a unique manifestation
of the miracle of life, an expression of divinity, a
co-worker of Creation in her marvelous endless living and
changing forms. The worker communicates with God through
the work of his hands, the mother with her love for her
family, the intellectual with the work of his mind, the
monk and nun through prayer and contemplation. There is
not one, but a myriad of ways of communicating with God.
And each is unique while being branches, twigs, leaves,
flowers, fruits and seeds of the same tree.
- *
-
- God
in His endlessly diversified Creation, the universe and
the Earth,
- The
Father and His children
- Humanity
and each individual miraculous person
- The
great law of the universe:
- UNITY
IN DIVERSITY
- *
-
- We
can see more clearly if we learn to look through the eyes
of others. To espouse the lives and feelings of others is
to live many lives and to immensely enrich one's own. I
have been privileged to do this innumerable times in my
encounters and work at the United Nations.
- *
-
- When
I look at the head of a little bird, of a dog or a cat, I
thank God for having given me a human brain which can
encompass so much of the universe. But then I think that
the human head is still so tiny that it can understand
only an infinitesimal part of the stupendous, infinite
Creation. O God, what is your "real reality", out there,
beyond the limits of our human comprehension?
- *
-
- Oh!
To be alone in nature in the night and to embrace the
stars! How many times did I have this privilege from the
terrace of our farmhouse on sacred Mt. Rasur in Costa
Rica.
- *
-
- In
all the infinite twirlings of cosmoses in the universe, I
am my own cosmos. From birth to death, from seed to
fruit, I must see myself as an unfolding, miraculous
cosmos in the infinity of cosmoses evolving in time and
in space.
- *
-
- My
cosmology is very simple:
- I
am fascinated by all there is in Creation, from the
infinitely large to the infinitely small,
- I
attempt a total grasp of time, from the past, to the
present, to the future,
- I
seek a total view of our planet,
- I
seek a total view of the human family,
- I
seek a total view of the human person, of
myself
- as
part of Creation, space and time,
- I
place on all that an engine called love
- and
let my life-boat float eagerly on the cosmic streams of
Creation and life.
- *
-
- I
feel sometimes like a microbe in a jar, trying to
understand the culture and the vessel around me, but
unable to grasp the beyonds of the jar! But it is so
exciting to try, even if I knock my head
everywhere.
- *
-
- Since
each of us is unique in the universe, we must spend a
good part of our time trying to understand that
uniqueness and what the universe expects from us, has in
mind for us. It is so exciting and we are often given
answers. I receive them constantly.
- *
-
- I
look around at the sky, at the people, at a river, at
nature, at a city and I am struck by this overwhelming
truth: all this seems absolutely and permanently beyond
human comprehension. And yet I am determined to try to
understand. It is my human duty and nature.
- *
-
- Due
to the infinite variation of the physical, mental,
affective and spiritual characteristics of each human
being there will never be an absolute unity of values on
this planet. Life, like the entire universe, is
decentralized and diverse down to each individual, to
each cell and atom.
- This
is why the issue of human rights is of such capital
importance. In the sky above us and at the entrance of
the United Nations, there should be this sign proclaiming
our planet's trademark:
- UNITY
IN DIVERSITY
- *
-
- A
whole gamut of allegiances is open to humans: from
allegiance to the universe, total Creation of God, to the
allegiance to one's self, passing through allegiances to
planet Earth, life, the human family, a race, a culture,
a language, a religion, a belief, a nation, a province, a
company, a city, one's family. There are also most
intensive single allegiances, allied multiple, global and
cosmic allegiances, as illustrated by Dag
Hammarskjöld and U Thant.
- Personally,
I believe that our allegiances cannot exclude the
universe and eternity, for without them life has not its
fullest meaning. I must accept the lessons of my lives in
the past, of my ancestors and contribute to my lives in
the future, of my children, my descendants. I am doing it
fervently in my actions, writings and
speeches.
- *
-
- You
can never consider yourself precious enough. But precious
in a sense of being precious and of service to God, to
the Earth and to humanity.
- *
-
- O
life, how I love you! I just cannot visualize being
interred in ground and darkness, never to see again the
heavenly skies, mountains, seas, lakes, forests and
beautiful human beings.
- The
Earth:
- "Do
not worry. I will resuscitate you in other life forms.
Have you forgotten it?"
- *
-
- It
pays to reflect on every possible aspect of our
mysterious life journey in the universe and on planet
Earth. The reward is each time more enlightenment and
happiness.
- *
-
- The
word Weltanschaung (world view) seemed awesome to me when
I was young. Today I consider it insufficient. Humanity
and each individual now need:
-
- A
Universeanschaung
- An
Eternityanschaung
- A
Weltanschaung
- A
Humanityanschaung and
- A
Selfanschaung
- *
-
- Einstein
tells us that nothing can be faster than the speed of
light, namely 300.000 kms per second. He is wrong. My
thoughts and my soul are infinitely faster: I can be on a
far away galaxy and embrace the starry sky within split
seconds. I can also go backward and forward in time,
which light cannot.
- *
-
- The
only basic problem worth solving in our time is the place
and meaning of all humanity and of each human being in
Creation. We have doctors to heal people. We need also
enlighteners to tell us our meaning. What a great new
profession that would be!
- *
-
- Wherever
you are, whatever you are, always consider yourself to be
a center of the world, which indeed you are. Be at all
times the voice and conscience of the Earth and of
humanity.
- *
-
- I
have two mothers: my natural mother and my Mother
Earth.
- I
have two fathers: my natural father and my Father
God.
- *
-
- Many
people seek cosmic union through prayer, meditation, yoga
or mysticism to see the bright, divine light as a
transcendence, as something beyond, "higher", "above".
But suppose we see this Earth from another planet "below"
and see it as a bright planet manifesting cosmic or
divine energy in many life forms? Then our planet would
be a transcendence and human life would appear as
something superior, "higher", "above", a transcendence.
As a matter of fact, heaven is always above us, wherever
we are.
- *
-
- I
sometimes think that societal thinking and hierarchies
should be turned downside up:
- on
top should be all human individuals, their families and
the Earth;
- below
them should be all the entities created by humans for
good or for wrong or for historical reasons: groups,
institutions, nations, governments, religions,
associations, corporations, international organizations,
etc.
- This
second group should be the servants, the instruments of
individuals and families and the Earth. Individuals,
families should never be the instruments, the servants of
the former, which nowadays alas is all too often the
case. And the Earth should not be considered as a mere
object good enough only for exploitation by all these
institutions.
- *
-
- Try
to be such that others will say: "It is nice being on the
same planet with you."
