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.

The Character of Human Beings

For the last few posts, we have tackled the question of why an all-powerful God would need to create humanity.

First, it was so He could stand in the position as a true Parent, however God is invisible even in the spirit world.

God must have form to govern the physical world and to be the center.

In order to become the parent, He created humans who have form.

Once they unite, God could govern the world through his unity with God through love.

Secondly, reproduction cannot take place in the spirit world.

The vertical line is only one dimension, but a large area can unfold horizontally based on the vertical axis with a 360-degree perpendicular rotation.

Third, it was to maintain a position for His partner to have an eternal realm of love.

Adam and Eve would not have been God's only partners.

Their children would have stood in the same position of God's partners as their parents did.

Therefore, God produced people in order to preserve His partners in perpetuity.

God's purpose in creating humankind

Since Adam and Eve called their Father, then would their children call Him uncle or grandfather?

They, too would call Him Father.

The word 'partner' implies some kind of quality.  We must multiply God's love on the horizontally plane and perfect the value of perfected love which is one.  That is equality.

First, God needed a form or shape, He chose that of a parent.  He acquired that form in order to manifest Himself as Adam's spiritual father.

Second, God needed a center to build the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.  In that case, husbands and wives are factories.  With this analogy, would a mass production or small-scale production be best?  Mass production is best.

Through these factories of husbands and wives who are able to produce massive products for the Kingdom of Heaven, women were created to bear many children.

Human beings as the interface between spiritual and physical worlds

All of creation began with God at the center.  God made all things including mankind.  Through His creation of humankind, He wanted to be in oneness with them and all of creation in equilibrium.

God was to stand in the middle between humankind and the created world.  Therefore, perfected human beings would interface between the spiritual and physical worlds.

Body and mind, and spirit self

All beings exist according to this principle of objects revolving around the subject which is similar to the give and take action between the mind and body.

We must reset this axis in line when we go the way of restoration.  The cosmos consists of an invisible and visible axis.

What is the center of your body?

Your good mind.

We have both a mind and a body.

The body is supposed to revolve around the mind and it moves according to its commands.  When the mind directs the body to move swiftly, it will do so.

Likewise, it will move in the opposite direction.  The body should not move on its own whim and fancy.

But we see today, that the majority of the population is focused on catering to just the needs of their body's desires. We see how this leads to destruction.

Above our mind is our spirit and above our spirit is God. 

The only way we can perfect ourselves is to be completely one with God's will.

We must heed our mind's direction when they are searching for their destiny.  This is heavenly law.  Even though our bodies are finite, we represent all of history and the destinies of the future.  Therefore we possess cosmic value.

God strikes those who disobey their good mind's dictates.

All throughout history, God has been teaching us to conform to our conscience and not be ensnared by the evils of the materialism.

Does our conscience correspond to heavenly law absolutely 100 percent?  It does not because there are innumerable barriers that block it.

Before we can go through the gateway of heaven is a labyrinth of challenges.  The Chrisitianity terms this as the time of judgment.

We live where the current trend of thought is ushering a time of fear, insecurity and chaos seemingly without any solutions.  We should not allow material things to encumber us.  When God created humanity, He created us with a physical self and a spirit self. The spirit was supposed to be the center.

Complete motion and resonance

When two entities vibrate at the same frequency, this creates resonance.  Our internal self, which lives for eternity, plus our external self which is to live in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, should be able to resonate centered on love.

In resonance, sound waves coincide and become intertwined while circling the center core.  Likewise, when the spirit self and the physical self harmonize with each other centered on God's love, the spiritual cells and physical cells engage in perfect motion together.

Therefore, when this resonance is created, our eyes become operational and can see everything in heaven and on earth.  This is because they are engaged in perfect motion.  A microphone's capacity is good and will resonate a hundred percent.  On the same token, if the physical self and the spirit self become one and attain a volatile state through love, then heaven and earth, God and everything else must resonate.




This mind and body unity applies to both men and women.





Since the mand and woman both have a physical and spirit self, together, they represent four entities.

On the other hand, when man and woman are divided and cannot come into unity, then they become four separate people.  Why would God create four people this way when there is such difficulty in their union?

Because originally, man and woman were to center on God's true love and they would achieve perfect unity.

We all possess a spirit self and a physical self.  The spirit self is invisible to our eyes, but it does exist. Then when do these two selves become one?  This is the problem.

It is the same with the tuning fork.  When you strike one of its prongs, then the other prongs vibrate at the same frequency.  When God's love acts upon our good mind, our body will automatically respond like the tuning fork's prongs. If this is how it is once mind and body unity is achieved, it is not God's wisdom, power, or might that will bring the two in resonance, but only through love.

What benchmark is your physical and spiritual senses longing to reach?

It is definitely not God's might nor His wisdom.  His love is the focus for everything.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the book, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter One, section two.

Why Are Humans Born?

Which came first, life or love?  We can claim that each is first, but which do you think came first?

It is love that came first, because the love between parents is how children come about.

For something to have value, there should be an original flow of love. Love comes first, then life, because what comes second must humbly surrender to what comes first.

This is natural that we offer our lives for the sake of love.

This is how things are.  Since we are born in love, then the conclusion is that we should walk the way of love and die for love.

Why Are Human Beings Born?

We were born to find the kind of love that the macrocosm is able to welcome.

Our purpose is to be born, to love and to die in the midst of the great universal love that God, creation, our parents and angelic world all can acknowledge.

This is how I see it.  Human beings are not born based on their own choice. Then, are they born due to their parents' wishes? No. They are born due to God's desire. 

Children are born through the love of their parents which represents God's love. The person who is born as a new life through parental love, representing God's love, is 'I'.

Love has the power to create everything. 

I am the one who is born at the center of the whole universe by receiving all the love of the universe.

Then the highest purpose of life is to be born through love, be raised in love, live by love and to leave love behind when we pass onto the next world.

Then the most valuable thing to do in the whole universe is to fulfill the rules of love, through the family, which is at the center of the universe.

You should understand truly why human beings are born.

We were not placed on this earth for the sake of acquiring money, knowledge or power.

We are born because of love and from love.  What is it that makes love so great?  Why does every human being seek to embrace love?

