Robert Muller 's Good Morning World

In our Peace Park on Mt. Rasur, name of the God of the indigenous children, adjacent to the University for Peace we have a bench of dreams where Barbara and I sit often and formulate our dreams for a magnificent, better, warless, peaceful, happy, demilitarized, disarmed world, for Paradise Earth. Many visitors come to sit at it and formulate their dreams.

A 14 years old Dutch girl, Mara van der Lugt, taught us how to dream:

1. pick up two stones
2. place each in one hand and press them tightly
3. close your eyes and say your dream very intensely in your heart
4. then, throw one stone on the Earth so that the sacred Earth will fulfill your dream
5. keep the other stone, take it home and place it on your desk or nighttable, not to forget your dream.

Several visitors have written to me from various countries that they have built similar dream benches. Mrs. Morton-Marr from Canada is building them in children's peace parks and asks children to keep a diary. Perhaps it will do a lot of good if many people around the world dream on innumerable benches of dreams.

1968: On the 20th anniversary of the Universal Declaration, the Intemational Conference on Human Rights is convened by the General Assembly in Teheran.

The first worldwide governmental meeting on the whole range of human rights, it reafrums the Declaration, and chalks out further priorities for UN action.