- Whereas we are all from Earth and we are more closely connected with one another than ever before;
- Whereas many of our present day social systems are demonstrating signs of breakdown or collapse producing negative impact to environments and people around the world;
- Whereas it has become glaringly evident to growing numbers of people that we need to re-examine the underlying assumptions of our collective worldview and adapt new paradigms of thinking (Einstein);
- Whereas we Homo sapiens are yet to meet our peak potential as a species, holding great promise for a life-affirming, peaceful, sustainable and fulfilling global community.
- Whereas great social transformations have their origins in powerful explicit language (The Declaration of Independence, The Magna Carta) and true change has only come from small groups of thoughtful, committed citizens (Mead);
We, the undersigned, declare …..
It is our sacred right to dutifully commit ourselves to the following tenets:
- to be responsible citizens of Earth as well as legal citizens of our individual nations;
- to strive for all people to live in peace, freedom and have their basic needs met;
- to adopt a “Spaceship Earth” philosophy that acknowledges our fates are inescapably inter-connected with all other people; (Fuller)
- to embrace the principle that all people are created equal, deserving of respect, trust and dignity without regard to their positions or stature;
- to be responsible for the quality of life for future generations;
- to become champions of social justice, environmental sustainability and spiritual fulfillment for all;
- to approach our lives and our work with an attitude of interdependence, individually responsible for ourselves and our communities while relying on one another to maintain a sustainable “whole;”
- to challenge the status quo with its institutions, leadership and forms whenever it fails to serve society-at-large;
- to create new structures and support new leaders as necessary to fulfill the needs of the world;
- to act with integrity in all that we do, demanding it from our fellow global citizens with whom we share interdependence;
- to advocate these and similar attitudes, philosophies and actions based upon premises of interdependent global citizenship so others adapt them as their own.
The Covenant
Therefore we, the undersigned, declare and pledge publicly and to one another to stand for these tenets, resolved and committed as women and men of integrity sharing the sacred duty of global citizenship.
Name, Birth City, Photo, Page, Personal Declaration for Action;
Kara Miller, Kingston
Kara's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that I am dedicating my life to (1) being grateful and (2) lighting a fire under the imaginations of others so that they too can see the magic, the extraordinary and the inspirational in the everyday.
Birgit Hass, Bayreuth
Birgit's Page
Maria Sipka, Malacky
Maria's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
To connect the developing world to the developed world through online communities and groups.
Pip Coburn, Lakewood
Pip's Page
Claudia Kohl, Vienna
Claudia's Page
John Renesch, Alameda
John's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
To create a human presence on Earth that is environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling.
Anju Rupal, London
Anju's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I Declare that I will work to foster loving relationships for all human beings.
Lars Hinrichs, Hamburg
Lars' Page
Sally Hudson, Taplow
Sally's Page
Bill Liao, Melbourne
Bill's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that henceforth I will do all in my power to see the success of The Declaration in transforming the world for the common good.
Kerrie Liao, Melbourne
Kerrie's Page
Michael Arnold, Lucerne
Michael's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I want to convince as many people as possible that contributing to a more sustainable world is rewarding and fun.
Mirjam Frei, Baden
John Coonrod, Saint Louis
John's Page
Penny Power, Chelmsford
Penny's Page
Thomas Power, Birmingham
Thomas' Page
Stéphanie Baudart, Paris
Stephanie's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I will continue helping bridging the gaps between people and continue spreading the word for respect to Mother Nature.
María Alejandra Yánez, Caracas
María's Page
Dwight Richard Frindt, Chicago
Nika Solomon, Hamburg
Nika's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that I will do everything in my power to empower and enable others to fulfill their dreams for the common good.
Jim Whitton, Guantanamo Bay
Jim's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
To do all I can to call forth "the better angels of our nature" with endless gratitude and genuine surprise.
Angela Guido, San Antonio
Angela's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I promise to explore and create as the basic functions of being alive before surviving, looking good, and making it, and I promise to empower others to do the same.
Russell Jones, Heidelberg
Russell's Profile
Personal Declaration for Action:
In a global mobility context, to engage with people of other cultures on a truly interpersonal basis, trying to meet them with openness, and to make intercultural efforts in terms of language, understanding their customs etc.
Tatiana Panchenko, Moscow
Tatiana's Page
Letitia McQuade, Melbourne
M. Versace, Redondo Beach
Marco's Page
Nicole Simon, Husum
Nicole's Page
Pinky Cat, Honolulu
Pinky's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I will never stop asking the neglected questions; I promise to use what I've learned for good and not evil.
