Seven Principles for Loving Relationships Part II

We continue part two of the seven principles for loving relationships:

6. Investing Towards Oneness

In order to realize love, we need to trust in the potential for unity between complementary partners. 

Everything that is complementary to one another first begin as separate beings in the world, but are drawn into oneness.

Despite the complementary nature of men and women, they do not easily get along. Sometimes they can seem like adversaries.

Any group of men or women's conversation at one point turn toward the complaints about the opposite gender.

Men may say that 'women talk too much,' women may say that 'men are so insensitive'. This is the long history of misunderstanding that happens between the sexes. There is also mistrust, abuse, and exploitation.

The ultimate unification of masculine and feminine takes place in marriage and in making a family.

Through a husband and wife embracing one another and through having many experiences with their children throughout the years, a man and woman can come to understand and appreciate the opposite sex.

The husbands and sons represent masculinity in all phases of development as also a man embraces all femininity trough his love for his wife and daughters.

Therefore, married life provides a fascinating, ongoing adventure of bonding of masculinity and femininity.

Through marriage, men and women become better mirrors of the divine.

“In the image of God He created him; male and female he created them,” the Bible reminds us; man and

woman together echoes the Creator’s own “wedded” nature Genesis 1.27.

A Hindu scripture speaks of the original Self or Creator as splitting in two to make man and woman. Thus making each 'like half of a split pea'. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.3

A couple that is an example of this is a full mirror of the Godhead.

Reverend Moon shows the married couple as a smallest unit of humanity. This is in the sense of fulfilling the purpose of human creation as God's complete reflection and love partner.

This is why the love between man and woman can be uniquely edifying.

7. Unity Around a Higher Purpose

People who unify based on a higher purpose, this is a basic context for true love. Every being in creation tends toward unity, based upon shared purposes.

Unity is the beginning point of love, the point where love can come to abide . . . . When both come closer and closer they can meet at one point between them. In other words, by both of them denying themselves for a greater purpose, they can unite with each other. That is the standard of true love.

—Sun Myung Moon

American President Richard Nixon spoke about how one extraordinary moment in time united people of all lands when Neil Armstrong, landed successfully on the surface of the moon:

“For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.”

People united in celebration of what he had done and all were passengers in a spaceship alone in black, cold space. This moment was profoundly moving and gratifying where all inhabitants of the earth united in oneness.

Unity, the sense of belonging to something greater than ourselves, is something we deeply desire.

To bring unity, it also helps to keep problems that are small and tensions in perspective.

“I wanted as little to do with my supervisor as possible,” recallsa medical technician. “But when I saw how hard she worked to throw a Christmas party for the kids in the critical care ward, I just had to give up my grudge and help her.”

When we give ourselves to the greater good, it feeds us self-respect. This supports our ability to love and invest further in the relationship.

Therefore, when people unify centered upon a greater purpose, this is the best context for lasting love

We will discuss more on this principle in the next post..

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Centering on Higher Purpose for Unity

This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Educating for True Love, written by a team of writers to explain Reverend Sun Myung Moon's philosophy.

Only One Way Men and Women Are Equal

Suppose there were millions of women on earth, but only one man?

Would the woman who marries him be able to declare that she didn't truly love her husband and she could start searching for another because of something she does not like about him?

If this was truly the last man on earth, would it matter to the women that he was crippled as long as he was a man?

If he had only one eye would women refuse to marry him based on this?  In that case, his wife would quickly remedy any problems in her heart toward him, and even though she does not like some parts of him, she would accept him.

If a woman is able to digest the negative things in her husband, then unity will come forward and then love will follow.

When unity is accomplished then God moves there to visit.

Unity is good because God dwells there, and then everything becomes love.  Therefore, any movement that creates unity everywhere and with everyone will flourish.

Only after God created both Adam and Eve did He say that the creation was good.

Women today are called feminists as they seek out the concept of equality.

No matter how much they fight for the cause, they cannot argue the fact that there are differences between men and women.  Can woman claim equality when a man needs two helpings of food and women only need one?

A woman wrestler could never defeat a man.  Men can do extra hard labor that a woman cannot do.  Therefore, can women demand equality with these physical differences and strengths?

When are men and women equal?

Only through love are men and women equal.

Is there any better equality higher than love?