Love is the original source of life. You are born in the midst of your parents' love.

No one was born out of their parents' desire for money or knowledge, but for love.

Since you are born from a love like this, then you should be able to bear fruits of love.  This is why children are needed.

A husband and wife only become complete when they have sons and daughters as their object partners.

Human beings cannot exist apart from love.  All things originate in God's love.  All things come into existence on the foundation of love.

It is undeniable that human beings, as the center of the created universe, must also have begun in love.
Therefore, since we begin life in love, mature through love, then we cannot live separated from the standard of love.

This is the logical solution.  Man's problems and woes all begin and continue because we are separated from the true love which comes from God.

Life in its Original Form

What is the cause of human existence?  Why are we here?

Since the cause of our existence is love, then our purpose lies in completing the ideal of love.  Not the ideal of success, money or knowledge, but love will only make your life complete because it is is our origin.

When we clearly understand this, then we see why there is so much suffering in the world: lack of love.

For this to happen, a man and a woman who have a relationship must become one in love and connect front and back, left and right and above and below.

Even if we determined with our life to become an absolute being and have an absolute purpose for our lives, it is fruitless unless we are happy.

Our daily life should be happy.  We live for this purpose.

So, when we are able to achieve the purpose, something new will exist that is greater than existence itself.

What is it?

What is the most precious for a man and woman?  It is love.

The key element to happiness: love.

No matter how lofty a person's purpose may be, if he is not able to establish love that can take dominion over his purpose, then he will have to pursue a new purpose.

Purpose does not stand above love.

What do you live for?

Some say they live to eat or shop and there will be some who say that they live to work or they live without a purpose, they are just trying to get through today.

If you are able to say that you live for the sake of love or the sake of others that is a great answer!

Human beings are born as the fruit of love, live in love and return that love to the eternal love of God's bosom.  This is the original life of creation God intended.

Once one grows up in love, next he leaves the love of his parents and finds and connects to the love of a partner.  This love is in another dimension.

On the way to restoration, there is the formation stage, the growth stage and the completion stage.  We can call parental love the formation-stage love and conjugal love the growth-stage love.

Therefore a couple, no matter how much they may be in love, cannot see the completion of their love until they have children.

This is why couples eventually desire to have children. Have you realized that a couple who is unable to have children feel unfulfilled no matter how much they love one another?

A couple having children is the completion-stage love.

Therefore, the center of human life is the process of going through conjugal love, parental love and children's love.  This is the original path of God's ideal of love at the time of creation.

Life is born from love. 

We are born from love, grow up in love while being loved by our parents.  Then one meets a beloved wife and loves her and dies in love.  This is what is called human life.

Therefore, in the original world, there would have been no sorrow or pain in human life or in death.

The original center of the universe is the place where all the vertical(spirit) and horizontal(earth) combinations of love come together so that parental love, conjugal love and children's love can unite.

This becomes the point upon which the entire universe focuses and the directions of all cells in the universe are.

Also all of the spirits in spirit world focus on this love relationship.  They will also protect this place so no one can invade it.

If this place of pure love was invaded, it will be catastrophic, since it is the center of human life.  There should be a certain form in order for it to remain intact.

This form is called the four-position foundation of relationship(siblings love, parental love, spousal love, centered on God's love)

For Human Beings, the Eternal Element of Life is Love

You should not forget that while you lived as an embryo, you received nutrition from your mother, but you also received love from her.  Likewise, people who live on earth do not only receive physical nutrition from the elements in the universe, but also love from God. He is the essential element of life.

Just like all plants absorb sunlight as an element of life, love is an element of life for people.

We have hopes that the Kingdom of Heaven on earth or the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven be built where we live eternally in love and in adoration of one another.

We are born through love and grow through their childhood while receiving love.

After we grow to a certain age, we realize that parental love is not enough.  Their love expands horizontally through the love among brothers and sisters and the love of the tribe.

In other words, they grow to maturity while receiving all kinds of love in heaven and earth.  When they become adults, they thirst even more for the love with the opposite sex.

By engaging in this love, they finally find the center of love, a more comprehensive love.  The path that a man and woman walk exists because of love and for the sake of love.

My path is the path of love.  I move in order to attain love, keep love, and form an environment of love. It is also for the sake of love that women put on cosmetics and receive massages. Wanting something and doing work are all for the sake of love. We overcome hardship and move on in order to attain precious love.

From the moment we are born, we receive parental love.  As long as our parents are alive, they love us at each stage of life we experience - from childhood, our youth or the period of middle age. When we grow up receiving parental love, the horizontal love of husband and wife is bound to happen to each of us.

What is marriage?

Marriage is a school, a place where men learn something they did not know about women and women learn something they did not know about men.

Everyone should get a grade of A in order for the husband and wife to be pleased.

You also have sons and daughters for the sake of learning how to love the world.  The last several posts have discussed how God's original ideal was for love to be learned through the relationship of a true family which would expand to the global level of world peace.

Without having children, you will not have a connection to the future.   God gave you children as educational materials through which you can be connected to the future world.

Fulfilling your filial duties to your ancestors and grandfather and grandmother is like receiving education from the spirit world.  All of these are connected through love.

The grandfather and grandmother, husband and wife, and sons and daughters are all connected through love. 

Just like our blood vessels flow up and down, you also go up and down all the way to your ancestors of 10 million generations in the spirit world.  You also reach your distant descendants through this connection.

So, you should know that this is how spirit world and the universe are organized.  All things will be governed in this way.  Therefore, becoming a servant of love and a slave of love is the greatest happiness.

What is God's Love?

Try to find God's love.  How are you able to characterize God's love?

We can compare it to a warm spring day where white clouds gently float in the sky.

The heat then rises from the ground, insects fly around, ants crawl in and out and pussy willows shoot out by the stream.

Frogs sing new spring songs, bees swarm and butterflies flutter from flower to flower.

When you come to such an environment, you are intoxicated by it and feel sleepy.  But in reality, you are awake and feel so good that you want to stay like this forever.

When God finds His object partner, He gets the same feeling like this.

