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THE DREAM: The Mother, 1964
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"There should be somewhere upon earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human
beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one
single authority,that of the supreme Truth; a place of peace, concord, harmony where all the fighting instincts
of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his
weaknesses and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities: a place where the needs of the
spirit and the concern for progress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the
seeking for pleasures and material enjoyments. In this place, children would be able to grow and develop
integrally without losing contact with their souls; education would be given not for passing examinations and
obtaining certificates or posts but to enrich existing faculties and bring forth new ones. In this place, titles and
positions would be replaced by opportunities to serve and organize; the bodily needs of each one would be
equally provided for, and intellectual, moral, and spiritual superiority would be expressed in the general
organization, not by an increase in the general pleasures and powers of life, but by increased duties and
responsibilities. Beauty in all its artistic forms, painting, sculpture, music, literature would be equally
accessible to all; the ability to share in the joy it brings would be limited only by the capacities of each one
and not by social and financial position. For in this ideal place money would no longer be the sovereign lord;
individual worth would have a far greater importance than that of material wealth and social standing. There,
work would not be a way to earn one’s living but a way to express oneself and to develop one’s capacities
and possibilities while being of service to the community as a whole, which for its own part, would provide for
each individual’s subsistence and sphere of action. In short, it would be place where human relationships which are normally based almost exclusively on competition and strife, would be replaced by relationships of
emulation in doing well, of collaboration and real brotherhood.”
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