Robert Muller 's Good Morning World

Dear Friends,

The current issue of the Soka Gakkai Buddhist magazine SGI-Quarterly
features the United Nations.  It is FABULOUS!!!

To view this issue, please visit:

http://www.sgi.org/english/Features/current.htm


Thank you!
Sue

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Robert was recently interviewed on KPFK radio in LA and on internet world wide. It was a wonderful interview about his years of world work and how he always remained optimistic.

It will be on aired Sunday morning October 30 at 10:00am on http://www.kpfk.org/ and click on >>LISTEN LIVE<<
or go directly to:
http://www.kpfk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=82&lang=en

On World Focus With Blase Bonpane. Please join us, click listen live and alert others too..

Love, Barbara

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Robert was recently interviewed on KPFK radio in LA and on internet world wide. It was a wonderful interview about his years of world work and how he always remained optimistic.

It will be on aired Sunday morning October 30 at 10:00am on http://www.kpfk.org/ ..

On World Focus With Blase Bonpane. Please join us, click listen live and alert others too..

Love, Barbara

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A Poem About PEACE

Give peace a chance
that means lots of love,
in my thoughts
in my writings
in my heart
in my words
in my actions
in my hands
in my eyes
in my soul

for the war is not around me
but perhaps trapped in
my thoughts
my writings
my heart
my words
my actions
my hands
my eyes
my soul

so I begin today
for tomorrow will be much too late
sing a song for PEACE tonight
sing with me
you and I
I hold your hand
let the sound travel
the fragrance of love inspire
new beginnings
turning time and tides
it all begins with one spark
it all begins
with you and I

Peace be with you!
Catalina

Healing Poetry Writing is a way to express ourselves, explore underlying feelings and messages that are important for us. Let your heart speak, send and receive love and beautiful messages for the life you want to be part of today. Create messages and images to better your mind, emotional and spiritual wellness, and for a better life for everyone, through your own poetry. Soon you'll experience that when the heart speaks love there is no distance between us...

Robert was recently interviewed on KPFK radio in LA and on internet world wide. It was a wonderful interview about his years of world work and how he always remained optimistic.

It will be on aired Sunday morning October 30 at 10:00am on http://www.kpfk.org/ ..

On World Focus With Blase Bonpane. Please join us, click listen live and alert others too..

Love, Barbara

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Hello!

Today the UN turns 60 years old!  Personally I am taking time to appreciate
the many efforts of Kofi Annan and his incredible staff, and to reflect on
the many UN successes ... Development, disaster aide, East Timor,
humanitarian efforts in cooperation with the NGO community. And particularly
in 2002 to early 2003 when the United Nations stood against the enormous
pressure coming from the USA garnering support for the invasion in Iraq.

I look forward to the future of the United Nations with a strengthened
General Assembly, more cooperation with NGOs, and active participation from
civil society in the form of People's representation within the UN.

May each of us continue to contribute our best efforts toward the success
and future accomplishments of our beloved United Nations.

Warmest regards to all,
Sue

Susan J. Zipp, Advisor
Communications Coordination Committee for the United Nations
Co-Chair, Global People's Assembly

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From: un.wire@smartbrief.com
                 

World marks UN Day

To commemorate UN Day today, which also is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, the Star Tribune features profiles of three people who have dedicated their work to furthering UN initiatives. Click here to read the proclamation by President Bush, urging U.S. leaders to observe the day with "appropriate ceremonies and activities." Click here to read the UN News Centre release on how UN headquarters are illuminated with the words "UN 60" and here for more on how the UN is marking the day. Click here for the UN Foundation Web site's slide show commemoration and more.

Robert was recently interviewed on KPFK radio in LA and on internet world wide. It was a wonderful interview about his years of world work and how he always remained optimistic.

It will be on aired Sunday morning October 30 at 10:00am on http://www.kpfk.org/ ..

On World Focus With Blase Bonpane. Please join us, click listen live and alert others too..