Do you have a good feeling or a bad feeling when you think about this?  Maybe dull-witted men may not be aware of such details.  Of course, it feels good.

When you run into someone that you haven't seen in a while, you feel pleased.  You will firmly shake their hand or tightly hug them.  When someone joyfully says, "Long time no see!" and hugs you firmly, do you feel good or bad?  If there is someone who says he feels bad, just kick him.

When you are excited to see someone you haven't seen in a while, do you tightly grab them?

Do you firmly like it when someone grasps your hand firmly?  You might not like it.  Maybe you do not know the person.  You have to know something to like it.  You do not know it, then how can you like it?

If your husband loves you, you do not need anything else.

You will live clinging tightly to your husband.  It is always great to see a man and a woman firmly holding hands.  Especially when the man's hands are as rough as a cow's hoof and her hands are soft as butter.

We like to watch romantic movies that display such affection.

If the woman says to the man that he has such pretty hands, he would be offended.  This is how things are.

Love is eternal.  Love is united, not divided.  You become one.

When a man and a woman become a couple and love each other, they are bonded together. 

This does not happen literally, but in heart they are able to reach a level that is higher than this.

This is God's love.

If you can live centered on such love, will you be united or not?  Everything is destined to become one no matter how confused and disunited it is in the present moment.

We see that many kinds of things happen when a man and woman fall in love.  If you find a way to know God's love and are able to taste it, then His love cannot be compared to anything that exists in this world.

If there is someone who has tasted this love, no amount of difficulty or sorrow can defeat that person.

A person who lives in the realm of God's love is liberated.  How do you find such a place?

God's love can be divided into three great forms of love: parental love, conjugal love, and children's love.  The center where these three forms combine into one is God's absolute love.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four -True Family Chapter Four Section 1-4

Unity Arises Through 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, it is the coming together of heaven and earth.

Therefore, love assumes the form of a sphere through these relations.  True love is at the center connecting the vertical and the horizontal.

How enraptured a person's lips would be when they smile as they give themselves over in true love?

How beautiful will the five senses appear when they are enraptured in true love and move toward God?

But God does not experience joy through beauty all by Himself.  He can only experience beauty when He has someone to whom He can relate.

This is why God created humankind.

God's desire is to travel the world of the human heart, with all its infinite beauty, more than He desired to create the heavens and the earth.

Even God breathes. He breathes true love. 

God keeps in rhythm with the universe that continues forever, centering on true love.  Therefore, only when  you are able to reach that level of heart, then you enter the realm of breathing God's love and live forever.

The universe and the sun are both round.  What do round things center upon?

They can only become rounded in a relationship with something else.

The world is a substantial entity that integrates such a relationship.  What is the original source that can form such circular relationships?

The motion of love is the original source of this harmony

Love is like a nerve. 

When one of the hairs are pulled on your head, the whole body moves toward that pulling force.

It is the same way with love.  When you pull on love, the whole universe is pulled towards the pulling force.

When you move love, the whole universe moves in accordance with it.

People must live life enraptured with something. 

A person who is enraptured by something is truly happy.

If you have noticed that artists are enraptured by art.  Those who enjoy literature, are enraptured by the books they write or the great masterpieces they read.  Such people are happy people.

This is why people should live enraptured with the love of God and follow only Him.

Then what is the most precious thing both men and women seek?

It is true love.

Love is something both people and God like forever.  Love is what the whole universe likes most of all and forever.

Although love is invisible, it is the most precious treasure on earth.  This is because love is unchanging in nature the same as diamonds and pearls.

We value gold as precious because it is unchanging in color in any condition.  A diamond is precious because of its unchanging hardness.  A pearl is seen as precious because of the unchanging quality of colors.

Although these are precious treasures, they do not have life in them.  But, true love on the other hand is a treasure that also has and gives life.  Therefore, it is more precious than all of them.

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

Love flows into the heart of individuals.

Love flows into the heart of a family, and of a people.  It flows everywhere.  Wherever love flows, everyone welcomes it.

There is no way to block  love.

Doesn't everyone want something higher than themselves?

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

A person connected to the ties of love who lives and breathes along with the universe does not need formalities when they arrive at the palace of God.  A person that lives in love can go to the inner sanctuary where God resides.

He can call out, "Heavenly Father!" And Father would answer, "Come here my child."

What is the only problem of the human world?

The problem is love; whether love burns brightly.  For the light of love to burn bright, that light has to burn internally and externally.

What will make it burn?  It should burn with the desire or want to love.

Then we realize that our life which we deal with in ordinary affairs of the world is just a stopping point on our journey.  Where is God?

To say He is omnipresent means He is not just in one specific place.

God is wherever love is.

We, too can be omnipresent when our central focus is love.  This is a privilege we can enjoy when we possess love.

When we speak about equality, the word is meaningless without love.  True equality is only possible when people live for others centering on love.

Women's equality is based on cutting everything down the middle whether it is possible or fair or not.  Women will say that they are just as strong as men and will assert themselves to enjoy the exact same jobs and privileges as men.

On the other hand, men and women can find equal footing and a mother can be on equal footing with her son  who is president through love.  All things that possess love can have equal status.  We must realize this.

Humankind is at the center at all things of creation.  What then do human beings center upon?

We center upon true love.  God's love forms one vertical line.

To set up the center of heaven and earth, there also has to be lines of love from both man and woman.  The woman's line goes to the man and the man's goes to the woman.

These lines of love thus create a circle.

A man and woman who has true love, it is perfected love with a negative charge. When this perfected love and true negatively-charged love is formed, the positively charged vertical love of God is automatically present.

That is how the principles of the universe work.

You can only form a reciprocal relationship with the universe when you have love.

The reason Love has the quality of gentleness and humbleness is because with those qualities it can be fully put in motion without resistance.

When something is humble and sacrificial, it can relate with anyone and can go anywhere without resistance.

Then in essence, this type of person does not really sacrifice because they can anywhere here and in spirit world.  The key to living without resistance is through living for the sake of others while sacrificing for others and serving others.

Why should we sacrifice and serve others?  

We should live in this way in order to perfect the respiratory organs for our second life in the next world where the atmosphere is love.

