Love Language

There are many members recently married who do not speak the same language as their fiancee speak.  They thus need an interpreter.  Would they communicate with sign language or with the love language?

What if you were to marry someone who could not speak at all?  When one marries a person who cannot communicate, it is like marrying a dumb person, and in a way, that person is far away from you.

Everything starts with language and communication.

Once two people are able to communicate, then they can understand each other's personality, character, culture, background and everything.  If you do not have these things, you have nothing.

What kind of movement is filled with members who are married to someone they cannot communicate with?

Insignificant, "unknown" people have the dream of some day marrying a man or a woman that is like their favorite movie star. This is human nature and a natural desire.

Your destiny is to live with one man or woman who will serve and love you for your entire life.  You will be closer to that person more than anybody else around you.  You two will be closer than parents, closer than your own brothers and sisters, and closer than any of your own friends.

Who made it this way that the spouse is the closest to one another?

God alone has the power to bring two people together who don't even speak the same language.

They are able to accept this challenge because they have an infinite faith in God and in the Messiah as the instruments of God.

You also play a vital role as the instruments of God.

The catalyst to bring different men and women from different backgrounds together for eternity is certainly the power of God.

You rejoice at the time of your engagement, not because your fiancee is the best person under the sun, but because God is the best personality in heaven and earth.

If God was moved out of such an event, then we do not have anything.  We would not be able to go forward in such matters.

In this movement, we match members with different backgrounds, who are from different cultures and countries because it is a totally unselfish deed done only for God's sake.

Through international marriages and marriages consuming of former enemy nations, step by step, we are bringing about a world of peace.

Through having a foreign fiancee, you are closely uniting to the Messiah working for this goal and you will be remembered by God.

As soon as one's fiancee disappears, God will disappear therefore, this union is a God-given destiny that you are bound by.

Maybe you work hard everyday to make money.  Would you rather work alone, or would you even like to have a stranger as your companion?   Even if you have a lot of wealth and you are famous, when you are left in that situation, you would want to have a companion.

While the two of you are working, your companion will be the closest to you.  When it is time for lunch, you would want to sit with him or her and eat together.  It does not matter whether that person is good-looking or very poor-looking.

We are like this work site.

We each want to have someone to sit down together with.

A member may be matched to someone who is from a country that was once an enemy nation, but this person is now the only companion you can rely upon.

Because our work is so different and unique, we need unique kinds of companions.  Of all the job descriptions in the world, we have the most difficult.  The work of restoration and witnessing to God's will is so difficult that it is much better to start in an adverse situation.

Instead of one American meeting another, you start out with strangers from other nations, languages and backgrounds.

This is the course of world restoration.

It is already hard for two people who do not have anything in common to unite, but while you are doing so, you can also overcome the difficult task ahead of you.  We are the first to accomplish this task around the world.  This is our pride.

This kind of adversity is nothing.  When you encounter a few bumps and bruises, they do not hurt because you know you can overcome them.  If in your lifetime you are able to bring together two extremes, there is nothing you cannot do.

Which would be the most dramatic couple: two Americans, two Japanese, two Europeans, or two people who do not even speak the same language?

There may be a couple who grew up together and has been dating and getting along since high school and they think that they are the perfect couple because they are now married and understand each other completely.

Then there is the other couple that when they met, they were not able to greet each other because they came from different countries and they started on an impossible level but have reached a level of unity.  Which couple would be the winner?

This is the most dramatic, historical beginning.

If you are able to become people who are able to meet God's expectations, there is nothing under the sun that you cannot do.  How do you think God feels when He sees such a couple?  Would such couples catch God's attention most?

What kind of gift does God give?  Cood children.

If a couple with infinite faith thankfully accept God's challenge and destiny, they will have a great gift coming in the form of children.  Children will be given to that couple that are far superior than any other children within their own society or nation.

What are the characteristics of good children?

Good children are able to bring good fortune to a family, blessings from heaven and good happenings to that home.  When one is matched to a person who is from another country and possibly an enemy nation, they can say that they are God's champion.  God would be sympathetic and concerned with such a couple.

Are you able to see God now?  What about air or your mind?  How do you know that these exists?

A man's mind wants to make a home within the women's minds, and women's minds want to dwell in men's minds.  Why are these two drawn to each other and want to exchange where they dwell?  This is because there is another reality which is love.

Love has the ability to bring two minds together, because of that love a man's mind wants to be able to dwell with a woman's mind and vice versa.

Do you miss your home town?

Even if you were born in a poorly log cabin, would you miss that cabin?  Even if your parents were rural people and your brothers and sisters dressed poorly, you would still want to go back there and visit wouldn't you?

You have an indestructible line of heart and emotion connected to your home.

Your home is the birthplace of your heart.

Americans like to visit nostalgic places and historical places and listen to folk songs from the past.  Those things makes one feel wonderful.

It is human nature to want to think and write about your childhood and your home town.

When this speech was given in 1980s, the American hostages were just coming home from Iran.  The American's excitement at this announcement was different from the foreign sympathy or excitement from Germany, France or Britain.  This is because the Americans have a connection of heart to those hostages.

This is the same reason you have an attachment to your home town, parents and particularly to one focal point: your spouse.  If you are able to possess this level and essence of love, then everything wants to connect to it.

Where there is love, nothing is impossible. 

God, who is a person without any impossibility, certainly wants to dwell within that love.  When men and women unite in love, they find there is a greater love and they want to go there together.

How would you be able to move toward this greater love?

Would you like the fastest form of transportation, or would you like to travel slowly in a carriage to get there?  Of course you would want to go in the fastest possible way toward this higher-level of love.  The jet plane of love would be the fastest way.

You may say that you would like to land in the heart of God.  Would you need permission to land there?  Airplanes need permission from ground control to guide them to the landing strip.  There is the correct way to land on the landing strip of love.

What kind of welcoming party will there be waiting for you?  When you are on the correct landing strip, there will be a welcoming party of people from many thousands of years of history.  Abraham and Noah will be there.

They will not be strangers, they will come right up to you.  What kind of power could make this happen.  Again, only through the power of love.

In love there is no distance of time, even if there is a difference of thousands of years.

In love, time and space are completely disregarded.

