REASON TO HOPE
by
Maria Fe D. Dela Peña
Seek home in mother earth
Appreciate the skies
Feel the beauty of nature
Symphatize people
Respect life
Experience love
Wake up in the morning
Come up with new ideas
Have
positive views
Challenge diversity
Help resolve
problems For a better world
An essay by Robert Muller
SGI Quarterly October 2005
I love the planet. I love the skies. I love nature. I love people. Ilove diversity. At the age of 82, I wake up in the morning, and I come up with a new idea for a bettr world! It''s important to keep a positive view, because a positive view will help you resolve problems.
On the whole I think that people are doing prety well. They don''t want wars. When I was in the UN we have many heads of state who visited us. I was invited to their luncheon and I always asked them: "Would you start a war to gain territory from your neighbor?" and they always looked at me as if I was mad and said, "Why should we? Why should we not remain within our neighbors?" This was totally different from the beginning of 20th century.
Our planet is unique. So far we have not found another one that has life. Things are complicated and we make many errors, but we are evolving. We must make this planet Earth paradise Earth. this must be our objective, and we can get there, but we have to work very, very hard as a global community.
Robert Muller is a former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN who served the organization for 38 years until his retirement in 1986. He is chancellor Emeritus of the UN-established University for Peace in Costa Rica. His classic book MOST OF ALL THEY TAUGHT ME HAPPINESS and ideas for a better world can be found at www.robertmuller.org.