The Public Way and the Private Way

You all know that our lives have an historic quality. When we say historic, we are including the past, present and future. For example, I am speaking now in the present, I have spoken in the past, and I will continue to speak in the future. In this relationship our lives are connecting three points.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


Some people place importance on the past, some put emphasis on the present and others think seriously about the future.  American people are proud of their nation's past, but they are also proud of the present and expect to be proud in the future.

This is the American view that their past is big, the present is bigger, and they expect for the future to be much bigger.  It is natural for everyone to hope for this. The third possibility is that the past, present and future would all be big.

When we say 'the public way', we are speaking about the larger aspect.  The private way is the smaller way.

What is the meaning of 'big' or 'small'?  Where is the line drawn between the two?

When we evaluate someone, we say he is a big or small man.  If we say he is a big man, we imagine that his future ahead is bright.  If we say he is a small man, we do not think that his future is so big.

The culture that we live in was created by our ancestors.  They have always thought of the future more than their present time.  They worked to make this huge civilization that we enjoy come into being.

There was a time where majority of America lived on the country side.  They had once dreams of easy access to other areas and quicker routes to necessary stores and faster cars and better ways to travel around the world.  All the luxuries we enjoy today were through their hard work and sacrifices.

We cannot deny this.

When we look back and see that religion had more to do with advancing civilization than any other material things did.  From the religious perspective, when one lives for a definite purpose, he is guaranteed that his future will be big and stable.

It is in man's original true nature to want many friends, not just one or two if he wants to expand the scope of his activities.  Aren't you that way or do you live in a closed off private manner?

In China, there is hardly any private ownership, but the country is packed full of a billion people.

Everyone wants to become wide, or big.  Therefore, in the past, people dreamed of a bigger future, and now we want our future to be even bigger.

How would God think about this?  Which of the three possibilities would He choose?

He would choose the third one.  If God thinks and lives in a public way, so why hasn't humans who are made in His image live in that way?

God had high hopes to expand when He created Adam and Eve.

Would He begin creation with the thought that it would have a good beginning, but it was natural for it to narrow down to destruction?

Eve came into being for Adam, therefore as a couple, children came into being.  After their family was established, there came a race, clan, nation and so on.

We have the invisible and visible world.  Man is the intermediary situated between the two.

When a thought comes into being in the visible world, then it will also be realized in the invisible world, not just as a thought, but will come into reality.

When something big is actualized on earth, then the invisible world will expand in reality in a corresponding area.

God must have had an grand expectation for how the wonderful the world would be.

Humanity has the possibility to become greater than the way we are living now, but mankind has been neglecting God, thus man has narrowed down his future.

Mankind's thinking has become narrower and narrower, therefore, the future which we can project is also narrow.

As a result, there are now two realms: one is the world of life, and the other is the world of death; one is the world of God, the second is the world of Satan.

The public way of life is lived for God and the for the sake of the future.

We have a way where we cherish the past, for God exists in the past as well as the present and future.

In other words, it is the public way to cherish God and the future of mankind. 

If one lives with that image, then he is living the public way.

How would God view this?

When God was guiding Adam and Eve, would He have told them to love Him and neglect thoughts about the future?  God must have told them to love each other and their children as much as they loved Him.

If God said for us to love only Him and no one else, then He is in fact denying the past and the future, too.

Before the Fall when God was close to Adam and Eve, He would have asked Adam if he loved Him. Adam would say, "yes,".  God would then tell him to love Eve more than he loved God.

This means that God has a certain plan for the future, and was using Eve as an example to teach Adam
 about the future.

Let us go forward laying a foundation for the next year, more than for today.

Then next year, we will try harder for the sake of the next year after that.  While standing in the present, we have two directions.  If we retreat to the past, then we head toward hell; but if we go forward, then we will go to heaven.

Hell is where there is no movement, no room for growth; we were born to constantly move forward.

Because of the fall, the Kingdom of Heaven is yet to come in the future.  Kingdom of Heaven existed in the past, but is not here in the present, but it is in the future.

We work and live for the sake of God and mankind, and if we retreat, which direction would we be heading?

The only place that would await such a person is hell.

If we continue to advance, however, then a big future is in store for us.

Just because our present time is difficult, should we retreat, or should we crawl forward inch by inch?
We can think that God has been teaching man to love others more than they have loved Him if He wants to insure a big future for man.


If as the leader of Unification Church I say that you must love all others more than you love me, then I am speaking as a public-minded teacher. If I said that you must love me more than others, then I would be leading everyone in the direction of hell. In that case I would be self-centered and retreating toward hell. 


What is the difference between Heaven and hell besides the obvious?

Hell has no future with no possibility to better the situation and heaven has a broad future ahead.  The deeper we go into heaven, the broader and brighter our future becomes.

The public-minded way wants a bigger future than the present, while the private way does not think about the future, but only about the present and the past.

The Fall began from a self-centered position.  Man thought only about himself in those moments instead of God or the future.

Whoever is centered on himself and wants everything done for himself is going in the direction of hell. 

If you are able to love others more than yourself, you are already headed toward heaven.

When you think of yourself, you can only think of the present and the past, but when you think of others, you are in the objective realm, which is the future.

If you are alone, then it is all right to love yourself, but once someone else comes into the picture, then you should love that person more.  When Eve came into being, Adam was supposed to love her more than he loved himself.