You think Germans and French are far apart, but when you are united as a blessed couple and come in for a landing in your love jet and see people from many thousands of years who have come to greet you, then you know that the distance between the French and Germans is nothing.

Even if one of those people is 6,000 years old, there is no foreign feeling between you. You can instantly become one and understand him completely.

Love is really a strange thing.

Even if you are from different nations, when you come together in a marriage relationship, you don't feel bad at all. One thing is for sure: You are marrying a person of the opposite sex and no explanation is needed!

You want to touch him or her tenderly and there is no distance.

The power of love can unite strangers. The power of love can shorten the distance of time.

How old do you think God is?

God is really an old gentleman. I say He's millions and millions of years old. I'm sure His beard has grown all the way down to His feet, and if God keeps growing taller, there's no telling how tall He will be. But still you don't have a strange feeling toward Him. What power can do that?

How can you instantly become friends with someone from one million years or ten thousand years ago? By law or knowledge?

Nothing else but love.

God wants to dwell where there is love. What is true love?

There are incredible things going on in the Unification Church. Many of you are white people with blonde hair and blue eyes, but instead of loving only members of your own race, you love and follow a man from the Orient, Reverend Moon. What power makes you want to stick with me?

There is a power of love here that has never existed before. There is something bringing the East and West together.

Does God want to dwell only where white people come together, or where Oriental people come together? Instead, God wants to dwell here, where the East and West meet and all colors of skin come and rejoice together.


I am a yellow man from the Orient. You are white, brown, black and red, but it doesn't make any difference.  We want to come together to be happy and joyful. That means you have a different kind of love that ordinary Westerners do not have. 


God is pulled by the power of love, and is attracted to the place where the power of love is higher and nobler. Where will God find a landing strip? Absolutely, the Unification Church is God's landing strip because a higher love is attracting Him here.

In America, there is still racial tension between white and black. When white and black people start loving and trusting each other, don't you think that will make a landing strip for God?

It's amazing, but here in Unification Church whites want to marry blacks, and blacks want to marry whites and make an eternal life together.

Have you ever thought about whether white wood or black wood can burn faster?

It's scientific truth that black absorbs light, while white reflects light. When speaking of the fire of love, would it be more strongly attracted to white men or to black men?

God gave a fair chance to everybody regarding love.

 If for some reason a couple is being persecuted by their village, that harassment will actually drive them closer together.

The power of their love would be most intense under those circumstances. In that couple there is a fire of love burning more brightly than in any other couple.

Reverend Moon speaks about his family's persecution as he and his wife worked to spread the words of the Divine Principle even in communist North Korea:


"That is very true with Mother and me. You know I have been persecuted by America.  At home I will say to Mother, 'You are my ally. You understand me. Mother will say, 'Father, you are my hero, no matter what the people say.' Although she is only one individual, with Mother's words I am comforted. There is nothing that compares to the way Mother supports me. 'Besides,' Mother will say, 'It's nice in a way that the rest of the world is persecuting you, because it drives you home faster!'

Mother and I can really enjoy persecution. Our children understand us, and the cohesive harmony in our home is very strong.

The children have a strong conviction that, no matter what the world says about their parents, they are the most wonderful champions of God.

Sometimes they feel they cannot suppress their anger at the world, but in the meantime, they feel intense love toward their parents. There's nothing bad about getting persecuted.

When you look at world affairs from the standpoint of love, there is nothing you cannot be grateful for. Because I have been persecuted so much, God blessed my family more and more.

The evidence of this is that over the years the children who are born to us are even more brilliant and more outstanding. When I look at them I thank God.

When God has big gifts to hand out, you must make your shopping bags bigger so He can give the biggest gift to you. What are those gifts? God wants to give many gifts to Mother and me, so we will have more and more children.

God wants to give us more than forty children, but since the human body has certain limitations, God will condense the gift into a few most brilliant children.

This is why we do not condone birth control. God wants to give blessings, but if all of a sudden you stop having children then you are blocking God's way of giving you blessings.

If we did that, when we got to spirit world God would say, 'My son and daughter, I had more gifts to give you while you were on earth, but you blocked the way. Why did you do that?'

Probably Westerners can't understand this. Many Americans think they don't want to have children because they want to have fun in their lives. That way of thinking is very selfish. Which way of thinking do you think will prosper?

Westerners have always been proud that they are ahead of everybody, but now auto makers have to turn to the East to learn techniques. When you compare a Western made television and a Sony, the Japanese set has more brilliant color. Many consumers are buying Japanese products. Do you think it is because Americans want the Japanese to have superior technology? God is shifting the emphasis from one place to another.

The day of the Asians is coming, and now they shall be understood and respected by the world. But Asian people have serious shortcomings. They are too nationalistic and they always cling together with their own people. That's not God's way. This is why I had to come out of Asia to shatter the barrier of nationalism.

I come to promote universalism, or Godism, and the love race. What I am doing in the West is something that neither Western nor Eastern culture can produce. No existing culture can bring a heightened unity between East and West. Am I doing this with some technology? Some Machiavellian diplomacy? I am doing it with a special kind of love." SMM



God is a universal person who really enjoys love. He wants to dwell in love, to work in love, to dance and sing in love. God is a fighting God too, but only in order to secure love for Himself and for everyone. We understand God and know His traits and what He likes.

Where can true love dwell?

There has to be a principled way, a way of law and order. Love dwells where principle dictates.

What is the principle of love between men and women? When you meet in love do you want to beat around the bush and go round and round, or do you want to meet face to face?

Do you want that person to have all kinds of stains, or to be a pure person? Do you want that person to bring lots of friends, or to come by himself?

Does the eye like love? How about the nose? The ears? Mouth? Hands?

Everything thinks about the goal of love. Do you want to go straight to love, or wander around? When you come into love, there is total concentration, total focus. The mouth, ears, hands and mind all focus on one sharp point and go through the center. That is the force of love.

If love is concentrated into one dot and that dot moves around, any miracle under the sun can happen wherever it touches. When the love dot is visiting homes, do you think people will say, "Don't come into my home"?

Or will they open the door and give love the red carpet treatment? Do you think the cells of your body will open or close up to love?

Basically the Oriental woman is shy, yet when love comes in, she opens herself up. The total concentration of genuine, pure love has never blossomed yet in history, but when that concentration of love is created and the blossoming flowers open, that is the most joyful event.