- *
-
- Most
of the time, I do not feel at all my organs, my cells, my
bones, my vessels, my hundreds of internal automatic
mechanisms. Sometimes I do not even feel my body. Then my
brain seems to be completely detached, separate and
independent from my body. I wonder then if my soul or
intelligence does not come from another part of the
universe and is simply grafted on an Earthian mass of
elements.
- *
-
- We
must seek four harmonies in life:
- the
harmony of the body with the elements
- the
harmony of the mind with reality
- the
harmony of the heart with Creation
- the
harmony of the soul with God.
- *
-
- Right
human relations are not all: we must also find our right
cosmic relations, our relations with God, the universe
and eternity.
- *
-
- Each
morning when I awake I experience the extreme happiness
of being alive. Each day is a resurrection. Each day is a
rebirth, an added time to the continuation of the miracle
of my life.
- *
-
- The
Christ showed us the way: He came from heaven, he
returned to heaven and he always spoke of the Father in
heaven. He wanted us to know that we are all heavenly,
cosmic beings, which indeed we are.
- *
-
- The
only true objective of life is to find one's right place
and role in Creation.
- *
-
- It
is easy to become a hero or a genius: see yourself always
as part of the total universe, of the total planet, of
total humanity and of eternity. Then you will see and
receive your exact place and role in the great design of
God.
- *
-
- A
human being is always a prisoner of something. The only
real freedom is within ourselves. From the inner self we
can escape and embrace the entire universe and God. Even
imprisoned persons can do that.
- *
-
- The
great blessing by Dame Fate was
- to
place me at the center of world affairs
- whence
I could observe humanity and the globe
- at
the precise moment when the human race was becoming
one,
- the
world global, nations interdependent, the people
knowledgeable of each other, and our planet visible from
outer space as a self-contained miraculous spaceship in
the universe.
- *
-
- A
human being can spend an entire life studying the nervous
system or electronic circuits or world communications. I
have spent my life studying everything, feeling
everything and loving everything good and beautiful for
humanity and for our planet.
- *
-
- O
Creation of God, my eyes are blinded by your resplendent
beauty!
- *
-
- There
is a message in everything on Earth, for everything is
the embodiment of divine forces. We are part of,
surrounded by a cosmic picture book. We must read it,
enjoy it, and constantly learn from it.
- *
-
- Each
member of the human race has a little share of the world
and a place in it: a region, a family, a culture, a
religion, a nation. To grasp the soul of that
environment, to give it sense, to cherish it, to make it
live, to enhance it, that is the current art of living.
If you can relate to the entire world, to the whole human
family, to the universe and to God, then you will live a
truly divine life on Earth. That will be the new art of
living in the 21st century.
- *
-
- I
am part, a very important part of the total sensitive web
of life on this planet. So is everyone.
- *
-
- I
am a simple man who adores to live and is impatient to
see a peaceful, happy, fulfilled and grateful humanity
living on a well-preserved, miraculous
planet.
- *
-
- We
are all children of the sun and of the Earth. All our
matter comes from the Earth and all our energy from the
sun. Perhaps this gives us a clue to our cosmic reason
and destiny.
- *
-
- There
are moments when the beauty of nature penetrates us,
empties us of our self and makes us one with Mother
Earth, with Creation. Look intensely at a flower or at
the stars and you will feel this oneness.
- *
-
-
-
- I
am among the first humans who has dealt during an entire
adult life with the whole Earth and humanity. This gives
me an awesome responsibility. It makes me quite an
instrument of God and evolution. There will be millions
like me tomorrow. They will judge if some of what I felt,
said, wrote, and did was close to the truth, and if some
of what I predicted became reality.
- *
-
- "Know
thyself". Learn who you are and you will also know why
you are.
- *
-
- We
are both captives and free agents of the universe,
captives of the past and co-workers of the future. This
is very exciting.
- *
-
- Who
am I? A capacity to grasp the entire Creation, our
planet, Mother Earth, humanity and my incredible self. I
cannot repeat enough that each human person is a
miracle.
- *
-
- Live
upward into the infinitely large
- Live
downward into the infinitely small
- Live
inward into the mystery of life
- Live
outward into the breathtaking beauty of
Creation
- Live
backward into the origin and history of
everything
- Live
forward into the evolution of everything
- Feel
an irrepressible joy at the incredible gift of
life.
- *
-
- Harmonize
yourself with everything: with your loved ones, with
yourself, with planet Earth, with time, with the universe
and with God. Untold happiness will be your
reward.
- *
-
- Decide
to Love All Creation...
-
- To
be a living cell
- An
active center
- A
cosmic perceptive unit
- Of
the universe.
- Decide
to live an optimum physical life
- An
optimum mental life
- An
optimum sentimental life
- An
optimum spiritual life
- And
to fulfill the purpose for which
- you
were born.
- Live
in the past
- Live
in the present
- Live
in the future
- Live
beyond death
- Live
in the heavens
- Live
on the planet
- Live
in yourself
- Be
in total, joyful union
- with
the universe
- Be
in love with God
- Be
living Creation
- a
perfect, shining example,
- an
irradiating light
- of
the miracle of life.
-
-
- December
2001 when I was reading a last time the text of Volume I
for printing, I received the following text cited at the
celebration in Paris of the 20th anniversary of the
yearly Peace Education Prize awarded by
UNESCO:
-
- Laureate
of the 1989 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education: Mr. Robert
Muller
-
- "Mr.
Robert Muller (France), (1923-), from Alsace-Lorraine,
was profoundly marked by the sufferings of his region and
by his own experiences during the Second World War. After
the war he decided to devote his life to working for
peace and to transcend national divisions by a deeply
humanistic philosophy similar to that of Albert
Schweitzer and Robert Schuman, After forty years of
devoted behind-the-scenes work at the United Nations, in
1986 he became Chancellor of the UN University for Peace,
Costa Rica. He has inspired and given hope to innumerable
people through his actions and idealism and his work has
set an example for the young in every nation. He has
emerged as one of the great peacemakers of our
time."
-
- Thank
you, dear God and UNESCO, for this beautiful crowning of
my efforts. And since it was in large part my World Core
Curriculum for a Global Education which earned me the
Prize, I reproduce it below. May it inspire more schools
in the world to adopt it, thereby raising schoolchildren
who never fight each other, because they are told that
they are each of them a miracle and that one miracle does
not fight, does not hurt another miracle. On the
contrary, being miracles their task is to respect each
other, to cooperate and to love each other in order to
create a peaceful, happy, wonderful world.