Then, when they had a family, they were to love the family more than they loved each other.

Once that family expanded to the clan level, they were to love the clan more than the family. Thus, we can see that when the nation was born, it would have been cherished more than the clan.  For the sake of the world, even countries would be willing to forget themselves.

This is the process where world peace would have been established from the very beginning.

Why do electrons circulate around protons?

They do so in order to create the world.  If the proton was to instruct the electron that it should not go faster or be bigger, then the world would never have come into existence.

Each one should be willing to let others become bigger and better, and even encourage that expansion, for then the small entities will eventually form a big world.

We know that the individual should exist for the family, the family should exist for the sake of the clan, and the clan will live for the nation and so forth.  No one wants to carry this out because it is so difficult.

If we were to love each other so much, then we would be connected to everyone by love, and thus become bigger.  If one thinks more of his family than he thinks of himself, then he pours himself out for his family.  Wouldn't the neighbors join in loving that family as well?

Everyone would want to participate in loving such a family, and in that way, they will come into unity.  But if everyone is self-centered, can unity come about?

If each person was to live in such a way, then they would be scattered.

Everyone wishes that they were to live in a loving family.

That way they can come into unity.  No one wants to grow up in a household full of conflict and confusion.  If everyone in a family is centered only on their own life, then unity would not be possible.
Then, we can conclude that the smaller one should be willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of the bigger one.  That's the public way of life.

Think of a situation of a cow eating grass.  From the viewpoint of the grass, is this the public way or the private way?

What about from the cow's point of view?

When the cow has the definite purpose in eating the grass, he knows that it will one day become service to a bigger being, humanity, then it is going in the public way.  If a man is confident, then by eating the cow, he also can be of greater service for the whole, then he is acting in the public way.

When we think of it, the act of eating is a private action in and of itself.  But if it was to be connected to a bigger purpose, then that becomes the public way.

We may not think this is natural to think of ourselves last, but in the public way, everything becomes an extension of oneself.

One will never become as huge as the universe, but if we connect with other for the purpose of the future, then indeed we become as big as the universe.

Think of each blade of grass.  By itself, it can never become more than a few inches high, but when it is eaten by bigger and bigger things, then everything can be connected to God.

Each cell in the grass, becomes a cell which God loves directly because it is in the cell of a being whom God can love.  Those cells in the blade of grass would want nothing but the love of God.

There is nothing better than God's love in this world. 

Would a woman want something else than her husband's undivided love?

Would she want money more than love?

Jesus said that if there are those who want to live they will die, and those who are ready to die, will live.  He also said that whoever wants to become high will become low, and whoever wants to become low will become high.

This would not have much meaning without love.

This naturally happens centered around love.  With love, it is possible to jump up to higher and higher levels.  A president may fall in love with a humble country girl, but she would be lifted to the status wife of the president if they were to marry.  Everyone in that country would treat her as an equal to the president.

There is confusion about this point in America.

We observe individualism in America.

Living in this way, is there any way to be connected to the future?  We have to say that America has a way to be connected to the future.  We must look for some way to become connected to heaven.

We can predict that if America continues to live in this selfish way, that it will soon perish.

Why is this necessary to point out?

Because we are in an emergency situation.  You want to do better work than ever before and you want to stay in the public way or else you will become tired and exhausted.

If we are to sacrifice, we have to transplant part of ourselves.

Cancer cells grow very quickly, but our positive ones will spread even more quickly than the cancer cells.  The reason why we don't expand as quickly is because there are individuals who are not sure about which way they want to go and they don't want to sacrifice themselves or their physical desires.

If you don't have a clear understanding of why you should just jump into more difficult situations, then you shy away.


I never thought that I would become bigger and bigger, but only said, "I must do my mission and live up to the expectation of the world and God." I was too busy to think of anything else except following the Principle, and one day I found that a bigger and bigger realm had been created for me. 


Father just continued moving forward in the principle way, not thinking about being acclaimed or recognized in a grandiose way.

It does no good to think about receiving that kind of recognition, it is too grand.

If a president of a country was to visit God for advice, God would tell him that he needs to love the world more than he loved his own country.  God would not tell him that his country was more important than the world.

If there is an important mission that you should do according to the Principle, then you should not hesitate about doing it.  You should not worry about what others think of you, or even what God or spirit world thinks.

As you go forward, do it, then you will realize that at some point that people have come to recognize you even though being recognized is not your goal.

Once that standard is established here, then it is automatically done in the invisible world.  Then the spirit world will expand.

To witness to your home church area of 360 homes, you are living in the public way.

When things become difficult, you find reasons for not going to  your home church.  How can one be too busy for this kind of mission?  No matter how difficult it is, you must at least think that what you are eating and drinking is for the sake of the people in your home church.

You must think that those in your area are a part of you and that you cannot cut off that connection.

If you are literally, just too busy to go to your home church, then you can sleep there.  If you cannot do the work, then you should take a look at the work and determine that you must do it.

If you are unable to go to your area for one day, then you should at least take a look at your home church.  Spiritually, there are many people really waiting seriously for you.  You are unable to feel that because you do not sense things spiritually.

You must see that even though those in your home church area may seem successful and happy, they are imprisoned by a wire fence and they and their ancestors are crying out for you to free them.  You cannot hear their cry or see that they are in prison with no way out.