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This Post was rewritten from the speech Who is God and Who am I?

Why Do We Marry?

Marriage is being placed in question these days, so it is fitting to ask why do we marry?

With a large amount of marriages being unhealthy, unhappy and on its way to divorce, what is the appeal to still get married in this day and age?

Many are ignoring the notion of being with one partner for life, yet many are still tying the knot.

Many answer, "I married to receive love".  Has anyone answered that they married in order to give their love?

Someone would say this in our current time because this is the age of action.  Women should be thinking in terms of giving in love instead of receiving love.  Men should give from the position of Yang and women in position of Yin.  This give and take action moves toward a life centered on that love.

You should support and stand behind your husband for his success.  Husband must be prepared to go a hard course, over the back path of wife.

A woman who wishes her husband to be strong and healthy is even willing to go hungry for his well being.  As he encourages you, you should push him forward in return.  Woman should do the same for her husband.  A husband and wife who do this create a spherical form.  Then thy meet in the center of the sphere.


Why Men and Women Were Born? 

It has a simple answer. Men were born for women and women were born for men. It is as simple as that.  Were we born to fight each other?  No, we were born to love others.

How much do spouses like each other?  With love for the spouse, knowledge and material possession or anything int he environment are not important.  How much do you love your wife?  When you truly love your spouse you can forgive anything and even though they might make you angry you should not leave that sphere.  We must understand this and remember that moment of love that first drew you together.  If you or your spouse ever leave this realm of love, the universe will chase you out.


Flowers Must Give Off a Fragrance First

Should women chase men or should men chase after women?

Women physiologically reach maturity before men and this is why men are less enlightened and this is why they are insensitive after the Fall of man.  Women give off a fragrance first.  As a flower sends forth its fragrance to attract the butterflies.  This law of nature applies to women as well.

At the age of 15 or 16 girls begin to look for their partner wondering where he is and make a big fuss.

Is there a difference between the love of a man or woman in love?  During a thunderstorm does the loud clap we hear as the result of the positive charge and the negative charge at the same time or different time.  They occur at the same time.

When there is a love current between man and woman wouldn't they become one or stay separate?


Love Travels the Shortest Distance


God is in the world of spirit, how do we know if God likes love or not?  Can people observe an electric current flowing through a cord just by looking at it?  We can find out with an electric tester and physical senses.  although electricity appears invisible to our eyes, we can feel it stimulate our senses.

The same applies to love.  An unfallen perfected person would be able to sense God's feelings.  They will feel sad when God is sad automatically and when God is happy they would feel happy, also.

When we hear a story of a person who desires to have love with tears, your own heart suddenly fills with emotions because we have the same elements.  We are all filled with common elements.  If God was crying with an aching heart or unhappy for anything other than for humanity because His purpose for creation isn't fulfilled we would probably deny and kick him out.

God is loving and cries for us and we give Him sympathy and help.  This is how the world of love eternally works.

Centered on love, especially centered on greater love, if there was a man who wanted to work more passionately, then people around him, which is the family, nation and world, would be eager to move according to his will.

Mankind should connect to heaven and earth vertically while horizontally connection to nation and the the world by each doing their part.  The whole world will be moved in this way.  The Messiah goes this way up to the world level.  On his way back, even the people who opposed him before would now welcome him.  This is how things evolve and the way of heaven and earth.  God and the Messiah have been moving the same way, vertically and horizontally.


Where does horizontal and vertical meet? They meet at a 90-degree angle.  man and woman represent the horizontal plane and there is only one absolute way they can simultaneously come together, not two ways.  Since love travels the shortest distance, centered upon love, the horizontal and vertical end up meeting at a 90-degree angle.  A 91-degree angle means they travel a longer distance.

Perpendicularity is connected to absoluteness. 

Why is it perpendicular at the place where love abides?  Centered on love, to be perpendicular, love should travel the shortest distance. When you go to meet the person you love, do you go slowly, as you would to meet your next-door neighbor, or as straight as a bullet?

Even if it is night, day, spring or fall, however long human history is, love will always travel the shortest distance.


It is so that a point in the highest position can be connected to a point in the lowest position through the shortest distance. That is why love travels the shortest distances in this universe. That is why it is a vertical line that connects high and low positions at a perpendicular position. Do you follow?

Love Grows Bigger in Circular Motion


Do you need love? (Yes)


Within your body, what part wants to see and touch love first.  What is the antenna of love?  It is man's convex and woman's concave.  When these two parts come together it becomes round and then disappears.  This is true with everything.

For example, a positive electric charge comes together to meet a negative electric charge and creates a thunderstorm, then returns to neutral.  They go back to where they were.

Love works in a circular motion, it does not become smaller but becomes bigger and bigger.  Love has the desire to grow into bigger and greater love and seek family-level love instead of individual love.  In our own live we seek family love rather than individual-level love.  We not only need our family but our community or tribe.  The individual lives for the family to connect to the bigger world of love.  The family is for the society, the society for the nation, nation for world, world for the cosmos and the cosmos is for God and then God is for love.


God came into existence for the sake of love

That's why all beings that exist on earth want to be absorbed by love.

Does mankind want the same thing? For example, there are two people living together as husband and wife. Even though the husband loves the wife very much, if a greater love comes to the wife, then she will want to go to where there is more love.

Even if a husband loves his wife very much, if a greater love comes to the wife, she will want to go toward the greater love.  If he has greater love than he can detach her from the other love.  If one realizes that their spouse can embrace people of the nation and world, it is all right for him or her to leave the family and it will not be a bad thing.

Even if a wife begs her husband with tears, her husband still may leave his wife and children for the sake of bigger love.  Those who move forward for the sake of bigger love are the people closest to God.  This is why we call it goodness.  No one wants to pick the smaller love or a bad one.  This is a common universal concept of ownership and applies equally to everyone and is centered on love.

The original quality of love of an American mother is the same as a Korean mother.  We cannot begin to fathom the concept of unification without love.

Is the love of an American husband different from a Japanese husband and wife?  If the wife sheds tears for her husband and years for him, would her tears different while the other person's are bright with true heart.

They are the same.

