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ideal (ai’diəl)
adj. of or relating to a highly desirable and possible
state of affairs.
possible (posib’l) adj. 1. capable of existing, taking
place, or proving true without contravention of any
natural law. 2. capable of being achieved.
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If you sum up these 2
definitions you might get something like this – “a
highly desirable state of affairs that is capable of
being achieved”.
And that is pretty much the aim of IWF in a nutshell.
The vision and purpose of IWF could also be summed up
like this: For as long as we can
see that there remains a single thing that can be done
to improve the well being of our world, our purpose will
simply be to help in any way we can to see to it that it
gets done. •
Now, surely we can all
agree that for some time to come at least there are
likely to remain a great many things that can be done.
And as those needs are bound more often than not to
outweigh our resources, our policy will be to direct our
available energies at any given time toward whatever we
consider to have the highest and most pressing priority.
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Basically, the work of the
Ideal World Foundation is
twofold. One, we are imagineers. “We are the music
makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.” (Willie Wonka)
This is really the fun part, where we paint a picture,
our collective vision of what our world could, would or
should be, given the chance. This vision, then, is our
Credo.
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Two, we use that Credo as
our compass, the star by which we set our course. It
doesn’t matter how far away it seems, or how fanciful or
unrealistic or unachievable it may appear to be. All we
are concerned with is what can be done today to help
move the world in that general direction. We must
remember, the greatest journey is but a collection of
single small steps.
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Throughout the ages a
fundamental hope and dream of humanity has centered
around the concept of a “heaven”, or some ideal place or
state of being that we all may ultimately attain. A
commonly held belief, however, is that such is only to
be found in the “next life” (if at all), but certainly
not here and now in this world.
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Perhaps heaven on earth is
not possible. Still, what is preventing us from painting
an ideal picture in our minds, then doing whatever we
can to make it a reality? Why not set our sites on the
highest ideal conceivable, aim ourselves in that
direction and see how close we can come to it? Who knows,
we may just surprise the “hell” out of ourselves.
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This is the vision, work
and purpose of The Ideal World
Foundation.
