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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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)  … 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 … 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 … 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… UN DAY BALLOON RELEASE –  – Some 3,800 helium-filled … 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…”)