Can We Build World Peace?

God is the high pressure air and when we become humble as low pressure air of the nation, you are the best patriots.  Everybody will pay respect to you, including the president.  How do you become the lowest pressure air; go live for others; serve others to create low pressure air.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


We know the core beliefs of communism and democracy.

What is Unificationism? It is the harmony of everything through the power of love.


My children know the universal truth and they pray according to it. You, too, know what to pray for. Then God will heed your prayer. Otherwise, your prayers are just mumbling and bumbling-beating around the bush, in God's opinion. People say many things about me, but one thing is absolutely true, I am the one religious leader who will make you suffer the most! 


You may protest to Father's instructions, but this is why he pushes us out to suffer for the cause.

If you are able to work harder than everyone else, with a loving heart of suffering for the sake of the family, even your parents will come and bow down to you and thank you from the bottom of their heart.

Through living that way, you become the child of God.

When you are truly one with God, living with Him, you attain God's position in your family.  As members that understand Unification Thought, you shoulder the worst problems of the United States with a loving heart, then the entire country will eventually bow down to you.

This is heavenly law.

You become the patriots of patriots when you live this way.  But in order to become that standard, you must suffer for the sake of the nation, with a loving heart more than anyone else in history.

There are quite a number of patriots in every country, but only a few saints. 

The realm of the saint is different from that of the patriot: he works for the universe and for God.

There are three levels of spiritual advancement: children of filial piety, or good members of the family; patriots; and saints or holy people.  How high is Father's ambition for the members?

He isn't just teaching merely how to be children of filial piety, but how to be saints.


I am ambitiously seeking to take on the worst problems of the universe, asking to bear the universal burden. Is that good? People have had high ambitions and have tried to establish Utopian ideals, but no one has been able to accomplish them.


Why haven't we been able to bring about a better world of peace?

Father sought out to understand the greatest problems in the world.

God's worst headaches are the expansion of communism, the rapid decline in religion and the degradation of the youth and collapse of morals in the nation.  These are the major problems of the world that have to be tackled.

God has been working day in and day out through people of faith to solve these problems.  Father volunteered telling God not to worry that he was going to take away His heavy burden and solve the problems for Him.  He came up with a source and method with the quality of hope to unify the world and establish a true Utopia.


This was the motivation behind the International Conferences for the Unity of the Sciences. God's original plan was for people to be perfected within approximately 20 years. I am thinking that if I lead these scientists and eminent scholars for 20 years, they will have reached a pretty good level. Every year they give their unflagging attention to absolute values. When they could find no answer to a certain question, they decided to ask me about it!


Father had many accusations and criticisms thrown at him, but he continued on moving forward able to digest anything that came to hinder his mission.  We are engaged in a war against communism, confronting face to face.

He is opposed by many established churches in the Catholic and Christian communities, but he just tells them that they are not able to digest him and they need him if there is any hope for the future of the world to become the ideal world God envisioned in the beginning of creation.

Father was not only able to digest opposition along the way, but he created a logical explanation for all these phenomena without any hazy areas.


I can be calm even in the midst of suffering. If I am sentenced to prison and have to face hardships, I am filled with peace even as I enter jail. I can sleep well, eat well, and even digest sand if necessary. There is never a cause for worry once you know universal truth. I am absolutely confident of my destination, the heavenly world, and I want to take as many people along as I can. I can invite you to accompany me without any doubts, since I know our goal and destination.



To the degree that I am a perfect minus to God, I am a perfect plus to you. Whenever you create the perfect minus position, I will be with you.

The Unification Church is grounded in the truth of this principle. We see throughout history that any new truth that emerged and outshone the current truth that the other one would fade away.

Unless there is a greater truth that emerges higher than the Divine Principle, there is no way anyone can push us back or put us on the defensive.

We should be the ones resolved to suffer more than anybody else.  The principle does not change whether you have a Ph.D or are a famous actor or actress.

I am setting a new tradition, and those who give themselves to the best of their abilities for the sake of others with a loving heart shall form the mainstream.

It does not matter if one does not like this way or not, it is truth.

You are pushed out to live for the sake of others because the results will be glorious.

Great blessings await you at the end of your course.

Then you will be grateful.

Is this just to win you with cunning and sugarcoated promises?  This is the absolute truth.

So many people have wanted me to disappear, to be taken to heaven or hell-or wherever! Many people have actually prayed for my life to be taken away, so why does God keep me here on earth? Regardless of what the entire world might think or pray for, God needs me and the members of the Unification Church.

