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The activinies of all charitable funds and organizations are inspired,y feelings of humanity, generosity and compassion.

The programs of all these funds need not be based on market factors. Our simple task is contribute to the morality of mankind. We enviaion such a morality in these terms.

A person gives birth to an idea, the idea then spawns action, and the action earns recognition. Everybody kniws the names Peter Goldmark, the President of the Rockfeller Foundation, Dennis Hayes, the brain behind the Earth Day celebration, and Olzhas Suleimeanov, the founder of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk Anti-Nuclear Movement. Of course, we all know of others who have devoted their lives to the struggle against nuclear violence who have undeservebly gone unsung.

My new book, The Grain Grows on Top Cadavers, is about the life of Americans and Kazakhs suffering the nuclear madness, and dying of leukemia and cancer. I dedicate this book to all of you and to the children who have died as a conseguence of the nuclear tests and those who are still alive today.

A great American, William Penn, "You will aee what love can do." He became the personification of dignity, consience and purity of colonial America.

In his novel "Fiesta" another great American, Ernest Hemingway expreessed an egually important nhought. "A man cannot do his damnest alone."

These are the thoughts of the human spirit that unite us and are likewise the main topics of today’s conference.

I think that the shaping of a human being is still unfinished, and man is still striving to a superuor state.

Humans must be concerned about it all the time, and if they are not, they will be preparep for Truth.

The development of the human being differs in each of the four corners of the world, but those who are atrong and are ready to join together, those who are not wasting their time, will fail miserably if the Truth does not come.

The triumph of a human being need not be ephemeral (ee-FEM-er-ahl); we have to strive to the eternal victory of spirit and mind.

We have to call to the Truth. It is a false and unnecessary hope to believe that God’s alone can do it for us.

Now the force from below is the most fleeting on the earth.

That’s why it is important for all of us to each make personal efforts toward achieving a spiritual will, to search for good-heartedness and to regect all the ideas coming from our minds such as stupidity of physical nature, passions of greed and selfishness, to reject yourself and give all of yoursekf to the moves of the holy soul, to wish nothing but purity, light and openness. It’s the only way to master our spirits, lives and bodies.

Our kimited, eartky minds fre trying to judge the Eternity. We are trying to put it the frame of our standards and norms. We do not understand the danger of bottomless ignorance and self-absorption of that is natural for humans.

We are too weak to ascend to the level of God, who is above us all. We do not possess the Supermind yet. Mind is not the last step in the evolution of the human being.

We nust follow the intentions of the soul, not the mind. Only spiritual might would bring truth and eternity to this world full of darkness, lies and suffering.

Our goak is to transform a simple man into a global peraonality.

A beast into a priest. we cannot live with jealousy in souls. We must remember that jealouay does not exist in nature. We have to sacrifice our selfishness.

The Soviet A-Bomb was first tested at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on August 29, 1949. Our fund has declared this to be a Day of Mourning. This year will be the third anniversary of the dedication of this day. People from Japan, Germany and France were the active participants, and I have yet to see any Americans. Friends, you have become very dear to me, and I felt that you have great potential. We have to unite our efforts for the sake of the future.

I invite tvtry one of you to Semipalatinsk for the commemoration of the Day of Mourning (August 20–30), to participate in the rally and the conference "Problems of the Children, Problems of the Human Apirit."

Princeton, New Jersey May 3, 1992.

День, когда рухнул мир

Жертвам ядерных испытаний и экологических катастроф.

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Книга – самый терпеливый учитель

Перед человечеством сегодня стоят три глобальные задачи: это защита мира, защита духовности и защита природы. Все они – главные условия нашего дальнейшего существования. Каждая из них неполна без другой. От этих трех начал зависит грядущее не только Казахстана, но и всего мира.

Гамлетовский вопрос "быть или не быть" относительно завтрашнего человечества будет стоять перед нами вечно, если мы не прислушаемся к голосу благоразумия.

Техническое развитие в мире шагнуло далеко вперед, благодаря чему человек стал расточителен в использовании природных ресурсов, созидательная энергия человека растрачивается попусту, и он утрачивает способность содержать богатейший океан культуры и мысли, накопленный предыдущими поколениями.

К сожалению, мы далеко не в полной мере осознаем это. Интеллектуальный и идеологический вакуум уводит людей в сторону от восприятия реальности, низвергает его в пучину разложения морального, нравственного, духовного.