You have been learning the prophetic truth of the Completed Testament.  Armed with this knowledge, you are able to hear them cry and you can liberate them.

If you are unable to do that, then you have to pray about that to God and explain the situation to Him.

Now, after learning this you think all that is necessary is to pray for your home church.  But if you pray once, then you have to go there and take a look at your area.

Imagine that your spouse or your fiancee was in your home church area.  Then would you go enthusiastically?

You may find out that as you are headed to your home church area, that your body turns toward his area!  Do you think that your fiancee is more important than those in your home church providence?

You shouldn't waste time writing letters or holding hands for one year.  The principle says that we should love our home church area more than we love our fiances later.


That's precisely the way I went. My own family broke up because I practically ignored them in order to live first for the sake of the dispensation. If I had done that for myself, then it would have been a crime, but because I did it for the sake of the country and the world, it was right. 

You should never be confused about what is the public and private way.

If you were going forward for the sake of the world, yet your wife decided she will not go with you, should you remain with her or should you go out into the world.

Would many foundations have been built if Father stopped because of a spouse?

We are called upon to sacrifice by everyone and everything around us, even by God.  If this is the public way, we know that there is one thing we must do no matter what happens to us.


I did not come here for my own sake. In fact, I sacrificed myself. I did it for the sake of the world, for God, and to make this country live.  How nice it would have been if I didn't have to fight against Congressman Fraser, Capitol Hill, and the government. I did not fight the easy way either. If I had lost, then the Unification Church would have been taken over by Satan, but I was willing to take that risk. Prison and death were waiting if I had failed.


There was missionary that was martyred while working in Africa.  When Father heard the report, he had surmised that he had done his mission completely, and that he would become the permanent ancestor for that country.

If he had died doing the work for the world, then he would have become the ancestor of the world.

The world surrounds the country and it is protected by the world.  Heaven surrounds the world.

If the fall had not taken place and man had not disconnected from God, then all of these things would have taken place automatically.

After the fall, we are trying to create a bigger and bigger environment.

If we had stayed connected in heaven's realm creating Heaven on Earth, then we would have been protected by heaven 24 hours a day.  We wouldn't even experience a small risk.

But because our connection was severed, the world is a different place from the ideal world which God envisioned.

We are living in the time where we have to cross over the border into the country where we have nothing to do with evil.

Those who have passed into the spirit world are still heavily influenced by their past experiences of life they lived in the fallen world on earth.

Each spirit man wants to cross over his own boundaries and become bigger and better, but he has to cross over that borderline from the fallen world into heaven.

This is the path that should be taken, but no one in the past has taken the position to see the right direction clearly.  Therefore, there is a lot of confusion in the spirit world where people do not know how to get out and go where they are supposed to be.

There was never meant to be a divide between the spirit world and the physical world.  The spirit world is unable to come to work on earth freely.

It has been difficult for those in the spirit world to get together and break through the barriers they have created while living on earth.

This is why the Bible states that what is loosed on earth is loosed in heaven.

Many people who walk this path are having many spiritual experiences and visions.  What you are experiencing is happening only once in history. It is not an accident, but with that great privilege comes responsibility.

We are given a clear direction, for the first time in history about how to pioneer the way from the fallen, individual level, to the family all the way to the world level.

Heaven is realized in spirit world to the extent it is accomplished on earth first.

The church exists for the liberation of the world, thus Americans must sacrifice their desires for the sake of the world.

This is the way of the teaching.

If we are able to sacrifice for the sake of the world, the nation's ideal will be idealized.  If Americans are able to turn away from their selfish way of life and to follow the correct path, then the rest of the world will follow.

In other words, we will be able to save the country by loving the world.  The quality of love which you give your family and nation is the same, except that one is wider.

You have one hair on your head, but we are all connected through one life force.  The individual is connected to the universe through the force, by heaven.

Through love, all of the world is one.

Life is possible through the individual, but love is for the world.  Therefore, you can do your best in your life for the sake of love and the world.  This becomes justice and justice is loving the world.  Have a clear idea of this.

This concept is not vague.

Of course we must eat in order to sustain life, and to love others is also a truth.

Truth is eternal and love is truth.  Even in the future, everyone will have to go this path of love.




Return for Tomorrow's Post: World Champion of Public Way

This Post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Public Way and Private Way

All Creation Has Purpose

Who dislikes hearing about the "ideal"? We talk about the ideal husband, ideal family, and nation.  When we talk about the home that is most ideal, then that must be the home in which we want to dwell.

This home would probably be located in an ideal neighborhood and built like a mansion seen in the magazines.

Can we say that this world is the ideal world?

As people of faith, we know that we live in more than one world.

Beyond this world, we know there is a spirit world beyond this physical world which is a bigger house than the ordinary one people imagine.

Would we find harmony or disharmony in this large house?

The 'ideal' represents harmony.  Do we live in this world of harmony?  Does it exist?  Is it possible?  Would the ideal house be lit by just one color of light, or would it be lit by all the living colors of the world.

This large house includes all of nature-trees, and flowers in all their beautiful variety.  Even grass that seems insignificant is part of the whole.  All of these variety of elements each contribute to the overall existence.

Everything in creation has a purpose. 

The courageous tiger is admired by everyone, but the tiny insects and smelly skunks also contribute to existence. We humans dislike the skunk's smell, but some element of the universe might like it.