You should have no fear going this way, as God has the power to protect you.  So, you should move forward with a bold and strong heart.  You are a living being and should have the powerful life force that can move the whole universe.

Once you are fortified with this ideology, no challenge is big to you.  When Father first came to the US, do you think that he was overwhelmed?

Once you become the perfect object to God, you then can act independently.  In that case, you might say, "Father, I don't need your help or the church.  I will take responsibility for this country."

You can pledge that you will become perfected then reach out to bring along the rest of the church because that is your goal and destiny.

Opposition is a test to see whether you can do these things on your own.  If you cannot overcome opposition, you have nothing to be truly proud of.

But because you have learned to withstand and overcome opposition, this is proof that you can accomplish great things on your own.  This is beautiful and dynamic.

During the heaviest of battles, Father never was afraid. He never prayed to God that he was perishing and help him.

He told God to let him do the work and sit back and enjoy the show and take delight in the accomplishment to come.  This is the way he teaches us to be.

You shall become people of dynamic boldness and strength. 

We shouldn't lose motivation, become discouraged over our chose of spouse or lose our energy. With such thinking, you will not go far.

Those who pledge, "Yes, Father I will follow your principle, become a dynamo and perfect myself on my own, helping to create the nation, world which God desires,' raise your hands, please.

Let us Pray.



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This Post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Realm of Existence

Can a Selfish Person Change?

You are smart. Others might say you are foolish for investing yourself in the home church providence. They wonder why you are working so hard to witness to others. Maybe someone would prefer you to do only a little so the central figure won't be able to compare you. If you do very well, the central figure will come after someone else and chew him out for doing so poorly!


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Do you welcome a person with great accomplishments?  Do you see yourself moving forward by taking the tough route?

Maybe you would prefer standing still.  Maybe you need to be forced to move forward.

Should we vote on it democratically in the resolution?

A true, real central figure of the universe is exerting mental and spiritual force to move everybody forward. 

There is no way you can drop out.

You must continue to move forward and reach the goal.  You are already inspired, right?

We all enjoy the most beautiful sunny days, don't we?  What if you went to witness your home church area only on sunny days taking time off when it was stormy or cloudy weather.

What would your area think of you?  They will accuse you and tell you that they waited all day for you to show up.  Why do you only come when the weather is nice?

What if you showed up on only rainy days?

What would God think?

If it was raining, if there was a hurricane, God would be concerned for the people suffering in home church and want to go and help them.  This is how a saint thinks.

You may not be trying to reach sainthood, but you should be able to become a good person.  This is the way of a great person.

Whose way would you rather follow: the path of a normal person, a great person, or a saint?


Am I walking a normal or abnormal way? Mother tries to bring me closer to a normal way of life. "Father, you aren't a young man anymore," she says. "Please don't act like a 20 year old!" Mother also has another good piece of advice: "You shouldn't give sermons longer than two hours. It's bad for your heart!" When I go beyond two hours, Mother always gives some warning signal. Indeed, I am surely living an abnormal way!


Normally, we expect to eat three meals a day.  We do not have this concept when we are working hard pushing forward for the restoration of the world.

Is there a law that states we have to eat three meals a day?  One meal a day is sufficient.  Even no meal is okay.

Sometime the Reverend gives his speech all day long and at the dinner table he says that this is his breakfast. That is the kind of schedule he kept.

He is always hungry when he eats and enjoy every meal, no matter the content.  This is how he stays healthy.

Food wants to be eaten by someone who is living for others.  

What does one benefit from living like this?

This abnormal way of life is far better than the normal way of life.  We are doing this not for selfish reasons, but for the sake of the generations to come.  Those who follow you will also be able to benefit from your abnormal way of life.

Also, history will never be able to forget those who live that way today.  Posterity shall always honor and revere them.

In our world, there are two basic groups:  Those who act altruistically for the sake of others, and those who act primarily for just their bodily pleasure.

The latter group doesn't want to have anything to do with thinking deeply, because that would inquire one forgetting oneself for once.  Once a person's thinking is self-centered, he will act accordingly.

We constantly speak about those who live sacrificially for something greater than themselves, and those who want to live for only themselves.

People who are unselfish revere patriots, saints and religious role models.  They try to apply this to their contemporary way of life.

On the other hand, the other type of person would not care how the saints felt, what religion teaches or what philosophers write.  They do not want to hear that kind of speak.

All their cares are for the carnal way of life, or more closely resembling the animal life.  They only live for physical gain and seek only their own satisfaction not caring about other viewpoints outside themselves.

Which type are you?  Are you selfish or unselfish?