The tears of an oriental wife and the tears of a Western wife is the same color and they both taste salty.    If yours are sweet then they are both sweet.  Isn't this correct?  If all human tears are the same, that means they are unchanging.


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Textbook: The Way for a True Child Section, "The View of True Love Between Man and Woman"

Role Sports Play Bringing World Peace

Who would have thought that sports could play in developing skills and bringing about world peace.  Who has ever given thought to this ideal?  When we look at sports in a different view point, it can become clear.

What type of sports is ideal to bring people from all different cultures and backgrounds together?  Basketball, golf, hockey, Rugby?  What type of sports and team activities could have such a range that all people would come together and enjoy activities together just to experience the game?

Reverend Sun Myung Moon thought of many activities that seemed non-related to religion in hopes of bringing about a peaceful world.  Using the sport and excitement of soccer became a major cataclysm for bringing people from every age, country and religion through the common love of the high-spirited sport.

The following speech he gave before an enthusiastic crowd:


"In particular, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to those leaders participating in the 17th World Cup co-hosted by Korea and Japan, who are honoring this rally with their presence in spite of their busy schedules.

Today, the twelfth of June, is the thirteenth day of the World Cup. Soccer fever is heating up around the world. Each day, we see the drama of competition played out in the midst of upset and upheaval, joy and disappointment. In the midst of this, a celebration of friendship and excitement is unfolding that transcends race, ideology and national boundaries.

As we gather here today, we must think deeply about how to work through sports to bring peace to all humanity.


The Bible says, "Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God." 

Matthew 5:9 


Throughout my life, I have attended God in the context of religion, academia, media, culture, the arts, sports and other fields by putting these words of the Bible into practice in accordance with the will of Heaven.

My life of more than eighty years has been a continuous offering of sincerity and dedication for the establishment of God's will and His ideals of freedom and happiness and the realization of a world of peace.

As you are well aware, through its long history the world has tried to bring about peace by every possible means. But it is not a problem that can be solved by the political, economic or military power of any one country.

The fact is that there needs to be a fundamental truth, an ideology of peace, that can be applied to families, clans, peoples, nations, the world and even the cosmos.

The world of true ideals, true love, true life, true lineage and true peace is God's ideal of creation and is also the long-cherished desire of humankind. But when we speak of ideals, happiness, love and peace, we must begin by inquiring as to the origin of these.

Here, the fundamental truth is to be found in a life of serving, sacrificing, and living for the sake of one single reciprocal partner. The fundamental principle of the orderly existence of the universe, is that, like God, each and every being exists for the sake of other beings.

The omniscient God is the king of wisdom. By His wisdom, He created worlds of beings in such a way that subject and object partners have to live for one another in order to bring about true love, true happiness and true peace.

All beings are interconnected and possess dual purposes. At the center of each entity, there are dual purposes. There is the purpose relating to its internal character (sung sang) that seeks the good of the larger whole, and there is the purpose relating to its external form (hyung sang) that seeks the entity's own preservation and comfort.

 Exemplifying the internal purpose, the action of protons and electrons make it possible for an atom to exist. Atoms, as positively and negatively charged ions, form molecules. Nutrients composed of such molecules make it possible for plants to grow. As plants multiply, they provide food for animals.

Also, oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between animals and plants. Bees and flowers coexist with each other. If we observe the heavenly bodies, we see that the sun and its planets engage in a give and take action that allows the planets to revolve around the sun at a precise distance while maintaining their own rotation.

Early in my life, I realized that there is a fundamental truth of the universe: all beings exist for the sake of others.

This truth applies everywhere, so when applied to the parent-child relationship, true parents come to be and true sons and daughters come to be.

It is an undeniable truth that the state in which parents and children can achieve happiness comes about only when the family members live for the sake of each other. Existing for the sake of others is a fundamental principle of the universe. Only when we stand on this principle can we complete all happiness, all peace, all ideals and all love.

If we expand the principle of living for the sake of others, we can transcend nations and ethnicity and bring about a world of peoples who live for the sake of others. Without a doubt, such a world would be the world of perfect true love, true ideals, true peace and true happiness that humanity has long hoped to achieve.

If we hold onto the principle of living for the sake of others, we can go anywhere." SMM


When you practice a life of true love and live for the sake of others while on earth, you will receive God's blessings for eternity.  You will discover then that there is no happiness greater than this.  This is because God is the central being to heaven and earth.

We must understand the importance that by living for the sake of another person, we take on the central position of that environment.  Then because it is central, that being has the capability to develop a unified environment and a world of peace.

Today, there are many religions with many different scriptural texts. But their core teachings all boil down to the words, "live for the sake of others."

What are the characteristics of a true religion, a religion of love, a religion of ideals and happiness that can lead people to peace?

You already know the answer: the religion that says it will sacrifice itself for the sake of the individual, for the sake of the family, for the sake of the clan, for the sake of the people, for the sake of the nation, for the sake of the world, for the sake of heaven and earth and for the sake of God is a true religion, an ideal religion, a religion that can lead the world's people to peace and happiness.

The terms peace and happiness can only arise in the context of a reciprocal relationship.  No one can experience true happiness alone?  Isn't this true?  Would anyone wish to spend their whole birthday or anniversary alone in their room all day without even one warm word?

Knowing this, the conclusion is that the happiness of the entire universe begins when each individual's makes an effort to unify.  This point is where peace and ideals begin and are connected.

We see the evidence that humans working on their own has not been able to create peaceful ties between a people and nations.  Why is this so?  Because fallen individuals only seek out concerning their own benefit.  They use each other for their own purposes and advancement.  Every person chases after his or her own interests and then accumulates as much material good as possible.  Isn't this true to some extent among you and the people in your lives?

Even scholarly and successful members of the government, those highly-respected in their communities and people in leadership positions scramble to increase their own power and interests.  This has been the basis of everyone's lives.  In this kind of environment where each individual lives only for their own sake, conflict will never cease.

We can look at how living for one self goes against the basic principles just by observing our own body.  Did the eye come into existence so that it could live for itself?  What about the mouth?  No, each was created in order to have a reciprocal partner.  The ear came into being so that it could hear for the sake of the whole body.