Love, Barbara

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Robert was recently interviewed on KPFK radio in LA and on internet world wide. It was a wonderful interview about his years of world work and how he always remained optimistic.

It will be on aired Sunday morning October 30 at 10:00am on http://www.kpfk.org/ ..

On World Focus With Blase Bonpane. Please join us, click listen live and alert others too..

Love, Barbara

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Robert was recently interviewed on KPFK radio in LA and on internet world wide. It was a wonderful interview about his years of world work and how he always remained optimistic.

It will be on aired Sunday morning October 30 at 10:00am on http://www.kpfk.org/ ..

On World Focus With Blase Bonpane. Please join us, click listen live and alert others too..

Love, Barbara

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Robert was recently interviewed on KPFK radio in LA and on internet world wide. It was a wonderful interview about his years of world work and how he always remained optimistic.

It will be on aired Sunday morning October 30 at 10:00am on http://www.kpfk.org/ ..

On World Focus With Blase Bonpane. Please join us, click listen live and alert others too..

Love, Barbara

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From Barbara:

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Dear Friends

I am sending you this sad news

please also see this link

http://behleem.com/earthquake.html

and help as much as you can

Earthquake death toll keeps mounting

ISLAMABAD: The death toll in earthquake struck areas of Azad Kashmir, Frontier province and Punjab was rising continuously as the relief teams make inroads into more and more thus far inaccessible areas, while Bagh, Muzaffarabad and some other areas appear to be confronted with serious threats of an epidemic breaking out due to large number of fast decaying corpses still lying buried under the debris.

Azad Kashmir suffered the heaviest toll of human lives in Ocotber 8 tragedy, where over 17,000 dead has thus far been confirmed. The outskirts of Muzaffarabad Shah Nara, Khawaja Mohalla, Tariqabad and Iddgah Road have remained still deprived without any relief and succour from either the government or by any federal agencies. The local people in district Bagh told that they were tired of digging graves and burying the bodies, which being in such large numbers, were now buried collectively in graves, while Muzaffarabad was gripped with the fears of an epidemic breaking out in the wake of decaying corpses still lying buried underneath the rubble.

The casualty figure in the Frontier province confirmed thus far stood at 4,000, which was likely to go up manifold. Frontier police told that in Balakot, Sangiari and other villages of district Mansehra 1,500 people died, while in Battgram the death toll reported to be at 1,100.

The heavy downpours and hailstorms yesterday hampered underway rescue and relief operations in the quake stricken areas through helicopters, which later resumed.

The wounded persons in Shangla, Muzaffarabad and Battgram were brought to the hospitals in Peshawar and other cities for medical aid.

Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz in an Islamabad news conference told that Muzaffarabad and Balakot were the most severely earthquake-hit areas. He told that Pakistan has thus far received $300 million in foreign aids, while the people in Pakistan have deposited a sum of Rs600 million in the first 48 hours.

Peace and Blessings

Mohammad Iqbal Behleem.
http://behleem.com/earthquake.html

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#8 Quotation from the chapter entitled “How to Deal with Pessimists”, volume 5 “Lessons from the United Nations":

"When I arrived at my office I found an Indian lady waiting for me: Mrs Nigam, the president of the Federation of United Nations Associations of India. Her cheerful face was a blessing to me. Pursuing my train of thought, I asked her point-blank:

'Mrs. Nigam, are you a pessimist?'

'For heaven's sake, no! God forbid! Pessimists are second-rate people. They do not believe in life. (...) All they want is to drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear. (...) I have found a simple and effective way to cope with them:

I cut them right in the middle of their litanies and give them work to do. Either they leave or they work. Keep pessimists away from you or make them work, and they will not bother you.'

(...) This was a wise comment indeed. The worst thing a good person can do is to join the sad cohort of pessimists, and the next worst is to engage in a dialogue with them."