-
- INSERT
WORLD FRAMEWORK FOR PLANETARY AND COSMIC
CONSCIOUSNESS
-
- Books
by Dr. Robert Muller
- In
various languages
-
-
- English
- A
Planet of Hope, First edition Amity House,
- Second
Edition World Happiness and Cooperation, USA
-
- Decide
To, First Edition Acron Publishing, U.K.,
- Second
Edition World Happiness and Cooperation, USA
-
- Dialogues
of Hope, World Happiness and Cooperation, USA
-
- Essays
on Education, A Vision for Educators, edited by Joanne
Dufour
- World
Happiness and Cooperation, USA
-
- First
Lady of the World, World Happiness and Cooperation,
USA
-
- Most
of All, they Taught Me Happiness, First Edition
Doubleday,
- Second
Edition World Happiness and Cooperation, USA
-
- My
Testament to the UN, World Happiness and Cooperation,
USA
-
- New
Genesis, Shaping a Global Spirituality, First Edition
Doubleday,
- Second
Edition World Happiness and Cooperation, USA
-
- The
Desire to Be Human, International essays on Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin, co-edited with Leo Zonneveld,
Mirananda Ed Wassenaar, Holland
-
- What
War Taught Me About Peace, with a Peace Plan 2010, First
Edition Doubleday
-
- Good
Humor, World Joke Book, First Edition Amity
House,
- Second
Edition World Happiness and Cooperation, USA
-
- The
World Core Curriculum in the Robert Muller School, The
Robert Muller School,
- Arlington,
Texas, USA
-
- Safe
Passage into the 21st Century, co-authored with
Ambassador Douglas Roche,
- Continuum
Press, New York
-
- Framework
for the Preparation and Celebration of the Year 2000, the
21st Century and 3rd Millennium, Albert Schweitzer
Institute, Wallingford, CT, USA
-
- The
Birth of a Global Civilization, World Happiness and
Cooperation, USA
-
- 5000
Ideas and Dreams for a Better World published by Media
21, Santa Barbara, CA
-
- German
- In
a special collection devoted to Robert
Muller:
-
- Ich
Lernte zu Leben (translation of Most of All They Taught
Me Happiness),
-
- Die
Geburt einer globalen Zivilisation (translation of The
Birth of a Global Civilization),
-
- Dialoge
der Hoffnung (translation of Dialogues of
Hope),
-
- Mein
Testament an die UNO (translation of My Testament to the
UN),
- All
published by: Drei Eichen Verlag, Hammelsburg,
Germany
-
- Die
Neuerschaffung der Welt - auf dem weg einer globalen
spiritualität (translation of New Genesis, Shaping a
Global Spirituality), Goldmann Verlag
- (Note:
Other English titles are currently being translated into
German)
-
- French
- L'Economie
de la Sarre, Editions Ribert, 1951
-
- Sima
mon Amour, an international novel in French, won the
Erckman-Chatrian literary prize, 1983, Editions Pierron,
Sarreguemines, France
-
- Au
Bonheur, a L'Amour, a la Paix (translation of New
Genesis), Editions Pierron, Sarreguemines,
France
-
- Italian
- Battersi
Per La Felicitá (translation of Most of All They
Taught Me Happiness), Una vita al servizio di un mondo
migliore, Editrice Nuova Era, Roma
-
- Nuova
Genesi (translation of New Genesis, Shaping a Global
Spirituality), Una vita al servizio di un mondo migliore,
Editrice Nuova Era, Roma
-
- Spanish
- La
Escuela Robert Muller, Manual del Plan de Educacion
Mundial, Gallo Pinto Press, Costa Rica
-
- El
Nacimiento de una Civilizacion Mundial (translation of
The Birth of a Global Civilization), Gallo Pinto Press,
Costa Rica
-
- Portuguese
- Decida
- Se (translation of Decide To) and O Nascimiento de uma
Civilizacao Global (translation of The Birth of a Global
Civilization), Editora Aquariana - Sao Paulo,
Brasil-SP
-
- Polish
- New
Genesis in Polish, Instytut Wysawniczy PAX, Warsaw,
Poland
-
- Japanese
- Japanese
translation of New Genesis, University of the Sacred
Heart, Catholic Press, Tokyo
-
- Dutch
- Het
Wereld Dern-Curriculum (translation of the World Core
Curriculum) and The Birth of a Global Civilization, East
West Publications Den Haag/London
-
-
- Books
on Robert Muller
-
- Margaret
McGurn: Planetary Consciousness in the thought of
Teilhard de Chardin and Robert Muller, World Happiness
and Cooperation, USA
-
- Alessandro
Carletti: Robert Muller, Sopratatto Mi Insegnarino la
Felicita, Scuola Superiore per Interpreti Traduttori,
Florence, Italy 1983
-
- A
Biography of Robert Muller is also being written by US
author Douglas Gillies as a model of what one unknown
human being is capable of achieving from behind the
scenes.
-
- Publication
date of Volume I: 15 October 2002
-
-
- Most
of the English and French books by Robert Muller are
available from
- UN
Bookshop in New York, tel. (800) 553-3210; (212)
963-7680; fax: (212) 963-4910,
- E-mail:
bookshop@un.org, http:// www.un.org.Pubs/bookshop. They
also can be purchased on the Web through
amazon.com.