The main problem is we know the correct way is the altruistic,  righteous way, but we know we can't always follow that way.  As fallen people with sin, we are already wired to automatically think of ourselves first and follow our physical desires no matter how harmful the effects.

We know that there are many people who have a 'I don't care' attitude in the world.

Students say that nobody is going to tell them what to do.  They know that having a good time is fun and do not want to be bothered by no one else.

What about you.  Which type of person are you?  What would your original godly mind tell you?

Because we descended from the first parents that did not follow God's words, we inherited a selfish mind.  The human species was not originally born into sin.  They passed on the self-centered attitude to all their offspring leading to our generation.

When something is not right in society, we see many protests and revolutions that have brought about change throughout history. How is it possible to revolutionize the selfish, external way of thinking?

Is it even possible for such people to be able to change their direction?

Is it right or selfish to even try to prohibit such a direction?

We see that there are all kinds of perverted activities around the world.  People are able to indulge in these fallen acts without any remorse or guilt.

In one family, the father may sleep with his daughter, or the grandfather sleep with the granddaughter.  Some people's reason is that the animal world lives that way, why should they be tied down by such rules?

They will say that they, too, are a part of nature and this is only normal behavior.  They are only acting out human nature's desires.

The sacrificial way of life is weird and abnormal from the perspective of the world.  

Some of you have been engaged for two years, yet you rarely talk to each other or write very many letters as you walk this path of restoration.

Isn't this kind of discipline going against nature?

Why should we do this?

There is not a teacher who is giving a clear direction of what is wrong with the free, and fun way of doing things.  Thus, there is such great confusion right now in the United States of what is right.  Particularly among the young people, who are not being raised with a definite clear direction.

Do you think first and then act, or do you just do something and then think about it later?

Only those living this full path for God's will would answer they think before acting from that godly point of view.  Do you wish to go back to the other way?

People take the easy route by just acting on their physical urges.  They get carried away by their emotions just so they can have fun and then they think about the consequences later.

But a confrontation is occurring between the new age and the old. 

There are two schools of thought clashing: the carnal way of life, versus the thinking way of  life; the selfish way of life versus the unselfish way of life.

In order for you to go in the right direction, you need to have a clear basic standard of what is right or wrong, good and evil.

If there are six self-centered people who make up a family, then there are six different way of life within that family.  Can such a family maintain unity easily?

What if the daughter was to demand that the parents were to follow her way because she thought it was the most fun or cool way so it was the best?

Then the son would say that his parents are old-fashioned and do not understand how hard it is to be a kid in this day and age, so he wants a new, fun-filled way of life.  He would demand that his way was best and that his parents should listen to his direction.

If we were to see into such a home, we would see daily arguments and fights.  Sadly, after each battle, the family's morale would drop until a disaster resulted.

Has anyone become a great person through fighting?

Fighting causes division and weakness.

Democracy is based on the consensus of the majority.

Therefore, their unity on a decision is meant to be a safeguard for the whole nation.  In a democracy, each individual does not just proclaim his own way of life.  The people should reach a consensus of what is the best to benefit everybody.

When we speak of benefiting everybody, would our direction be moving up or down?

We would be moving upward.  As individuals move upward in consensus, they will eventually reach the level of society.

Then as society moves upward, it will reach the level of nation.  Then the level of nation reaches the world.  This is how it works.

If America was to head in the right direction, then the whole world would follow that direction, thus bringing about the new world.

Unfortunately, this formula has been seen to work in the wrong direction.  As America abandons God for their selfish way of life, we see the world being led in the wrong direction.

If there is something beyond the world, we want to transcend the world to reach it.

Nobody can deny the truth of that theory.

In your heart, you have an appreciation for what is popular, don't you?  You also want society and the nation to recognize you.  You want to become a world champion in something.

Isn't it human nature to want to go higher and God to recognize you and the spirit world on an eternal basis?

Would Westerners think that way?

Then we are all the same people aren't we?

We have the same course, the same original mind that desires good and of course the same origin. This is why there is a potential for world peace.

There must be a unified way to raise everybody up where it will benefit them.

If we plan to survive and move forward, we have to come up with a course, not just for the present, but the principle should apply in the past as well as the future.

There should be one principle that will enable everyone to unite and move forward.  It would have to be something a Korean would want, America and all of mankind would desire.

Do you think only people desire world peace, or is this something God would want, too?

We should all move upward together.

Are you able to solve the problem by yourself, or is this a joint effort?  Would we be able to do this by following the selfish way or unselfish way living for others?

Only by following an unselfish way can people be united.

The selfish person says, "I want to benefit from you.  Work and sacrifice yourself for me."

