empowerment & inner transformation…
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"The preservation of one's own culture is such a natural thing. It is a matter of respecting oneself and one's own family and nation. It is a way of saying to your own people, as the Zulus do, "Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu." That is, "I am who I am because of you." Having said that, no... Continue Reading →
"Whether we can become good citizens of the world hinges upon the degree of self-control we achieve. It is, after all, the ability to see ourselves penetratingly that enables us to transcend national boundaries and ethnic barriers. Eternal peace is not a static condition but a continuum that is consciously maintained through the interaction of... Continue Reading →
"While people are gradually beginning to acquire a global perspective, wars and struggles fought over racial, ethnic, and religious issues are as omnipresent as ever. By calling a Special Session on Education, the United Nations can effectively launch a campaign for educating world citizens that will encourage people to see that we are all passengers... Continue Reading →
[The quality of] interactions between humans and the world around us can first be understood to depend on the subjective qualities of the person. It is through our various interactions with the world that we develop in a fully balanced manner. That being the case, the world around us, nature in particular, can truly be... Continue Reading →
"In more concrete terms, the course of education for world citizens must encompass such currently vital problems as environment, development, peace and human rights. Education for peace should reveal the cruelty of war, emphasize the threat of nuclear weapons, and insist on the importance of arms reduction. Education for development must deal with the eradication... Continue Reading →
Over 70 years ago, British diplomat Lord Arthur Ponsonby (1871--1946) wrote in his book Falsehood in Wartime about the perennial propaganda claims of wartime leaders. Belgian historian Anne Morelli has recently shed fresh light on Ponsonby's analysis, distilling his findings on wartime propaganda into 10 principles as follows: 1. We do not want war; 2. ... Continue Reading →
It is of urgent necessity to educate as many people as possible to become "world citizen" in order to achieve everlasting peace. The curriculum should cover the most important themes humankind must grapple with today -- the environment, development, peace, and human rights. Each one of these topics requires the new point of view of... Continue Reading →
"How, then, are we to understand sustainability? In simplest terms, I think it could be described as follows: a way of life in which we refrain from seeking our own happiness at the expense of others; a determination not to pass on our local community and the planet as a whole to the next generation... Continue Reading →
"Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race." - Mary McLeod Bethune *** "I would like to stress the importance of girls' education and its crucial impact on all aspects of human development. All the... Continue Reading →
“One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.” - Proverb quotes (Downloaded from Thinkexist)
“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end” - Lise Hand “The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time” - William Butler Yeats
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