Idea Title:  Personal Power thru Forgiveness

Dr. Muller has been nominated for the Nobel Peace prize 32 times. He was the Chancellor of the University for Peace for many years. Here is a small sample of his philosophy.

Dr. Robert Muller has said, “John Denver visited me years ago at the University for Peace, on his way to sing for hope to young people around the world. In my little wooden cabin in Costa Rica he went to the bathroom and I was waiting for him outside. He came out, with tears in his eyes and said to me: “Robert, you have rendered me a great service.” I looked at him surprised, and he answered: “I read your text hanging on a wall, ‘Decide to Forgive’ and it gave me the answer to a nightmare I am going through: my Australian wife has abandoned me, taking with her our daughter. I was desperate and did not know what to do. You gave me the answer: I forgive her.”

These are the words John Denver read:

“Decide to Forgive
For resentment is negative - Resentment is poisonous - Resentment diminishes and devours the self. Be the first to forgive, to smile and to take the first step, - And you will see happiness bloom - On the face of your human brother or sister, - Be always the first -
Do not wait for others to forgive - For by forgiving - You become the master of fate - The fashioner of life - The doer of miracles. - To forgive is the highest, - most beautiful form
of love. - In return you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
- Dr. Robert Muller

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” - Norman Cousins

“The Need to Forgive
Jesus on the cross asked the Father in heaven to forgive those who crucified him.
Mahatma (the Great Soul) Gandhi, as he was shot in his garden, on the way to prayer, exclaimed: “O God, forgive him.”
Pope John Paul II went to the prison cell to pray with his intended assassin.
Nelson Mandela, when he was inaugurated president of South Africa, had his jailer at his side on the platform during the ceremony.
Martin Luther King said: “Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you.”
- Dr. Robert Muller