Raise Your Words, Not Voice

Raise your words, not voice. 

It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
~ Rumi

Tags: Rumi, Raise, Words, Voice, Rain, Grow, Flowers, Thunder,

[GMW #3039]

Wilderness Holds Answers

The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.

~ Nancy Wynne Newhall

Tags: Nancy Wynne Newhall, Wilderness, Hold, Answers, Questions, Ask,

[GMW #3038]

Yield To Life Solves The Insoluble

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone,

So to yield with life solves the insoluble:
To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
~ Lao-tzu

Tags: Lao-tzu, Soft, Yield, Water, Cleave, Obstinate, Stone, Life, Solve, Insoluble, Back, Return,

[GMW #3037]

Being Constant Praise

Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us,

choosing gratitude until we are grateful,
praising God until we ourselves are a constant act of praise.
~ Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM
Radical Grace: Daily Meditations 

Tags: Richard Rohr, Prayer, Silence, Gratitude, Choose, Grateful, Praise, God, Constant

[GMW #3036]

Open Our Hearts

If we open our hearts, we will also find open heart

 - it is always mutual.

~ Abbot Leo von Rudloff

A Benedictine Legacy of Peace; The Life of Abbot Leo A. Rudloff

Tags: Leo von Rudloff, Benedictine, Legacy, Open, Heart, Mutual, 

[GMW #3035]

Daily Healing

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and

know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

Tags: Rabindranath Tagore, Stand, Day, Scars, Know, Wounds, Healing,

[GMW #3034]

Innumberable Wondrous Features

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous

features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings

that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
~ Dogen Zenji, excerpt from Genjokoan, trans. by Paul Jaffe

Tags: Dogen Zenji, Mountains, Oceans, Worlds, Innumerable, Wondrous, Features, Distant, Here, Surroundings, Water, Drop

[GMW #3033]

Testing Lies In Action

The test of anyone lies in action.

~ Pindar

Tags: Pindar, Test, Action,

[GMW #3032]

Plant A Tree, Train A Flower, Sow A Field

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who

sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Tags: John Greenleaf Whittier, Fools, Gold, Knaves, Power, Fortune, Rise, Fall, Sow, Field, Flower, Plant, Tree, More, All

[GMW #3031]

Thoughts Are Powerful - Never Think Negative Thoughts

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,

you would never think a negative thought.

~ Peace Pilgrim

Tags: Peace Pilgrim, Realize, Powerful, Thoughts, Think, Negative, 

[GMW #3030]

Go With All Your Heart

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

~ Confucius

Tags: Confucius, Go, Heart,

[GMW #3029]

Revolutionary Conversations

Dear wonderful GMW readers,

I love Good Morning World! Thank you and now I think it might be important to alert our readers to my new book.

After years of watching Peace negotiations fail, families stop talking with each other and business miss golden opportunities, I realized that peace and progress must begin with each and every conversation. My co-authors and I have put our 30 years of work, seminars and UCLA classes into our just released book:

Revolutionary Conversations, The Tools You Need for the Success You Want.. You may wish to check out the 6 reader reviews on Amazon.

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.

Barbara Gaughen - Muller President of the UNA, Santa Barbara                          

www.revolutionaryconversations.net  bgaughenmu@aol.com

Co-Author
Revolutionary Conversations, The Tools You Need for the Success You Want

Listen: http://youngatheartradio.com/

This just in from a Revolutionary Conversations reader Audrey:

Barbara, these easy conversation tools, in your book, can be of value in moving our nation beyond the current and vicious polarization. I am convinced that with an intention grounded in love and these tools we could engage Americans all over this country to be in conversations that heal and move us forward as a nation.

Certainly, Africa would benefit. Rarely is there any place for "questioning" in conversations in Kenya and Uganda, especially conversations with someone in authority or an Elder.

So many possibilities! This kind of change that leads to community, civility and reconciliation is what I am passionate about.

Tags: Barbara Gaughen-Muller, Peace, Negotiations, Talk, Opportunities, Realize, Miracle, Revolutionary, Conversation, Tools, Success, Progress, Capacity, Grasp, Creation, Mother Earth, Earth, 

[GMW #3028]

Amazing Views Above The Clouds

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, 

leading to the most amazing view. 

