Name: Nicanor Perlas
Birthday: January 10, 1950
Hometown: Ilo-Ilo
Religious Views: Advocate of Inter-religious dialogue, understanding, and peaceful co-existence...
Activities: • Technical Consultant/Resource Person to dozens of institutions including: UN bodies (UNDP, FAO, UNCSD, UNICEF); Government (Office of the President, Senate, House of Representatives, NEDA, DSWD, DA, DENR, and Official Philippine Delegations to the UN and APEC); Donor Agencies (Plan International, HEKS, NOVIB, CIDA, GTZ, others); Civil Society organizations and movements; and Businesses striving for social responsibility
• Plenary Speaker/Resource Person, over 90 global conferences and 140 national conferences • Author, over 500 articles/writings including the international best seller, Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power, and Threefolding
Interests: • Reading books (philosophy, science and technology, psychology, history, civil society, societal change, self-transformation, health, farming, scientific approach to spirituality)• Listening to music: classical, pop and rap music• Watching movies with my son (science fiction, comedy, biography, history, documentaries)• Eating healthy organic vegetarian food• Organic gardening
Favorite Books: • Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, by Rudolf Steiner• Phenomenon of Man, by Teilhard de Chardin• Civil Society and Political Theory, by Cohen and Arato• Theory U, by Otto Scharmer• The New Testament
Favorite Quotations:
• Martin Luther King: “We start to die the moment we stop caring about things that truly
matter.”
• Jose Rizal: “Resignation is not always a virtue; it is a crime when it encourages tyrants; there are no despots if there are no slaves.”
• Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever did.”
About Sir Perlas:
MY VISION FOR 2016 – A COUNTRY REBORN
A prosperous, peaceful, democratic, moral and visionary nation, living in harmony with nature and energized by creative, honest, hardworking, and disciplined citizens, who are aware of their divine origin and purpose and who have united together in sustaining a free, vibrant and diverse culture, a broad-based and inclusive economy, a truly participatory, just and compassionate governance, a clean and beautiful environment, and motivated to positively contribute to world affairs.
PANGARAP PARA SA 2016: MULING PAGSILANG NG ATING BAYAN
Ang pagpapanumbalik sa isang mapangaraping bayan, maunlad at masagana, kanlungan ng kapayapaan at demokrasya na isinusulong ang mabuting kaasalan, at nabubuhay na kaisa ng kalikasan; pinasigla ng malikhain, tapat, masigasig at may pagkukusang mga mamamayan na batid ang kanilang banal na pinagmulan at dakilang layunin, sama-sama't nagkakaisa sa pagpapalakas ng isang kulturang malaya, buhay na buhay, at pinayaman ng pagkakaiba-iba; isang ekonomiyang mapagkupkop at malawak ang sakop; isang pamahalaang tunay na mapanlahok, makatarungan, at mahabagin; kapaligirang malinis at kaibig-ibig, na nagaganyak upang positibong makaambag sa kabuhayan at kapakanan ng buong mundo.
BATAY SA NAMULAT NATING PAGKATAO, TAYONG LAHAT ANG MAGBABAGO NG PILIPINAS! NGAYON!
We are in the midst of a conflict. It is taking place in the battlefield of our soul and in the great institutions of our society. There is no middle ground. Either we align ourselves with what is the best, the highest, and the most dignified in us, or we yield our spirit to the darkness that wants to swallow us through our apathy and inaction. The light of the new Philippines is upon us. We only need to awaken to see the brilliance of its promise. But we need to act together. Only by acting together can we renew our country. Only by acting together can we create a New Philippines, one that we have all been yearning for, one that will make a positive contribution to the highest aspirations of humanity.
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