What about the nose or our hands?  In fact, men's and women's sexual organs were not created for the man and woman themselves.  Instead, the husband's sexual organ was created for the sake of his wife and the wife's sexual organ is for her husband.


This is where peace begins:

The point where each person lives for the sake of another.  A mother's very body is structured so that is serves others and not her own purpose.  Her breasts are for the nourishment of her children.  Her body is for the sake of her husband and children.

Reverend Moon continues his speech about the importance of linking sports to peace:

"Throughout our lives, my wife and I have worked together in many different areas to bring about one peaceful world, a world in which people live for the sake of others.

Representative examples of this are the interreligious, international, inter-NGO activities and education of both ruling party and opposition party that we are conducting in order to bring down the barriers of race, religion, national boundaries and language.

Another is the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, which promotes the true family movement and pure love movement.

In the academic field, efforts in the higher education and practice of the philosophy of peace are being made at the University of Bridgeport in the United States and Sun Moon University in Korea.

In the media field, The Washington Times in the USA, The Segye Times of Korea and Sekkai Nippo in Japan, and other media organs throughout North and South America, have created a network.

This soon will expand to 185 countries and contribute greatly toward bringing the world's people together.

This is a rally of leaders in the world of soccer. Soccer fever is sweeping Korea and Japan and the entire world has come together in a festive atmosphere.

Ultimately, though, the proper way for world of sports is that the Olympics and the World Cup should guide the world's people along the way of reconciliation and peace. Occasionally, there is cause for concern over money and power combining to contaminate the pure spirit of athleticism.

It is necessary to examine carefully whether salaries offered top players are excessive and whether wealthy parties are engaging in unethical speculative or monopolistic practices.

In an effort to contribute toward world peace through sports, I have invested in the development of soccer in Korea by founding the Il Hwa professional soccer team some time ago and more recently, I had Sun Moon University begin a soccer team. In Brazil as well, we are managing the CENE and Sorocaba professional soccer teams.

My interest in the management of soccer teams goes beyond business pursuits. My first priority is to teach sportsmanship to young people of the university soccer teams, so that they can be trained to join professional teams and contribute to world peace through sports.

It is well known that soccer began in England. It was developed at Eton College, a school for the sons of aristocrats, where, in addition to knowledge, physical fitness was considered an important quality for leaders.

Because of the importance of teamwork in soccer, however, it did not take long for soccer's popularity to grow beyond the aristocracy and encompass the larger society.


Soccer Follows the Principle

Even if one player is exceptionally skillful, it is still difficult for a team to win unless the other members can back up this individual. The ball is round and can roll this way or that, but the ball is honest and it rolls where a player kicks it. There is a principle of purposeful community underlying the game of soccer.

In this game, there is no way for established powers to use trickery to preserve their own position. Neither is there an order according to which teams are allowed to score goals. In soccer, it does not matter whether a country is large or small, strong or weak. Goals are scored honestly, bringing joy and happiness to everyone.

In soccer, there is only the energetic communal harmony that comes from team play.

Soccer and other sports, as well as the entirety of leisure culture, have developed over a long period of time. Sports were originally created in order to create strong bodies and maintain safe societies. Today, they have developed globally and bring enjoyment and enrichment to the lives of billions of people.

So, it is important that we seek ways by which sports can contribute to the achievement of peace for all the world's people.

The world stands at the dawn of a new millennium. Astonishing developments in information technology are bringing the ideal of one world family into reality. On the other hand, it is also true that the world faces a moral crisis with the danger that spiritual values will be destroyed.

We must look to sports for constructive proposals on how to overcome hedonism and self-centered values among young people.

Sports employ rules to insure fair competition. Thus defined, competition differs from conflict; the two exist on different levels. Conflict appears in the savage and bloodthirsty law of the jungle by which animals live.

Here, one side uses physical and military strength to negate the other side's existence and annihilate him. Competition in sports is different from this. Rules are established, the winner is decided in accordance with these rules, and each side acknowledges the other.

A gentlemanly spirit governs sports. As large numbers of people watch, the athletes demonstrate the attitude of fair play and sportsmanship as they compete based on their talents, abilities and strength.

They follow the laws and rules that have been agreed upon, and they submit themselves to fair judgment by the referees.

Fair play is considered the most important aspect of the game. It requires obeying laws and following the rules. Breaking the rules and committing fouls result in the loss of points, expulsion from the game and the eventual loss of the privilege of participation.

The offending players are punished. Athletes pour out all their energy, sincerity and courage for the sake of the victory and glory of the individual and his or her country. The victorious players receive a crown of laurels, a gold medal and a bouquet of flowers.

They are congratulated with thunderous applause and their national anthem is played as their country's flag is raised. Such a ceremony brings the height of emotion, the ultimate glory and a celebration for us all.

The virtue of sports is when the loser does not dwell on his own disappointment, but applauds the accomplishment of the winner.

In sports, there is the beautiful fragrance of friendship and love among like-minded people. The beauty of the players appears when they demonstrate sportsmanship. They must work hard, shed sweat and tears and achieve incredible standards of skill. They must be trained in the virtues of fairness, proper order and etiquette.

The realm of sports has made large contributions to modern society. It has contributed to our physical and mental health and has provided excitement through skillful play. The love of sports can transcend religious dogma and political ideology.

All people can become one through sports, so sports can spread a banquet of reconciliation and peace, where the hearts of all the world's people can come together as one.

Though the Cold War has ended, the world is yet unable to throw off its common yoke of suffering. As the September 11 tragedy demonstrated, the world is in agony over conflict and strife between religious and ethnic groups.

In addition, the world's natural environment is being destroyed. Young people who are to be responsible for the future are becoming cynical, fascinated with materialism and hedonism, falling prey to drugs and abandoning civil norms.

In order to solve these problems, we need to graft the authentic spirit of sports onto a foundation of the truth that teaches us to live, like God, for the sake of others, and we need to put this spirit and truth into practice. In this way, we will be able to build a world of harmony, peace and unification.

For this reason, I am happy to announce the establishment of the Sun Moon Peace Cup. The Sun Moon Peace Cup is the Cup of the Sun and the Moon, the Cup of the Parents of Heaven and Earth and the Cup of Peace. May it shine forever with the light of pure love.