During the more primitive times, a man had to work extra hard to provide for his family.  Since man was independent in this way back then and could care for the whole family, God gave woman the one ability that man could never have, which is childbearing in order to balance the differences in their capabilities.

The latest trend these days is that more women have less desire to marry and refuse to have children.

Women must know that their body was not created for themselves.  Even a child understands that the woman's hips and bosom are to nurture children.  But now women diet instead of wanting to develop their hips and breasts for their children.

Would a child want to cuddle in the arms of a woman with a bony figure, or wide hips and soft bosoms? The present trend is for women to be very thin in the Western society.    The design formerly came from the British where women were proud to show off their large hips and bosoms.

This is a serious matter.

If you were to ask God, would He say it was better for a woman to have small bosoms or abundant ones after childbirth?  What about a full figure that is in proportion to their overall height?  Maybe being plump does not look right for an Asian frame, because of their small height.

What about a tall Westerner?

Now, that you understand that your features must balance your height, there is no need to diet.

What is the way we must go in order to prosper?

First, you must be parallel to the purpose of creation.  If you have active love that you give out, you have the ability to observe and digest.  This is an action man and woman should do together.  If you have love, then unity will not be that difficult.

If a couple really loves one another, then it is easier for them to observe and embrace each other.  Sometimes you have to travel a wide road and sometimes the road is narrow.

When you lived the single life before getting married, you went your own way.  But after marriage, you are on the same track with another person.  Either person cannot change for their own individual desire, but they must continue to travel together.

If the goal is always changing, then harmony will be lost and conflict between the two result.  If you continue to change your direction and discard the old one, the next one will never be as good.

The reason is simple: whoever follows the law of creation will be protected by God.

He gets God's protection because He wants the purpose of creation fulfilled.

The man that goes against the laws of creation and follows Satan's law instead will be opposed by God.  This is how the fall takes place.


A rainy day is closer to Satan's side, while a sunny day is closer to God's side. Nevertheless, although it may be raining, you can feel that the sun is shining all around you. That indicates that you have observed and digested and overcome the circumstances.


It is easy to feel down on a cloudy rainy day, but if you are able to overcome and feel brighter, Satan will have to leave you.

That kind of person can go anywhere in the world and spirit world where Satan hangs out and make Satan leave.  Satan's standard is to always find ways to benefit himself.  So, when you overcome circumstances and defeat his purpose and will, he has nothing to gain by staying around.

Is the diligent or lazy man on God's side or more on Satan's side?

Satan whispers in peoples' ears to discourage them from work saying that it is too much trouble and relax.  God, on the other hand, wants to see consistency in your life.  The person who lives one day to the next just only responding to what is thrown at them leans more on the satanic side.

God would urge people to live according to heavenly law.

Are you on the satanic side or good side?

Is the person that constantly dozes off or the one who has bright eyes during a sermon on the satanic side?

The person that was able to be bright eyed because they had lots of sleep is also on the satanic side!  The person who didn't get much sleep, but is still able to have bright eyes is the worthy one.

What must you do to be on this rising side?  Which of the four saints would this worthy person most resemble?  On what foundation can you say he resembles Jesus?

Jesus, of course, abided by God's law, but more importantly, he lived love.  By living love, he went beyond the limited concept of the law.   He went beyond the concept of race because he wanted to belong to and liberate the whole world, not just his country and people.

He went beyond his own religion, and transcended the strict tenets of Jewish law.  He was faithful to bigger principles.  He not only loved the Jews, but even the enemies of his people as well as the rest of the world.

Jesus could even embrace the people who crucified him.

What did Jesus accomplish based on this foundation of faith?

We can understand precisely why Jesus was so great when we know that his goal was to bring about unity which could even include the Romans.

If Jesus was still alive in America, would he push for deeper segregation between the whites and blacks?  People may feel that they are more comfortable around other whites because they can easily digest that situation.

But God would warn such people that as long as they fail to follow their Christian ideals by failing to include Black and Mexican people and bring unity, they would risk their own survival.  We see that today.

Statistics says that if the current population continues to grow, that by 2050 the white population will become the minority.

Jesus' heart had the capability to observe and digest even the world of the Roman Empire, which at that time ruled the entire world.

This high standard of heart was the reason he was great in the human realm.  Whereas he was great because he was the only one at that time who proclaimed that God was the only Father and humanity were His children.

