1. Creating a Peaceful World
We believe that the CREATION OF GLOBAL PEACE has utmost priority in today’s world. We therefore would like to appeal to everybody who lives on this Earth to join us in our attempt. Together we can do it – but we can only do it together!
We would like to invite all of you to work towards Global Peace by doing at least ONE – but preferably TEN – of the following things EVERY DAY:
1.1. increase your INNER PEACE:
a) by meditating for at least 20 minutes and/or
b) by doing Yoga for at least 30 minutes and/or
c) by spending at least 30 minutes outside in nature and/or
d) by just being silent for 20 minutes and remembering all those who have walked on the path towards more peace before us.
1.2. increase the PEACE in your FAMILY and in your group of FRIENDS:
a) by finding an extra half hour every day to spend with your loved ones and/or
b) by really listening to one of your family members or friends and find out what is important to him or her and/or
c) by helping one of your family members or friends with a task or decision and/or
d) by accepting your family members and friends as they are and by loving them despite their little flaws
1.3. increase PEACE and PEACE AWARENESS in your COMMUNITY
a) by making some effort to get to know some of the people in your community (neighborhood, work place, etc) who seem to be lonely and who don’t seem to have too many friends and/or
b) by sharing what you love (either ideas or activities or things/money) with those who don’t seem to have as much of it and/or
c) by organizing events (such as Peace Day Celebrations) in your Community (schools, community centers, etc) that make people more aware of the importance of peace and/or
1.4. increase PEACE and PEACE CONSCIOUSNESS among different NATIONS, RACES, and CULTURES
a) by paying more attention to the richness and beauty of other cultures and by respecting and appreciating the cultural variety in the world and/or
b) by asking people from other cultures to share aspects of their cultures and, if they are interested, by sharing aspects of your culture with them and/or
c) by making a conscious effort to have friends with different cultural backgrounds and to spend some time together with them and/or
d) by participating in public cultural events and celebrations from other cultures (please ask first, of course, if you are welcome!)
e) by learning a foreign language and finding out more about the places and culture(s) in which it is spoken
f) by travelling to other places and spending some time in other countries or communities
1.5 increase PEACE with the ENVIRONMENT
a) by treating all beings (humans, animals and plants) with respect and/or
b) by being aware that all your actions and decisions have an impact on others as well as on the environment and/or
c) by doing all those little things every day that reduce your carbon footprint and/or
d) by teaching your family members, friends, and people in your community how to feel responsible for and take good care of the environment
2. Adding Happiness to Other People’s Lives
You know how to do that and don’t need any suggestions from us.
However, if you don’t really know where to start: please consider in particular making all those people happy who are unhappy and lonely. Feel free to extend your happiness project to animals! They are really easy to please and can be made really happy if you just spend some time petting them!
3. Taking Responsibility for the Well-Being of All Animals
Unfortunately, humans, collectively, have caused a lot of suffering for animals – mostly because many humans are both selfish and lack the imagination to feel the suffering they cause. Farming, fishing, and hunting practices are some of the most obvious examples but there are hundreds more. The key word here is compassion – i.e. imagine you are the animal and you get treated in that particular way: how would you feel?
If you would NOT like to live in a tiny cage with no room to move in for your whole life and/or if you would NOT like to be caught in a net and get parts of your back cut off and/or if you would not like to have your home melt away right under your feet so that you would have to swim for days or drown, please TAKE ACTION!
There are many organizations who try to help animals – pets, farm animals, and wildlife. Please find below a few examples:
[List coming soon!]
4. Helping People Regain and Maintain Perfect Health
Coming soon!
5. Teaching Our Children to Create a Happy Future
Instead of teaching our children to solve the current global crisis, many educational institutions – at least in Europe and North America – make the situation worse: they systematically train our kids to regard money and success (in the form of good grades) as the only values. The result of this system: the creation of young people who are deeply unhappy because they do not know how to live a meaningful life and who make everybody else unhappy as well because they care only about themselves.
We would therefore like to appeal to all of you to send your kids to an alternative educational institution where they get taught values that will help them lead a meaningful and happy life and where they systematically learn to make a positive difference in the world. The result of this alternative education: happy young people with idealism, enthusiasm, energy, and hope, who are ready to help and support others. Because these young people are on the path they are meant to be on, money and success will follow automatically.
List with alternative educational institutions that we would like to recommend:
[List coming soon!]