All beings that reproduce come together in twos in order to multiply.  Love brings harmony in reproduction. 

This is true for the multiplication of all living things in the natural world.  Even in water.  There is female water and male water where fish do well in areas where these waters mix.

Many fish live in the cold water and warm water mix.  This is ideal.  There must be harmony.

Birds from the north fly south to raise their young while birds that live in the south fly north to raise theirs.  This migrating back and forth follows a rhythm.

Then when they are mature, they return to the place of their birth to have their young.  Fish live in cold water and lay their eggs in warm water.  Fish living in warm water can only lay their eggs in cold water.

A harmonious unity of ying and yang must be established.  This is the process of migration.

Love will not be realized without finding a partner.

This is why God placed efforts to place an absolutely qualified partner in front of Him.  We human beings are the masterpiece of creation fashioned so that even God could find the love He also needs at the same time from us.

When you are intoxicated in the love of God, you would never be bored even if you were to stare at a grain of sand for thousands of years.  The creation has so many deep wonders that any masterpiece in any museum cannot surpass its beauty.  

True love is not something that can be forced.

Love must be willingly expressed.

When you love someone, do not do so with the intention to receive because ideal love is only realized through the action of giving and receiving.

If God created love where it could be seen, touched and its form was known by someone, then you would lose interest in such a love in less than one day.

Fortunately, that is not how love was created.  Love operates the same as a mysterious mirage in all shapes and forms.  Love is something that even if it is not there, it feels as if it is.  And even though it is there it feels sometimes that it is not.

True love perfects the ideal of unity in the universe.

Even though you find a grand masterpiece, if you do not find any flavor of true love in it, you will quickly spit it out.  This is the same with the true love between husband and wife. 

We like love the best because it has the quality to unite everything and make it our own.  People cannot fathom how good love is.

Just as parents who love their children, the more you love, the more your joy increases.

Love brings everything into oneness!

If a person is in oneness with God, noone will be able to separate him from God.  That is how wonderful love is!

 Have you ever observed a bee that concentrates intently on getting the nectar in the flowers?  As they retrieve the nectar their heads are thrust into the flower and their abdomens stick out of the flower into the air.

You would not be able to pull the bee out even if the abdomen breaks off.  Why does the nectar in the flower taste so good?

The nectar tastes good, then the taste of love should be much more powerful and better.  Which would be better.  The taste of honey or the taste of love?

Without love, we cannot obtain unity.  Words alone do not have the power to unite two different people into one.

If those who are united around material things, when the material things disappear, they will immediately separate.

What if a third person introduces them and they unite?  When the third party disappears, they will separate.  Then what is needed for two separate entities to be joined for eternity?

There must be love.

Love has the power to unite the five senses.

Love can make the smell of an old man, which is unpleasant to some, seem sweet and pleasant to a loving wife.  Even if the his face and hands are skin and bones she will like his face and hands.

Love can do this.

When the wind of love blows, the whole world seems beautiful. 

Everyone becomes a poet or a romantic when they fall deeply in love.

A flowing love should form a bond with us and never leave.  It should take place within the very core of our being.  Without love, we do not find anything of value in the world.

But when we are able to vividly feel and sense such a love inside of us, that love can compete with the universe.  A person that holds this kind of love deep in his heart can compete with the universe even though he is just an individual.

Even when we look at a tuft of grass, we must be able to look at it from the standpoint of God.

We should relate to a flower while embodying the heart of God.

We should feel the connection between our inner feelings and the heart of God when we appreciate the things in creation.

Those who live with the love of God within their hearts are the sons and daughters of God.

They are the central figures of the whole universe who can govern heaven and earth.

Love is the essential element needed to enable a person to attain the position.

Our minds infinitely expand through heart rather than knowledge.  A heart full of love is so big that it can embrace the universe.  Once we develop this original and mighty domain, even God will want to come and take naps there.

Since we do not embrace God through knowledge, we must understand how great a heart of love is.

Love transcends all national borders, because God's love know no boundaries.  It transcends two different races drawing no distinction between blacks, whites and yellow races.  This is why the love of God is great.

Despite the environment, the environment adapts to love's flow and develops.  God will be pleased once we have adopted the perspective that makes this happen.   This is why we must walk the path of love.

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This post was rewritten and derived from True Love Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 3, Chapter 1, section 3

Develop Loving Character On Earth

Your life on earth is only but a short moment in comparison to eternal life in the spirit world.  How important is our life on earth?  You are only given one life.  Earthly life is but a point in time.

During your time on earth, this is the time to prepare for life in the spirit world where you will live after your earthly life. No one is exempt from this principle.

With this idea at the center, you should overcome all difficulties, control and overcome everything.  Otherwise, you will not be able to achieve perfection.  Many people of faith believe that perfection happens once they enter the spirit world, but growth is only obtained through a physical body.

People were created to live eternally.

Life would be simpler if people just ceased to exist at the end of their life.  However, you do not know this for sure because you have not had any spiritual experiences.

Through spiritual experiences, you are able to meet Adam and thousands of your ancestors of thousands of years ago.

You should realize how precious a time it is to live on earth in your physical body.  It is only during this time you are able to grow to perfection and resurrect God from His lowly position.

On earth, you resurrect the universe and unify all of heaven and earth back to the original position at the time of creation.  God and the universe were to be united into one from the beginning, but that relationship was severed through humanity's going the wrong way.

Even the value of God and all of creation cannot be exchanged for the physical world. 

Why? 

Without the existence of a human being with a physical body, perfection cannot be achieved. 

Once you realize that growth is only on earth, you realize how precious the human body is.

The value of our body cannot be exchanged for the universe.  This is why the Bible states, "For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?"

Once you pass to the next world, you are unable to move from the life you lived on earth.

If two-thirds of your life was lived in sin, will you be able to cast off this two-thirds once you pass to the next life?  The unrepented sins lived on earth cannot be thrown away.  It will stay with you.

Perfection is achieved on earth, not in the spirit world.

In order to go to the next level in the other world, you have to take the longer route of suffering through another person you do not know who is living on earth.  This process takes thousands and millions of years.  

Even though humanity has slipped far away from the idea, it is possible to achieve perfection on earth.  How?