Jesus consistently followed the law of creation and met God's expectation. As a result, Christianity not only survived, but prospered as no other religion has done before his time.



Return for Tomorrow's Post:  The World's Future is Bright


This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Way of Prosperity

Sacrifice 4 Love

"Love requires one hundred percent devotion. When God was creating the universe, He invested Himself one hundred percent through His love. That is why true love begins with living for the sake of others." 

God is not the dictator that many people believe Him to be.

He gave everything of Himself for human beings.  He is close to us because He wants to live for us.  Has any dictator or ruler in the past surpass this kind of relationship which God gives to us?  This is why we want to follow God.

The natural law is to live for the sake of others.  To maintain our state of existence in the world, humanity must live in this way.  Only when we live for others will there be a connection between the East and the West and go far beyond the ages and the present.

When we give and give again for the sake of others, we are exhibiting the nature of God who gave of Himself for the creation.  When you put everything you have into something, you create a second self. This is the same as God investing everything He had at the same time of creation.

Only when one invests everything one has, is the only time recreation takes place.  History has been nothing but recreation - bringing humanity back to the original position we once enjoyed before the fall.  This course of restoration is through indemnity - paying back for any wrongs done.

You will never come to ruin when you live for the sake of others.  The idea of eternal life lives on this logic of investing oneself.   From giving small things, you move on to giving bigger things.  Then it circles back and comes back to you.

We will never be satisfied when we give true love - instead, you want to give more and more and you feel ashamed you are not able to give more.

Those who feel ashamed even after giving are truly the owners of true love.

In true love, the more we give, the more we receive in return.  The more we carry out this principle, the more the power that comes back exceeds the power that was given.  In this way, you will never perish, but only prosper.

There is no way to be prosperous without love. 

You can never exhaust true love.  The more you set it in motion, the greater it gets.

The laws of mechanics state that the more something is in constant motion, it becomes exhausted in time.  We have adopted this ideal into our lives, but in the case of true love this does not apply.  The more that true love is set into motion, rather than being used up, the greater it becomes.

The essence of love is such that when you live for the sake of others, your love becomes greater, but when you want people to live for you, your love diminishes little by little. 

"What is true love? It is giving, and then forgetting about it; it is giving and giving and then giving some more."

No matter how much you give, the world of love lasts forever.  Even the word "love' is truly mighty.

There is a Korean saying, "One well-spoken word can clear away a large debt".  This means that one word can indemnify something even great.  Even if you have a debt of a billions dollars, one word of love can more than indemnify the debt.

Only the house of true love has the authority to govern the universe with its infinite magnitude.  Even God the Creator has to bow His head to love.  Love comes from living for the sake of others.

God cannot fulfill love alone.  It can only be attained in relation to another. So, where does love begin?

Love doesn't happen when one person is by themselves, it does not come from oneself.  It grows and develops through having a partner.  

Where is the root, the beginning of true love kept?  Surprisingly the root of love is not kept within the all-knowing and powerful God.  Even though He is the central figure of true love He does not want to keep the root of love within Himself.

He rather have love take root in the person who is His object of love.  Isn't this true within a couple?

A man who is bursting with love for his lady will not want to keep this love within himself, but would want to share it and give it to his beloved.

The more love you give, the more love you have.  It is never ending.  You will have a reserve of love to give out even on a larger scale.  But there is a laundry list of things that have an end: money, knowledge and authority all come to an end at some point.

If it has to do with human circumstances or sentiment in the world, it comes to an end.  On the other hand, eternal true love never comes to an end no matter how much you continue to give.  The quality of love is amazing in that it continues into eternity.

One thing about true love, if you center it on yourself, it is something you cannot fulfill.  It does not begin from oneself, but it begins and is later fulfilled through one's partner in love.  Therefore, love cannot be fulfilled without a counterpart or partner.

No one can attain love by themselves.  Even the richest and greatest person on earth cannot achieve love if he is alone.  Isn't this true?  We see this among the Hollywood stars and people who seem to 'have it all'.  If they divorce or are alone, despite their wealth and successful careers, they may seem to have nothing.

This is because love is only formed in a relationship between a subject and object partner.  Even God cannot feel the stimulation of love if He tries to obtain it for His own sake.  This is the reason why God chose to create the human world of creation, for the purpose of love.

The core of the universe is human beings, and the core of human beings is life. 