-
-
-
- (For
more information contact: Media 21 @ (805) 968-8567 fax
(805) 968-5747)
INDEX
FOR
The
Miracle, Joy and Art of Living
by
DR. ROBERT MULLER
Volume
I
The
Great Scene of Creation
-
- A
- Acid
Rain 17
- Adam
& Eve 48
- Admire,
Admiration 2, 15, 30, 3, 40, 53, 57
- Adult
26, 37, 43, 64
- Advertisement
9, 43, 44
- Agencies
(World, UN) 5, 16, 26, 38, 39, 40, 44, 47
- International
Atomic Energy Agency 14
- Airplane
11, 28, 32, 46
- Alcohol
18, 47
- Algae
11
- Alpha
54
- Alsace-Lorraine
28, 33, 66
- Altruism
47, 49
- Ambassador
29, 31, 33
- Ambition
4, 49
- Ancestor
3, 58, 60
- Ancient
2, 8
- Angels,
Angelic 33, 51, 58
- Animal
1, 6, 17, 18, 36, 48, 49, 59
- Anthem
33
- Anthropology,
Anthropologist 11, 39
- Apotheosis
28
- Arable
Land 6, 16, 36
- Archaeology
51
- Armament,
Disarmament 18, 29, 31, 32, 43
- Armies
32, 33
- Ministries
of Armies 32
- Arrogance
22
- Art,
Artist 4, 8, 30, 33, 46, 55, 58, 63
- Articles
1, 36, 42
- Asia,
Asian 32
- Asset
31, 51
- Association
7, 26, 27, 37, 62
- Union
of International Associations 44
- Astrophysicist,
Astrophysics 5, 11, 15, 44
- Astrology
3
- Astronaut
2
- Astronomy,
Astronomer 3, 4, 5
- Atheism,
Atheist 49
- Athens
33
- Atmosphere
6, 10, 16, 19, 20, 35, 36, 57
- Atom
4, 6, 8, 16, 57, 60
- Sub-atom
8
- Atomic
- -
Bubble Chamber 5, 19, 28, 46
- -
Density 10
- -
Energy 7
- -
Explosion 10
- -
Structure 8
- -
Weight 8
- International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
-
- 14
- PAGE
NUMBER
- Attitude
1, 18, 22, 41, 59
- Automobile,
Car 11, 28, 46
- Awe
2, 4, 59
-
- B
- Bach
4
- Bangladesh
31
- Beauty
1, 5, 9, 10, 13, 18, 21, 33, 47, 50, 51, 53, 56, 63,
64
- Beethoven
4, 10, 19
- Bimillennium
35
- Biologist
42
- Biomass
29
- Bioregions
40
- Biosphere
6, 10, 18, 19, 36
- World
Conference on the Biosphere 7
- Birds
17, 18, 19, 59
- Black
Holes 4, 8
- Blake,
William 5
- Bless,
Blessed, Blessing 1, 11, 18, 63
- Body
1, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53,
62
- Book
1, 16, 21, 42, 63
- Book
of the Earth 16
- Book
of Humanity 16
- Border
28
- Brazil
2
- Brethren
2, 34, 56
- Brother
22, 25, 28, 29, 30, 43
- Buddha
4, 11
- Buffon
38
- Business
9, 26, 37, 44
-
- C
- Canals
20
- Capitalism
49
- Car,
Automobile 11, 28, 46
- Carbon
Black 40
- Carbon
Dioxide 16
- Caretakers
15, 21
- Cartographer
19
- Casals,
Pablo 19
- Cat
1, 59
- Cathedral
9, 18, 35
- Catholic
57
- Caveman
4
- Celestial
3, 35
- Cell
1, 2, 18, 29, 47, 60, 62, 65
- Cement
2
- Centennial
43
- Century
9, 12121, 35, 38, 49, 63
- Charter
of Earth 38
- Charter
of Nature 38
- Chaisson,
Eric 44
- Cherish
-
- 2,
15, 16, 20, 34, 49, 63
- PAGE
NUMBER
- Child,
Children 2, 4, 5, 8, 12, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28,
29, 34, 37, 40, 42, 43, 48, 49, 50, 57, 59, 60, 63,
66
- International
Year of the Child 27
- Chinese
40
- Citizen
12, 22, 31, 33, 34
- City
8, 12, 60
- Civilization
39
- Climate
6, 16, 36, 38, 40
- World
Climate Conference 7, 40
- Co-creator
1, 15, 41
- Commission
44
- Main
Commission 44
- Regional
Commission 44
- Commissioner
- Commissioner
for the Future 38, 44
- Commitment
10
- Communicate,
Communication 28, 46, 58, 59, 63
- International
Telecommunication Union 14
- Communion
2, 13, 23, 30, 47
- Communist,
Communism 32, 47
- Community
23, 26, 31, 32, 36, 37
- Compassion
23, 47
- Competition
31
- Computer
4, 28, 39, 46
- Conference
1, 27, 40, 42
- International
Conferences on the Peaceful uses of Atomic Energy
7
- Law
of the Sea Conferences 7
- Outer
Space Conferences 7, 40
- UN
Conference on Environment and Development 22,
40
- UN
Conference on Human Settlements 27
- UN
World Conference on Aging 27, 40
- UN
World Conference on Children 40
- UN
World Conference on the Climate 40
- UN
World Conference on Deserts 40
- UN
World Conference on Energy 40
- UN
World Conference on Habitat 40
- UN
World Conference on the Handicapped 40
- UN
World Conferences on Population 27, 40
- UN
World Conference on Seas & Oceans 40
- UN
World Conference on Youth 40
- UN
World Conferences on Women 27, 40
- World
Climate Conferences 7, 40
- World
Conference on the Biosphere 7
- World
Conferences on the Environment 7, 42, 45
- World
Conference on Human Rights 27
- World
Conference on the Meaning and Spirituality of Life
9
- World
Conferences on New and Renewable Sources of Energy
7
- Conferences
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- World
Conference on the Ozonosphere 7
- World
Conferences on Racism 27
- World
Conference on the Utilization and Conservation of
Resources 7
- World
Desert Conference 7
- World
Food Conference 7
- World
Science Conference 7
- World
Water Conference 7, 40
- Confucius
4
- Conquest
10, 21
- Consciousness
1, 7, 8, 11, 21, 30, 40, 41, 42, 48, 58
- Constitution
18
- Construction
29
- Continent,
Continental 12, 15, 35, 36, 40, 44
- Consume,
Consumerism, Consumption, Overconsumption 16, 22,
29
- Cooperation
31, 32, 66
- Copernican
7, 18
- Corporation
26, 28, 37,43, 44, 62
- Corruption
30, 43
- Cosmic
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 20, 27, 35, 41, 42, 43, 44,
48, 51, 52, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65
- Cosmic
Couple 21
- Cosmology
58, 60
- Cosmonaut
15
- Cosmos
2, 3, 10, 18, 20, 21, 24, 48, 52, 53, 57, 60
- Costa
Rica 19, 60, 66
- Country,