Z. Kathrin Kawaters, Istanbul
Kathrin's Page
Rouven Küng, Baden
Rouven's Page
Aniko Lang Balogh, Budapest
Thomas Padikal (Tom), Philadelphia
Tom's Page
Thomas Promny, Rathenow
Thomas' Page
Kathy Johnson, Tacoma
Michael Louis Brittingham, Rochester
Michael's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Life is 90% showing up, plus 90% following-through + 20% relaxing & enjoying it! :-)
zaliha yanikomeroglu, Princes' Islands
Rodolfo Carpintier Santana
Rodolfo's Page
Karin Erika Schwenzner, Neuwied
Karin's Page
Lee Wilkins, London
Lee's Page
Kristine Anthis, Chicago
Kristine's Page
Robbert Frank Hagens, Amersfoort
Robbert's Page
Ma.Jeraldine Unida Quezon City,
Robert Smales, London
Robert's Page
Guilain de Pontfarcy, Pessac
Guilain's Page
Michelle Guiliano, Englewood
Michelle's Page
Stephan Meyer, Hamburg
Stephan's Page
Catherine M. Juon, Webster City
Augusto Castañeda, Lima
Augusto's Page
Julia Ann Langkraehr, Kansas City
Julia's Page
Jan Christof Deppe, Darmstadt
Jan Christof's Page
Rahul Purohit, Kanpur
Rahul's Page
Martin Harris, Melbourne
Volker Mauruschat, Preetz
Volker's Page
Med Yones, Las Vegas
Med's Page
Bettina Hein, Berlin
Bettina's Page
Paul J. Goldberg, Cologne
Jessica Colleran, Billericay
Jessica's Page
Mehul Patel, Bombay / Mumbai
Mehul's Page
Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein, Munich
Nicholas' Page
Praveen Varshney, Modinagar
Praveen's Page
Nina H. Neelsen, Berlin
Nina's Page
Mathias Conradt, Hamburg
Mathias' Page
Ulrich Kampffmeyer, Hamburg
Ulirch's Page
Andre Angelantoni, Toronto
Andre's Page
Shannaz Schopfer de Villarreal, Santa Monica
Roman Retzbach, Stuttgart
Roman's Page
Kelly Hogan, Kuala Lumpur
Kelly's Page
Johannes Bausch, Stockholm
Bengt Wendel, Malmö
Bengt's Page
Karel Frielink, Antilles
Marc Cathomen, Ilanz
Marc's Page
Robert Mills, Naha
Robert's Page
Jorge Sebastiao, Lisbon
Jorge's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Security is a continuous skilled process which requires thought
Ingolf Christian Ernst, Weimar
Ingolf's Page
Ronald Kwong, Sydney
Ronald's Page
Julika Capek, Pointe-Noire
Julika's Page
Carlo Blatz, Berlin
Carlo's Page
Christian Gruenberger, Freistadt "Freetown"
Christian's Page
Lalit Vashishta, Mumbai
Gwyn Jones, Penmaenmawr
Gwyn's Page
Walter Locatelli, Zug
Walter's Page
Tobias Haußmann, Ravensburg
Mike Fesler, Indialantic
Mike's Page
Maria D. H. Schmitz, Kingston
Albert Klamt, Recklinghausen
Albert's Page
Borislav Moyanov, Sofia
Vijay Challa, Kakinada
Maria Stergiou, Agrinio
Maria's Page
David Petherick, Edinburgh
David's Page
Markus Russ, Erlangen
Markus' Page
Yu Le, Jiangsu
Le's Page
Angel J. Muñoz, Madrid
Angel's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Always mind…
Kay H. Kohlhepp, Hamburg
Patrick Möller, Rendsburg
Patrick's Page
Burkhard Blum, Basel
Burkhard's Page
Billa Bhandari, New Delhi
Billa's Page
Michael Daun, Stockholm
Michael's Page
Christopher Hurtado, Baltimore
Christopher's Page
Nuno Mousinho Esteves, Lisboa
Nuno's Page
Steve Glangé Luxembourg.
Steve's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Claire Bamford, Melbourne
Amit Mahajan, Amroha
Amit's Page
Haydn Shaughnessy, Davenham
Haydn's Page
Larry Phipps, Yuba City
Larry's Page
Antony Georg Arendt, Berlin
Antony's Page
Rita Booker, Lugoj
Rita's Page
Tomy Pelluz, Canary Islands
Tomy's Page
Elisabeth Lehmann, Brigstock
Elisabeth's Page
David Collins, Edinburgh
Andrey Gromchenko, Moscow
Andrey's Page
Dr. Brigitte Nijs, Tienen
Brigitte's Page
Maarten Bennis, Nijmegen
Maarten's Page
Deborah J. Boyd, Johnstown
Deborah's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I have a mission to establish Peace on Earth by 2027
Peter Hogenkamp, Bielefeld
Peter's Page
Benedict Rodenstock, München
Roland Staehler, Karlsruhe
Roland's Page
Nigel Stonham, Copthorne
Nigel's Page
Peter Ball, Sydney
Peter's Page
Reto Wettstein, Brugg
Reto's Page
Katja Schlansky, Coburg
Jerry Michalski, San Diego
Jerry's Page
Judith Meuwly Correll, Solothurn
Judith's Page
Stephen Cotterell, Rustington
Stephen's Page
Pierre Leonard, Brussels
Pierre's Page
Yann Mauchamp, Paris
Yann's Page
Nelly Capra, Genova
Eoghan Jennings, Dublin
Eoghan's Page
Maren Gintzburg, Celle
Maren's Page
Georg Parlow, Vienna
Georg's Page
Patrick Moore, Stevington
Patrick's Page
Patrice Kaufman, Dearborn
Patrice's Page
Tristan Liao, Melbourne
Tristan's Page
Jan Åman, Stockholm
Jan's Page
Molly R. Thompson, Toledo
Molly's Page
James Haft, New York
James' Page
Neven Cvetkovic, Zagreb
Neven's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I am committed to the world transformation, into the world of integrity, generosity and abundance. I stand for people achieving their dreams and living their life fully and self-expressed.
Cindy Lu, Beijing
Cindy's Page
Ali M. Alehemer, Tripoli
Ali's Page
Chris Morriss, Stoke-On-Trent
Chris' Page
Ted Whetstone, Stamford
Ted's Page
Nir Ben-Dor, Tel Aviv
Helder Pereira, Lisboa
Helder's Page
Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey, London
Aubrey's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I will continue to dedicate myself to acting on the maxim that old people are people too, by working to hasten the defeat of aging - the process that robs old people of their health, their independence, their dignity and finally their lives.
