Thought 26NOV2007

EARTH STATUS REPORT - 2006
If the population of the Earth was reduced to that of a small town with 100 people, it would look something like this :
57% Asian, 21% Europeans, 14% Americans (Northern & Southern), 8% African
52% Women 48% Men 70% Coloured-skins, 30% Caucasians
89% Heterosexuals, 11% Homosexuals
6 People would own 59% of the whole world wealth and all of then will be from United States of America
80% would have bad living conditions, 70% would be educated, 50% underfed
1 would die, 2 would be born, 1 would have computer, 1 (only one) will have higher education
This morning, if you woke up healthy, then you are happier than the 1 million people that will not survive next week.
You are happier than 500 million people in the world, if you have never suffered a war, the loneliness of the jail ell, the agony of torture or hunger.
You are happier than 3 million people in the world, if you can enter into a mosque or church without fear of jail or death.
You are richer then 75% of the people in the world, if there is a food in your fridge, you have shoes and clothes, you have a bed and a roof.
You belong to the 8% of the people of the world, who are well-to-do, if you have a bank account, money in your wallet and some coins in the money-box.
Source Unknown - received from Hanapiah (Atan)

If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a longing, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop - everything - Pema Chodron