Countries 12, 29, 32, 36, 42, 44, 47
- Cousins,
Norman 51
- Cousteau,
Jacques 38
- Creation
2, 3, 9, 10, 13, 15, 20, 21, 30, 35, 45, 47, 48, 53, 55,
56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65
- Cropland
16
- Cuba
32
- Culture
2, 30, 60, 63
-
- D
- Darkness
2, 9 22, 48, 49, 61
- Darwin
10, 11
- da
Vinci, Leonardo 4
- Day
- UN
Earth Day 17, 21
- World
Thanksgiving Day 43
- Death,
Dead 8, 15, 16, 21, 49, 50, 51, 59, 60, 65
- Declaration
of the Sacred Earth Gathering 22
- de
Duve, Christian 44
- Demilitarize
19
- Descartes
54
- Descendant
60
- Desert
6, 16, 19, 20, 36, 40
- World
Desert Conference 7
- Desire
52
- Destiny
3, 7, 9, 27, 31, 35, 36, 43, 63
- Dinosaur
- 39
- PAGE
NUMBER
- Disovereignization
31
- Diatoms
11
- Disarmament
18, 29, 31, 32, 43
- Diversity
- Divine
1, 3, 4, 9, 13, 18, 22, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58,
61, 63
- DNA
12
- Doctor
61
- Dog
1, 59
- Doom
16
- Dream
3, 8, 10, 17, 18, 22, 28, 39, 43, 46, 53, 54, 55, 57,
58
- Dream
3000 (Poem) 43
- Dryland
16
- Drugs
18, 47
- Duty
1, 3, 4, 5, 21, 59, 60
-
- E
- Earth
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38,
40, 41, 43, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60,
61, 62, 63, 64
- Book
of Earth 16
- Declaration
of the Sacred Earth Gathering 22
- Earth
Charter 38
- Earth
Ethics 22
- Earth
Government 5, 7, 20, 22, 27, 31, 32, 38, 39
- Earthian
62
- Earth
Republic 22
- Earth
Sovereignty 33
- Millennium
of Paradise 17
- Mother
Earth 2, 15, 17, 18, 21, 28, 29, 30, 38, 47, 48, 51, 61,
63, 64
- Eartha
4, 17
- Gaia
4, 10, 17, 21
- Ixmucane
17
- Matri
Bhumi 17
- UN
Earth Day 17, 21
- Easter
21
- Ecology
22
- Economy,
Economics 7, 11, 16, 22, 29, 31, 38, 42, 51
- Educate,
Education 4, 9, 18, 20, 22, 26, 30, 33, 34, 37, 44, 48,
57, 58
- Education
2010 38
- UN
Educational, Science & Culture Organization (UNESCO)
14, 26
- Elderly
26, 37, 43
- International
Year of the Elderly 27
- Electricity
8
- Hydro-electrical
20
- Elevation
3, 28
- Employment
20, 26, 37, 44
- Engineering,
Genetic 22
- Einstein
8, 10, 61
- Encyclopedia
7
- Enemy
10
- Energy
2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 20, 36, 40, 41, 48, 57, 61,
63
- PAGE
NUMBER
- Environment
1, 7, 31, 39, 40, 42, 63
- Environment
2013 38
- UN
Conference on Environment & Development 22,
45
- UN
Environment Program 14
- Equator
16
- Eternal,
Eternity 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 11, 20, 30, 31, 35, 40, 41, 47,
48, 54, 59, 60, 62
- Eternityanschaung
61
- Ethics,
Ethical 11, 22, 31, 43
- Etymology
17
- Europe
28
- European
Union 38, 44
- Evening
16, 48, 53, 58
- Evolution,
Evolutionary 1, 3, 7, 8, 11, 16, 17, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29,
30, 33, 35, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 48, 52, 64
- Extinct
17
-
- F
- Factory
18
- Faith
9, 10
- Fame
2
- Family
1, 18, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40,
41, 43, 48, 51, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63
- International
Year of the Family 27
- Feel,
Feeling 1, 3, 9, 10, 15, 17, 18, 21, 28, 33, 48, 54, 55,
57, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64
- Fish
17, 41
- Fate
6, 27, 40, 63,
- Federation
26, 37
- Flag
33
- Food
& Agriculture Organization (FAO) 14
- Forest
16, 17, 61
- Foundation
for the Future 44
- France,
French 21, 28, 33, 38, 49, 52, 58, 66
- French
Alps 21
- Freedom
25, 63
- Fulfill,
Fulfillment 3, 7, 15, 16, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 42, 43, 49,
52, 54, 57, 58, 63, 65
- Fundamentalism
25
- Future,
Futurize, Futurology 7, 9, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41,
42, 44, 46, 48, 51, 52, 53, 60, 64, 65
- Commission
of the Future 38, 44
- Department
of the Future 44
- Ministries
of the Future 44
- Vice-presidency
for Global Affairs and the Future 44
- World
Council of the Future 44
-
- G
- Gaia
4, 10, 17, 21
- Galactic
10, 41
- Galactic
Nuclei 4
- Galaxy
3, 4, 10, 12, 61
- Gandhi
52
- PAGE
NUMBER
- Genes,
Genetics 6, 8, 11 16, 22, 52
- Genius
13, 54, 62
- Geophysical
40
- German,
Germany, Germanic 17, 28, 32, 33, 52, 58
- Gestapo
53
- Glaciers
21
- Global
20, 22, 39, 53, 60, 63
- Global
Age 15, 39, 40, 42
- Global
Anthropology 39
- Global
Being 8, 34, 35
- Global
Bloodstream 41
- Global
Brain 28, 39
- Global
Community 32
- Global
Consciousness 11
- Global
Cooperative 43
- Global
Education 4
- Global
Genetic Memory Bank 8
- Global
Human Family 39
- Global
Human Race 31
- Globalism
33
- Global
Heart 28
- Global
Limbs 28
- Global
Nervous System 28
- Global
Philosophy 39
- Global
Psychology 39
- Global
Senses 28
- Global
Spirituality 39, 43, 58
- Global
Sociology 39
- Global
Soul 28
- Global
Storybook 39
- Global
Thinking 42
- Vice-president
of Global Affairs 44
- Vice-president
of Global Affairs & the Future 44
- God
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 30,
31, 33, 34, 35, 40, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66
- Goddess
4, 17, 21, 40
- Gorbachev
32
- Govern,
Government 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 15, 20, 22, 29, 32, 33, 38,
43, 44, 45, 46, 50, 62
- Earth
Government 7, 18, 20, 22, 27, 31, 32, 38, 39,
45
- Grass
2
- Gratitude
10, 18
- Gravity
8
- Greece,
Greek 17, 22, 33, 41, 42
- Greed
22
- Guardians