Rene Seifert, Munich
Rene's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Lower the influence of rotten governments who are strangulating the free development of free people in this world.
Dmitry Buterin, Grozny
Dmitry's Page
Tatiana Kesrouani, Beirut
Tatiana's Page
Matthias Heubi, Uster
Matthias' Page
Suzanne Frindt, City San Antonio
Suzanne's Page
Duncan Grossart, London
Duncan's Page
Daniela Piryova, Sofia
Daniela's Page
Oliver Jung, Heidelberg
Oliver's Page
Natalia Mallison, London
Natalia's Page
Julia Feng, Shanghai
Julia's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I would promote the spirit of sharing, learning and integrity in my world, influence the people surrounding me. I would be a candle, wish to light up other candles as many as possible.
Bharatam Sriram, Bhadrachalam
Bharatam's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
To connect the people from developing countries to the developed world through communities.
Andre Maljaars, Vlissingen
Andre's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I like to connect entrepreneurs with entrepreneurs and investors from all over the world in order to help realise their ambiton.
Daniela Neumann
Daniela's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that I am going to act in the here and now to motivate people so they "get" integrity, love and beauty.
Koos Hulst, Maracaibo
Koos' Page
I.Jayaraj, Tanjore,
I.Jayaraj's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Whatever we do be for the good of the Humanity to create Global Unity
Cameron Reilly, Bundaberg
Cameron's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
"What can one individual accomplish on behalf of all humanity which could not be achieved by any organization, government or business, regardless of its size or power?" - Bucky Fuller
Jan Karel Kleijn, Amsterdam
Jan's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I’ll accept no prejudice and no oppression and will be a fire starter in helping people find their own true path in this wonderful life.
Yanik Cantieni, Montreal
Personal Declaration for Action:
Be yourself, act with integrity, respect and generosity.
Andreas Rintzner, Munich
Andreas' Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Future 2.0 … User generated. Better!
Eric Ly, Saigon
Eric's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I challenge myself and others in my community to find ways to enjoy our first-world lives without incurring the wasteful abuses of first-world living on the world's natural resources.
Andrei Pehar, Minsk
Andrei's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
To continually find new ways to grow, to assist the growth of those around me, and to work towards a world where we live in harmony with nature and with one other.
Ellie Pope, Ottawa
Ellie's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I promise that, by 2038, Women and Men Around the World Will Have Free Choice in their Sexuality, and Know it as a Loving, Enjoyable, and Healthy Expression of Themselves and their Divinity.
Miriam Wiese, Heidelberg
Miriam's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
A New World is yet created. Let's start to live in!
Christopher Rothe, Hamburg
J.K. Shishido, Honolulu
Personal Declaration for Action:
I will work towards fulfilling my obligations as a human being.
Rainer Wasserfuhr, Wipperfuerth,
Rainer's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Connecting Beautiful Minds
Lilian Mwikali Andree, Nairobi
Lilian's page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that First, third and “middle” world share their love and needs despite colour and social classes and get together to Educate the Kids that otherwise have no chance to get Education.
Richard (Rick) S. Amado, Chicago, IL
Rick's Page
Cristina Gioveni, Buenos Aires
Cristina´s Page
Frank Sippel, Baden - Switzerland
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that I want to inspire as many people as I can reach to pursue their true values in order to become happier.
I declare that I will dedicate as many resources I can spare to push my environmental projects to a tipping point so they will make a maximum positive impact throughout the planet.
Nicholas Richards, Tampere
Personal Declaration for Action:
My father is British, My mother is Norwegian, and I was born in Tampere Finland and grew up in Sweden, I am a British citizen, when I was 23 I moved to Norway and met my beautiful wife, my wife is a Norwegian citizen but her mother is Russian and her father was Estonian, her grandfather on her fathers side was Swedish, her great great grandfather on her mothers side was Greek. When we get children they will have a great multi ethnical background.
Therefore I declare that I will do everything in my power to bring peoples from all nations closer together.
Stowe Boyd, Boston
Personal Declaration for Action:
I maintain that the actions needed to save the planet are too large in scope to be accomplished by any single nation, or even a subset of the developed nations. Likewise, the goals of nations are too one-sided to permit the loss of sovereignty necessary to forestall the coming crash of world ecology and ideologies. We have to step outside the industrial era power structures, and take back our planet. It is our world, not those that believe that they are justified in their parochial political games, with us as the pieces.
Deepak Ramapriyan, Baltimore
Deepak's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare myself to be a Being of love, self-expression, gratitude, and generosity. I intend to share the music of The B.O.L.T. (Breath of Life Tribe) with the world that will hopefully inspire community, connectedness and acceptance of the beauty that we all are.
Carsten Cumbrowski, (East) Berlin
Carsten's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
What goes around, comes around. People are generally good. The cut-throat mentality is not natural and an artificially created mentality, encouraged by a system created by the international bankers with the purpose to discourage unity, tolerance, peace, respect for one another, good education, health, happiness and true justice. Unity of people is the greatest threat to this system and feared like the devil despises the holy water by those few corrupt individuals, who would like to own the whole world and enslave mankind. Join this or any other world community, make them sweat in fear and help making their biggest nightmare become true and a reality. You are NOT weak! You are NOT alone! We are the people! We are the power! Connect, trust and support and trust and support will be returned to you as well, tenfold.
