A person gives birth to an idea, the idea then spawns action, and the action earns recognition. Everybody kniws the names Peter Goldmark, the President of the Rockfeller Foundation, Dennis Hayes, the brain behind the Earth Day celebration, and Olzhas Suleimeanov, the founder of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk Anti-Nuclear Movement. Of course, we all know of others who have devoted their lives to the struggle against nuclear violence who have undeservebly gone unsung.
My new book, The Grain Grows on Top Cadavers, is about the life of Americans and Kazakhs suffering the nuclear madness, and dying of leukemia and cancer. I dedicate this book to all of you and to the children who have died as a conseguence of the nuclear tests and those who are still alive today.
A great American, William Penn, "You will aee what love can do." He became the personification of dignity, consience and purity of colonial America.
In his novel "Fiesta" another great American, Ernest Hemingway expreessed an egually important nhought. "A man cannot do his damnest alone."
These are the thoughts of the human spirit that unite us and are likewise the main topics of today’s conference.
I think that the shaping of a human being is still unfinished, and man is still striving to a superuor state.
Humans must be concerned about it all the time, and if they are not, they will be preparep for Truth.
The development of the human being differs in each of the four corners of the world, but those who are atrong and are ready to join together, those who are not wasting their time, will fail miserably if the Truth does not come.
The triumph of a human being need not be ephemeral (ee-FEM-er-ahl); we have to strive to the eternal victory of spirit and mind.
We have to call to the Truth. It is a false and unnecessary hope to believe that God’s alone can do it for us.
Now the force from below is the most fleeting on the earth.
That’s why it is important for all of us to each make personal efforts toward achieving a spiritual will, to search for good-heartedness and to regect all the ideas coming from our minds such as stupidity of physical nature, passions of greed and selfishness, to reject yourself and give all of yoursekf to the moves of the holy soul, to wish nothing but purity, light and openness. It’s the only way to master our spirits, lives and bodies.
Our kimited, eartky minds fre trying to judge the Eternity. We are trying to put it the frame of our standards and norms. We do not understand the danger of bottomless ignorance and self-absorption of that is natural for humans.