21
-
- H
- Habitat
16, 23, 40
- Hammarskjöld,
Dag 8, 30, 60
- Handicap
26, 37, 40
- Hannibal
-
- 21
- PAGE
NUMBER
- Happy,
Happiness, Unhappiness 1, 2, 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21,
29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53,
54, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66
- Harmony
10, 15, 16, 22, 24, 47, 62, 64
- Hatred
18, 30, 49, 57
- Heads
of State 4, 33, 41, 42, 44
- Health
26, 37, 54
- Health
2010 17
- Planet
of Healthy People 17
- World
Health Organization (WHO) 14
- Heart
1, 2, 7, 13, 15, 18, 19, 24, 27, 30, 41, 43, 47, 48, 49,
53, 56, 59, 62
- Heaven,
Heavenly 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13, 18, 19, 28, 34, 35, 41,
43, 48, 51, 52, 53, 57, 59, 61, 62, 65
- Hectare
16, 17
- Hemisphere
12, 17
- Heredity,
Heritage 12, 16
- Hero
32, 62
- Hierarchies
62
- Highjacking
32
- Hindu
40, 48, 51
- History,
Historic 5, 7, 10, 16, 21, 27, 28, 31, 33, 39, 40, 41,
42, 51, 62, 64
- Holistic
42
- Holland
19
- Home
3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 29, 34, 41,
42, 43, 50, 53
- Hope,
Hopeless 3, 15, 25, 35, 43
- Hospital
50
- Human,
Humanity, Humanism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28,
29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42,
43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57,
58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66
- Humanityanschaung
61
- Hydroelectrical
Power Plants 20
-
- I
- Ideology
2, 9, 30, 54
- Individualism
49
- Incarnation
3, 59
- India
31
- Indian
2, 52
- Indigenous
23, 50
- International
Year of the World's Indigenous People 27
- Inducated
4
- Information,
Misinformation 16, 30, 47
- Infinite
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 19, 21, 28, 35, 36, 39,
42, 46, 47, 48, 54, 57, 59, 60, 61, 64
- Injustice,
Justice 9, 18, 20, 29, 30, 32, 33, 43, 49, 59
- Ministries
of Justice 32
- Inspiration
52
- Instinct
31
- Institutions
20, 26, 27, 37, 45, 62
- UN
Institute for Training and Research 44
- PAGE
NUMBER
- Interdependent
2, 20, 22, 41, 42, 63
- Interdisciplinary
42
- Interiority
47
- International
7, 20, 44, 62
- International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 14
- International
Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD)
14
- International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) 14
- International
Finance Corporation (IFC) 14
- International
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) 14
- International
Labour Organization (ILO) 14
- International
Maritime Organization (IMO) 14
- International
Monetary Fund (IMF) 14
- International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) 14
- International
Years 27, 29, 32, 44
- -
of the Child 27
- -
of Disabled Persons 27
- -
of the Elderly 27
- -
of the Family 27
- -
of Peace 27
- -
of the World's Indigenous People 27
- -
of Youth 27
- Union
of International Associations 44
- Internationalism
49
- Interstellar
Voids 10
- Inventory
16
- Israel
19
- Ixmucane
17
-
- J
- Jesus
4, 51, 53
- Joy
4, 7, 9, 34, 49, 64, 65
- Jubillennium
43
- Justice,
Injustice 9, 18, 20, 29, 30, 32, 33, 43, 49,
59
-
- K
- KGB
32s
- 2
- PAGE
NUMBER
- Language
4, 17, 25, 60
- Latin
America 50
- Laws
3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 20, 22, 23, 29, 31, 45,
59
- Lawyer
42, 51
- Leibniz
42
- Legislation
45
- Leptons
8
- Life
1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41,
42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57,
58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65
- Literature
33
- Longevity
26, 37, 47
- Love
8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31,
33, 34, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59,
60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66
- Lyons,
Oren, Faithkeeper of the Onondaga 38
-
- M
- Machine
8, 28,46
- Macrocosm
20
- Mammals
17
- Marketing
9
- Mathematics
8, 10, 15
- Matri
Bhumi 17
- Maya
17
- Mead,
Margaret 39
- Media
9, 32, 44
- Meditation
47, 61
- Memorabilia
52
- Mendell
11
- Meta-biological
Organization 2
- Michelangelo
4
- Michelet
21
- Microbe
3, 19, 60
- Microbial
Life 6
- Microcosm
20, 54
- Microscope
28, 39, 46
- Middle
Ages 42
- Migration
26, 37
- Military
8, 16, 44
- Milky
Way 4
- Millennium
- Bi-millennium
35
- Jubillennium
43
- Millennium
of Paradise Earth 17
- Third
Millennium 9, 11, 17, 43
- Tri-millennium
35
- Mind
1, 2, 8, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 24, 28, 30, 33, 38, 40, 42,
43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 56, 59, 60, 62
- Minerals
6, 36
- Minister
32, 33
- Ministers
of Armies 32
- Ministers
of the Interior 32
- Ministers
of Justice
- 32
- PAGE
NUMBER
- Ministries
32
- Ministries
of the Future 38, 44
- Miracle
1, 9, 10, 11, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 30, 40, 41, 42, 43,
46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 59, 62, 64,
65
- Molecules
57
- Monasteries
2
- Money
19
- Monk
58, 59
- Monopoly,
Monopolies 9
- Mont
Blanc 21
- Monument
33
- Moon
2, 15
- Morals,
Morality, Immoral 9, 11, 26, 30, 31, 37, 43,
47
- Most
of All, They Taught Me Happiness 48, 51
- Mother
2, 4, 15, 17, 18, 21, 28, 32, 38, 47, 48, 51, 59, 61, 63,
64
- Mountain
6, 17, 18, 35, 36, 40, 53, 54, 61
- Mozart
4, 53
- Mt.