John Lindsay, Stratford
John's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
As a Canadian citizen born from Scottish and Welsh-Irish family, living in Belgium married to a Belgian wife of Belgian-Czech ancestry I am committed to making my contribution as a global citizen to spark inspiration for practical visions that transform how we live to today to what is possible tomorrow. This works best when we are able to make clear that the “pain of adoption” is actually lower than the “pain of staying how we are”.
Doris Ragettli, Chur, Switzerland
Personal declaration for Action:
Love, consciousness and abundance provides for a healthy mother earth. Feminine and masculine leadership qualities are equally honored, restoring balance to the world. A world that works for everyone.
Justine Toms, Chicago
Personal Declaration for Action:
[I] hope [and will work] for a delightful, safe and healthy world with clean water and renewable power; economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed. (Bill McDonough)
Angelia King, Shanghai
Angelia's page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Open Mind,Open world.I should be a globetrotter and go getter with the people around me. Cosmopolitanism is the language of my future. What a wonderful life! I am versatile!
Marlene Walk, Heilbronn
Marlene's page
Gope Hotchandani, Adipur
Gope's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Assist & Join Others, To Bring Out the Awareness Within for Universal Unity.
Dr. Guenther Dobrauz, Steyr
Guenther's Page
Dr. Christine Liao, Melbourne
Christine's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that I will work to bring peoples together, Country with Country, city with the bush, to achieve sustainable living for all and to support indigenous peoples wherever they are threatened.
Leni Rieppel, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Leni's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
SIEHE WWW.BALLONMILLION.DE - FÜR EINE GERECHTERE WELT WWW.BALLOONMILLION.ORG START A BALLOON TODAY AND HELP TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER
Barbara D. Knox, New York
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that I will do everything in my power to have generosity of listening and spirit foster a world in which the differences between peoples are acknowledged, honored, respected and embraced for the richness they bring to the experience of life.
Jeroen Hermkens, Rotterdam
Personal Declaration for Action:
I promise easy to use and transparent technology supporting all people in living a life they love
Bruce Torquil Campbell, Bedford
Personal Declaration for Action:
I promise a world in which all people experience the joy of being.
Stefan Heinz, Vaesteras
Stefan's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Unleashing everyone's power and potential for working together effectively and fulfilled.
Kare C. Anderson, Eugene
Kare's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
To support others in understanding how to harness the best social media tools for their use in collaborating for a better world (work, justice, freedom)
Richard Collins, Chicago, Illinois-USA
Richard's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I promise One World where…all Life is held as Sacred & Precious, moment to moment !
Leonard Mario Saputo, MD, Oak Park
Leonard's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
My mission is to support the development of global community
Jeff Hutner, Ojai
Jeff's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I stand for illuminating and accelerating evolutionary consciousness in action.
Janny Petronella Meerstadt, (Yana), Coevorden
Yana's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
My Declaration for the world is, that all families respect and love each other unconditionally, love beyond boundaries.
Ian Mitroff, Earth
Ian's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
To challenge as forcefully as I can traditional thinking that keeps us from changing
Tom Atlee, Eugene
Tom's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
As my contribution to the conscious evolution of humanity, I promote the conscious evolution of increasingly conscious social systems, tapping the collective evolutionary potential of emerging crises.
Robert White, Ravenswood
Robert's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
My vision is “One World, One People,” also the title of the book I published and authored with Japanese photographer Yoshiaki Nagashima. My commitment is to generate my vision through enrolling people in transformational experiences that reveal their essential humanity and connection; then calls participants to positive, life-affirming actions. My most recent specific actions were to write and publish “Living an Extraordinary Life” and to offer a free weekly e-zine titled “An Extraordinary Minute.”
Dr. Peter C. Bishop, Orlando
Peter's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I am committed to bringing futures thinking to mainstream educational institutions so that students may begin to learn and act in ways that are beneficial and responsible for themselves, for their fellow citizens, and most of all for future generations.
Kathryn Alexander, Detroit
Kathrin's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
My Legacy is to engage myself and others in ways that ensure the love of life is expressed through challenging engagement and the vibrancy of life is experienced in all aspects of our work together, our relationship, and our health.
My Mission is to bring clarity and shared understanding to the major crisis of our time – Climate Change that is manifested in the
experience of global Warming. I intend to facilitate the paradigm shift from separateness to integrated as human learn that they are an integral PART of the ecosystem. The key to this shift is the realization that trees have rights – that ALL other living things have
rights and that human rights and responsibilities are inherent in the relationships we have with the rest of the planet. Humans are at the cusp of learning self-discipline as we being to joyfully work within the natural limits with creativity and reverence. http://www.linkedin.com/in/ethicalimpact
Ganesh Shenoy, Hyderabad
Ganesh's Page
Personal declaration for Action:
To make the world a better place to be with whatever small contributions I can make.
David A. Schwerin, Philadelphia PA
David's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
My intention is to continuously improve the degree to which I live an honest, equitable and sustainable life and help others to do the same. www.instituteforethicalawareness.org
Paul David Walker, Sheffield
Paul's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Unleashing Genius Global Vision
I am interested in working with successful leaders who would like to give something back to build a more abundant and vital world for their children and grandchildren. Much of the leadership in the world is not working effectively both at the top and bottom of the social strata. There is a growing chasm between the classes and, without a healthy middle class, free market systems do not work. My goal is to find the deepest wisdom and integrate it into the social an economic fabric of businesses and nations.
I do not have the answers, but we do have a methodology for discovery. In Discovery Teams we will combine wisdom from the ancients and the natural intelligence we all can tap into that is beyond explanation.