Through true love, we can reach the level of God's True Son and Daughter, but not in the spirit world.

Are you absolutely certain that you will be able to wear the shoes in the morning you took off before going to bed last night?

What could be more important in life than settling the issue of eternal life?

People of faith do not understand the law of indemnity.  They are seeking to go to the Kingdom of Heaven without knowing all of the necessary requirements and obligations that must be fulfilled.

If humanity had a glorious beginning and followed God's true way in the beginning, we would not have been banished from Heaven on Earth.  Then when we pass to the next world, we would automatically enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Religion would not have been necessary for we would have united with God from the beginning and would not have to be taught such basic principles.

There has not been anybody who has said that they would go to heaven after taking the responsibility through liquidating all of the historical sins by paying indemnity.

While we have our physical bodies on earth, we should take responsibility and establish condition to resolve everything that has gone wrong in history

If you go to spirit world without paying indemnity for yours and your ancestor's sin which you carry on your body, then you must return to earth to pay this indemnity.

Many people have mistaken this phenomena for reincarnation.

Once you have passed, you do not receive another life through your own earthly body, but you must work through someone of similar circumstances who already lives on earth.

What is one advantage people on earth have over those in the spirit world?  It is the fact that they have a physical body which they can establish a condition to pay for and liquidate their sins.

Every spirit throughout the historical ages had arrived to the spirit world without paying for the past sins and thus they have violated that law.

Therefore, they are destined to return from the spirit world to try again to establish the conditions of indemnity.

There is not a single person who can avoid death.  Death cannot be avoided.

You should clearly determine whether you are the group bound for the Kingdom of Heaven or the group bound for hell.

The way you life your earthly life is a measure of where you will live in spirit world.  What is bound on earth is bound in heaven.

Father knows the spirit world very well.  He knows that it is a place where all sorts of people come, live and go.

Those who lived on the earth only enjoying their time and living just for the sake of themselves will turn around and go to hell.

Those who lived for the sake of others and God will turn around and go to the Kingdom of Heaven.  These two worlds separate at the the time of death - there is no in between.

Hell is a place where one goes, there is no movement or growth and is trapped there.  They cannot get out for eternity.

Nevertheless, many have not realized that their mother, father and relatives are headed to hell.  They just believe that things will work out on their own once they reach spirit world and that is it.

If you were to truly visualize that your parents were going to prison, you would cry your eyes out and try to get them out by doing all kinds of things, right?  This is the natural way of human emotions.

In the same way, if you know that your sons and daughters, parents, relatives and brothers and sisters are connected to your through heavenly affection, and they are on the road to hell which there is no escape, wouldn't you have some kind of reaction?

We should understand how serious an action it is to exploit people.

When you relate to someone, you should not think how you will use them for your profit.

Once a person's original nature has been crushed, it takes from half a year to three years to repair it.  So, your actions are something you should fear.  There is no hell as awful as this hell.

When you see beggars and disabled people in the street you should not speak ill of them.  You should wonder if your spirit is not in the same position as they are.

Why do you get married?

You get married to experience parental love, conjugal love and children's love.  Why are these necessary?

The spirit world is a place that is filled with the atmosphere of love. 

You need to experience the love of a family to help train you for the rhythm of the spirit world.

Those who arrive to spirit world who have not truly experienced the four realms of heart felt through living in a family, will be unable to follow the beat and will suffer there.

Such people are like those without a nose to smell the air of love.

The love relationship between parents and children is vertical, a love relationship between husband and wife is horizontal, and the love relationship among brothers and sisters is spherical. These three relationships are different. 

When you are able to deeply experience these three different ways on earth, you will be able to live without restriction vertically, horizontally and in the circle in spirit world.

For example, those who were unable to get a taste of parental love because their parents died, or they were abandoned, truly miss a very important experience of love.

The same for those who have not experienced a loving conjugal relationship.  They will be very miserable in the spirit world because they lack an important part of life.

Likewise, those who do not have any brothers or sisters are in a lonely position.  They are unable to live a complete life in spirit world since they lack love that spreads in all directions.

Those who enter spirit world that had enough love for their parents, brothers and sister, spouse and children - those who experienced deep love of family life - will be able to enjoy a lot of freedom there.

Since the atmosphere in spirit world is love, they will be able to move in any direction without restriction.

Conversely, those who were unable to experience love, as well as narrow-minded people, will find themselves isolated and alone in spirit world with no freedom whatsoever. 

You should raise and leave respectable children before you pass away.  In the future, they will be the people of the heavenly kingdom.

Your path of faith while here on earth may be difficult, but when you think about how many people you have offered themselves as people of the heavenly kingdom, you see that it became a noble path of glory in the world of eternity.

Life of faith is not valued currently on earth and you suffer in a lowly position, but when you go to the spirit world, you find that the accomplishments of great people who have gone to spirit world are considered as valuable accomplishments on earth.

Exactly what kind of place is earth?

Earth a factory to produce the people of the heavenly kingdom. 

Do you understand?

Heaven is infinite, immense and unchanging.  Heaven is so large that we cannot find it.  People have been coming and going for hundreds of millions of years.

Even if a person produced a hundred children, there is no way to overproduce since heaven is so large.  Heaven can accommodate everyone.

The main question you are asked in spirit world is how many people of the heavenly kingdom are you bringing with you.

When you bring many true sons and daughter of the heavenly kingdom, this determines your rank and they are to your advantage toward earning you honor in the heavenly world.

Your ownership is determined by how many people you bring to the heavenly kingdom.  These are your eternal possession.

Once you reach spirit world, there is no multiplication of children.  There is only one meeting point with God standing in the position of vertical Parent and the axis.

If you were to make a serious mistake, you will be confined in the spirit world.  To get out of that place, you would have to wait thousands of years making a lot of effort to move to the next level.

You go to the place which is appropriate for your level and stay there for a long time.

If you have been blessed by God and thus make a serious mistake binding your children, they would accuse you and wonder why you dragged them to hell.

You ancestors will also accuse and wonder if you could have done better with your life on earth.  You will have to stay in that position of accusation as long as they have a condition.

