Individual Visions, Ideas and Action for a Peaceful, Harmonious World

Dr. Robert Muller

Dear Friends of Peace,

It is a very great honor to receive the prestigious Goi Peace Award for the year 2003. I thank you very deeply for it. I am also pleased that this award comes from Japan, which has adopted after World War II a Constitution, which absolutely prohibits war as an instrument of government. May many countries follow your good example.

First of all, let me begin by telling you why I decided to devote my life to peacemaking.

As a young boy, from my window high up in the house of my parents in Sarreguemines, Alsace-Lorraine, I could see the border between France and Germany. It was a line not to be trespassed. Beyond it lived hereditary enemies, the Germans whom we were taught to hate. And yet they spoke the same language and had the same names as we. But when I lifted my eyes to the sky, I saw the sun, clouds, birds, a moon and stars who ignored totally that border. And I dreamt that someday I would be allowed to work for its suppression.

We still had to suffer a lot from that border: two evacuations which made us twice refugees; World War II; Nazi occupation; my father’s imprisonment and my own; the French Underground. Today when I look at the photograph of my schoolmates in 1939, I sadly see that almost all of them died in French or German uniforms.

In my late teens, in the French Underground in the hills of Auvergne, I was told by my commander that there were 20 young Germans in uniform who were hidden in a farmhouse. Coming from Alsace-Lorraine, I was able to speak German and I spoke to them over a loudspeaker and told them that if they surrendered they would not be harmed. They surrendered that night and became our prisoners. They were around 16 or 17 years old.

I left them in the hands of our commander and proceeded with my group of Partisans to the liberation of the city of Lyon. When we returned a couple of days later, I learned that all 20 young Germans had been shot! I ran to the commander’s office and asked him why had he shot them? What kind of madness had seized him? Why, why, after my promise to these young men that they would not be killed?

That night on haystacks where we slept, I saw the moon in the sky and I was thinking of the parents of these young people who would never know how their lives had ended, who would wait in vain for their return from war. I remembered my dream and swore to the moon and the heavens that I would devote my entire life to peacemaking.

Fate heard me that night and with the winning of an Essay contest on “How I would govern the World” I was given an internship at the United Nations where I spent the next 40 years of my life. I have always remembered that night when I swore I would work for peace so that my grandchildren and their grandchildren would never experience the horrors I saw created by war.

Now with the creation of the European Union, fathered by my landsman and friend, Robert Schuman, the border in my hometown has been removed, as have all the borders between 25 European countries with 300 million inhabitants.

And today as one dollar a year Chancellor Emeritus of the UN University for Peace in demilitarized Costa Rica I continue to work for peace.

Here’s some of the things I do to put my vision of peace in action:

• Whenever I have an idea for peace and a better world, during the day or during the night, I write it down immediately. I started this in l994 and have written by now 6000 ideas and dreams for a better world, published in 9 volumes.
• From the computer I can extract collections of ideas on many specific subjects such as peace, disarmament, education, the United Nations and many others.
• Any person can read my ideas and dreams on web site www.robertmuller.org and www.goodmorningworld.org
• I receive constantly letters from people and visitors asking me what they could do for peace and a better world. They all receive an answer and ideas.
• I gave the ideas of the creation of l2 of the 32 specialized agencies and world programs of the United Nations.
• I gave the ideas for many UN world conferences on major world problems and continue to do that.
• I work actively with the Non-governmental organizations accredited to the UN and give them ideas.
• I wrote the World Core Curriculum for a new world education for peace and happiness, and there are now more than fifty Robert Muller Schools in the world.
• I never fail to act on my ideas.
• I do it by writing to world leaders, heads of states and the media.
• I published 25 books and continue to write more.
• I deliver many speeches on peace and a better world.
• I give lectures, advice and encourage students coming from various regions of the world at the UN University for Peace.
• I constantly send advice and ideas to the Secretary General of the UN, to the President of the General Assembly, and to the heads of Permanent Missions of UN member nations.
• I am writing down ideas, dreams and plans for the 60th anniversary of the UN in 2005.
• I live a very frugal, simple and healthy life in order to live longer beyond my age of 80 and continue to serve as a peacemaker to the world and to my beloved United Nations and I am committed to my creed daily…I would now like to contribute to your famous Declaration for All Life on Earth by sharing with you my creed and commitments for a peaceful, better world.

believe

1. I believe in the absolute sacredness, uniqueness and prodigy of each human life;
2. I believe that humanity on this miraculous, wondrous, life-teeming planet has a tremendous cosmic destiny to fulfill and that a major transformation is about to take place in our evolution;
3. I believe that unprecedented life-fulfillment, consciousness, transcendence, happiness and union with God and the universe are the true objectives of life. I believe that cooperation, commitment to life, altruism and love are the means to that fulfillment;
4. I believe that an unprecedented, all-encompassing new evolutionary agenda now faces humanity, namely:*
5. I believe that the main power, inspiration and wish for this transformation rest with the 6 billion individuals of this planet;
6. I believe that humanity must now transcend its magnificent material and scientific achievements into the moral, affective and spiritual fields. The next frontiers of humanity will be the heart and the soul of which an even lesser percentage than that of the brain is being used;
7. I believe in humanity’s capacity for unparalleled thinking, perception, inspiration, elevation, planning, cooperation and love for the achievement of a major transformation and the advent of a peaceful, happy and spiritual society on Earth;

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• the harmony between humanity and our planet;
• the harmony and peace of the human family;
• our harmony with time;
• our harmony with the heavens;
• our personal, individual harmony.

I commit myself

1. to thank God every day for the unbelievable gift of life;
2. to take good care of the miraculous cosmic unit I have been given, physically, mentally, morally and spiritually;
3. to be a peaceful, loving, kind, happy and healthy person all my life;
4. to radiate my peace, my happiness and my belief in life;
5. to act and work constantly for the achievement of paradise Earth, and I will never give up. 

Please dear world peacemakers, never give up. Together we can create peace.

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