Jeffrey Mishlove, Fond du Lac
Jeffrey's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
My calling is to serve as a medium of communication between mainstream culture and the world of psychic, mystical and esoteric forms of awareness.
BJ Gallagher, Orange
BJ's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Service and contribution — to watch for opportunities to do good, and do it.
Allan Cohen, Earth
Allan's Page
A Personal Declaration for Action:
I stand for the possibility of a world where every person belongs and where each person can make a difference. You can count on me to act consistently with this possibility.
Sabine Bredemeyer, Düsseldorf
Sabine's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
As my contribution to peace in the world I am committed to work on peace with myself and with others. Aware of the interconnectedness of all that is I am committed to creating new structures (an infrastructure for peace) and support for (conscious) leaders as necessary for the needs of the world.
Alain Gauthier, Fraize
Alain's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that I am committing the rest of my life to awakening myself and others to our oneness with all sentient beings while appreciating the richness of our diversity.
David K. Banner, Fort Worth
David's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Mission Statement: My purpose is to inspire people to accept and express their full magnificence into their daily lives. I see myself as a catalyst for awakening folks who want to be themselves fully.I invite people to join me in this mission,as we all inspire each other to be who we came on Earth to BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John B. Cobb, Jr., Kobe
John's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Providing an alternative way of thinking about science, economics, and religion that offers hope for a livable planet.
Founding Director of the Center for Process Studies in Claremont, CA, USA
William A. Guillory, New Orleans
William's Page
Jesse Bouman, Amsterdam
Jesse's Page
Personal declaration for Action:
I declare to be aware and to make others aware of the fortunate position we are in by having access to the internet and being able to connect with others around the world. We should all realize that not every world citizen is in the same and fortunate position as we are and always try to find ways to help others with money, time or idea donations and inspiration.
Sue Howard, London
Sue's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
The relationship between our inner spiritual journey and outer ways of being in the world is a subject that has become my passion in life to understand and to help others explore as they make their own connections. Who are we? What is our purpose, and what difference are we making? These are the spiritual questions that we ask ourselves time and time again in our search for meaning. My mission in life is to keep those questions open for exploration with individuals, and with leaders in organisations in as many engaging ways as I can find!
Co-Author, The Spirit at Work Phenomenon, Azure, 2004
Director of Corporate Affairs, www.jmsr.com
Trustee, MODEM, www.modem-uk.org
UK Trustee, www.wcg.org
Srikumar S. Rao, Bombay
Srikumar's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Create workplaces that nourish the human spirit
Alex Pattakos, Ph.D., Brooklyn, New York
Alex's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I am committed to helping people discover authentic meaning in their lives and work, as well as to ensuring that organizations in all industries and sectors focus on designing innovation systems, processes, products, and policies that make a positive difference and are truly meaningful.
Jamie S. Walters, Port Jervis
Jamie's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
To embody and inspire the Wisdom and Ways that will help guide a more harmonious, healthy, and joyful New Era for humanity into being.
Robert Rabbin, New York,
Robert's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I hereby commit to embody, advocate, teach, and promote the principles and practices of RealTime Speaking, which are authenticity, integrity, and transparency in our public and private speaking. In order to trust ourselves and each other, we must begin to use our speaking, verbal and nonverbal, to reveal rather than conceal our true motives, intentions, and heart.
Paul Rogat Loeb, Oakland, CA
Paul's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
Get ordinary people involved taking responsibility for our hardest common problems
Jan Hauser, Earth
Jan's Page
Tina Rasmussen, Chicago
Tina's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
To embody, express and enjoy presence in this moment for the benefit of all Being.
John D. Adams, Ph.D., Wooster
John's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I pledge to explore and take into account the social and ecological consequences of my decisions. Furthermore, I pledge to use all the knowledge I gain to improve the sustainability of the communities in which I live, learn, and work. (Adapted from the University of British Columbia sustainability pledge)
Jim Rough, Washington DC
Jim's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I am working with others to implement structural changes that can facilitate a new public conversation—where all of us can come together as a wise and responsible "We the People of Earth." I invite you to explore the Wisdom Council concept as a new short-cut option to global transformation … and to join us.
Bin Wang, Beijing
Bin's Profile
Bill Veltrop, Near Jefferson City Missouri
Bill's Page
Personal Declaration for Action:
I commit my life to accelerating the "metamorphosis" of organizations, communities and regions throughout our planet, where "metamorphosis" refers to the fundamental transformation from fragmented and fragmenting social entities to forms that promote and support wholeness, i.e., designed to contribute to the well-being of all life on our planet.
Susie Fraser, Wagga Wagga
Personal Declaration for Action:
My mission is a sustainable future for Earth by 2020: A world where human and natural ecosystems are honoured, valued and nurtured. I am a member of the Sustainable Action Committee of Hornsby Shire Council, my local government area. I teach people a new way to think about, organise and manage everything there is for them to do.
Sanjoy Mukherjee, Kolkata
Personal Declaration of Action:
To ignite the fire of Spirit within me and the others through explorations in non-conventional sources and methods of Learning that help expand our horizons of thinking, enrich the quality of our emotions and enlighten our consciousness for a more humane and sustainable life for ourselves and the whole universe.
James A. Autry, Memphis
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I feel my calling is to work with the leadership of all kinds of organizations, particularly business, to help create a workplace of support and not fear by helping leaders manifest compassion, honesty, and trust in all their relationships.