This is not an easy path.  This is why you should determine to do well while you are on earth.

First you were born from your parents.  Next, you were born from God by borrowing your mother's womb.  This is fundamental.  Then you are to find the True Parents, restored, unfallen Adam and Eve, as your own physical parents.

Your physical parents are parents of passage.

Then death becomes a time of joy when you go to meet the True Parents.  True love of the True Parents is in spirit world.  That place would be called the heavenly kingdom.  The common element of that place is love and is filled with parental love.

That love is not just for our own sake.  It is a love through which you are able to abide by the law under the principle of sacrifice and service.

To pass this course, you need to love the universe and love humankind.

Your earthly life is a training ground for such love.  This is the basic core of the universe.

If you are able to practice love with such an outlook, pass the test with honors and then go to the spirit world, you are sure to return to God.  This is the conclusion.

You will surely receive a payment for the life of faith when you go to spirit world.

For those blessed by the Messiah, the doors to the heavenly kingdom will fly open.  While you ride the rail of heart, you need to be pulled toward the heavenly spirit world.

That world is the world of love, thus you can enter it only when your heart harmonizes with it.

Are you destined to go through many stages of judgement when such a world is revealed?

You are born on earth in order to bear the fruit of love while on earth which God desires.

This is why our life is short.  It is one season.  It is not the final destination.

Do not assume that you will live until you are 100 years old.

Even if you are able to live to seventy years, if you worked three times harder on your path of faith, you will have lived the equivalent of 210 years.

Think in this way.  If you work ten times harder, you will have lived for 700 years.

If you work 20 times hard you will live 1,400 years.

Therefore, work 24 hours a day, constantly throughout your whole life for the sake of God's dispensation to restore the world to peace.  While living for others, you bear fruit in the spirit world and possess a large reservoir of love.

You will have a great wealth of love.

You will have many assets of love.  Your stage of operation will be broad.

Fish cannot live outside of water because water is essential for life.  The fish that lives in the river will not just live there forever, it must go back and forth to the sea as well.

Why?  Because fresh water fish cannot produce young without getting a taste of the seawater.  They have to experience both.  Also, fish in the sea have to go to the fresh water and taste it to be able to produce their young. They must go through the two worlds.

Likewise, the earth and the spirit world were not created to be separate worlds.  They only separated after the fall of man severing the relationship between God and man and spirit world and on earth.

You need to acquire the qualities that enable you to live in the two worlds while you are living on earth.

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True Love Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Three Chapter 5 Section 2

Tradition of Love

Which tradition of value do you think will last for eternity?  That tradition would need to be based on love.  Do you think God needs law?

The primary purpose of law is to protect humanity.

Would the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth require the citizens to abide by a Constitution?  It will be based on the life power of love.

The most fundamental center of value is the power of love.  So, all heavenly law is designed to protect that tradition forever.  This fundamental unchanging characteristic comes from God.  He values the life power of love.

This is the foundation of the creation.  The whole universe is designed to promote these qualities.

Love is never self-centered. but is always for others.

In a sense, the purpose behind creation can be deemed as selfish because God was seeking joy through an object partner.

But essentially God's sweat and labor went into making His object perfect and comfortable within the creation.

The law says that love is for others, therefore God needed an object.  God needed an 'other' which He could exercise the power of His love.

God needs an object to fulfill His love, and man was created in that position.

He did not create man to obey God's every order, on the contrary, God created man to mature into perfection and become co-creators to the object, creation.

The whole universe was built to give joy to man. 

Have you ever felt deeply that God created the whole universe as a gift for you?

He created it for you because He wants you to be a subject of love, with the creation as your object.

Suppose you created something that you enjoy, but someone else is intrigued by what you have made and wants it?

When you see how someone feels about something you made, you have the impulse to give it to him so that he can keep loving it.

If someone loves your creation more than you do, you want to give it to him.  This means God takes after you!

This analogy of an object of love applies perfectly to this universe.  If you see a cute white mouse God created, or a furry kitten, God would tell you to take it home and enjoy it.

All creation exists to give you stimulation of love as your object.  

Everything is a masterpiece of God's.

When He sees that you love what He made more than He loves it, He will love you for that as well.  God can't help, but love you in that case.

When you love the things God custom made, He will be following behind you.  Wouldn't He want to hug you then?

You will feel a presence behind you and when you turn around, God is there to embrace you tighter and tighter.

Once He squeezes you where you plunge into His heart of love, you will feel deeper and deeper joy.

If you were to get a heavy shot of God's love, you will be completely intoxicated.  God would also be intoxicated and feel perfectly satisfied to see His child enjoying His love.

The more there is intoxication in the love of God, the more perfection will increase.

This universe should be the world of people drunk in God's love. 

This is the ultimate state where God, man and all things of creation have been looking forward to.

Now we are getting down to the very origin of good and evil.  The definition of Satan is ANY power or person which destroys the life power of love.

The line between good and evil have been blurred by today's 'do as thy will' world.

People generally know that the family and nation are good.  This is because that is the stage where love can blossom.

The virtue in the family is filial piety.  In the nation, the virtue is patriotism.  On the world level, the life of a holy man, saint is a good thing to achieve.

Even though people these days do not specifically know what is good or bad, they still have a general idea.

You came into existence through your parents' love, but your life does know on its own whether it has love.

So while you grow, you must listen to your parents with filial piety.  It is through them that you will learn what love is.

When you love your father and mother, ultimately, your love goes up higher and higher, returning to God, the origin.

The question of which came first the chicken or the egg can be answered that they are the same thing.
For everything returns.

The seed goes back to the fruit, which goes back to flowers and ultimately returns to the origin.

Why should we love our parents?

Because they are a rung on your ladder leading to God.

You are the center of the circle of love which begins with God and continues through your parents.

You can think that together you are a team.  As the center, you will learn the pattern of love through the family.  Then you create your own circle by finding your mate and having children of your own.

Love brings unity. 

Why do you love your siblings?

Through loving them, you are bringing God into your circle.

Through your experience in your family, perfect love, the family unit is your workshop of love.  Once you combine your family unite with others, you create a society, which is an even greater workshop of love.