What if we find out decades from now that the skunk's smell has medicinal value for some animals?  No one wants to be bit by a poisonous snake, but that venom has great value for certain medicines.

A blade of grass would feel that they have some kind of tiny supporting role in the large universe, or that they were important enough that the rest of the world would harmonize with its qualities.

What about in the church?

Some members might think that they are unimportant in the church, but may think that they are indispensable in God's dispensation.

If you think you are indispensable then how do you think the rest of creation views themselves?


My eye may realize that it is small, but feel that if it were blind and staring blankly then Reverend Moon would look unattractive. For that reason my eye feels it is important, and I have to agree. If you ask one hair on my head whether it belongs to me or I belong to it, that hair will definitely respond that I belong to it! 


In a way, this seems like mild arrogance, but everything considers its existence to be important to the rest of the universe.  Without having this concept, we cannot begin to think of the ideal.

Out of all of the thousands of churches in America, there may be only one that sacrifices for the world and sits on a concrete floor.  That church would think they are the center of the universe.  That is the ideal, and is very dramatic.

If you were to think that this life of faith is horrible because of the sacrifices we have to make, you will make your life miserable.


Even though people scornfully oppose me, I still think that without me this nation would be lost, and that I am important to the rest of the universe. This attitude is where the ideal lies. 

The more you can make yourself available for the harmony of the rest of the universe, the closer you are to the ideal.

Now, you know how the ideal is tangible in our present life.

The important thing is not what kind of work you do, it is all about how you feel inside when you do the work, the motivation.

What do you think the ideal way to finish doing chores?  Is it to sulk and hate every minute of it or to have the thought that you do this work for the sake of mankind and the universe with a joyful heart.  Work that is done willingly like this will have value.

Who would be happier: the one who is lazy and does not participate in work, or the one who is busy?

The busy person would be more happy because the more work you perform, the more you relate to the variety of the world and the more opportunity you have to harmonize with your neighbors.

Why do we always try to do our best when we could goof off and work at your leisure?

By doing your best, you become more central to the rest of the world.  It is better to work with your whole heart and soul.

When listening to speeches, you can think that among the others that are listening, you will be the champion in taking action and carrying out the words you heard.

The ideal is connected to all practical elements. 

You may do a good performance and it does not guarantee you will be praised or recognized.  Sometimes you may be chastised.

You may think that it is better to receive some reward for a good job, but it is better to be criticized.

No one can subtract from what you did, but by receiving criticism, you create a situation where the critic has to surrender to you.  Then those who praise you can defend the values of what you did.

In other words, you will be able to conquer both elements by what you did.

This is how the saints did their great work.

They were never accepted in their own time, but they had the capacity to digest the criticism of people, thus history remembers and recognizes them and they receive a much higher reward.

When you do the right thing yet the entire world comes against you, it will be your asset.

This is because you will acquire a great capacity to contain all of the elements in the world.

While doing this work, digest the criticism, and by doing so, I am creating room for all of America to eventually bow down to the truth.

Then what would be the ideal kind of work?

It is when you do the right thing, yet receive criticism instead of praise.  When you think in this way, you understand that you have no adversary in the world.  People think it is bad to be cursed at
 because you will acquire the capacity to contain all the elements of the world.

I am one example. I am working hard to do the right thing, but because America doesn't understand this it has opposed me. 1 will digest that criticism, and by doing so I am creating room for all of America to bow down eventually.

There are two kinds of people that receive curse words: the one who deserves to be criticized, and the one who does good things yet receives abuse from people.

What makes something bad?

Evil has no hesitation to sacrifice others for its own good without any righteous purpose attached.  Goodness is giving of the self for the public purpose.

What is the ideal way of life?

We conclude that the ideal way to live is in giving yourself for the sake of others, even when you are criticized for doing so.  There are also two ways to serve others:  one is to do something good yet be criticized and the second is to be totally committed to serving others, even while risking one's life.

Which one is the most ideal way?

Jesus taught this ideal level because he was serious about giving his life for the sake of others.

"He who would gain his life would lose it, but he who loses his life for my sake will find it."

When Jesus spoke that he was the way, the truth and the life, was he speaking of a small mountain or a superhighway that reaches to heaven?  He was speaking about the truth which the entire universe would embrace.

When Jesus said he was the life, he did not envision a shivering miserable life.  Jesus had the authority to speaks these things because in his way of life, he always lowered himself to serve others.

When Jesus said he was the way, the truth and the life, did he mean he was a small mountain trail, or a superhighway to the Kingdom of Heaven? What kind of truth was he referring to?

He meant the truth which the entire universe would embrace it.

When you lower yourself, you will be lifted up, but those who try to elevate himself will be lowered.

When you kick a ball way up in the air, it comes down with great force and rebounds back up high. Is that more ideal, or should it be kicked so high that when it comes down it doesn't rebound but just disappears into the ground?  This is unimaginable.

We may think this is the ideal way, but the ball wouldn't like this ideal way.  But the ball was born for this mission.  If the ball wants to be the number one ball, it has to be kicked hard in the air and rebound back up high again, and last the longest and go the farthest.

When American young people hang out at the club, we may think why do they want to dance and waste their time away.  It may make sense that they would have fun for themselves.  There is no law that says you have to live for the sake of the world.