The Sun Moon Peace Cup is different from existing trophies, for they exclude God, emphasize entertainment and idolize celebrity. We must know God and the spirit world thoroughly. We must walk the path of truth.

The Sun Moon Peace Cup will be a festival. It will bring together efforts toward the original world of God's ideal in the fields of religion, science, politics, economics and sports, including the unique contributions of women and youth.

In it, people will express their desire for humanity to come together as one large family. It will serve as a particularly important starting point for our progress toward the ideal of true peace centering on God's true love, transcending barriers between races, countries, ethnic groups, religions and ideologies.

The Sun Moon Peace Cup will not only celebrate a healthy spirit of humanity. As our spiritual nature continues to develop, it will become a festival of internal and external reconciliation and harmony within the world community.

It will be a place where people unite in one mind, as one family, and in one heart, to open the way toward God's ideal of creation, a world of peace, freedom and happiness. I want to inform you that Pele has already promised to work with me for this great cause.

I would like to ask FIFA, Pele Promotion and everyone here to take a leading role and contribute significantly toward the development of the Sun Moon Peace Cup. I pray that God's love and blessing will flow abundantly upon you and your families. Thank you."


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Seven Principles for Loving Relationships


This text was rewritten and taken from the speech: The Role of Sports in Creating World Peace give n by
Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon
June 12, 2002
in Seoul, Korea

Harmony Arises in The Presence of Love

"It is nice just to think about love, to see it and to taste it. That is how love is.  Love is the coming together of East and West, of North and South. It is the coming together of heaven and earth." 

Love takes the form of a sphere.  True love is at the center of the vertical and the horizontal connecting the two.  How enraptured would a person's lips look when they smile as they give into the power of true love?

How beautiful would the five senses be when they are enraptured in true love and harmony as they move toward God?  God doesn't become joyful through beauty by Himself.

God can only experience beauty through another whom He relates.  This is why He created human beings.  God wanted to travel the world of the human heart more than He desired to create the heavens and earth.

Even God breathes.  He breathes true love. 

God keeps up with the eternal universe centering on true love.  Only when you reach this level of love can you enter the realm of God's breath and live forever.

The universe, the sun and the earth are all round.  What do all round-shaped things center upon?  Do they become round on their own?  They only become round based on a relationship with another object.  The world is a living, existing entity.  A substantial entity that continues based on the realm of circular relationships.

Then, what is the origin that forms this circular relationship?

The motion of love is the original source of this harmony.  When you pull only one hair on someone's head, the whole body moves toward that pulling force.  Love is the same way.  When you pull on love, the universe pulls toward the force.

Love is like a nerve. 

When you move love, the whole universe moves in accordance with it.  We as humans were created to be enraptured with something outside of ourselves.  When one is enraptured by another, they are truly happy.

Artists are taken by art, literary artists by the books they write or by reading great masterpieces they have read.  Such people can be said to be happy people.

This is the same with our Heavenly Father.  We should be enraptured by the multi-dimensional ideal love of God and follow only Him.

What is the most precious thing sought after by man and woman?

It is love.

Love is something that people like forever, and God does too. Love is what the whole universe likes most of all, and forever. 

Although it is invisible, love is the most precious treasure on earth. 

Love is the most valued because of its unchanging nature.  Gold is precious because of its unchanging color, a diamond is precious because of its unchanging hardness, and a pearl is precious because of the unchanging harmony of its colors.

However, these precious treasures do not have life in them. True love, on the other hand, is a treasure that has life, and is therefore more precious than all of them.

There are two types of love.  There is the false, self-centered love and there is true love that originated from God's being.  We are only speaking about this true love as false love is opposite, not everlasting, centered on circumstances and does not include God.

Everyone likes love. Ultimately, through love we come to love more and more. 

Love flows into the hearts of individuals, into the heart of a family, into the heart of a people. It flows everywhere. And wherever it flows, everyone welcomes it. There is no way to block love. Everyone wants something higher, don't they? 

God created people to relate with one another through the power of love.

For a person who moves and breathes with the universe while connected through the ties of love does not need formalities when they arrive at the palace of God.  This person can come and go to the inner sanctuary where God resides and call on him.  God will answer, "Oh, my child, you are here!".

God dreams of this day.

But what is the problem of the human world that prevents all of humanity from enjoying this day?  It is love.  Whether love shines and burns brightly.  For love to burn bright, that light must burn internally and externally.

Then what should cause love to burn?

Simple.  It burns from the desire to love.  When we look at our purpose of life, then we realize that when we deal with mundane affairs in our life that its just a stopping point upon our journey to reach a higher place than our situation now.

Where is God? 

If God is omnipresent, this means that He is not in one location.  He is wherever true love is.  Then, based on this love He becomes omnipresent.

Did you know you and I can become omnipresent when we make love our central focus?  We can enjoy this privilege when we possess love.  The word equality does not have meaning without love being present.  Genuine equality is only possible when people live for the sake of others centering on love.

Through love, a man and a woman can be on equal footing and a mother can be on equal footing with her son even if he is the nation's president. We must realize this. 

Through love, man and woman can stand on equal footing and a mother can be equal to her son even if he is the president of the nation.  We must realize this fact.  God created humankind to be the center of all things of creation.

Then, what is at the center of human beings?

True love.

God's love produces a vertical line.  For heaven and earth to be set up, man and woman also need to create lines of love;the woman's goes to the man and the man's goes to the woman.

All things that possess love can have equal status. 

This is how the principle of the universe works:

The lines of love create a circle which rotates.  When a man and a woman appear with true love, it is perfected love with a negative charge.  When this perfected and true negatively charged love is formed, God's positively charged vertical love automatically is present.

You can only form a reciprocal relationship with the universe when you practice love.  Without love, this reciprocity cannot exist.  Love can be abundantly and fully put in motion without resistance because it is gentle and humble.

Anything that is gentle, humble and sacrificial it can relate with anything and anyone and can go anywhere without resistance.

The key to work without resistance is by living for the sake of others, sacrificing for others and serving others.  Why must we do this?   We do this in order to prepare and perfect our spiritual body's respiratory organs which we use to breathe love in the second life of the spirit world.

All beings that have the ability to reproduce come together in twos in order to multiply.  Love is the ingredient that brings about harmony in the process of reproduction.  This principle is true for the multiplication of all living things in the natural world.