This same principle works in the nation.  Thus, love in the family expands eventually becoming love in a nation, world, cosmos, and finally becoming one with God.

On the individual level, a heavenly man lives this virtue of the life power of love leading from the family to the world.

There will be no boundaries or resistance to hinder on who is running this way to the love of God.

Once you acquire this heavenly quality within you, you are able to make yourself at home wherever you go on earth for your God is the God of every nation.

The very life power of love will thrust you all the way to the top.

You already have life power within you, but love must strike a spark within you to spur you on further.

Love power is like the electricity which turns the motor.  

When it starts to turn in the power of love, all kinds of love and beauty are created in our universe through the harmony of many things turning in many directions.

You have not seen this hypothesis in action, but hearing it makes you feel good, doesn't it?  You will still try it because you have never heard anything better than this.

If you knew it was a proven truth, would you bet your life on it?

Many national church leaders attended this speech.  They would naturally tell members that everything should be done through the national leader, but the real question is, are those leaders becoming powerful in love?

If you are powerful without love, you are only a tyrant. 

But if a person of love is on top, he can dig all the way down to the bottom.

That person has total freedom.  Nothing will stop him.  So, he can go all the way up and down with absolute liberty.

Even if he goes all the way to the bottom of hell, everyone there will love him.

He will be able to get out of hell and go all the way up to the throne of God.  He will be perfectly acceptable there.

Maybe a leader thinks that he can do whatever he wants and believes the members should obey him.

Energy and power are fine, but if they are exercised without love, you create nothing but hell. 

Maybe those national leaders believe that they are infallible and their power is sacred.  But this is not good behavior.

They should be totally obedient to higher authority.  Only then do they have the authority to guide their members.


The Divine Principle and God are trying to lead the Unification Church to a certain goal, but even within the Church there are influences trying to lead people in the other direction. A national leader should be like a sacrificial parent who works harder and suffers more than the children.


When you become the personification of the love of God, then even though you go down, people will lift you up high and the universe will also lift you up.

Always shed tears of love. 

There are two kinds of tears: tears of sadness shed in tragedy, and tears of love and joy.

If you are really crying out in the joy of love, so loud that you wake up the world, then this is good tears.

If you are centered on love, then even if you hit or bite a person this is love.  You become controversial, it will be a dramatic heroic thing, not an evil thing.

We have been talking about tradition.  In many ways, people today follow only external traditions that have lost their internal meanings and have been almost forgotten.  Young people aren't very attracted to them.

If young people heard about tradition of love and conscience this morning, however, they would want to follow it.

In religious history, there has been emphasis on service and sacrifice.  These are the methods of living a tradition of love.

The church also has additional external traditions, such as fundraising and witnessing.

Do you like the internal traditions, but not the external ones?

How do you show that you have the internal tradition if you do not have a diploma to prove it?  To get a doctorate, you have to begin from elementary school level and get good grades all along the way.

Would anyone need to see your elementary school certificate once you get your Ph.D?

In the same way, you must be certified.  You need a fundraising certificate which testifies that you have loved all things of creation.

Your witnessing certificate will testify that you have loved people.  You should become a Ph.D in loving men and all things of creation.

With such a certificate, you are eligible to have your mate.  No one would want to marry you until then!

Would there be any woman who would want to marry a man without any qualifications?

In your own home is where you actually practice love of all things and of people.  If you don't already have experience in that area, then you will not know how to build a real family.

When you fund raise, you work with unselfish dedication for others.

While you fundraise, you will have many experiences with people, and receive persecution from some while you also learn how to love all types of people.

When it is your turn to create your family, you will do things for the family, clan and nation.  Fundraising is basic training for this kind of foundation.  For that same spirit is extended in loving your society, nation and world.  Then this tradition will be built in society.

Fundraising teams are the best place to practice this, so all members must go fundraising.

You do not love things for your own sake, but for others.

This is the beautiful tradition you must learn.

Fundraising has this deeper context than just collecting money. You bring money from the secular world and offer it to God.

Then that money is spent to save people in the fallen, sinful world, thus that money is actually going back to those who gave it creating a circle that will get bigger and bigger.

The money you earn during fundraising will return to the nation, the world and God.  Each time, the material will serve a greater purpose.  In witnessing, you are loving people instead of material.

Many of you will fear being persecuted or rejected when you fundraise, but the countryman who opposes you is still better for you than the foreigner who welcomes you.

Even if your own people were to oppose you, at least here you have complete freedom where other countries have many obstacles.

You are able to speak and talk to them in the same language.

You have the same customs and background, so you can be grateful to be working with your own countrymen.

In the witnessing process, you are becoming a seasoned expert in love difficulties.

Then, when you become a family man, you automatically know how to overcome family difficulties and you won't give up.

Compared to what you experienced, your family will look like heaven!


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Two Worlds of Good and Evil

We Must Get Rid of Barriers

When we speak of heaven, we speak of God; when we say earth, we speak of human beings. If God is all alone, He cannot be fulfilled, so He needs to come together with human beings. The purpose of creation can be fulfilled only when love is fulfilled, and love cannot be fulfilled by one alone; there must be two, in the relationship of subject and object.


Rev. Sun Myung Moon


When love is fulfilled, both the upper and lower areas are fulfilled equally.

This was God's ideal for the world, but because of the fall true love could not be completed.  Therefore there are several different barriers and walls which separate heaven and earth. When the highest point comes down and the lowest point comes up, they can meet in the middle.

In Oriental philosophy, the word 'heaven' connotes huge noble aspects, while 'earth' connotes small, lowly things.  The distinction between the two only came about through man's selfish love.

If the fall did not occur, there would not have been a difference between heaven and earth.  Heaven would thus be on earth; world peace would have been established from the beginning if the seed of misused love had not been planted.

Even though man fell, God cannot go down to the point of the fall.  Therefore, man must bring himself by uniting mind and body.  The most important thing is for man to know God and to conquer the ignorance of the fall and his horrible situation.

God has worked thousands of years to bring people out of darkness so we can know God's true nature.  Yet, wherever God goes, Satan plants his seeds of hate, doubt and lust to trip up God's people.  Therefore, God uses alternative means to reach His children.