When we do our mission work and get spit on or criticized, we wipe it away and say, "I am doing this for the sake of the world".  You raise money not for yourself but to benefit the world.  This is what distinguishes your activity from everyone else's.

What is the opposite of the ideal?

Can we judge someone's happiness by how rich he is?  Can we also say that the one who does not own anything is unhappy?  What is the definition of happiness and unhappiness?

It does not matter how elegant your palace you live in, if you live there only for yourself and sacrifice others for your own benefit, you are sitting in hell. Even if you don't have a place of your own, and you look poor as long as you are trying to serve other people, you have heaven.  Is this true?

There are many people that make a good living and live in luxury, they go home at night anguished over their lives that they can't sleep.  A rich man in his heart feels pressure from his society and nation and feels guilty.  This is a kind of self-torture.

There is this fight between the conscience which tells him not to live like this, but he has a desire to keep all his things for himself.

There are many rich people who struggle internally at night for living this selfish way.  Even the walls and the ceiling will say they deserve to live that way.  The fine furniture will say that it did not exist to please the selfish owner, but to accuse them.

When your conscience is clear you feel that the entire universe is embracing you. 

If you sleep humbly under a bridge in a sleeping bag, you would see the beautiful blue sky and sunshine when you wake up the next morning.  The green grass and flowers would make the best hotel room.  Even the gentle breeze jumps around you.

In this way of life, you don't fee anguish when you lie in bed at night, but fall asleep immediately from all the providential work serving others.

If a riot was certain to break out, we should stay at peace while others are uncertain and afraid.
In our way of life we don't feel anguish as we lie in bed at night, but just fall asleep immediately! Who is happier, the anguished rich man, or the person sleeping under the bridge?

The happier person is not the rich person living in anguish, but the person sleeping under the bridge.

Whatever the mission, I am at peace because I do it with all my effort.

The one who deserves to live in the ideal house is the ideal man or woman.  We should concentrate on being ideal men and women, but instead we worry about what you don't have; this is the basic problem.

The main cause of the problem lies within yourself, yet we often place blame on our environment and circumstances.

We do not have time to eat or sleep in doing our public mission, because the nation is crumbling and the world is at stake.

There is not time to spend on someone who is not certain why they are here.  It does not mean we don't care about members, the priority is to follow the bigger cause first when we have too many responsibilities to fulfill.

If a person is totally dedicated to the public cause then he is living the ideal life.

This movement seems like it does not care about people, but that judgment will declines.

This is because the Church is dedicated fully to the public purpose, the basic unselfish cause.

We are taught that we should sacrifice our desires for the public cause, so the person who wants to sacrifice others to take care of him does not understand this concept.  Before you complain, be a frontline soldier who works harder than any other member and then your constructive criticism will be worthwhile.

This is important for new members to know this as they will face many difficult times.

You have many demands and responsibilities with little time.  You have new members to take care of, fundraising efforts and you out there for the mission.  Is it more ideal to fellowship or tell them that you are too busy doing your mission?

The one who is truly dedicated for the public cause will eventually win.

As a tree grows its branches extend out farther and farther.  What if the tree does not bear any fruit or flowers?  Trees normally bear flowers, but for whom does it bear them.?  Would the flowers blossom or have a certain color for the tree's sake or for the ideal of harmonizing the universe?

The color of the flowers are for the sake of inviting insects and bees.  The vibrant colors are necessary to communicate with the rest of the world.  Also, the fragrance of the flowers is not for the survival of the tree.

The fragrance is to harmonize and communicate with others.

When you see the flowers you impart your happiness and enjoyment of them. In reality the flowers possess their color and fragrance for your joy.  It seems as if beautiful flowers in the garden call out for you to touch and smell them.

The flowers, too, would be pleased because their purpose is fulfilled and they were touched and appreciated by others.

It is this communication and fellowship which makes life more beautiful.

Would it make sense for a plant to have green flowers and green leaves?

It is easy to admire how sensible plants are in having flowers of various colors.  People would take this for granted, but what if the flowers were just as green as the leaves?

Is that exciting?

There is a possibility there is a green plant with green flowers, but even then you will find some accent of white or red for instance that sets it apart.

Have you ever seen a plant with green flowers as well as green leaves? Would it make sense? I have always admired how sensible plants are in having flowers of various colors, not just green like their leaves.

Flowers impart beauty and fragrance for the sake of others, for the sake of harmony with the universe. In that harmony a fuller life is generated. 

If we were flowers, we would want to be a stimulating, vibrant color.

God would like the color and fragrance of the one who works hard for His ideal world.   No matter what other people think, at least one person would come to enjoy our color and fragrance-that is God.

That color and fragrance never changes wherever you go, so God would go there and enjoy it.  If you were to wind up in hell, God would go there with you also.  Wherever you go, you carry the fragrance and color which attracts God.

Therefore, activity and life will be generated wherever you go.

It is not that bad if your surroundings are drab, because you would look more vivid.  Others think that this is hell, but we think it is heaven to live this way of life.  The dark circumstances of hell will make you stand out better.

The Chinese character for "ideal" actually depicts a king and a village, so it literally means "king's village," or the village where the king dwells.

A king would not just be responsible for the good of the country, but for both the good and the bad.  Good kings will let other people take care of the good things while he takes care of the bad situations.

