Today's Idea Dream For A Better World
From Robert & Barbara Muller
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| | [GMW #1272] Saint Robert Schuman - Borderless Cooperation And Love Reinforcing Peace | Friday 3 August 2007, Editor: Easy
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~ Idea 6793 ~
At the end of World War II young people of the region of Alsace-Lorraine where we have changed nationalities so many times and killed brothers who lived on the other side of the border we decided that this should have an end. Well we had the help of a wonderful local elderly gentleman, Robert Schuman, who had become Minister of Foreign Affairs of France. He established a great friendship with the Prime Minister of Germany, Konrad Adenauer. They decided to launch the idea of a united European countries! This took a long time, but it was finally done as a European Union of fifteen countries. All the borders between them were suppressed.
When Robert Schuman once came to the United Nations I asked him how he came to the decision to suppress all borders in Europe. He told me the following story:
"I was born in a place called the corner of three borders, namely France, Germany and Luxembourg and when I was a kid at Christmas I was given a bicycle. But when I used it I was always running into one of these borders. I decided that if ever in my life I would be given the opportunity to suppress them I would do it. When I became a minister in France I decided to create a European Union in which all borders would be suppressed.
Later ten more countries were accepted as members of the European Union and had to suppress their borders too. We requested the canonization of Robert Schuman as a saint.
We learned on that occasion that he considered that to achieve peace was not the end but had to be reinforced by cooperation and love.
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| | Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living, Volume II Chapter 7 Of Optimism | | Be optimistic always. Do not let negative thoughts invade you. Pessimism is like a sickness. You must keep it away. A good, healthy human is always optimistic. Health optimism should become a new science, taught in Faculties of Medicine.
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| | PROPHET - THE HATMAKER'S SON The Life of Robert Muller
by Douglas Gillies To order: Phone: 800-942-7617. For those of you who are interested in my life, there is a beautiful biography which I love very much. Order from www.robertmullerbiography.com . - Robert Muller |  | Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness by Dr. Robert Muller To order: Phone: 800-727-2782 Email: Becky@ParaPublishing.com Fax: 805-968-1379 Mail: Amare Media c/o Para Publishing, PO Box 8206 Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206. Paperback, $12.95 | *
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Labels: European Union, Health, Medicine, Optimiism, Robert Schuman, Saint, Science, World War II
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| | [GMW #1269] A World Union For The Entire Planet | Tuesday 31 July 2007, Editor: Easy
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~ Idea 6645 ~
When I was a child we had to sing and dance in front of Belgian troops marching on Sunday mornings in the city where I was born.
When we moved to France, we had to sing and dance in front of French troops and when the Germans conquered France, we had to dance in front of German troops in our province of Alsace-Lorraine!
Thanks God the European Union has put an end to all that. May a World Union do the same for the entire planet.
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| | Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living, Volume II Chapter 7 Of Optimism | | Optimism is to believe that the best can be achieved for oneself, for one's family, one's community, one's profession, one's country, all humanity and for Mother Earth.
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| Robert's forward for the new book: Lookingfor Square Two: Moving from War and Organized Violence to Global Community by Douglas Mattern:
We are living in the worst of times and the best of times. The worst of these is that for more than fifty-five years, nuclear weapons have threatened the earth and everyone on it. Testing and production have caused environmental degradation everywhere on the planet and created the possibility of a nuclear war. It is absolutely imperative that we eliminate, eradicate, and forever destroy all nuclear weapons from the face of the earth to keep it the paradise we were given at birth.
The best is the solution offered by Douglas Mattern in Looking for Square Two-Moving from War and Organized Violence to Global Community. Since the earth is in peril and the greatest part of humanity is still in misery, we must be audacious, strong, and loving. We must stretch our minds and hearts to the dimension of the problems. As President Roosevelt wrote in his own hand on the day before his death for the speech he was to deliver at the opening of the San Francisco Conference convened to give birth to the United Nations:
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
In my view, after fifty-five years of service in the United Nations, this all points to the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth Government. It should be number one on the agenda of world affairs at the entry into the third millennium. There is not a shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems -- if systems they are! -- are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life's evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways. The less time we lose, the less nature we will destroy.
I would urge therefore that immediate consideration be given to the proposals offered by Douglas Mattern. It's a matter of life and death.
-Dr. Robert Muller
Former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations
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| | PROPHET - THE HATMAKER'S SON The Life of Robert Muller
by Douglas Gillies To order: Phone: 800-942-7617. For those of you who are interested in my life, there is a beautiful biography which I love very much. Order from www.robertmullerbiography.com . - Robert Muller | | Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness by Dr. Robert Muller To order: Phone: 800-727-2782 Email: Becky@ParaPublishing.com Fax: 805-968-1379 Mail: Amare Media c/o Para Publishing, PO Box 8206 Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206. Paperback, $12.95 | *
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Labels: Abolition of war, Earth Government, Economics, Environment, European Union, Humanity, Loving, Military, Mother Earth, Nuclear War, optimism, Roosevelt, United Nations, World Union