Rasur 60
- Muller,
Robert
- Books
- Most
of All, They Taught Me Happiness 48, 51
- Sima
Mon Amour 49
- Robert
Muller Schools 4, 12, 21, 41, 51
- Multinational
26, 37, 44
- Museum
4
- Music
10
- Mystery
2, 18, 40, 48, 50, 64
- Mysticism
61
-
- N
- Napoleon
20
- Nation
16, 19, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 50,
54, 57, 60, 62, 63
- National
8, 19, 22, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 40, 44, 45,
58
- Nationalism
9, 25, 33, 49
- Nature
1, 2, 8, 11, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 31, 36, 43,
52, 63
- Charter
of Nature 38
- Nebula
3
- Network
26, 37
- Neurons
18
- New
Guinea 39
- Nobel
Prize 44
- Non-governmental
Organizations 44
- Non-violence,
Violence 18, 22, 30, 32, 34, 43, 49
- Northern
Hemisphere 17
- Nova
10
- Novel
16, 49
- Nuclear
17, 18, 20
- Nun
59
- Nutrition
26, 37
-
-
- PAGE
NUMBER
- O
- Observatory
5
- Oceans
& Seas 4, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 18, 28, 35, 36, 40, 57,
61
- Oil
16
- Olympics
21
- Omega
54
- Optimism,
Optimistic 4, 11, 40, 42, 53
- Outer
Space 6, 7, 10, 16, 19, 40, 63
- Overconsumption,
Overconsuming 16, 22, 29
- Oxygen
11, 19
- Ozonosphere
7, 16
-
- P
- Packaging
17
- Pakistan
31
- Palace
3, 16
- Paleontology
51
- Paradigm
30
- Paris
66
- Parks
19
- Parliament
44
- World
Parliament of Religions 58
- Past
3, 4, 7, 31, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 46, 48, 51, 52,
53, 60, 64, 65
- Patriot
31
- Peace
7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29, 34, 43, 49, 50,
54, 59, 63, 66
- International
Year of Peace 27
- Peace
Education Prize 66
- Peacemaker
66
- Planet
of Peaceful People 17
- University
of Peace 19, 52, 66
- People
1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29,
31, 33, 43, 45, 48, 50, 51, 52, 54, 58, 59, 60, 61,
63
- Peoples'
Organizations 44
- Pessimist
11, 42
- Pesticide
16
- Phenomena
2, 10, 46
- Philosopher
40, 42, 54
- Philosophy
2, 30, 39, 48, 66
- Photograph
4
- Physics
6
- Picoscope
28, 39
- Picture
4, 12, 16, 52, 63
- Planet
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 38,
39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55,
57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65
- Planet
of the Beautiful People 17
- Planet
of the Happy People 17
- Planet
of the Healthy People 17
- Planet
of the Just People 17
- Planet
of the Loving People
-
- 17
- Planet
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- Planet
of the Peaceful People 17
- Planet
of the Smiling People 17
- Planet
of the Virtuous People 17
- Planetary
3, 6, 7, 11, 15, 16, 20, 27, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 39,
40, 42, 43
- Planetization
32, 33
- Plastic
17
- Poetry
10, 30
- Polar
Caps 6, 16, 36
- Political
9, 10, 22
- Political
Science 30
- Politician
19, 20, 42
- Politics
9, 11, 41
- Pollution
21
- Poor
18, 29, 40, 43, 50, 52
- Pope
9
- Population
25, 26, 29, 37, 40, 42
- Population
2025 38
- UN
Fund for Population Activities 14
- World
Population Year 27
- Pray,
Prayer 2, 3, 9, 47, 58, 59, 61
- Preserve
2, 11, 13, 20, 23, 38, 43, 59, 63
- Pride
10
- Priest
1
- Primitive
9, 40
- Prisoner
11, 53, 63
- Problems
9, 28, 50, 61
- Production
29
- Proposals
for a Strategy of Concern for the Future 44
- Prosperity
50
- Protect
2, 16, 21, 31
- Psychology
30, 39
-
- Q
- Quasars
4, 8
-
- R
- Radio
2, 3, 28, 46
- Railroads,
Trains 20, 28, 46
- Rebirth
15, 62
- Regions,
Regional 26, 33, 36, 37, 40, 44, 63
- Bioregion
40
- Religion
3, 9, 25, 26, 28, 30, 37, 43, 44, 49, 50, 54, 58, 60, 62,
63
- United
Religions Initiative 44, 58
- World
Parliament of Religions 58
- Renaissance
41
- Reproduction
18
- Responsibility
4, 10, 15, 19, 20, 22, 25, 41, 64
- Resurrection
2, 62
- Revolution
18, 39, 40
- Rich
15, 29, 43, 47
- Rio
Agenda 21
- 45
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NUMBER
- Rio
de Janeiro 22, 45
- RNA
11
- Roads
20, 57
- Robot
52
- Roosevelt,
Franklin 52
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- S
- Sacred
1, 2, 4, 15, 21, 22, 31, 49, 53, 54, 60
- Saint
33, 58
- St.
Paul 28
- Sand
2, 5, 57
- Sanskrit
17
- Satellite
4, 15, 20, 28, 39, 40, 46
- Schools
4, 8, 16, 18, 29, 40, 51, 66
- Robert
Muller Schools 4, 12, 21, 41, 51
- Schuman,
Robert 66
- Schweitzer,
Albert 66
- Science
1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 22, 30, 39, 42, 43,
58
- Scientists
8, 10, 16, 22, 35, 40, 43, 44
- Seas
& Oceans 4, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 18, 28, 35, 36, 40, 57,
61
- Secretary
General 11, 30
- Sectarism
25
- Seeking
1, 2, 28, 31, 42, 53, 57, 60, 61, 62
- Selfanschaung
61
- Senses
1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 18, 19, 20, 28, 39, 40, 46,
56
- Sentimental
51, 57, 65
- Serene
1, 58
- Shakespeare
10, 53
- Sick
33, 50
- Sima
Mon Amour 49
- Sin
40, 50
- Sister
2, 23, 25, 28, 30, 34, 43, 49, 56, 57, 59
- Sky
1, 2, 4, 5, 18, 19, 49, 60, 61
- Sociology
11, 30, 39
- Society
10, 32, 38, 44, 51
- Socrates
4, 33
- Soil
1, 18, 49
- Solar
2, 10, 20, 40
- Solar
System 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 19, 35, 36, 40
- Soul
1, 2, 3, 13, 18, 20, 24, 28, 30, 41, 47, 48, 49, 53, 56,
61, 62, 63
- Sovereignty
31, 32, 33
- Disovereignization
31
- Sonar
46
- Space
4, 8, 10, 19, 25, 63
- Outer
Space 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 18, 28, 35, 36, 40, 57,
61
- Space
Capsules 15, 28
- Space
Probe 39
- Space
Platform 15
- Spaceship
15, 19, 63
- Space
Vessels 46
- Spearhead
3, 17
- Species
1, 3, 4, 7, 15, 16, 17, 20, 28, 30, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40,
41, 42, 46, 51
- Speech
- 31,
41, 53, 60
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NUMBER
- Spiritual,
Spirituality 1, 9, 11, 20, 22, 23, 26, 30, 37, 39, 42,
43, 47, 49, 51, 57, 58, 60, 65
- Spring
Equinox 17
- Stars
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 19, 20, 36, 38, 41, 43,
49, 51, 60, 61, 63
- Steel
2
- Stockholm
42
- Stratosphere
16
- Sun
2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 19, 20, 21, 35, 38, 41, 49,
58, 63
- Switzerland
18
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- T
- Technology
22
- Telephone
28, 46
- Telescope
4, 28, 39, 46
- Television
2, 28, 46
- Textbooks
16, 21
- Thanksgiving
43, 49
- World
Thanksgiving Day 43
- Thant,
U 8, 11, 29, 30, 60
- Theory
19, 35
- Time
1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 20, 21, 25, 30, 31, 35, 36,