The root of life is love, and the root of love is God, but this love cannot be realized by someone all alone. As God is the origin of love, the only beings qualified to be partners in that love are human beings. 

Have you thought that we do not use the word "hope" or "love" being fulfilled in the true sense  in relation to someone who is alone?  Even our life does not come from ourselves; life only comes through the bonds of a relationship with another.

What are two things that last for eternity?

Life and love.

Which comes first, life or love?  For God, love did not exist before He did, it came into existence after God existed.  For God, life comes first and love comes second, for humans beings love comes first and life comes second.

What kind of beings did God create us to be?

God created us to be equal to His absolute and unique value to Him and to be an object partner to His love.  Man and woman were created to enter a partnership of love with God, thus endowing them with greater value than that of even the whole universe.

We are born from love, raised with love and then live in love until the day we die in love.  But when we die, we do not disappear.  Since God is eternal, unchanging and the subject of love, then His object partner should have the same quality of eternal life.

The reason God created Adam and Eve was not to just look at them and watch them from afar or just speak to them.  He wanted a relationship where He could attain joy based on love.  God is an Absolute Being and needs another being in which to partake with love.

This partner is none other than human beings.  If we are His object partners, when we appear before God's perfected love as a perfected individual, He can then become the God of happiness and the God who found His ideal of joy.

Where does love come from?

It manifests from your partner. If your partner is ugly and you dislike him or her, you want to withdraw your love. And if the partner is beautiful and good, the dynamics of love are set off that much quicker.

In other words, the workings of love are determined by the qualities of those in partnership, such as their words, beauty, fragrance, and flavor.

God had only one dream He wished to fulfill and that was to realize the ideal of true love.  God could not make this dream happen on His own.  Love, happiness or joy cannot be achieved by one entity alone.  They will never be substantiated without a partnership. 

So, where does love originate?

Even for God, love does not come from self but from our partner.  This principle gives value to our partner such that we should bow and live for that person who is our partner in love.

This is why the law of nature instructs us to, "Live for the sake of others".  This means that we should live for and revere our partner since this precious and valuable element we receive only comes when we practice the philosophy of living for the sake of of our partner and others.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon explains more on this philosophy of living for others:

"It is not without meaning that I am vibrant and active in many fields; I do so because I have a purpose. That purpose is none other than to realize the world of love.

Human beings exist with the aim of realizing and attaining love. Since the purpose of human life lies in the realization of true love, the value of human existence is also decided by this true love. How wonderful this is!"SMM

You might wonder how a perfect God could have any relation with human beings who are imperfect.
This is why He sent the Messiah as a mediator who carried His blood lineage, but this was not part of creation He planned from the beginning of an ideal world of love.

Everyone wishes for an ideal partner who has even thousands of times the value or infinite value more than we possess.

In the same way, God wishes for human beings who are His partner in love, to have infinite value.  A person who is perfected achieves a divine nature and becomes flawless just as Heavenly Father is and thus they attain the same value as the Father.  This is the quality the Messiah possessed after perfection.

Some people mistaken that Adam and Eve were born perfect.  They had a growth period first they had to experience and then they could reach the perfection level by having faith in God's word and following His will.

We know that Adam and Eve were not born perfect for the simple fact that they fell.

A perfected being does not fall.  If it was possible for a being that had reached perfection to fall, then it would undercut the very principles of attaining oneness with God.

What is true love? It is a love that moves you to want to stay with your partner for a thousand years, and that makes you want to love that person forever. 

With such a love, there can be no hell and Satan cannot get at you. 

With a love this great, hell does not exist and Satan cannot reach you.  The principle states that a partner who has reached the level of becoming one through the eternal love of the Creator who is an eternal being, they must also be eternal and live forever.

Religion must begin to understand the relationship between eternal life and love.  Eternal life does not lie within man, woman or even God.  Eternal life is in the LOVE of God.

When you do not have a subject partner in love, you feel lonely, correct?

But as soon as you find a subject partner in love, everything feels full.  Only when something is filled to the top with love, then everything else can be filled up as well.

Then you can truly give out your love infinitely.  The reason why we exchange love with others is in order that we achieve an ideal and thus multiply that ideal through loving others.  The world of love transcends distance and time.

"Love is so fast that even light cannot follow it. Love is the fastest thing in the world. It is also the brightest and the most perfect. Love is the only thing that fills things up completely." 

