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of my own consciousness. I don't want to come down from my peaks to the dark valleys of your unconsciousness. But I can point the way, so that you can also become an emperor. To be an emperor, an empire is not needed -- just enlightenment. That is the only empire that remains. All other empires are made of the stuff dreams are made of.
As far as I am concerned, even in my dream I would not accept being the emperor of this insane asylum you call the world.
Secondly, it has to be understood that my eighteen hours of sleep are not of the same quality as your sleep, just as my waking hours are not of the same quality as yours. I am awake even in my sleep, you are fast asleep even in your waking. Don't forget it!
My statement for one humanity, for one world, does not imply an emperor in it. The world has been tortured by people who wanted to be emperors, Alexander, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Adolf Hitler. It is time to understand that the world can only be one in the hands of something like the U.N., in which every part of the earth can be represented. The most intelligent people can be chosen from different sections of humanity to join hands together; not to choose an emperor, but to create an intelligent committee which can have artists, scientists, poets -- only not including the politicians.
The creative people are not interested in dominating, they want to create. Whatever is their dimension of creation... it may be science, it may be painting, it may be music, it may be poetry. It may be anything that beautifies and makes the world rich -- more sane, more intelligent, more comfortable, richer in every possible way.
The days of individuals becoming emperors are over. Only a committee of different creative intelligences can serve the world. Even to use the word `rule' is not needed.
The U.N. -- or any other name you give it -- if given all the armies of the world, naturally will have to dissolve them, because for whom are you going to have such vast armies?... millions of people unnecessarily doing `left, right'. For whom will you go on piling up nuclear weapons?
In my conception of one world, there is not a place for
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