God is the King of kings because He thinks He will be responsible for the evil of the world. 

Because God takes care of the bad things, He is supremely good king of all of the kings of the past, present that lived on earth and they will have to bow down to Him.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Ideal Home

How to Be Grateful for the Little Things

Now summer is here and all of nature is ready. When you come to Belvedere you might look at that one big tree outside here and remark at how big a tree it is.

When you go outside, you will see that some trees will have a special characteristic that will catch your attention, Especially if one is tall and has colorful leaves.  Even in nature, it is hard to find an object that is perfectly beautiful.  It takes a lot of catering and arrangement to create and present beauty.

There is manmade beauty and natural beauty, but beauty created in the natural way is more difficult. 

Even though an oak tree is big, it started from a small acorn.

Over the years that it grew, it had to absorb many elements.  In its growth it took many sacrifices and contributions.

There is an absolute necessary element that the tree needs to do before it can command respect as a great tree.

I must realize that there were several circumstances and elements combined to make its success possible.

It is a heartistic necessity to recognize and bow down to these elements which made it great.  Both internal and external elements made great sacrifices to make just that one tree.

When the tree is grateful and humble before the elements which made him great, those elements would have respect for him knowing his position and then will gladly give more of themselves.

The small blades of grass that reside in the tree's shade would not be able to complain that the tree receives all of the sun light, but would decide to live with the inconvenience because the tree was grateful.

What if the sun decided to stop shining on the tree?

Would the tree still be in the position to be proud and great or would he become worried and anxious how he would survive without the sun?

What if the air stopped existing or any more water?  How would the tree react?

This situation is just an analogy for man's relationships.

Should you walk pridefully and think that you don't need anybody and you exist independently?  Or would you be meek enough to thank the sun and the air for sustaining your existence?

You eat food with your mouth and at the same time your skin is "breathing" sunlight; which is more delicious?

Let us think in a different way.  You may think that you taste with your mouth but without the sun, your eyes would not even be necessary.

Without the air, you would no longer need your nose.  Therefore, without the air, how would soundwaves travel?  Without soundwaves, your ears would not be necessary.

Your mouth sacrifices many things from the outside for your survival.

Can you then be proud?  Where did your arms and legs come from?  They come from your parents and belong to them in reality.  When each of you was in your mother's womb, you stole energy from her as you grew.

When you go to the store, whatever you buy, you receive a receipt, but did you get a small receipt from all of the energy your mother gave you?  This is why you are thieves!

Can you truly say your body belongs to you?

Day and night you kicked and poked your mother, but you never apologized.  Did you complain or did you have gratitude while you were in your mother's womb?  After nine months of acting up in your mother, you were born.

But you still took nourishment and energy as she fed you.

When you were a little older, you were then fed complete meals by others.  Can we still proclaim our bodies truly belong to us and owe no one?  You never earned it.

Americans are prompt to say thank you, but how much more do you owe thanks to your parents who gave birth to you and attended to you while you grew?

If you were a restless or cranky baby and cried all of the time and demanded attention, you parents didn't demand you to stop, they would immediately comfort you.

Then when you became of age, you attended school for education.  Your parents in totality take care of you for 18 years.

When you think deeply about these things, then you know that you are indebted to your parents for your well-being.  Have you ever told your parents how much they served you or gave and terms of dollars.

The debt is so great, you would never be able to pay them back.

American teenagers act sometimes as if their parents magically appeared out of the heavens.  They speak about the gap between the generations, and that they came into being without causing any trouble to anyone.

Many times young people think their parents just bother them and they place them in retirement homes with an attitude that no one needs the elderly.

The universe does not work in this way.

The world must harmonize.

A person never parallels the universal way when they claim things for his own selfish benefit and demand his rights.  

It is a law of nature that while you are growing up, you are deeply indebted to your parents, and after you are grown and responsible then you repay that debt by taking care of your parents.

When you take a look into the past, what is it that you can be proud of?

You can be proud that you are indebted to your father and mother recognizing that you are also indebted to nature.  You would show appreciation for the water, sun and air, because without these elements you could not even survive for five minutes.

We must be thankful for the world of plants and the animal kingdom.

When you pass a pasture, what is the first thing you think when you see a cow?  That she is fat and that she would make good steaks?  You would probably think of food first instead of thanking the cow.

Which person would the cow welcome: the person who thought of him as a potential steak, or the one who shows gratitude toward him?

Even a cow would rather be eaten by a gracious person instead of a greedy person.

God looks down at this self-centered kind of thinking and knows that He did not create this world for man's self-serving needs.

Do you think that your clothes belong to you?  What about the jewelry you wear?

When a person is proud and thinks that they are independent from others and their environment, nature would laugh at such a person.  Nature knows that you could never exist by yourself.

The universe would never show any gratitude toward the person does not observe any thankfulness.  Everyone has something to be thankful for in their life from the moment of their birth.

If there is a person that understands how much they are indebted to nature, parents, the world and knows his position the world gladly harmonizes with him.

What if you lived in the desert and all the sudden woke up to find that a tropical environment was being created before you in your presence.  How much gratitude would you feel then?

Wouldn't you shout for happiness if all of this appeared out of nowhere one day?  Would you take the world of nature for granted after experiencing the wasteland just beforehand?