Even when we think about water there is a female water and a male water.  Fish do well in areas where these two waters mix;many fish live well where cold and warm water mix.  This is ideal.  There must be harmony in this ideal.

The birds living in the north fly south to raise their young, and the birds living in the south fly north to raise theirs; this migrating back and forth follows a rhythm. Since they were born there, the birds return to the place of their birth to have their young. 

Fish living in cold water lay their eggs in warm water and fish living in warm water can only lay their eggs in cold water. A harmonious unity of yin and yang must be established. That is why they migrate. 

Love can only be achieved with a relationship with a partner.  Even God who is love, has no way to experience love by Himself.

Love cannot be realized without finding a partner.

During the creation process, it was an effort to place an absolute object partner that could qualify to reciprocate love to the absolute Creator God.  What is God's absolute object partner in love?

You and me?  We are the masterpieces of creation fashioned so that even God can find love in which He longs for.  

When you catch the intoxication of the love of God, you would never become bored by His creation even if you were to intimately stare at a grain of sand or flower for thousands of years.


We we realize that we were born in a universe of love we can become infinitely happy.

Yet when we look at the situation today, we do not find much happiness.  We lost the ideal which God originated since the beginning of creation.  We have walked away from the principles to become true object partners in front of God.

True love is not something that can be forced; it is willingly expressed. 

When you are actively loving someone, do not do so with the intention to receive.  Ideal love is only realized through the action of giving and receiving.

Love is something that even if it is not there, it feels as if it is, and even when it is, it feels as if it is not. Love operates like a mysterious mirage in all shapes and forms, which are good when you think they are bad and bad when you think they are good.

If love was visible and could be touched, pictured and its form could be realized by anyone, you would be bored with love in less than a day.

True love perfects the ideal of unity in the universe. 

Even if you were to gaze upon a great masterpiece, if you can't find love within it, you will spit it out.  This same principle is true between husband and wife.

Why do humans like love the most?  Because love is the subject that unites everything and makes it our own.  People cannot fathom how good love is.

Bees concentrate so intently on getting the nectar in the flowers. Their heads are thrust into the flower and their abdomens stick up in the air. You cannot pull them out even with a pair of tweezers. 

Love brings things into oneness, so just like parents love their children, the more one loves the more love increases.  A person who is one with God through love will never be separated from the love of God.  What the purest form of love this is!

Have you ever observed a bee going from one flower to the next?  The bee concentrates so intently on getting nectar from each flower.  Their heads enter the flower and their abdomens are exposed to the air.  You cannot pull the bee away from the flower.

If you tried to pull them apart you would have to pull so hard that their abdomen comes off.  The bees will not come out of the bud because the nectar in the flower tastes so intoxicating.  If nectar tastes this good, what about the taste of true love?

Which is more intense, the taste of love or the taste of honey?  As a part of God's creation, honey tastes purely sweet but love is even greater.

Love Unifies

Words alone will not unite two different people into one.

If these two people are united around material goods, as soon as the material good disappear they will quickly separate.  Then what is needed to unite them?  Even if a third person appears and unites them, when this person disappears they will separate.  Then what is necessary to join two people together as one eternally?

Without love, unity cannot be attained.  There must be love.

Love has the power to unite even our five senses.  For example, an old man may smell bad to everyone else, but to his wife his smell is sweet and pleasant.  If the old man's hands and face are skin and bones or sagging, his wife will like his face and hands.  Love makes it so.

When the wind of love blows, the whole world seems beautiful. Everyone becomes a poet or a romantic when he or she falls deeply in love. 

The Schizandra berry is sour and bitter to taste, but is really a blend of five different taste.  It may taste strange at first, but after you swallow it you want more.  The taste of love is similar to that of the Schizandra berry.

"A flowing love that embraces the spring and has still more to give in reserve, a love that melts the snow and thaws the ice in a cold winter -- infinite love, immeasurable in height or width -- should form a bond with us and never leave us. It should take its place in the core of our being." SMM

Without love, we cannot find anything of value in the world. 

When you feel such a love pumping inside of us, you can even compete with the universe.  If one has absolute love in the center of his heart which is love that is the same from beginning to the end, he or she can compete with the massive universe even though he is merely one individual.

Even when we look at a piece of grass we must do so from this standpoint. When we look at a flower we should relate with it while embodying the heart of God.  When we look at insects, birds and all kinds of animal creatures we should connect our inner feelings and the heart of God.

If you live with the love of God inside of your heart, you are the son and daughter of God.  The central figures of the universe are such as this who are able to govern heaven and earth.  Love is the main element that enables people to attain this position.

Did you know that your mind can expand larger through the heart more than through infinite knowledge?

A heart of love is so big that it can even embrace the universe.  Once we develop this original and mighty domain, even God would want to settle and take naps here.  Since we are not able to embrace God through our knowledge, we should see how great a heart of love is.

Love transcends the five different races of humankind and draws no distinction between black, white or yellow races.  

Love transcends all national borders, for God's love knows no boundaries.

That is why the love of God is great. 

When love flows despite the environment where it flows from, the environment adapts to this flow and will develop.

What can please God the best?

God will only be pleased when we adopt this perspective to make this a reality in our lives.  This is why we must walk this path of love.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Nature of Love

This text was rewritten from the textbook: Cheon Seong Gyeong 

Book Three - True Love
Chapter One - What Is True Love?

Why God Made Men/Women Opposites

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus.  He is heavy into sports, is a doer and doesn't like to talk about feelings and women are - well majority are just the opposite.  Yet, God built these two entities to forever live together within love.

Can you see the ideal love that God wished for in the beginning with your eyes?  Do you look at a well-built man and think that he has the ideal love God has been wanting?  We naturally say no, but don't we women naturally see a handsome and attractive man and think that he possesses a greater love to give to someone else just based upon his looks? 

What about an attractive woman, does she possess more love than an unattractive woman?  God is fair and does not give all qualities to one person.  An attractive person has a flat love while others have a round type of love.  Chances are an attractive woman has considerably less love to give than a woman who is not beautiful.  A less attractive woman more likely has more pure and true love to give than a beautiful woman.

