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Robert
Muller's GOLDEN
SAYINGS
Santa
Barbara, US 24
October 2003 United
Nations Day During
my many years of service at the United Nations I had a great
admiration for Secretary General Dag Hammarskj ld and even a
greater one when his Markings were published.
He did what all heads of government, of great institutions, of
corporations should do: keep a personal journal with
comments, queries, ideas, dreams, sayings and ideals which
may enrich, enlighten the further evolution and progress of
humankind on our paradise Earth. In
1983, being on a sacred mountain in India, Mt. Abu, I
started to write my sayings. I
had already written my earlier testimonies to life in my
books: Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness, What War
Taught Me About Peace, New Genesis: Shaping a Global
Spirituality and
my Testament to the United Nations.
I
decided to leave behind to humanity my sayings too, written
during my advanced years of life. They
might perhaps be of some value to my human brothers and
sisters, especially to youth, to my children and
grandchildren who might be dreaming, planning and working
for an ideal humanity on our miraculous, beautiful planet.
God willing, perhaps these reflections of a world servant
might help to perfect at long last Paradise Earth, inhabited
by a peaceful, loving, genial humanity. May
a volume of these golden sayings be placed into my coffin,
together with my harmonica, so that I can try to convince
God, the saints and the angels to help us fulfill at long
last our highest, most desired, mind-boggling dreams of a
united, happy, peaceful human family on divine Paradise
Earth.
Born
in Belgium in 1923 and raised in the Alsace-Lorraine region
of France, Robert Muller experienced constant political and
cultural turmoil during his youth. His
grandparents had five successive nationalities (French,
German, French, German, French) without leaving their
village as a result of three wars (1870-1871, 1914-1918,
1939-1945). Often as a child,
Robert Muller would look out of his window at the border he
could not cross and long for the day when he, like the
birds, the clouds, the sun and the stars, would no longer
have to observe the imaginary line. Today,
thanks to the dream and effort of his compatriot Robert
Schuman who similarly hated these borders, Robert Muller's
passport reads, "European Union" with the sub-title France,
and he is free to cross the abolished borders of fifteen
western European countries. Robert
Muller knew the horrors of World War II, of being a refugee,
of Nazi occupation and imprisonment. During
the war he was a member of the French Resistance.
After the war he returned home and earned a Doctorate of Law
from the University of Strasbourg. In
1947 he entered and won an essay contest on how to govern
the world, the prize of which was an internship at the newly
created United Nations. Dr.
Muller devoted the next 40 years of his life behind the
scenes at the United Nations focusing his energies on world
peace. He rose through the ranks
at the UN to the official position of
Assistant-Secretary-General. He
has been called the "Philosopher" and "Prophet of Hope" of
the United Nations. Robert
Muller is a deeply spiritual person. From
his vantage point of a top level global states-person he has
seen a strong connection between spirituality and the
political/cultural scene. Robert
Muller created a "World Core Curriculum" and is known
throughout the world as the "father of global education."
There are 43 Robert Muller schools around the world with more
being established each year. The
"World Core Curriculum" earned him the UNESCO Peace
Education Prize in 1989. Based
on this curriculum and his devotion to good causes, Dr.
Muller has drawn up a "Framework for World Media
Coverage" as a public service, as well as a
"Framework for Planetary and Cosmic Consciousness"
and a "Framework for the Arts and Culture". Now
Dr. Muller is in active "retirement" at the UN University
for Peace he co-created with President Rodrigo Carazo in
demilitarized Costa Rica. He is
in great demand to make speeches to educational,
environmental, spiritual and political conferences around
the world. Dr. Muller
concentrates his efforts on promoting greater human
understanding and global awareness. He
has received many awards, e.g. the Albert Schweitzer
International Prize for the Humanities, the Eleanor
Roosevelt Man of Vision Award, and was nominated 22 times
for the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr.
Muller lives most of the year at his small farm overlooking
the University of Peace, on a sacred indigenous hill, Mt.
Rasur, from which according to indigenous prophecy, a
civilization of peace will extend to the entire world. His
traditional Costa Rican house is located just up the hill
from the Peace Monument of the University.
In addition to his duties at the University, he devotes time
to his writings and is an internationally acclaimed,
multi-lingual speaker and author of many books published in
various languages. He has
published his Testament to the UN
as well as his plans and dreams for a peaceful, happy world. At
the prompting of many of his friends, admirers and
non-governmental organizations Robert Muller was a candidate
as a global citizen in 1996 for the post of Secretary
General of the United Nations. In
1998 he was appointed co-chairman, with Dr. Karan Singh, of
a World Commission on Global Consciousness and
Spirituality. The UN's
Global Peoples' Assembly created in 2000 honored him as its
Lifelong Honorary President. In
2002 he received the prestigious World Citizenship Award of
the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in California.
After his Testament to the UN (see at end of this volume the
list of his books in various languages) he wrote also his
Testament to Life in three volumes of The Miracle, Joy
and Art of Living.