Have you ever thought that there was a day where nothing was in existence, that time before God brought anything into existence?  God said that everything was good when creation was complete, but what if you as His child took more pleasure and enjoyment in each thing that He did?

Would He gladly appreciate your expression or not?

God has existed from the beginning, so He would remember and appreciate you based on the historical perspective of millions of years.  Would God say with your kind of heart that it was just good, or would He remember and appreciate you within His heart?

He would think that you were better than anyone in all of history for having so much gratitude for His work.

What if this type of person was not so valued in the looks department or was crippled?  Would God appreciate them less?

No, this person would be remembered first in God's heart.

What about you, what is you first impression when you look in the mirror every morning?

Many women will shun looking in the mirror or have their picture taken.  But no matter how you look, you should view yourself in the broader perspective in which God sees us.

Each of us sends out waves or vibrations to the universe and the world can communicate with you through them. 

What kind of vibes would a person who appreciate everything send?

What about people who always complain and use people for their own advantage?  This kind of person would repel everything in the universe because of that vibration.

The person who is always negative and dissatisfied with everything in site, bites everything including friends and family.

A dissatisfied personality always has long nails everywhere around their body to bite or scratch the universe.  Doesn't it feel that way when you are around such a person?

Today there are definitely a great many people that live in such an unhappy state.

What about your heart?

On the other hand, when you realize your position toward your neighbors and relatives, you feel gratitude.  Then instead of biting and scratching others, you only reach out to embrace them all.

This way, you are sending out infinite waves of gratitude out to all corners of the earth.

The ocean is wide, but it could not be greater than your mind of gratitude. 

Your mind can be strong if you make it small, but if you make it large then it is larger than any ocean on earth!

In that case, the entire universe embraces you also with that quality of mind.    

We each have millions of individual cells in our bodies that are similar to employees in a corporation.  Each of these cells send out their own waves which all of nature responds.

Whatever vibe you send out, is how nature will echo you.

What kind of person do you want to be like: the kind that has infinite appreciation, or one that always has infinite disappointment and complaint?

This is why the Bible teaches to always have gratitude, as well as humbleness and meekness.

Can you count how many words you have used in your life up to this point?  Can you measure what portion has been dedicated to speaking gratitude or for complaint?

We have a general tendency to complain, so most people would receive the sign, "I am a complainer."  Don't you think this is the life most people lead?

But when you complain then everything in the universe is repelled by you. 

Even your parents and friends wouldn't want to be around you if you complain all the time.

Would God be happy to hear it?  Are your eyes, nose and ears complaining about the information that comes to them or are they appreciative in what they see, hear and smell?

If your body and mind are always full of complaint, who will welcome you?  Not even your husband or fiancee, there is no exception.  No one likes to be around such negativity.

If you were to place bags holding your complaint or appreciation, which outweighs the other?

Are complainers usually good or bad people?  You don't like to hear this kind of judgement do you?:

But don't you think that evil-minded people also want to hear kind words from others?

Wouldn't nature also want to hear words of kindness and love, or would they tell you to stop?  Even your pet loves to have loving reinforcement when they do something good. Even the simple words, "Good boy" brings such excitement.

Does your balance tilt more on the complaint or gratitude side?

If you are below zero, then nothing will treat you like a human being because you would be substandard, at the animal level of interaction.



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This post was rewritten and derived form the speech Reflection Upon Life

Love is the Bait

The Western way of demonstrating love is often superficial, like a fly trying to break through a wall. 

The traditional Korean couples shows their affection differently than the Western way.

When it is time for the Korean husband to leave for work, there is a depth of communication as they look at each other.  There is no need for kissing and hugging.

The Western wife is more open with her love.  She may give him a quick kiss and talk about what she was going to do for the day. The Korean wife is a few steps behind, as if she is shy, and her husband has to turn to look at her.

As he walks away, she would say a tearful prayer for his day and safety.  This is the most mystical relationship.

This is the time to understand this kind of deep love.

When you taste the style of love from the Orient, you do not want to come back to the tasteless Western way.  The Orient has s mysterious way of expression that is done without words.


Father:

"I am a puzzle to Americans and though they study and analyze me, they cannot measure me. You too are trying to size me up, but there is an infinite quality about me that you cannot digest.
I speak for hours at a time each Sunday and at leaders conferences, but I never run out of things to say.

Do you feel some charm from me? But I am also very fierce. You Westerners have such big eyes that no one will be really afraid when you get mad, while my eyes are so small that you don't know what is happening inside and you tremble when I get mad.

But no matter how mysterious and deep I look, if there were no love in me I would be like the desert. 

The sweetness comes from love.

In our church life, there is a bitter, difficult side but every one of you has tasted the sweet side of love here also.

Do you feel drawn to me? Once you taste the sweetness of love, even if you are criticized or pushed out, you cannot separate yourself from me." SMM



Everyone would agree that God is the master fisherman.  He is very wise.  What kind of bait do you think God as a fisherman would use?

The greatest bait God would offer man is love and truth.  You and I may use the same word 'love' to describe our feelings for something, but the quality of what we mean is very different.  Satan's love is self-centered, self-seeking while God-centered love is always unselfish.

In order for the world to be restored to the original heaven on earth, which God planned, all of the history of mankind since Adam and Even had to be indemnified.  This means reversing the fallen act of unmarried Adam and Eve which caused the fall of humanity to this day.