Who is closer to the center: someone who is willing to sacrifice love to sustain life, or someone who is willing to sacrifice life for the sake of love? 

Who is closer to the truth? 

The person who can sacrifice their life in order to attain love is closer to the center and closer to what is true.  This is the type of life the Messiah lived.  This is because anyone who is willing to sacrifice love to further their life is living self-centered, this is not God or other-centered.  Whereas the one that is willing to sacrifice life for love is practicing the philosophy of living for the sake of others.

Reverend Moon continues his speech about loving others:

"As I wandered through the five oceans and the six continents, I preached earnestly about the path of love. I have sought to shine the light of love on all people, who, living without love, are like a desert. 

If the path people are ultimately to follow will lead them to that other world of love, the most important thing for humanity must be the "love beacon".  Only that beacon of love can lead humanity to the original homeland.

Once you become one with God, circular motion manifests in all kinds of forms and figures. That is why the older sibling must love the younger, following the example of their parents in loving them. In such a family that is united into loving oneness, the love within the family blossoms.

Then that love becomes the love within a society, and then the love within a nation. In this way, it later becomes the love of the whole world."

God was lost in the rapture of love when He created man to live forever.  This is why aging is not the enemy.  We are born from love, live with love and finally we are harvested as the fruits of love when we pass away.

We live our lives receiving love of our parents, our children and after experiencing love as a couple we love our children as their parents.

Therefore the love of God and everything we have sown in the inner world of love is to be brought to fruition over the course of our lives. When we pass on to the next world we reap the fruits of the earthly lives we lived and take them with us. 

On the foundation of love, God maintains life.  

His power, omnipotence and omniscience is based on true love.  Only on this basis of true love can He stand as the ideal subject partner to humanity.  This subject partner who can transcend history and time.

If God held the subject position using only the power of life, then all things of creation would not be able to unite.  Even the microscopic animals and plants or your house cat wish for a master of love to tend them and take care of them.  They like to feel the touch of loving hands.

A subject partner should not demand, "I'm stronger than anyone else, so you have to do as I say!".  The root of life begins in love.  Only when love is involved is life set in motion.  The basis for God's continued existence is not life, but love.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: How to Obtain Internal Unity

This text was rewritten and taken from the textbook: Cheon Seong Gyeong

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

What is True Love?

"The more love we have the happier we become. Love is such that once it is in our hand; we never want to let it go. 

The source of life cannot be governed by human will. Only true love can influence our motivation, our course, or the end of our life. Human beings were born of love, so they must live for love and even die for love at the end of their lives."

In some places, today couples will be celebrating Valentine's Day in respect to love for that special someone in their lives.  

Do we really know what the definition of true love is?

Does the quote sound like the kind of love that we experience in our daily life at work, home or in our communities?  This is the purest form and most ideal standard of love we all wish to reach.  God planned the creation not only to function for the purpose of love, but so He can receive love through the creation.


Owe no one anything except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:8

If love had a color, what color would it be?  Black at night, white in the daytime and yellow in the evening?

The world will be able to experience peace, unity and equality when the central color of love can be found.  Yet in the situation today, we use love in anyway.  Love is the most holy place and when it is misused, we are judged by fire.

Love has the power to give life when used for the purpose God intended and it also has the power of destruction when it is used for selfish purposes.

Love is the cardinal point of happiness, the invisible order, and the peace that serves the common good. It is the common asset of all humanity and the symbol of God's will and power.

Even the strongest toughest man's face will radiant when he finds a woman to love.

How is this possible?  Through the power of a gun, simple threats?  No.  Through the power of love. There are two types of love...which kind of love has this lasting power?

Only True love that is the center and owner of the universe.


True Love is the Original Fountain of the Universe

True love holds supreme power.  Once you possess true love, the world, everyone and even God will follow you.  Once you stand in love's purest position, all of creation will follow you.

"True love is the kind of love that makes you and another feel good even if you stay together forever. It is the kind of love that makes you feel good, even though you just stay together, live together, watch together, talk together, feel things together and listen together."

Love has such a high quality that it is welcomed and liked by all people.  No matter how old, rich or powerful one is, we desire to live and die surrounded by love.  To test if this is true, you probably know someone who holds a high position or is very successful in their trade, but struggle in their love relationships and yearn to find their true love.

Yet, one who has found the person whom God gives to them, they are extremely happy no matter what situation they find themselves.