God had made two major efforts throughout history to do this.  He used science, which is the external level, and religion is on the internal level.  When we know the purposes of both, then we know where would science and religion be headed.

The two  will meet at the point where love is fulfilled.  This would not be the level of human love standard, but the pure, high standard of God's love.  Any effort to find and discover God will ultimately reach the one point of the true love of God.

Every entity has two aspects: internal and an external.

The two must meet at one point. This means that the mind and body should share the knowledge each possess and unite.  To become one, the two should know each other.

In order for science and religion to unite, they both must understand each other.  Everyone possesses a mind and body which is in a horizontal alignment, side by side.  God also has a mind and body which are in the same position.

Here on earth man should have unity between his mind and body.

We can meet God, not only through religion, but also through science.

This fact may be hard to take in, for both sides, that unity is imminent between science and religion.

Have you noticed that you are at your happiest when your plans or ideals are finally fulfilled?  This realization is not enough, it is the coming into oneness with a subject or object in reciprocal give and take that creates happiness.

Then what makes God happy and what is the work of God?

God's work after the fall has been in perfection of human beings.  This has been God's goal and true masterpiece.  When that goal is met, that will be the point of ultimate joy and goodness.  This would not be the point of secular, lustful love, but the original pure love of God.

I want you to understand that unless your mind and body are united, you are not eligible to meet God. 

We have two eyes that do not work independently, but they both have one focus that produces one image, not two.  The same with ears, the nervous system coordinates those impulses into one sound.  This focus is between the two, not in front of one or the other.

When two different focal points meet, they will discover that they are actually alike.  When they discover their likeness, they will be able to stimulate each other in give and take and fellowship.

When your mind and body no longer war for domination and are totally united with the godly mind at the center, then that focus is upon God.

God's united mind and body is united into one and people would be the focus of these two.

The common goal that excites them both would be true love.

Therefore, unless God finds love, He cannot find completion; and unless man finds his ultimate goal, which is the true love of God, he cannot achieve completion either.  When God focuses upon man and man focuses upon God, and the two are united, the entire universe is united.


In human love, the nervous system focuses to transfer sensation to the whole system. If the mind is willing to live this way, but the body is lethargic and doesn't obey, then the mind/body alignment is askew. Then the person is crippled, just as if he were missing an arm.

It is most important that we focus our life. 

The focus of the entire spirit world is God, and the focus of the physical world is man.

We see many horrors in these days, but you must understand that God would not arrange His creation in a sloppy manner.  God being perfect and of love, God must have organized the creation to focus upon one point on both earth and in spirit world.


There are two aspects to everything in the physical world: positive and negative. Within those positive and negative aspects, there are also internal and external elements, or mind and body. Once positive and negative electrical charges meet, you can't tell which is which. Likewise, you can't tell where positive starts and negative ends in a magnetic field. But there is action in the magnetic field and energy is created.


Men and women are different, but they are not enemies.

Instead, each focuses on the other to win his or her love.  Every senses focuses on love.  Even in the nonreligious world today, people see the fact that men and women meet and love each other, but this is only the beginning point.

Just like energy from the power plant works wonders, men and women work wonders together to tap God's power plant.  When you understand this, then living becomes a joy.

Even electricity follows this Principle.

Would electricity refuse to the light up the house of a smelly country bathroom?  Electricity works universally, once it is hooked up.  Do your nerves refuse to provide sensation to your smelly, dirty feet?  Does your blood refuse to circulate through arteries and veins there?

The oceans of the world are really one body of water even though sections of it are given different names depending on location.  In the same way, once love is activated, it is able to go anywhere in the universe.

Young people would like to travel the entire world with their husband and wife, and then along with their children thereafter.  Wouldn't a true king also like to see all of the beauties of the world accompanied by all of his subjects?

Don't you envy the birds who have the freedom to fly off to any parts of the world without a passport?  Humanity has such senseless barriers such as immigration restrictions and hangups about nationalities which are man-made barriers.

Once we are able to get rid of all of these barriers, we will be able to live in a world as free as the birds.  

Do ducks from the north discriminate against ducks from the south?

Would they refuse to marry and mate with one another just because they are from different parts of the world?

Nature in this respect has a higher standard than humanity by following this basic principle of the universe.  To ducks, it does not matter whom they marry just as long as they are ducks!

You are constantly told that you should serve others and focus your love and attention on other people because by living in this way you create unity.

A good athlete focuses all of his energy and distributes it perfectly in the pursuit of his sport. If 1, 000 people were able to do this, they would generate great energy and power.  This pushing and pulling force must harmonize to create tremendous power.

The greater the power of give and take, the greater the wonder it can create. 

God can stretch His arms from one pole to the other pole while embracing the entire universe in give and take.  If God is great, then it is logical that His creation which is man is also great.

Your ears "focus" within your brain, but actually you want to hear sounds that are universal, not selfish.

We take exhaling and inhaling for granted, but have you ever thought that the air we breathe travels all around the world linking you to it?

In daily life we are dealing with one universe, one air, one water, one sunlight and one land.

Do you focus all of your attention just on your husband or wife without taking interest in your society, nation and world?

When man and woman attain unity, they would then focus on the larger entities such as society, nation and world.

The greater the vision and the greater the distance this couple focuses on together, the greater your life becomes.

Has anyone else ever thought like this?  We know that as individuals we represent the entire universe, and furthermore you think that God looks like you, not that you look like Him?  Is this pompous thinking?

Through the teachings of the Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon, a small person would think that he was big enough to embrace all of America and the world.  This would not be possible through any physical means, of course.  But through love he would be able to do it.

There is no nationality in the world of love because love travels all over, like air. 

Can love reach all the way to God? Love will penetrate God's system and reach His heart.

If someone was to lock God's love in a vault, your love would be able to penetrate even that wall.  This means that your love is the greatest secret key of all.  Everyone no matter what their status is focused upon love, even God hangs onto it.

All things cling to love as well.

Everyone, young or old, Eastern or Western wants to be in possession of beautiful things.  If we were to think what the most precious thing in the universe would be, it would have to be love.

Even all of the spirits in spirit world would have to agree.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Heaven and Us