39, 40, 41, 48, 49, 51, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62,
64
- Tolerant
25
- Tourist
53
- Train,
Railroad 20, 28, 46
- Traitor
31
- Transcend
3, 21, 22, 36, 42, 61
- Transnational
26, 37
- Transportation
29
- Trappist
Monk 57
- Treason
31
- Treasure
3, 13, 21, 49, 51, 54
- Tree
17, 19, 41, 48, 57, 59
- Trikaldarshi,
Trikaldarshism 51
- Trilokonath
51
- Tri-millennium
35
- Tropics,
Tropical 16
- Trustee
15
- Truth
8, 28, 31, 47, 48, 50, 54, 60, 64
- Tunnel
20, 21
-
- U
- Union
of International Associations, Brussels 44
- United
Nations 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 16, 18, 19, 20, 27, 29, 31,
33, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 52, 57, 58, 59, 60,
66
- UN
Acronyms 14
- UN
Agencies 38, 47
- Cartographer
19
- UN
Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS) 14, 26
- UN
Earth Charter 38
- UN
Charter of Nature 38
- United
Nations con't PAGE NUMBER
- UN
Conferences
- International
Conferences on the Peaceful uses of Atomic Energy
7
- Law
of the Sea Conferences 7
- Outer
Space Conferences
- 7,
40
- UN
Conference on Environment and Development 22,
40
- UN
Conference on Human Settlements 27
- UN
World Conference on Aging 27, 40
- UN
World Conference on Children 40
- UN
World Conference on the Climate 40
- UN
World Conference on Deserts 40
- UN
World Conference on Energy 40
- UN
World Conference on Habitat 40
- UN
World Conference on the Handicapped 40
- UN
World Conferences on Population 27, 40
- UN
World Conference on Seas & Oceans 40
- UN
World Conference on Youth 40
- UN
World Conferences on Women 27, 40
- World
Climate Conferences 7, 40
- World
Conference on the Biosphere 7
- World
Conferences on the Environment 7, 42, 45
- World
Conference on Human Rights 27
- World
Conference on the Meaning & Spirituality of Life
9
- World
Conferences on New & Renewable Sources of Energy
7
- World
Conference on the Ozonosphere 7
- World
Conferences on Racism 27
- World
Conference on the Utilization & Conservation of
Resources 7
- World
Desert Conference 7
- World
Food Conference 7
- World
Science Conference 7
- World
Water Conference 7, 40
- UN
Development Program (UNDP) 14
- UN
Earth Day 17
- UN
Educational, Science & Culture Organization (UNESCO)
6, 26, 47, 66
- UN
Environment Program (UNEP) 14
- UN
Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) 14
- UN
General Assembly 7, 45
- UNICEF
25, 26
- UN
Institute for Training & Research
(UNITAR)
-
- 44
- United
Nations con't PAGE NUMBER
- UN
International Years
- -
of the Child 27
- -
of the Disabled Persons 27
- -
of the Elderly 27
- -
of the Family 27
- -
of the World's Indigenous Persons 27
- -
of Peace 27
- UN
Main Commission of the Future 44
- UN
Official 20
- UN
Secretary General 8, 30
- UN
University for Peace 19, 44, 52, 66
- UN
World Council for the Future 44
- UN
World Programs 16, 44
- United
Religions Initiative 44, 58
- United
States 16, 32, 58
- US
Vice-presidency for Global Affairs 44
- Universal,
Universe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15,
18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35, 36, 38,
40, 41, 42, 43, 36, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65
- Universeanschaung
61
- Uranus
10
- Usher,
Bishop 38
- U,
Tyn Myint 29
-
- V
- Valley
17
- Values
9, 11, 15, 22, 31, 33, 41, 44, 50, 53, 60
- Vice-president
for Global Affairs & the Future 44
- Village
40
- Violence,
Non-violence 18, 22, 30, 32, 34, 43, 49
- Virtue
22, 59
- Vision
20, 23, 30, 35, 39
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- W
- War
18, 21, 30, 43, 49, 50, 57
- World
War II 42, 52, 66
- Washington,
George 4, 22
- Water
6, 7, 10, 11, 17, 18, 20, 28, 36, 40, 46, 47,
57
- Wealth
51, 53, 55
- Weapons
19
- Weltanschaung
61
- White
Dwarfs 8
- Wisdom
18, 23, 29, 40, 44
- World
2, 3, 6, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29,
30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 43, 44, 49, 50, 51,
52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 61, 63
- World
Agencies 5, 38
- World
Citizen 33, 34
- World
Community
-
-
-
- 23
- PAGE
NUMBER
- World
Conferences 7, 27, 40, 42, 45
- International
Conference on the Peaceful use of Atomic Energy
7
- Law
of the Seas Conference 7
- Outer
Space Conferences 7, 40
- UN
Conference on Environment & Development 22,
40
- UN
Conference on Human Settlements 27
- UN
World Conference on Aging 27, 40
- UN
World Conference on Children 40
- UN
World Conference on the Climate 40
- UN
World Conference on Deserts 40
- UN
World Conference on Energy 40
- UN
World Conference on Habitat 40
- UN
World Conference on the Handicapped 40
- UN
World Conferences on Population 27, 40
- UN
World Conference on Seas & Oceans 40
- UN
World Conference on Youth 40
- UN
World Conferences on Women 27, 40
- World
Climate Conferences 7, 40
- World
Conference on the Biosphere 7
- World
Conferences on the Environment 7, 42, 45
- World
Conference on Human Rights 27
- World
Conference on the Meaning & Spirituality of Life
9
- World
Conference on New & Renewable Sources of Energy
7
- World
Conference on the Ozonosphere 7
- World
Conference on Racism 27
- World
Conference on Utilization & Conservation of Resources
7
- World
Desert Conference 7
- World
Food Conference 7
- World
Science Conference 7
- World
Water Conference 7, 40
- World
Core Curriculum for Global Education 66, 67
- World
Council of the Future 44
- World
Food Program (WFP) 14
- World,
Earth Government 7, 18, 20, 22, 27, 31, 32, 38, 39,
45
- World
Health Organization (WHO) 14
- World
Ideology 30
- World
Inspection Team 19
- World
Laws 20, 31
- World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) 14
- World
Non-governmental Organizations 44
- World
Organizations 3, 7, 9, 25, 26, 37, 44
- World
Parliament of Religions 58
- World
Philosophy 30
- World
Political Science 30
- World
Programs 16, 44
- World
Psychology 30
- World
Republic 31
- World
Security System 31
- PAGE
NUMBER
- World
Sociology 30
- World
Spirituality 30, 58
- World
Thanksgiving Day 43
- World
Treasury 20
- World
Servers 30
- World
Vision 30
- Worship
2
-
- Y
- Yanomami
2
- Year
3000 39, 43
- Yearly
Report 3
- Yoga
61
- Youth
18, 22, 26, 37, 39, 40, 43, 50
- International
Year of Youth 27
- UN
World Conference on Youth 40
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- Z
- Zeus
10
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