Love is perceptive that if we think of it as small, it becomes small, and if we think of love as infinitely large it is very large;if you think you can see it, you can see it and vice versa.  Such a principle is that when a loved one winks at you it will make you feel as if heaven and earth are being turned upside down and heaven and earth lived within your heart.

Love alone can break down the barriers people put up. People in love are completely possessed by it and each word they venture to speak will be based on the love that claims them.

An atomic bomb brings only death, but the power of love is greater and more powerful.  Atomic bombs do not have the power to create;they only bring judgement and destruction. True love has the power to save people from death and give new life.

True Love is the only power that can unite the world into one - not brute force.  True love is the only weapon that can break down differences in cultural backgrounds, national borders and a nation's customs.

Love's Saving Power

All of the world's problems on the level of political, economic and culture which humankind face today can basically be solved through the PERFECTION of true love.

Even on the individual level, all conflicts and disputes can eventually become a worldwide problem through multiplication of society and national levels.  These problems can be resolved through God's love.

We must have our heart open for true love, but where can we encounter it?

True love lives for the public purpose.

True love has an eternal quality which does not change whether it is day or night.  True Love does not belong to one person - it belongs to everyone and the creation.  Love is shared by the universe and has the power to connect the family, society, nation and the world.

What can make God truly happy?  When we perfect love, He will rejoice and be completely happy to be immersed in a world where people live in a world of true love.  God would be happy to see His suffering children now enjoying the love He bequeathed at the beginning.  His children would live in true happiness without any regrets throughout their lives.

In this type of world, there would be no war, discontentment or suffering.  This can be described as Heaven on Earth or a Utopia.

"Even all things of creation will shower blessings upon those who devote their lives for the purpose of love. Flowers will want to bloom in their gardens, and even birds will want to build their nests in the backyard and sing their songs. This is because those people know the value of all things of creation and truly love them."

The author of the Divine Principle explains the quality of True Love:


"Even God yearns for love. Because love is so expansive, even God is engulfed in love.  It is only logical. What God is wishing for more than anything else is love. That is why love is greater than He is.   Love occupies the center of ideal circumstances, and is in unity with God. Therefore, as long as God exists, there is love.

You can find money, knowledge and power in the midst of love. The power of love is eternal. Those who know real love do not have to learn anything in the spirit world (we breathe love as air in spirit world).

What is true love?

At the intersection of vertical and horizontal, true love forms a ninety-degree angle and must fit in anywhere it goes. It should fit in Eastern homes and in Western homes alike. True love can fit in anywhere and everywhere, regardless of whether there are differences in racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.

In Science, we learn that the universe consistently contracts and expands.

In other words, it breathes in and out. It is not political power that controls the contraction and the expansion of the universe. Neither is it knowledge or money. It is the giving of love.

When you look at the world with eyes filled with love, you would say of a bird flying past you, "Why is that bird chirping? Oh, he must be missing his beloved."

When we think of this standard of love, we may think automatically of love songs or poems.  The history of our everyday lives is meant to harmonize with nature and be reproduced in the symphony of love. That is why a breath of love, a caress of love, a song of love and a whisper of love are all pleasing to our heart.

The most evil of forces dissolves in the presence of true love. Though one just looks at or passes by true love that is enough.  Love is certainly the element that forms the essential part of a person. It is at work before that person is given life, and it is the source of life itself.

A life lived for love is a productive and fruitful one, and a life lived without knowing love leads to exhaustion and destruction.

God, humankind, and even the universe desire to live for the sake of love.

This is the original way of life.

Love in its original form is perfect, unchanging, eternal and absolute.  The love attained in a natural setting and in the most natural atmosphere is real love.

Once someone opens his or her eyes to love, the body and mind of that person will want to form multi-dimensional relationships within the universe. That person will thus come to understand the order of nature from the leaves falling in the autumn wind.

He will smile to himself, wishing even to become a flower blossom in order to appreciate the beauty of a flower blooming in a spring garden.

The fastest action in the world is the action of love. If two people located at opposite ends of the earth were to fall in love with each other, their love would pull them together, overcoming the distance between them. 

Love has such power.

A person who has received grace and is receiving love from God looks beautiful.

When we reach the state in which we can feel the love of God, we can relate with and transcend everything. We can have everything when we are centered on the emotions of original love. Even the organs of our bodies were created for just one purpose, love.