May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
~ Edward Abbey

Tags: Edward Abbey, Trails, Lonesome, Dangerous, Amazing, View, Mountains, Rise, Above, Clouds, 

[GMW #3027]

Increase Desire To Increase Strength

Dwell not upon thy weariness, 

thy strength shall be according to 

the measure of thy desire.

~ Arab Proverb

Tags: Arab, Proverb, Weariness, Strength, Dwell, Measure, Desire,

[GMW #3026]

Hope Brings Light Out Of Darkness

Hope is being able to see that there is light

despite all of the darkness.

~ Desmond Tutu

Tags: Desmond Tutu, Hope, Able, Light, Darkness,

[GMW #3025]

There Are Always Flowers

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

~ Henri Matisse

Tags: Henri Matisse, Flowers, Want, See,

[GMW #3024]

Hope Is What We Become In Action

FRITJOF CAPRA: In your latest book, EcoMind, you pose the question, "Is there a way of perceiving the environmental challenge that is at once hardheaded, evidence based, and invigorating?" And then you write, "I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down." ...

FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ: It was a totally unplanned book, and it has changed my life. ...
I asked whether we could break through to more of an ecological way of seeing and feeling. ...
We should not bless what we're doing now with the term "growth." We should call it what it is, an economy of waste and destruction. ...
The challenge is ... "How do we remake our human-made systems to align positively with what we know creates sustainable and resilient communities?" ...
{ More }

Tags: Fritjof Capra, Francis Moore Lappe, Literacy, Environment, Challenge, Evidence, Invigorate, Ideas, Economy, Remake, Human, Align, Create, Positively, Sustainable, Resilient, Communities, Breakthrough,

[GMW #3023]

Life - A Triumph Of Cooperation & Creativity

Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than 

a triumph of cooperation and creativity.

~ Fritjof Capra

Fritjot Capra On Life & Leadership
Sustainability is not an individual property, but is a property of an entire web of relationships. It is a community practice. This is the profound lesson we need to learn from nature.

The way to sustain life is to build and nurture community. Because of the close connection between sustainability and community, basic principles of ecology can also be understood as principles of community. In particular, they can be guiding principles for building and nurturing sustainable learning communities.

They are extremely relevant to taking leadership positions and bringing about systemic change within our schools.{ read more }

Be The Change
Focus on your home life today and think of one way you can help to nurture more open pathways of respectful, life affirming communication in this environment. 

Tags: Fritjof Capra, Life, Leadership, Individual, Cooperation, Creativity, Community,  Relationships, Build, Nurture, Ecology, Guiding, Learning, Change, Home, Life, Think, Help, Pathways, Respectful,

[GMW #3022]

Wisdom Begins In Wonder

Wisdom begins in wonder.

~ Socrates

Tags: Socrates, Wisdom, Wonder, Begin, 

[GMW #3021]

Remaking Ouselves Is Our Greatness

As human beings, our greatness lies

not so much in being able to remake the world

 -- that is the myth of the "atomic age" -- 

as in being able to remake ourselves.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Tags: Mahatma Ghandi, Human Beings, Greatness, Remake, World, Myth, Atomic Age, 

[GMW #3020]

Compassion Is Essential

Compassion is not religious business, 

it is human business, it is not luxury, 
it is essential for our own peace and mental stability,
it is essential for human survival.
 ~ Dalai Lama

Tags: Dalai Lama, Compassion, Religious, Business, Human, Luxury,

Essential, Peace, Mental, Stability, Survival,

[GMW #3019]

Be Fearless When Facing Dangers

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to 

be fearless when facing them.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

Tags: Rabindranath Tagore, Pray, Shelter, Dangers, Fearless, Facing, 

[GMW #3018]

Write The True Thing

Only the hand that erases

can write the true thing.
~ Meister Eckhart

Tags: Meister Eckhart, Hand, Erases, Write, True,

[GMW #3017]

Live Awake

Those who are awake

live in a constant state of amazement.
~ Jack Kornfield

Tags: Jack Kornfield, Awake, Live, State, Amazement,

[GMW #3016]

Invite Sufficiency

Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.