My related comments:

Choosing our company well is as important to our physical, emotional and mental health as feeding ourselves appropriately and living/working in a healthy environment. If we regularly eat food with a poor nutritional value, we will soon find ourselves in a bad state of health. The same is true of the "spiritual food" which we choose to ingest: the music we listen to, the books we read, the programmes we watch – all are susceptible to impacting in a positive or negative way our emotional and mental states. If we choose to surround ourselves with pessimistic persons, equally, the glass will very quickly look half empty and will make our creative potential much more difficult to tap into. Furthermore, we will often feel a sense of being "drained" as the pessimist saps our vibrant energy to fill the empty "hole" caused by their gloom. This brings to mind the responsibility each one of us has to be aware of our moods and the effects our moods can have on others.

Interestingly, when we feel optimistic and have positive thoughts, it is reflected in our physical body – we automatically assume a more upright posture with our heads held high. When we experience a sense of pessimism, our bodies quickly sag into a droopy posture and our eyes will tend to look downwards towards the ground.

Could it be that the reverse is also true, namely that by adjusting our physical posture we can affect a change in our mood and outlook?

So the sea-journey goes on, and who know where! Just to be held by the Ocean is the best luck we could have.

Jelaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
The Essential Rumi
Gratefulness.org

From Gratefulness.org

By being attentive, by learning to listen (or recovering the natural capacity to listen which cannot be learned any more than breathing), we can find ourself engulfed in such happiness that it cannot be explained; the happiness of being at one with everything in that hidden ground of Love for which there can be no explanations.

Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton: Essential Writings

#7 Quotation from the chapter entitled “Happy Even in Prison”, volume 2 “Lessons from the War”:

“(…) My attitude toward the loss of liberty was applicable to a much broader set of human conditions, for, as I advanced in life, I learned that man [people] on his [their] little planet is [are] always, in one way or another, a prisoner of something: He [They] is [are] a prisoner of his [their] time, his [their] beliefs, his [their] class, his [their] possessions, his [their] education, his [their] God, his [their] institutions, his [their] employer, his [their] nation, his [their] culture. He [They] is [are] a prisoner of the biosphere and of the immensely complex life processes that traverse him [them] and link him [them] with the earth. Thus, a few minutes without oxygen will kill him [them]. (…) Yes, man [men and women] is [are] a prisoner in every direction, except one: within himself [themselves].”


My related comments:

Physical confinement in the form of imprisonment can restrict a person’s movement and behaviour, but cannot impose the same restrictions on a person’s spirit. Robert provides a vivid example of this as do people like Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi.

However, this excerpt reminds us that even if we are not confined by physical prison walls, all people face the challenge of overcoming the illusion of being free. This illusion, which is often spoken about in Oriental religious practises such as Buddhism, is particularly difficult to overcome precisely because a person is not aware of being in any way restricted. However, in the end we are the product of our upbringing. We have absorbed what has been taught to us by our parents, by our schools – on this point, the German nation has had the courage to accurately portray the sad events of WWII in their history books, whereas such courage has been lacking in other countries – in our churches and by our media. We are indoctrinated into the values of our society, which in present day Western countries has the tendency to connote success with monetary and material status no matter how that is achieved and what the consequences might be.

The way out of this illusion has been shown to us by the world religions but does not require a person to be of any particular denominational order, as they point to the best qualities which are inherent in any human being whatever their belief system. These qualities imply an aspiration to “spiritual success” and include the ability to attain an attitude of non-judgement, compassion, readiness to listen, openness to learn, harmlessness in speech, thought and action, and the capacity to see that what is “right” for one person might not be “right” for another or what is “right” now might no longer be “right” later on.

Dear Dr. Muller,

I have just finished reading another wonderful edition of "Good Morning World" (#787), with all the beautiful quotes from so many whom you have touched and inspired by your work for happiness and peace over the years. Thank you, once again, for giving of yourself so deeply, from your heart and soul, and for sharing with us your great joy, wisdom, inspiration, and deep desire for a better world for all. Mother Earth thanks you as well!

With much love and eternal happiness,

Susan
Tucson, Arizona

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