Historians have researched and tried to understand the causes of what was happening in history, but they never understood the reason for them.  Only with the teachings in the Last Days do the answers to the fundamental questions be explained.

When we look at the decline of morals in the Western society, we see that the people are on an useless march toward death today.  Older people are in the front, middle-aged people next, and the young people follow right behind them.  Since young people are at the back, God is able to reach them first to turn them in a different direction.

God chases the crumbling civilization in order to turn the people around.

America's young people are rebellious and they mistrust older people, but God is also working through that.

Actually, this kind of 'rebellious' attitude makes it easier to turn the youth's thinking around.  God creates environments where the young people who are searching for great ideals can easily join religious movements that are making changes in the world.

Young people have not left anything to the imagination, they have tried everything from streaking to pre-martial sex at the youngest ages.  They know that they are behaving just like the animal world, so at some point, they long for some purpose and value.

When God sees people who have this kind of longing for some ideal, He can more easily work within that person's life.

Help comes in the form of the East.

Those who are in the drug and free-sex lifestyle are tangled in a huge net and start to rip that slavery to this behavior once they hear the depth of truth.

The first test Father encountered when he came to America is that the people would not feel that he loved them as much as the Asian members.

Then after Father would pour out his heart with depth and long speeches to save America, they would discover that no one has ever worked harder.  In fact, Father gave the most difficult task to the Korean and Japanese members to suffer for the sake of America.


At one time, I was persecuted and tortured by Japanese people, but now I don't feel they are my enemies; I truly feel a father-­son relationship with them. When I ask for something to be done, they absolutely follow my instructions, without adding their own interpretation. They are absolutely loyal and trusting. You know now that I truly love America. 


You have worked hard for the restoration of God and the world and have ended your death march.  Now, it is time to go back to your hometown and build and save your family foundation.

The parents have been going in the wrong direction and all of the sudden they look back and see that their children are no longer following behind them.  In the Unification Movement, parents have hired deprogrammers to kidnap and try to erase what they are taught.

The parents rather have their children experiencing promiscuous sex, drugs and wild behavior than to be taught the Completed Testament, the Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon.  What kind of parents can they say they are?

It is up to every member whether they rather stay in the movement or to run back to their parents.  If you cannot be victorious over your own sins, how can you imagine to conquer over the world's problems?

We need people of discipline to do this work.

We are marching toward life instead of death. We are able to save those who are on the death march.  God has the central thinking that young people must come to do this work first so they can be the prime movers of morality.  Is this the right way of thinking or the evil way?

When you first have an understanding of these revolutionary teachings, your concept about family, life, society, nation and world become pure and different.  This way of life is complete opposite of the satanic way and you may wish that you have not come upon the truth which you were seeking.

Even if you were able to deny your discovery of this teaching, you still would be able to know that America needs to turn away from the path which it is following.  America is suffering and going down into the pits of hell.  Without knowledge of the Completed Testament, there is no way for survival.


Americans will realize that they definitely need me; when that time comes, I will leave America. I have much more territory to cover for the sake of the world. We have missionaries in 120 nations and I will meet them on their battlefields. I know when I visit them that I will find them being persecuted and enduring suffering. I will go and vindicate them and they will be victorious. 


How would Africans feel when they hear that such a man is in their country?  You should plan your entire life.  There are three stages of adult life:    fifteen to thirty is the formation stage; thirty to 45 is the growth years; and 45 and beyond is the time of perfection.

Father made a goal to be number one in every challenge: in eating less food, sleeping less than others, working harder and be his own harsh critic.

In that respect, he was able to set world records.  One of them giving an over twenty-hour speech at a conference nonstop.

Not only God's world welcomes such a person, but the satanic world has to welcome him and surrender to him.

Since the Divine Principle is filled with such secrets such as the original sin of Satan, how to bring families together and a world of peace, those who spread it get much opposition.

Instead, the nation should have supported such efforts instead.  Children born of such members are the brightest American young people and someday they may become the national leadership.

America is the slowest to awaken to the new truth; other nations-and even the communists have already realized my significance. 

One after another, God will remove from office the unrighteous legislators; the makeup of the legislature will change. In time, Congress will take the position of supporting and welcoming me. That pattern has been seen in Korea.


When one side attacks us, God always prepares another side to give us support.

The principle has been taught for over fifty years and have not only changed lives, but have moved nations and peoples with its historical information.

What kind of world would we have today if Rev. Moon had never been born to relay such timely Revelations prophecy.  Would unity of different races, religions and East and West have happened within that time frame?

People may be skeptical and say the world is never going to head toward world peace, but if you turn around and look at history, blacks were not allowed in certain areas, different religions didn't intermingle and many countries were still at war.

If you venture even further back,  you will see that religions were persecuted more, poverty was had everywhere and suffering was more evident.  In comparison, we can see the work of God, people of faith and the Second Coming will truly usher in a heaven on earth which God wished from the beginning.

Could you seen God's precise plan that He has hidden in the Bible without this teaching?  Sometimes the information that is revealed seems like a dream.

This speech was given on an early, cold morning, but instead of staying in bed or complaining people gathered around to hear the breaking news.  Who makes people do that?

Only the power of God can do that.

Anybody, even the government who tries to stop this history from happening will work in vain.   The victory doesn't come in an office or in the headquarters, but on the battlefield.



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