On 24 October 2002 - United Nations Day and the day of the
award ceremony of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - the
first volume of his biography by Douglas Gillies Prophet,
The Hatmaker's Son was
launched to the public. In 2003
he received the prestigious Japanese International GOI Peace
Award.
Our
absolute priorities and objectives for
the 21st century and the third millennium should
be:
Barbara
Gaughen Muller and Dr. Robert Muller A
Cosmic Couple of Paradise Earth See
Paradise Earth with global eyes Love
Paradise Earth with a global heart Understand
Paradise Earth with a global mind Merge
with Paradise Earth and the heavens with a global soul
MY
CHOICE GOLDEN SAYINGS War
is a sin. War
is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for
it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How
can there still be any war on our miraculous planet? * Now
that there is a universal United Nations with rules of
conflict resolution, there is no longer any just war. * Not
to work for a peaceful world is a sin. * Love
for peace is not enough. Beyond
it we need a vision of peace, a science of
peace, a strategy for peace and innumerable
actions for peace. * This
time we can and must succeed. Peace
progresses too slowly. We must
make it progress much faster. * We
need peace to concentrate on the happiness and fulfillment
of people. Wars, armaments and
conflicts make us lose much precious time and resources. * Even
if they are not used, armaments kill: they kill little
children who could have been saved if resources spent on
arms had been available for their nourishment, care and
education. * O
nations, you don't want to nationalize your natural
resources, but you have one hundred percent nationalized
your people. * You
will never be really happy if you don't understand that
producers and merchants must constantly create new
unhappiness in order to sell more goods and new goods to
you. * Happiness
is an art. It must be practiced.
It is like writing: write anything, just for the exercise of
it, and you will become a writer. Practice
any form of happiness, just for the sake of it, and you will
become a happy person. We
must believe in evolution which is the key and way to
humanity's success. We
must walk with utmost care on our beautiful planet, the
result of such a long, miraculous, cosmic journey.
We must love this marvelous jewel in the universe with all our
mind, heart and soul and make it a Paradise. A
loving smile is the cheapest and most rewarding gift on
Earth. We
are all passengers on the same planet sailing towards
eternity on the vast ocean of the universe. The
question can non longer be that of the power of a certain
country or the assertion of a certain belief, mode of life
or ideology. Such approach would
be criminal towards our planet and its human family.
The problem is essentially that of the fate of the total human
race on a given planet. This new
global paradigm must be accepted by all groups, if we want
to survive. Paraphrasing
something which Arnold Toynbee said: When the history of the
twentieth century comes to be written, a hundred years or a
thousand years from now, it will not be the wars, or the
technology, or the flutter between the communist and the
free market economies that will really interest historians.
What will compel their focus of attention will be what
happened when humanity for the first time in history tried
to find its destiny in the United Nations. Over
the years I have come to believe that some day the UN system
will be recognized as one of the most astonishing
meta-organs ever produced by any species on this planet.
It is indeed an evolutionary event of the first importance. From
a letter received from Stephane Hessel, the French
Ambassador to the UN in Geneva: 'Even
the disparate character of the philosophical reflections is
after all an encouraging sign: between Levi-Strauss and
Teilhard de Chardin the
sight that jells and analyzes and that which follows or
precedes the movement and the take-off, the tension (or
dialectic) is at least proof that those who predict the end
of the human adventure are far from their count.
They are men of little faith.' 'How
right you are to underline above all what is new,
incomparable, unprecedented and rare in the UN system which
is a forum for the interplay and adaptation of more cultures
and energy than humans as living species have ever tried to
combine.' * Do
not let your enthusiasm and life abilities be diminished by
false humility: Yes,
I am proud of myself, Yes,
I am happy with my gifts and capacites, Yes,
I sometimes feel like a God, Yes,
I exult with joy and happiness, Yes,
I am happy to inspire others, Yes,
I believe that I can aggrandize myself to untold limits, Yes,
for me life is an incredible miracle. If
you love life, you will care for life If
yo love yourself, you will care for yourself If
yo love your family, you will care for your family If
you love humanity, you will care for humanity If
you love the world, you will care for the world If
you love God, you will care for God. So,
everywhere you look, you will find love as the key to
caring. And life without caring
is tantamount to death. The
reverse is equally true: If
you do not love life, you will not care for life. If
you do not love yourself, you will not care of yourself. etc. Whenever
I have found beauty in life, there was a great act of love
at the origin. Give
everything in you and around you a supernatural, divine,
sacred, miraculous character, and you will know untold
happiness and pride. * The
age of reason is not sufficient for human fulfillment.
We must now enter the age of love: love for ourselves, for
humanity, for our planet, for our wondrous universe and for
its mysterious Master. Wherever
you are, whatever you do, if you love the world you will
serve the world. It
remains for humanity to develop multiple, non-conflicting,
harmonious allegiances and devotion to: our
self our
family humanity our
planet the
universe eternity and
God. * Be
a good gardener of your life: have a green, colorful life
thumb. It
is strange that so very few humans are interested in the
most stupendous, most miraculous, most unique, most
fascinating object on Earth: their own human being.