No one would respond to such a person's request.

To reach the goal, the basic principle is to live for the sake of goodness.  The credo of history is to live sacrificially.




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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Everyone is Headed Somewhere

Hope of the Young

Have you ever asked a young person what they want to be when they grow up?  They have many dreams of greatness and happiness in the hopes for their future.

There is no youth that does not have hope. 

Mostly, when you ask what people hope for the future, they will have the ambition to succeed in the subject to which they attend college.  Then someone may challenge and ask, "Is that your real objective in life?"

In search of an answer, not many people are confident in their dreams.

When one is able to achieve their ambitions, then they must start over after realizing that this is not his true ambition.  Yet, not many people in life can feel that they have achieved their dreams and are truly happy and content.

Those who are able to achieve in a certain area, they will then see they want to go beyond that goal.  It is natural that we do not want to end in the reality we live, but we constantly want to go beyond that reality no matter how much we achieve.


Then what really is youth's hope or ambition?

It is a fact that no matter how hard we try, at least in the past, we have never been able to say, or heard anybody say, after reaching the goal of his own ambition, "I am happy, for I have accomplished it". No matter how big a person becomes in the world, he still has to achieve something more, look for something farther.  Always striving to be bigger.

The true ambition of every young person is to achieve his personal dreams.  No matter how accomplished one becomes, if it does not touch them in a soulful way, he will be unhappy. The gravest goal that we must consider is how do we maintain our own sense of happiness once we have established our goal.

Any youth you speak to still has the ambition to go beyond his own national boundary. 

Even though this young person is on this level of understanding, there is no true ideal.  The ideal begins from a certain central point within ourselves.  There, the basic hope and ambition of the youth then can go toward the world.  When we meet opposition, we become indignant toward others in an effort to protect ourselves and this ambition.

In other words, man is unconsciously working on the basis of perfecting himself. When someone attacks him, he will defend himself. Each person will suddenly realize he would like to be perfect.

A woman's sense of accomplishments centered on herself will be different from a man's sense of accomplishments.  Also, from the viewpoint of different countries, there are different ideas and attitudes.


What is true perfection, and what is the center of our hope?

If a person found his center well established, then he would be absolutely happy in the past, present and the future.  Such a person would be accepted consistently throughout history.  Everyone would want to devote himself to this person.

They would think they were the most dependable and beautiful person in the world.

How does one become such a person?  When we think of the ideal youth, it would be the same to us and everybody and consistent with this person.

The ideal youth represents the world, including every country, and the one who can represent the past, present, and future.

If such a youth exists on the earth, he would be considered a treasure of the world.  Treasure is regarded to have an eternal quality.  He would reflect the total.  All youth should want to have such an image; there should not be many exceptions.

When we think of the ideal youth, we must think about man that is both external and internal.  We also see the man striving to do the ideal, and the man as a physical being.

Then what is the ideal?

The ideal subject represent everybody; it excludes nobody; it represents every individual past, present and future.  The ideal person will deploy himself toward the world eternally, not momentarily.


The "Ideal," in Chinese characters, is comprised of a left side ("king") and a right side ("village"); in other words, king's village. -- One side symbolizes the whole, and the other side represents the center. When the whole focuses on one center, then that is ideal. A single man will never achieve that; only with the entirety surrounding the original center will the ideal exist.

It may be hard for Westerners to understand the significance of these characters, but each has a deeper meaning and represents one thought.  When people first started using these characters, they unknowingly included the concept of happiness and the ideal.

And on this basis alone, on this combination of outer environment and developing our own environment for this one purpose, the ideal can come to exist.

Thus, the ideal is not achieved by one person.  There needs to be a perfect object from which the subject has give and take with, then, the ideal exists.  The ideal does not come about from one man, but through a reciprocal relationship.  Just the same, the ideal youth can never be ideal in himself.  He will have the knowledge from both sides so he can represent everything.


Every individual is different from another. Some people have special points in outer things, and some in inner things. Some people are very weak, and some are very strong. Some people are noble, and some are lowly. The ideal person will be someone who can embrace both ends and stand at the center.


The ideal youth will encompass everything and stand strong in the center.  He will not only be concerned with his own life, but he will be concerned for his own village, family or country.  Also, he will not only live for the present reality, but be interested in the past, future and the world.

When a person tries to maintain a relationship with God, then he will become the ideal youth.  We may envision that God is a being that is the center of the whole.  Then this means that God represents the past, present and future.

From the four directions, we have to center on God.  Thus, God is the center of the whole universe.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Hope of the Youth.