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"You can't change the world" is a belief who's time is over
“You can’t change the world.”
It’s:
ridiculous,
impossible,
can’t be done.
“You can’t change the world.”
It’s:
naive,
foolish,
a waste of time.
Now…take the belief “You can’t change the world,” and multiply it by the 7.8 BILLION people in the world and we have a collective story called, “We can’t change the world.”
Be Good to Yourself
Dear Heaven Maker:
We’re riding on a storm tossed sea with waves of fear, waves of political fighting, waves of raging wildfires, and waves of infections of many kinds.
I’ve been looking at what I can do.
1) End my Addiction to Internet News
It was taking up way too much time. I was spiraling down into an endless black hole of bad news. It wasn’t nurturing me in any way.
Here’s my plan…
A flag for the world’s refugees
Dear Heaven Maker:
The world’s refugees come from more than 90 nations.
Nearly 80 million people worldwide were uprooted at the end of 2019 after fleeing wars or persecution.
Syrians, Venezuelans, Afghans, South Sudanese, and stateless Rohingya from Myanmar top the list of refugees, asylum seekers and internally-displaced people, the United Nations reported in its annual report, Global Trends.
Refugees come from different countries and are raised in different cultures. They speak different languages. But one thing brings them all together: the will to find a place called home.
This nation of refugees exists everywhere and nowhere. It has no country to call its own. It has no collective identity to be proud of, no collective identity to be inspired by or to inspire others with.
In 2015, after escaping from the Syrian civil war, Amsterdam-based artist Yara Said was contracted to design an official flag to represent the refugee athletes who would be competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
When she fled Syria for Europe she wore an orange life vest with a black belt like the thousands of other refugees before and after her.
Being a good ancestor
Dear Heaven Maker:
Over the centuries the idea of responsibility has expanded. Originally our responsibility was to tribe, then to nation state, then to nation, and now to Humanity and the Earth.
In this article, public philosopher Roman Krznaric introduces us to the next level of responsibility….to future generations.
We do that, he says, by being a better ancestor, and taking into account the needs of future generations. He says we must take into account the rights of future generations in our planning and actions of today.
I originally heard this idea through the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) radio show Ideas.
I thought it was one of the most original ideas I’d heard in a very long time. I’ve highlighted some of his most important statements in yellow.
Enjoy and be prepared to have your mind blown by a totally new arena of responsibility….our responsibility for the future.
a peaceful beauty interlude
Dear Heaven Maker:
There’s enough stress, and anxiety, and uncertainty in the world.
I’d like to offer you a little Heaven on Earth break from all of that.
This is a sweet video about making Japanese bamboo baskets – called
beppu bamboo craft.
Watch and listen to the process and what beautiful pieces these artisans produce.
Mary Robinson's speech to the United Nations
Dear Heaven Maker:
I have been following the career and commitment of Mary Robinson for years. In this speech to the United Nations she
outlines the important issues facing our planet and what needs to be done about them. I’ve highlighted in blue the more important points
she makes.
What comes after racism?
Dear Heaven Maker:
As part of co-creating Heaven on Earth, we have to deal with the issues that threaten our lives and well-being – Global Warming, Nuclear Proliferation and COVID-19.
Solve all of these and we have a more physically safe and hopeful world.
But there’s another suffering in today’s world that also has to disappear. What kind of world do we have if racism still exists – certainly not Heaven on Earth?
Racism is now demanding that we give it urgent, immediate focus and attention.
THE DAILY 7PM HEAVEN ON EARTH MEDITATION
Elisabeth Ziegler-Duregger is the Heaven on Earth country co-ordinator for Austria.
Elisabeth told me she has a 7pm daily alarm set on her phone. Every day when the alarm goes, she says out loud, “May there be Heaven on Earth Everywhere.”
What a simple, easy, intention/meditation.
I loved the idea and now I also have my phone set for a daily 7pm reminder. I thought about what words felt right for me as my mediation/intention and came up with:
“With love and thanks…
We are experiencing Heaven on Earth,
We are creating Heaven on Earth, and,
We are co-creating Heaven on Earth.”
“How you do one thing is how you do everything.”
Dear Heaven Maker:
You know how much I love opera.
I didn’t know much about it all until my wife, a former opera singer, introduced me to it.
The GREATEST opera tenor (male) I’ve ever seen is Luciano Pavarotti.
My wife and I saw him live at the beginning of his career and then again towards the end of his career.
Both times we were transported directly into Heaven.
A world first: Dehradun, India: A Heaven on Earth City! 🇮🇳
Dear Heaven Maker:
Several weeks ago I got an interview request from the editor of The Dehradun Street, an on-line newspaper in Dehradun, India.
I’d never heard of Dehradun. I looked it up and found that it’s in the north-west of the country.
The editor of the paper, Suraj Kumar, sent me a list of questions to answer, which I did.
We then set up a time to speak on Zoom about Heaven on Earth.
We spoke at great length about his city, about India, and about Heaven on Earth.
And then, it hit me, and I asked him, “Suraj, would you be willing to have Dehradun be the first Heaven on Earth city in the world?”
He loved the idea and said an enthusiastic, “Yes!”
I then asked him to write up what “Dehradun: A Heaven on Earth City” meant to him.
He did a fabulous write up and turned that into a full page editorial in his paper.
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