Sri Chinmoy:
The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

WELCOME: This is the first issue of “A Moment’s Peace”, the monthly newsletter of Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations. Through selected interviews, articles and summaries of speeches, we hope to highlight many of the progressive viewpoints currently being discussed or considered at the United Nations. -Part of each issue will devoted to the … Read more →

Content Highlights: A MESSAGE FROM U THANT –  excerpt from the farewell address of the late Secretary-General U Thant. U THANT ISLAND  –  To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the naming of U Thant Island, a simple but striking arch has been placed on this small island U Thant Award Recipient –  given to an … Read more →

Content Highlights: ROOM OF QUIET –   Dag Hammarskjold’s words  reprinted on 25th anniversary of the re-design of the U.N. Meditation Room – “This is a room devoted to peace and those who are giving their lives for peace. It is a room of quiet where only thoughts should speak….” U THANT ISLAND –  7 October … Read more →

Content Highlights: A MEETING OF IDEAS- – Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with Sri Chinmoy and members of the Meditation Group on 13 January 1983. COMPLEX DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AT UNDP – Address by Mr. Erskine Childers, Director, Division of Information, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), at a special programme for UNDP sponsored by the … Read more →

Content Highlights: International SECURITY AND THE THIRD WORLD Excerpts from an address to the Meditation Group by H.E. Mr. Birbhongse Kasemsri, Permanent Representative of ‘Thailand, on 25 February 1983: Development AND HUMAN RIGHTS – – Javier Perez de Cuellar, (Secretary-General)  “…without development there cannot be a full realization of human rights…” IN THE BEGINNING – … Read more →

Content Highlights: New PERSPECTIVES – BIMILLENIUM CELEBRATION OF LIFE – excerpt from a book by Assistant-Secretary-General Mr. Robert Muller entitled New Genesis  (Doubleday, 1982). PEACE WALK FOR UNITED NATIONS CHARTER DAY – UN community will be participating in a silent walk on 23-24 June 1983 to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the U.N. … Read more →

Content Highlights: NON-ALIGNED STRENGTH – Excerpt of  address of Secretary- General Perez de Cuellar to the Non-Aligned Summit Conference… Peace Walk for United Nations Charter Day  23-24 June in the UN North Garden, the commemorated the 38th anniversary of the signing of the Charter. Forty missions and over 200 staff and delegates, representing about 70 … Read more →

Content Highlights: On 28 October, Dr. Jorge Illueca, President of the General Assembly, delivered the address at the UN Day ceremony in celebration of the thirty-eighth birthday of the United Nations… DELEGATES’ PEACE MEDITATION – Delegates and their wives  invited to twice-weekly meditations at the UN and a short talk once a month . RUN … Read more →

sample of Periodic short bulletin in electronic and paper format, of recent excerpts from this page and related sources  (e.g “quiet spaces…”)