If opposites attract, how ideal is it when two people with similar qualities marry?  The best match in marriage is between two people with different qualities.  This couple will encompass the qualities of different varieties of people and when they unite in oneness, they will be able to relate to more people. 

For instance, if two musicians marry, this is a flat relationship compared to a musician and a scientist marrying who can relate to more fields of people by learning and gaining qualities from one another.  We all desire to see and be a part of an ideal couple.  What about a tall attractive man and a short round plain woman, how can such people have to harmonize centered on one quality.  Would this be wealth and fame?  The only element that can unify two opposites is True Love.

There are much more important qualities of a woman to which a man can pay attention than her eyes, nose, hip or hair.  What kind of of mate does everyone prefer?  Everyone wants the most attractive and successful.  God is ideal and He rather see a beautiful woman marry an ugly man. 
 

"Actually, if a woman marries a very handsome man, she will probably have to endure a lot of worries! She might wonder, "Will some other woman be chasing after him?" and she will not be able to relax!"

Women in the secular world pursue the most handsome men and will do anything to get their love. When a woman marries a handsome man, she will constantly worry when he is late coming home that he might not be faithful.

A handsome who marries a beautiful woman can have the same worries, especially if she spends much time preparing her make-up, clothes and hair.  He might wonder, "Who is she trying to impress?". And he will worry more when she goes out without him looking fancy.  Men and women are more attracted to a person who takes care of their looks especially men who are more physically oriented, therefore, the world is full of dangers for the beautiful woman and man.

The man with a beautiful wife may start out with a lot of affection for her, but his worries will increase the longer they are married.  However, the spouse who marries an average looking person are free from such worries.  If their homely-looking spouse leaves for two or three days, they will not worry so much and think there is a reason for their absence.

On the other hand, the man with an average-looking wife may only have to worry in the beginning about how he will learn to love her. But then, as they continue their life together that worry diminishes to nothing.

An attractive woman will worry her husband over the little things.  Every move she makes will be a source for his suspicion and he will wrestle with these thoughts endlessly.  Even if she buys a new pack of pens, he will wonder what her ulterior motive was for buying that many pens. 

The smallest difference in any action such as beginning to polish her toenails or spending an extra five minutes in front of mirror before leaving for work.  A nagging fear will build inside of him, "She never used to spend so much time in the mirror.  What made her change?"

Here is the lesson:

"We must be able to distinguish true value within a person regardless of what that person looks like...  Certainly, we are striving for ideal families but what is the definition of that ideal? Is the marriage of a white man with a white woman necessarily the most ideal way? Actually, the most ideal way would be for a beautiful white American to go to Africa and find his or her spouse there. Such a bringing together of contrasts would be closest to the ideal." SMM

We stand on earth looking up to the highest ideals of Heaven which is the ideal husband and wife.  A woman shouldn't look down on a man and a man shouldn't look down on a woman because a woman is an absolute necessity for a man to reach perfection.  What do we see as the world trend as men and women go opposite of this natural law and challenging it. Men try to legally marry other men, isn't this true?

Why did God make it where men need women?

It is the way men and women grow and the way we were created;it is beyond your choice.  Women were created with certain indentations, while men have certain protrusions. 

What is marriage?  It is where these two differing shapes and characters of man and woman come together within unity under God's direction.  We see this in nature without exception and this is the way God created the world no matter how much man tries to change this direction.

As said before, God is fair in the attributions He gives His creation.  The man protrudes in one place and the woman protrudes in another.  The man's shoulder are broader up high while the woman's hips are broader beneath.  This balance in nature is attractive.  This harmony which God originated is displayed throughout the entire universe.

The waves on the ocean do not follow a straight line but rather a curved one. However, the wind blows in a straight, simple direction. People enjoy seeing the leaves on a tree swaying in the wind; when a tree is stark still, it is not as stimulating to look at.

Air density varies in different places. When a sparse area of air hits a dense area, it is pushed up or down. It is natural that there be a certain amount of wind on the earth; when the air is perfectly still, it doesn't feel natural or comfortable.

When we ask whether you prefer to live in a high, lofty place or a deep low place the women would answer "deep" and the men would answer "high". 

Simply, how are men and women different?  One side is "protruded" and the other is "indented".  Who is the one who is truly determined that man is the subject and the woman is object in relation to one another?  God is the one who decided that man is the subject.

Why did God position woman as the object?  She is in the position to receive like a "receptacle".  If a woman is not in that position, babies cannot grow inside of her.  The rain falls and the earth receives it- the sky in the high position does not receive the rain, it gives it. 

This is why woman represents earth and man the sky and heaven.  The most natural position for a loving man and woman is for the man to be above the woman and the woman naturally receives from the man.   

Since we are all part of the created universe, we need to begin to understand the laws of the universe and begin to follow and align to it.  The man naturally gives to the woman, however, the woman should always think about the man's welfare in order to harmonize with the universe.  Without a man, the woman cannot achieve that harmony.

What makes a mountain more famous to climb than an average mountain? 

First, famous mountains tend to be very high, then it would be well that it has a variety of slopes making it a challenge for even the most seasoned climbers to tackle.  Which man do women prefer most? 

A man who is fun and versatile, or a simple man who is predictable?  Women are naturally attracted to variety.  Men naturally prefer a woman of simplicity.  It is important that a woman be simplistic, yet has various qualities.  This simplicity in a woman is her best virtue.  A woman should be deep, but be uncomplicated.

"Why is the Unification Church a good and high religion? If you compared it with our description of a famous mountain, you could say the same-it has lots of variety. To go through the way of faith of the Unification Church is a difficult thing. You may sit here listening to me for several hours but once you stand up, you have to run back to your mission. There is no in-between."

When you come in contact with a Moonie, or Unification Church member founded by Rev. Moon, you will see that similar characteristics whether you meet a member in Bangkok or America. 

This Eastern concept may be looked down upon by many in America who fight for their individuality and leaders would say, "I have my own style so I don't need anyone else's."  Americans may look down upon the Oriental way of life as inferior to the American one.  Yet, the Western way of individuality can not be embraced by the whole world, only the Eastern way must be incorporated together with it.  Then the whole world will be covered.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Men/Women Misuse Love Root of All Evil

This text was rewritten based on the Speech: Ideal Family and Ideal World given by Dr. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church.