Summit of reflection

A few years ago, I did a meditation retreat in Thailand.

You know, where people go off alone, to think.

These centres have meditation facilities and day to day help is available.

That was a noticeable improvement that gave us time to reflect on the amendments.

Anniversaries are times of celebration and times of reflection.

Just to take a little side note here, this gives you an appreciation, I think, for the complexity of the human body.

About the Non Serious Approach to Meditation and the So Called Spiritual Search

Tonight's story tells about a business tycoon... and will give you something to ponder if you have ever given an employee the sack.

He had gone to the forest long before to meditate.

The time has come to pause and meditate on the solutions that should be adopted.

This was a meditation program inside the prison of over 1,000 prisoners.

It was also intended to offer members of the Council an opportunity to reflect on their work in an informal setting.

We still recall the lively and thought provoking report on his trip to southern Africa as Chairman.

9 March 1994 The Nordic countries attach great importance to the proper handling of the financial resources of the United Nations.

The court cannot guarantee the rest... but you'll have sufficient time to meditate.

The Secretary General apos s quot Agenda for Peace quot offers excellent material for reflection and action.

This date affords us an opportunity for reflection, heightened awareness and a constructive analysis of our Organization apos s past, present and future.

NEW YORK The recent death of Norman Borlaug provides an opportune moment to reflect on basic values and on our economic system.

But it must also be a time of reflection on how we can better fulfil our duties and responsibilities.

The recent death of James M. Buchanan, the father of public choice economics, is reason to reflect on his sage warnings.

Each year the delivery of the IAEA's annual report to the General Assembly is a time for reflection, but today perhaps more than usual.

The world recognized the need for the United Nations, not only as a means of curbing the dangers of our modem world but also as a forum for reflection.

It is now time to reflect on a United Nations that will serve mankind for another 50 years after 1995.

The breakdown of the Cancun talks may yet provide an opportunity for deeper reflection.

It is therefore auspicious that the Organization should establish an annual day of reflection, from now on, to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the destruction of the Nazi regime.

Because when we start looking at the collective appetite for our lifestyles, and what we're doing to that landscape that, to me, is something that is a very sobering moment for me to contemplate.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires timeless poetry and cherished music elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

It is a period for a country in war to peace transition to reflect on the past and to cultivate attitudes that will facilitate the avoidance of the mistakes that culminated in the conflict.

Sometimes multilateral solutions seem impossibly difficult, but from time to time it pays to step back and see how far we have come.

In 1995 we shall commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations. This will be an opportunity to reflect both on the Organization apos s accomplishments which are not negligible and on the challenges it will face.

The anniversary provides a reason to reflect on some of the country s achievements and failings, especially in the field of education the key to economic opportunity and professionalization of the public sector.

The theme illustrated in the tagline Cancer Did you know? offers an opportunity to reflect on cancer s true consequences and enhance global prevention and treatment efforts.

Nevertheless, for China s part, now seems to be a good time to reflect on how to increase its exports value added, as well as focusing on environmental protection and sustainability.

And yet we still lack the basic skills of reflecting on such information, of sifting through the dirt to find the worthy nuggets.

Instead, it should be an occasion for reflection on the role of ideological groupthink among economists, including Bernanke, in contributing to the global economic and financial crisis.

But there is time to figure that out, and Syria s own 2014 election might offer a face saving way out of that conundrum.

Even for non Catholics like myself, this is an occasion to ponder what the world will lose when the Pope s body finally succumbs to his ailments.

We stress the importance for the future of Ibero America of initiatives such as the Summit of Reflection, which examined the role of democracy, human rights, education, culture, science and technology in the building of developed societies.

The WTO Ministerial Conference later this month will provide an occasion to consider the best ways to generate growth and alleviate poverty in these countries.

The year 1995 will also see the World Summit for Social Development and the World Conference on Women at Beijing. This will be a time for reflection and thinking, especially about development issues.

And it's a scary thing as well. Because when we start looking at the collective appetite for our lifestyles, and what we're doing to that landscape that, to me, is something that is a very sobering moment for me to contemplate.

The International Decade of the World's Indigenous People had provided a valuable opportunity to reflect upon the situation of indigenous peoples, value and respect their identities and find viable solutions to the urgent problems facing them.

84. The United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) (Rio de Janeiro, 3 14 June 1992) provided UNHCR with the opportunity to reflect on the relationship between environmental degradation and refugee movements.

84. The United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 3 14 June 1992) provided UNHCR with the opportunity to reflect on the relationship between environmental degradation and refugee movements.