Alan Briskin
New York, New York, USA
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Personal Declaration for Action:
To contribute to the healing and creation that is needed in the world
David Sheppard Surrenda, New York City
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Personal Declaration for Action:
My purpose is to live and work in a way that awakens others to their True Nature as I continually discover mine - David Surrenda
Peng, Lin, Wuhan
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Marc Dangeard, Caen
Personal Declaration for Action:
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In a world where a lot of corporations seem to have lost their soul, I pledge to promote entrepreneurship and collaboration based on the sharing of the value created, to help the rise of a peer-to-peer civilization
Carol Sanford, Wellington
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Personal Declaration for Action:
To enable connection to the aliveness of place
www.interoctave.com
Frank Vrabel, Brno
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Personal Declaration of Action:
I declare that I’ll keep developing and providing multi-cultural and cross-language solutions for better communication and understanding between people from all over the world.
Rebecca L. Self, Tampa
Personal Declaration for Action:
I act on behalf of a world inspired and freely expressing itself. I intend to be fully used up in service of what's possible when we are each and every one lit up by the magic of our own lives. Imagine a world in which all musicians play, dancers whirl, painters and sculptors are supported beyond their wildest dreams; a world in which we share our ideas and thoughts without restraint and the media are open forums for that free-flowing, exuberant exchange. It is a world in which we are each known and loved. There is much, much more than enough.
Alan Zulch, San Francisco
Personal declaration for Action:
I am committed to helping give birth to a planetary awareness of oneness.
Arnold Mindell, Portland
Personal Declaration for Action:
Please stand for a deeper democracy. That is, value all voices, all dreams and the power that brought us to life.
Mark Thompson, San Jose
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Brian Bacon, Benalla, Australia
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Personal Declaration for Action:
To help change the trajectory of our civilisation by finding, guiding and supporting leaders (particularly young and emerging) to be driven by a purpose beyond profits, politics, products or self interest
Mark Gerzon, Ithaca
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Personal Declaration for Action:
How do I, or you - or, for that matter, anyone - develop a global identity? Why am I so dedicated to fostering “global citizenship,” “global social entrepreneurship” and “global leadership?” What is “global responsibility” so important to me?
When I was growing up in the American heartland, I appeared to be an ordinary, basketball-crazed, girl-chasing boy with an identity shaped by Washington, Wall Street and Hollywood. But, perhaps like you, the seeds were already planted deep inside me that would never let me be shaped by any single culture.
I was, first of all, an immigrant. If my father, a Dutch refugee during World War II, had been accepted at a university in Cape Town or Buenos Aires or Sydney, I might be a South African, Argentinean or Aussie. But he was accepted by Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, which is where I was born. My citizenship was determined, first, by a Nazi despot, and second, by a university admissions officer.
Even though they talked very little about what happened before they emigrated to the United States of America in 1945, my brothers and sister and I could piece together some of the puzzle. Unlike my friends, whose families told stories about places like Nashville and Columbus and Lexington, my parents' conversations alluded to places with names like Rotterdam (where my Christian relatives lived) and Auschwitz (where some of my Jewish relatives were murdered) and Jogjakarta (where my mother, the daughter of Dutch missionaries, had grown up). Unlike my friends' grandparents, who were often buried in a cemetery somewhere nearby, mine were buried across the ocean somewhere in Holland, or lost in the ashes of a Nazi incinerator.
To some degree, every child knows there is a larger whole of which they - and their families - are a part. Anyone who has reflected on their genealogy, or “family tree,” knows that that he or she is only a twig on a branch. But for many of us, this wider awareness is dulled by the particulars of our time and place. As we grow up, we “fit in” more and more until, finally, we actually accept the identity we are given. We think of ourselves in terms of our neighborhood, or our nationality, and we forget the rest of our address. We forget that we are part of the whole.
As I look back, I realize that my greatest wound was also my greatest gift. My wound was that, although I grew up in America, I never felt like an American. My gift was that, since I never felt like an American, I began very early life to identify with something larger. Like Tom Paine, the American revolutionary author who wrote Common Sense, I felt that: “My country is the world. My fellow citizens are humankind.”
The irony is that writing about this odyssey toward global consciousness risks sounding arrogant. But the experience itself was just the opposite: it was incredibly humbling. No matter how much I traveled thereafter - living in Indonesia, traveling through the Soviet Union and China, then to Nepal and Sri Lanka, and later throughout Latin America and Southeast Asia and then Africa - I was always struck by how little I knew. No matter how hard I might try, I could never learn more than three or four languages, and never deeply understand more than a few cultures.
When I was in my late twenties, already married and the father of two sons, I was offered a dream job. I was asked to research the feasibility for a global newspaper. I eventually became WorldPaper's managing editor and helped its circulation grow to over one million in five languages. I loved the challenge of producing a monthly publication that reflected the wisdom of our Associate Editors from around the world (including such giants as Mochtar Lubis from Indonesia and Hilary N'gweno from Kenya) rather than the editorial bias of New York, Moscow or Tokyo. The opportunity fueled my idealistic dream that I could make a living, and make a life, as a citizen of the world.
As evidenced by the ongoing wars being waged in my name, however, I have learned that it is not easy to honor my allegiance to the planet when citizenship is still determined by nation states. Human beings have divided the whole into parts, and now the parts are competing for control. Even if I want to be a citizen of the whole, the parts have for the moment made that impossible.
No matter how much I may want to carry a global passport, mine is still stamped in Washington, D.C. No matter how much I may want to receive my news each morning from a global newspaper, I still have to choose between news sources dominated single nations or cultures. No matter how much I may want my children to receive a global education, they still are caught in a system that is shaped by one nation's government. In other words, although I may be a global citizen in my heart, I am legally still just an American. But according to my soul, if not my passport, I am a citizen of the world.