~ Wayne Muller

Tags: Wayne Muller, Gratitude, Invite, Sense, Sufficiency,

[GMW #3015]

Unobstructed Bright Moon

My storehouse having been burnt down,

nothing obstructs my view of the bright moon.
~ Masahide, Zen poet

Tags: Masahide, Zen Poet, Storehouse, Obstruct, View, Bright, Moon,

[GMW #3014]

Keeping The Wild & Our Souls Alive

If we kill off the wild, 

then we are killing a part of our souls.
~ Jane Goodall

Tags: Jane Goodall, Kill, Wild, Souls,

[GMW #3013]

Imagination & Art Are The Fountainhead

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, 
but the fountainhead of human experience?
~ Rollo May, The Courage to Create

Tags: Rollo May, Imagination, Art, Human, Experience, Courage, Create,

[GMW #3012]

Bold Freedom

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely 

little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
~ William Wordsworth

Tags: William Wordsworth, Meadow, Flower, Bloom, Unfold, Lovely, Free, Root, Freedom, Bold,

[GMW #3011]

Living Creative Peace

"Living "Creative PEACE" Tribute to DR ROBERT MULLER ...

by Michael A Riddell

DeLIGHTed BARBARA because your "Angel" Robert's LIGHT shines 

bright in the lives of many many people around Mother Earth.

A 'Think Tank Group' in ARGENTINA just asked me to write a 

Tribute about Robert because of my involvement with him in NYC 

at the UN --- I said

"The visionary Dr ROBERT MULLER was Deputy Secretary-General 

of the United Nations and co-founder of the UN University for 

Peace (UPeace) in Costa Rica, the beautiful creative peaceful 

Heart of the Americas.

He was the first UPeace Chancellor. Robert was a friend and 

mentor encouraging with UN patronage the :"Lady Liberty 7777

mile Olympic Torch" Run from New York City to Costa Rica as a 

"living ArtPEACE" that I created, produced and performed in 

1983/4. With the Children of Costa Rica we entrusted the Olympic 

Torch to the UPeace and planted "Seeds of Hope-Peace" and 

"Trees of Life" that flourish today in memory of Dr Robert Muller's 

Smiling WISDOM & VISION."

Tags: Michael A Riddell, Robert Muller, Living, Creative, Peace, Visionary, 

United Nations, University For Peace, Living, Art, Peace, Seeds, Hope, Peace, Trees, Life, Smiling, Wisdom, Vision, Liberty, 

[GMW #3010]

The Moving Direction Is The Great Thing

The great thing in this world 

is not so much where we stand as in 
what direction we are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Tags: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Great, World, Stand, Direction, Moving,

[GMW #3009]

Greatness - Simplicity, Goodness & Truth

There is no greatness where there is not
simplicity, goodness, and truth.
~ Leo Tolstoy

Tags: Leo Tolstoy, Greatness, Simplicity, Goodness, Truth,

[GMW #3008]

Keep Moving Forward

 If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't 

walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving 

forward.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Fly, Run, Walk, Crawl, Moving, Forward,

[GMW #3007]

Individual Stillness Changes Society

Stillness within one individual 

can affect society beyond measure.
~ Bede Griffiths

Tags: Bede Griffiths, Stillness, Within, Individual, Affect, Society, Beyond, Measure, 

[GMW #3006]

Light That Illuminates

There are two kinds of light 

- the glow that illumines, and 
the glare that obscures.
~ James Thurber

Tags: James Thurber, Light, Glow, Illumine, Glare, Obscure, 

[GMW #3005]

Kindness & Compassion For All Living Things

Kindness and compassion toward all living things

is the mark of a civilized society.