God formed the eyes to seek for love, the nose to smell love, and the ears to listen to the sounds of love. Of all the words we hear, the words that we never tire of, that we always like to hear, are the words, "I love you."

Love is the only topic that all beings enjoy. That kind of love is the true love that the entire universe welcomes.

The attributes of love do not lead us to love only things that are good. It is only logical to define true love as that which loves the very lowest thing more than something high.

Love is such that even God is bound by its authority. This means that even God is weak before love. The all-powerful God cannot prevent a smile from spreading across His face when He sniffs the scent of the love of humankind. Even God likes to hear love stories.

What is the most holy thing in the world?

 It is true love. True love starts from God. What God truly wants is the path of true love. You must understand that if you do not follow the path of true love you cannot become close to God. Through love, God desires to see, hear, eat, and touch."


True Love and World Peace

How and when will happiness begin in the world?

When people live every aspect of their lives based on love.  The ideals people want to bring forth into fruition and their own perfection cannot be achieved without true love.  God based all creation to exist centered on true love and the original love of God

When we give away material possessions or money, they are gone for good, but when it comes to love, the more we give, the more we will receive in return.  This is why we all want to live in the overflow in love.

The more love you give out, you will never be overfilled, you will continually be filled in love.  This is how you become joyful and happy.  We might to be in a high position, but this runs out.  In the case of love, all humans possess an unlimited supply.


What is True Love?

Once you get a glimpse of true love, you find that you cannot live without it.  This is the truth for all men, women, children young and old.  We all delight in love and it can never be relinquished by grandmothers and grandfathers even in death.

After tasting love, would a grandfather ever say, "Oh, I am tired of the taste of the love I knew in the past! It is different from the aroma in our civilization today. I don't like it! I would rather smell something other than the scent of love!"?

The taste of good food stimulates every cell in the body and invigorates it to say, "This taste pretty good!"  This is how love becomes the nucleus the core of all things.

"Love is the essence of everything. When you treat anything and anyone with that kind of love, a path will open up along which you can freely go anywhere."

True Love is unchanging love and lasts forever:  true love in the spring, summer, autumn and winter; true love when you are in your teens, adulthood and old age; and true love even when you go to the eternal spirit world.

Who owns love?  Is it man or woman?

It is God Himself.  God and human beings only become one through centering on love.  Why?  Because love is essential to both God and human beings.  Yes, God even relies on an object partner to experience love.  God made love greater than Himself.  Whenever there is harmony, a circular motion takes place.

God can come down to human beings through love and human beings go up and meet God at the midway position.  Many imagine God sitting on His throne refusing to come to His children...this would not describe a god of love.

God then becomes the center of the sphere and spherical motion occurs. The central point is where harmony in love is established and the place where life first stirs.  This point is where equality and sharing together begins because the power of love is there.  Love is a power that embraces everything in the universe.

Love can never be felt by one entity alone.  Happiness and even the concept of peace does not work for only just one nation alone.  Only when you can love based on a relationship made with someone on an equal footing can you feel true happiness.

Peace describes a relationship formed between one country and another.  The same truth applies to freedom.  One does not create true freedom by oneself.

The freedom that you acquire within love, together with love, is true freedom. 

When true love is present and someone proclaims their absolute authority over those exhibiting true love, even if they are whipped, they will not hold back.  Instead to this type of person, persecution will bring them a richer joy and happiness.  How is that possible?  Because true love only works when it is given out for another's benefit, through someone sacrificing himself to save others.

Love sets the standard, it is like a pillar that stands at the center.  At this central point, the mind and body automatically unite into one.  The central point never moves.  This is how true love becomes the eternal place of settlement.  The individual, family, tribe, nation, world, universe and even God are all situated at the central point where love resides.

"Jesus once said, "I am the way and the truth and the life: no one comes to the Father, but by me." However, he left one thing out, the most important thing of all; love. He should have said "I am the way and the truth and the life and the love..." but he left out "love."

These words should be inserted into the Bible.

When Christians hear me saying such things, they will exclaim, 'How blasphemous!' But if you ask God about this, He will reply, 'Of course!' From this we can see that God really likes love, but He likes true love the best of all."


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Power of True Love

This text was rewritten and derived from the textbook: Cheong Seong Gyeong, Book Three Chapter: True Love