Although I love my country deeply, I am like a young man who finally leaves home and falls in love with a woman. My love for my mother country has been transcended by another greater and more mature love. My first loyalty is now neither my only nor my highest loyalty. Yes, I am devoted to my country when it serves the larger world. But I will be critical of my country when it does not. My loyalty is to humanity's welfare, not my government's. My passion is for universal values, not national values. My faith is in a diverse global multiculture, not American culture. If I risk my life in battle, it will be serving in a global peacekeeping force, not the US army. And if I ever choose again to put my hand over my heart and say a pledge of allegiance, it will not be to the United States of America but to the emerging union of nations that comprise this fragile world.
I am now past the halfway point in my life. I am prepared to live and die suspended between my national origins and my global identity. But I refuse any longer to to feel alone, or to remain silent, or to pretend to be what I am not. We global citizens do not own a single plot of global land. We global citizens do not have a truly global bank or a genuinely global newspaper or even a global university. We global citizens cannot cast a single global vote. We are and will remain refugees on this planet unless and until we come together and say in unison: “We will be divided no more.” Is this a call to revolution? No. Do I have a master plan? Hardly. All I have is a plaintive cry in my heart for a world without borders. All I want is a place where people like us - the hyphens, the border-crossers, the “third-culture kids,” the ones who refuse to live inside the boxes of their countries - can stand on this planet, not in this country or that.
If you have this cry in your heart too, then let the world hear it. If our voices form a global chorus, it can change the world.
Mark Gerzon. President of Mediators Foundation , is currently Distinguished Fellow at the East West Institute (New York/Brussels). He is the author of several books, including the forthcoming GQ-Global Intelligence: Learning to Lead Beyond Borders.
Agustin Musi, Mexico D.F.
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Personal Declaration for Action:
For the behalf of all members of our only Fuller Spaceship, I will declare publicly and openly that I hope and will assist others in the continual contribution of the action to think critically but constructively about the leaders we choose or are following and to help us lead our way out of crisis and into sustainable futures. This can be achieved by respect and behaving in a decent way to all members of our spaceship.
Darwin Gillett New England
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that I will SEE the world as one interconnected reality, will participate fully and ACT with integrity in that world, devoting my energy to write and speak about Noble Enterprise - a new business model for thriving in that reality, and will help business owners and corporate executives create and lead Noble Business Enterprises that serve the spiritual as well as material needs of all constituencies of their business.
J. Manuel Herrera, San Jose/Silicon Valley
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Personal Declaration for Action:
In the 21st century we will bring not just rational intelligence to community life, but also emotional intelligence - the intuitive knowing the of the heart - and spiritual intelligence, the guiding wisdom of Spirit.
Maria Elena Pereira Johannpeter, GRAVATAÍ, RS
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I state that I will keep on orienting the social organization that I am the President, so that it can continue working for the Social Capital strengthening in Brasil.
Social Capital is the capacity that persons have to cooperate generating solidarity, interacting with institutions and producing confidence. Confidence is the basic attitude when we talk about Social Capital and it is fundamental for the development of the other capitals, as economical, financial, human, as well as intellectual capital.
Our HUMAN COMPROMISE is to take care of ourselves, of other persons, of animals and of environment. For that reason our HUMAN COMPROMISE is with the PLANET !!
Sally Mahé, Atlanta
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I want to contribute to the evolution of spiritual democracy - believing people everywhere have beauty, meaning and purpose to contribute to the whole and helping them do it.
Oliver W. Markley, Detroit
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Personal Declaration for Action:
The central challenge of humankind: “When one species attains a position of dominance over all the other species in the ecology of its planet, if it is both egocentrically greedy, and has a powerful set of technologies through which to amplify the expression of that greed, then unless that dominant species can find a way to limit or to transform itself and its greed-based systems into something more wholesome, it will foul its planetary nest as surely as the night follows the day … perhaps even to its own extinction.” I am dedicated to the realization of our highest potential as an emergent species in the Galactic Community.
Daniel Priestley, Earth
Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare that I will run events where entrepreneurs can connect and find expansive ways to solve humanitarian, social and environmental issues/opportunities through enterprise.
David Peter Stroh, New York City,
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I am committed to facilitating the connections that enable people to make the world a better place.
Anodea Judith, Elyria
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Personal Dedication for Action:
My declaration is to the long term understanding of human evolution and the guidance it takes to get through the challenges meeting us at this crucial time of massive transformation. May the power of love prevail over the love of power.
www.sacredcenters.com
Margery Miller, Dallas
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I believe that we are here to learn to love ourselves, each other and our lives, master the Business of Life and turn our lead into gold. I dedicate my life to the study practice and teaching of universal laws, assisting myself and others in recognizing, appreciating and sharing the love and magnificence of ourselves.
Juanita Brown, Providence
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A Personal Declaration for Action:
I'd like to nurture and support the power of conscious conversation as co-evolutionary force on behalf of life affirming futures for our children and for future generations on this precious planet we collectively call "home".
Diane Carroll, Chicago
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare continuing action towards educating the world about the making a living design and choices (working for someone else, Entrepreneurship, non profit, visionary and wrap around (making the work you do wrap around you). Fluid movement from one of these models to the next is the key to genuine, personal independence.
Diane Carroll CEO
Maverick Center LLC
Erika Augustinsson, Karlshamn
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I want to remind us all that living in a globalised society is fun, rewarding, challenging and an opportunity to get to know people who are different from yourself. And the greatest experience ever is that moment of clarity when you step out of your own habits and ways of thinking and suddenly see everything from a different perspective!