Try to understand your physical, mental, sentimental,
spiritual and total life, and you will be astonished beyond
belief. The
Earth is a macrocosm of each individual and each individual
is a microcosm of the Earth. Humanity
is the macrocosm of each individual and each individual is a
microcosm of humanity. Use
the freest goods for happiness: the
stars cost nothing nature
costs nothing your
inner life costs nothing God
costs nothing And
yet they are all infinitely precious Be
a good goldsmith of your life: make it a jewel, develop a
golden life thumb. Work
on your internal life and express your happiness externally.
Work on your external life and enrich it with your internal
life. People
often say to me with a tinge of preoccupation: 'Take good
care of yourself. We need you so
much.' This is the apex of my
life: to be needed by others, to be of service, to see
others worried that I might die. What
greater award and satisfaction could anyone ever earn? The
Lord is always with me, in my home, in my heart, in my
travels, in my thoughts, in my books, in my speeches, in my
office, in my workshop, in my dreams and in my sleep.
He has been the most faithful companion of my life.
He never failed me with His advice, consolation and
inspiration. Never
get weary of giving and you will never cease receiving. Anything
else than pleasing God and the universe is of little value.
If we do something that pleases God and the universe we are
doing a great thing. We
must start learning to love the most sacred entity of all:
humanity. Love
is to think what good we can do and what happiness we can
give. To
those who see this world as part of God's Creation, death
will come naturally and gently. I
am as great as the thoughts I conceive I
am as great as the universe I perceive I
am as great as the love of my heart I
am as great as the God in my soul. Illusion
is probably the most commonly needed and shared human
characteristic. For example, we
live as if we were immortal. And
why not? The
degree of non-management or mismanagement of this planet is
truly insane. For example, as a
result of climatic changes, the whole continent of Africa
might become a disaster area. And
yet the African countries do not even have the resources to
maintain the necessary meteorological services left by the
former colonial powers. The
resources of the rich countries in the meantime go to
armaments which endanger the whole planet.
And who, except the UN, denounces such mismanagement and tries
to get it corrected? If
a team from outer space visited our planet, they would
undoubtedly conclude that this is one of the worst managed
planets in the universe. They
would give us an F, failure. And indeed, a neutral observer,
not programmed by our earthly ideological, national and
other wrong values, can only conclude that this is not a way
of running a planet. Our
only excuse for managing so irresponsibly our home the Earth
is that this is all so new, that we have never done it
before. But governments cannot shirk their responsibilities
and doing irreparable damage to our globe.
Governments should think how they will be judged by future
historians and generations. They might not look as great as
they think they are today. My
cousin Marthe had eight heart attacks.
Her reaction each time was: 'I won't let the devil take me!' Love
is above all the willful decision to experience the beauty
of our immediate environment, of the Earth, the skies, the
stars, the waters, the plants, the animals, the people, the
universe and God. Love is the
most powerful ingredient of the will for life. Truth
goes far beyond the so-called 'immutable' facts of the
natural sciences: it is the ability to experience the
wholeness of life and time, and to see our right place in
Creation. My
dog does not write, speak, read or play music, and yet he is
a very happy dog, very alive, very fulfilled. With
our help, a day will come when all humanity will live, feel
and work together as beautifully and harmoniously as when we
sing and celebrate together in a cathedral.
Our miraculous planet Earth is a cathedral floating in the
universe. When
God looks upon th Earth, He must say: 'What a tremendous
success I have achieved: among the infinite forms of energy,
voids and matter, I have at long last produced life on that
little globe peacefully twirling in the universe.
I hope that humans will succeed, that they will not destroy
themselves, that they will administer well this living body
as the true miracle it is and make it even a greater
miracle. Given
the constant beating we are giving to our body, nerves,
heart, mind and spirit, it appears that a human being is the
incarnation of a tremendous, renewable cosmic force: the
will for life. The cosmos must
be trying to achieve something very special through the
human race. Our responsibilities
may reach far beyond anything we have ever dreamt heretofore
and which was understood only by the great religious seers
and prophets. I
consider every moment of my life precious, divine and
wonderful. When
it comes to peace, justice, love, honesty and all that is
good for the human race on this god-given planet, never give
up, never give up, never give up. The
greatest achievement in life is to live in constant
communion with God, the Father in Heaven.
Then one becomes like Christ, a cosmic being, a son, a
daughter, an earthly incarnation of God.
Then everything is clear and falls into place. What
is really expected of us is to become total, cosmic, divine,
very special beings of the universe. How
beautiful it is to be alive and able to say: I am a citizen
of this planet, I am a divine, miraculous being of the
universe. Life
is divine. Das Leben ist g ttlich. I
wish this exclamation of mine as a child were translated in
all languages and displayed in every school on Earth. To
students of political science: forget completely about any
textbooks ever written, any systems ever devised, any
ideologies ever constructed, for none of their authors knew
the entirely new, planetary, global and scientific
conditions of today. You will
have to write the new textbooks, devise the new systems and
construct the new ideology needed for our time.
Old ideas will only confuse and blind you. |
