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researchers have found that politics is the only profession where -- except Abraham Lincoln -- there has not been one eccentric person. It is a strange finding. The politician is very cunning, he is not clever. He substitutes cunningness for cleverness. He is not wise, because to be wise in this world is to be condemned by the masses and the politician cannot afford that.
But all the great people -- the poets, the painters, the sculptors, the scientists, the mystics -- have all been eccentric. The finding is that the eccentric people don't bother about the masses; they are more integrated individuals. They live according to their own light, they have their own style. You may condemn them, but you cannot make them compromise.
This research has given me an absolute certainty about why the American politicians became so much disturbed by a commune which was joyous, intelligent, singing songs with the trees and dancing with the peacocks. They became afraid because the comparison was clear, that the commune was reaching towards higher consciousness, more liveliness, higher in every possible way than the ordinary masses. The politician was going to be asked, "Why is it not happening in the whole world?" If it can happen in a small commune that people can live lovingly, dancingly, joyously, then what is missing in the whole world? Why are people so miserable?
Just as Jesus was crucified, my people and the commune as a whole have been crucified. Even their own constitution could not support the acts of the politicians. And once something is disturbed it is very difficult to put it together again.
But we are doing the experiment again and we are in a far more successful stage now. Our people are more joyous, more meditative, more intelligent, uncompromising. This is the meeting of the eccentric people -- but highly intelligent. My whole effort is to spread intelligence, love, freedom... without any boundaries, without any frontiers, around the globe. It can be done only by the individual -- not by religions, not by political parties, not by any other kinds of organizations. The whole thing depends on the individual rising to the highest peak of
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