Elizabeth Robillard, Earth
Personal Declaration for Action:
To help ensure people are emotionally healthy and happy before producing offspring or becoming legally tied. To help bring emotional enlightenment and autonomy where there is emotional pain or physical suffering
Matthew Gilbert, New York
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Personal Declaration for Action: To continue supporting the expansion of personal consciousness to include awareness of our own sacred natures as well as the interconnectedness of all beings on this planet.
Kim Rix, London
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I promise to use what I have learned to help others, to continually find new ways to grow, encourage the spirit of sharing and act with integrity for all the days of my life.
John Manoochehri, Stockholm
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Personal Declaration for Action:
The crisis we are facing is not a crisis of means: of resources, politics, institutions. It is a crisis of ends: in the decline of religious of authority, the space for hopes and visions has come to be filled by a mechanical dream-machine. Manufacturing ever-new hopes of material satisfaction, perfumed with the fragrance of film and TV fantasies, the industrial system of production and consumption gives not hope but distraction to the post-religious age.
Tragically, the scientific advance that has freed us from superstition and given us the means to end poverty and ennoble and scintillate our lives is currently incapable - or more like, unwilling - to reinvent a structure of value, framework of goals and grand visions, within which human activities can be organised and pursued. New value ideologies are not what is required: they are too crude and simplistic. What is needed now is nothing less than a science of value - which we can look to, just as product designers look to engineering when creating a new object, when creating new ways of life.
I commit to contributing to a new science of value. Markets and capitalism may have a strong place in this, but the hallmarks of the new science will be true understanding of:
- cognition
- relating and kinship and their potential
- natural systems and both their potential and limitations in supporting human welfare
- higher orders of human welfare, beyond material satisfaction.
Rae L. Thompson, Berwick
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Personal Declaration for Action:
To uplift the human spirit, empower individuals and organizations, and foster healthy relationships and communities.
(Website for my book, www.ripples-of-peace.com)
Dr. Scotti Veale, Colorado
Personal Declaration for Action:
Changing the world one person at a time; starting with myself.
Prasad Kaipa, Anantapur
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Personal Declaration for Action:
Integrating lessons from wisdom traditions with that of scientific and management approaches in the areas of leadership, innovation and change
Chief Sonne Reyna, Yaqui nation
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I am committed to ADDRESSING GLOBAL WARMING AND SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION through CEREMONIAL HEALING AND SACRED SONG to RE-BLESS OUR SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH OURSELVES AND WITH NATURAL-SUPERNATURAL FORCES UPON THE SACRED LIVING EARTH. I INVOKE OUR UNIVERSAL ENCHANTED HERITAGE TO SUMMON HEALING SONGS AND CHANTS FROM OUR ANCESTORS; FROM ALL FELLOW CREATURES ON EARTH, OCEANS, SKY AND ALL WORLDS; AND FROM THE UNBORN WHOSE BEAUTIFUL FACES ARE THE DIVINE EARTH WE SOFTLY WALK UPON. - YAHETE - WITH LOVE FROM MY HEART
Thomas Lindgren, Jönköping
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Mattias Behrer, Stockholm
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Kim Corbett Johnson, West Allis
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Personal Declaration for Action:
By 2020, I promise a world of workability and integrity. Where heart disease and our world homeless issue amongst our young people has ended. And women loving themselves as the source of what's possible for humanity.
Mario Holze, Hannover
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Personal Declaration for Action:
With my company HoQECS.com we are supporting the knowledge transfer in the IT sector between Europe and Latin America. I wish that everybody helps me to create circumstances were all people have a chance to learn, in order to develop their critical thinking, which will help to stabilize democrazy and close the gap between extremely rich and extremely poor.
Joy Helmer, Seattle
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I promise that by the year 2033 all people will know the joy of heart to heart connection. I am committed to shifting the world's conversation about war and the use of armed violence and to building a joy-filled, happier world that works for everyone. As we learn to build a bridge to each other and see the world as others see it, our humanity deepens and we are not alone. We are truly one. The planet becomes a place of enchantment, delight, awe and wonder.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Spokane
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I am a commitment to creating leaders who embody pragmatic wisdom, grounded compassion, and skillful action for the sustainability of the planet.
Gary S. Malkin, New York
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I am a stand for the power of Love. I am a stand for the awakening power of music and the arts, and for the astonishing ways in which Truth, Beauty and Goodness, in all their manifestations, can restore balance to our lives and to the planet. I am committed to creating resources and experiences that will awaken us to what really matters, in order to reclaim an experience of interconnectedness for all beings.
Chithra Ramakrishnan, Earth
Personal Declarartion for Action:
I declare that I would work towards global unity across all communities and bridge the gap between various cultures to make it a better place live.
Cassandra Sterling, Munich
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I declare our world as a world of unity, peace and harmony, and those violating those rights of us humans shall be punished.
www.myspace.com/csterling
Keith Kegley, Earth
Personal Declaration for Action:
This is the true joy in life – to give yourself to a mighty purpose….what greater purpose is there than this. And to do so with a playful passion for the journey we all undertake since whether we take the pledge or not, this is still the fateful challenge we all face.
Florian Kowalke, Berlin
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I will work towards a world with more equal chances, by converting the money of our donors into a real and lasting social impact.
Evelyn Sztojanov, Budapest/Vienna
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Personal Declaration for Action:
I will remain a free and authentic human being throughout my existence in
any form and will support others to become and remain free and authentic, as
well.
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