~ Cesar Chavez

Tags: Cesar Chavez, Kindness, Compassion, Living, Civilized, Society,

[GMW #3004]

The Ear Commands The Story

It is not the voice that
commands the story;
it is the ear.
~ Italo Calvino

Tags: Italy Calvino, Voice, Command, Story, Ear,

[GMW #3003]

Travel Ennobles The Spirit

Travel ennobles the spirit and
does away with our prejudices.
~ Oscar Wilde

Tags: Oscar Wilde, Travel, Spirit, Prejudices,

[GMW #3002]

Determined Spirits Alter The Course Of History

A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission
can alter the course of history.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Tags: Mahatma Gandhi, Determined Spirits, Spirit, The Course Of History, Body, Fire, Unquenchable Faith, Mission, History, 

[GMW #3001]

One Who Plants A Tree

One who plants a tree, plants a hope.~ Lucy Larcom
Tags: Lucy Larcom, Plant, Tree, Hope,
[GMW #3000]

The True Aim In Life

To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy...
is the true aim and end to life.
~ Llewelyn Powers

Tags: Llewelyn Powers, True Aim, Aim, Life, Live, Possible, Happy, End Of Life,

[GMW #2999]

Long For The Endless

If you want to build a ship, 
don't herd people together to collect wood and 
don't assign them tasks and work but rather,
teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Tags: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Teach, Build, Ship, Herd, People, Together, Collect, Wood, Task, Work, Long For The Endless, Immensity, Sea,
[GMW #2998]

Be Humble And Noble

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
~ Serbian Proverb

Tags: Serbian Proverb, Be Humble, Made, Made Of Earth, Be Noble, Noble, Made Of Stars,

[GMW #2997]

Love Is All

Here is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and its endurance.
~ St. Paul, I Corinthians 13:7

Tags: St. Paul, I Corinthians 13:7, Love, Love Is All, Limit, Faith, Hope, Endurance, 

[GMW #2996]

What Seems Impossible

It always seems impossible until it's done.
~ Nelson Mandela

Tags: Nelson Mandela, Impossible, Seems, Always, 

[GMW #2995]

Do Things From Your Soul

When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi,
translated by Coleman Barks, We Are Three

Tags: Jalaluddin Rumi, Soul, Feeling, River, Moving In You, Joy, Doing Things From The Soul, Coleman Barks, We Are Three, Translation,

[GMW #2994]

When You Like Yourself

The more you like yourself,
the less you are like anyone else,
which makes you unique.
~ Walt Disney

Tags: Walt Disney, Like Yourself, You Are Unique, Yourself, Like,

[GMW #2993]

Share Bringing Changes

The reality is that changes are coming...
They must come.
You must share in bringing them.
~ John Hersey

Tags: John Hersey, Changes, Reality, Changes Are Coming, Share,

[GMW #2992]

Walk Beside Me And Be My Friend

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~ Albert Camus

Tags: Albert Camus, Walk, Behind Me, Walk With Me, Lead, In Front Of Me, Follow, Beside Me, Friend, Be My Friend,

[GMW #2991]

Spring Revives The Soul

The beautiful spring came; and when
Nature resumes her loveliness,
the human soul is apt to revive also.
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

Tags: Harriet Ann Jacobs, Spring Came, Rivive, Beautiful, Nature, Loveliness, Human Soul,

[GMW #2990]

My Wealth Is Enjoyment

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches.
No run on my bank can drain it, for
my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Tags: Henry David Thoreau, Wealth, Possessions, Enjoyment, Laugh, Riches, Drain, Vague Indefinite,

[GMW #2989]

See With The Heart

Here is my secret. It is very simple.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupery

Tags: Antoine de Saint Exupery, See With The Heart, Heart, Secret, Simplicity, Rightly, Essential, Invisible, Eye,

[GMW 2988]

Warm Words & Full Moon

May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night and
a smooth road all the way to your door.
~ Irish Blessing

Tags: Irish Blessings, Warm Words, Words, Cold Evening, Evening, Cold, Warm, Moon, Dark, Night, Smooth, Road, Door, Blessings,

[GMW #2987]

Know Heart Silence

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, 
knows the supreme silence in the Heart, 
this is true learning.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Tags: Sri Ramana Maharshi, Mind, Fully Focused, Supreme, Silence, Heart, True, Learning,

[GMW #2986]

Happiness Is A Manner Of Traveling

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, 
but a manner of traveling.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

Tags: Margaret Lee Runbeck, Happiness, Arrive, Manner, Travel,

[GMW #2985]