Love is the Source of Peace and Happiness

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

Our human will does not govern the source of life.

Only true love can influence our motivation, our course or the end of our life.

We were born in love, therefore, we should live and die for love at the end of our lives.

What do you think the color of love would be?

Would it be a murky black color at night, white in the daytime and yellow in the evening?

The central color of love is where we will find the power to achieve peace, unity and equality for all.  However, if you happen to carelessly venture into love's most holy place, the sexual organs, then you will be judged.

When you find someone to love, your face becomes radiant. 

Only love has the power to bring such light.

Guns and threats can not bring about such beauty, only love.  What kind of love is this?

That love is true love, the love that is the owner of the universe, the center of the universe, and the original fountain of the universe.

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

Love holds supreme value which cannot be measured.

Once you have true love, even God will follow you.

When you possess true love, the world will follow you, everyone will follow you.  Once you stand in love's place, all of creation will follow you.

True love has the power that makes you and another feel good even if you stay together forever.  

You will still feel good even though you stay together, live together, talk together, eat together and listen together.

We cannot deny that love is liked and welcomed by all people.

Everyone wants to be born, live and die surrounded by true love.  Such a person has a fulfilling life and is a happy person.

Getting a wink from a loved one can make you feel that heaven and earth were turning upside down.  If you get a smile from the one you love, then you feel all of heaven and earth and the cosmos live within your heart.

People in love become completely possessed by it.  Each word they utter will be based on the love which claims them.

Therefore, love has the power to break down all barriers which humanity builds.

If you think it is small, it is small; if you think it is big, it is big; if you think you can see it, you can see it; if you think you cannot see it, you cannot see it.  Love has a perceptive quality.

The power of love is greater and mightier than the power of an atomic bomb.

An atomic bomb only has the power to leave destruction in its path, but love has even more power to save people and give them new life.

We all dream of a world of peace, where nation is no longer against nation and the people treat each as brothers and sisters of a common family under God.

The only power that can bring this about is not through war or force, but through true love.

Each nation observes their own traditions, have their own cultural backgrounds and customs.  The only way to transcend the multitudes of barriers we face on every level from the individual to the family level is through true love.

As we continue on this path of restoration and love is perfected, you will see that the political, economic and cultural problems, basically all human disputes, will be fully resolved.

Every problem that humankind face today can be fundamentally resolved through the perfection of true love.  Humanity has gone in the opposite direction of this path with give and take of false love.

True love has an unchanging quality and is the same whether it is night or day.  It is not possessed by just one person.

True love belongs to everybody.

Imagine a world where true love is shared freely.  True love has the power to connect to the family, nation, world and the universe.

We must seek this true love.

God became a sorrowful and regretful God for creating humanity that went in the opposite direction of His will.

But, if we were to perfect our love centered on God, He would become a responsive God.  He would experience no regrets once He was immersed in it.

God will rejoice over anything that happens in the world if He is surrounded by true love.

If people could live in a world of true love, they would all live happily, without regret.

If we were able to reach this level of love, there would be no war, resentment or suffering in the world.

All of creation will shower blessings upon the ones that devote their lives centered on love.

Flowers will flourish and bloom in their gardens, birds will sing and want to live in the trees of their back yard.  This is because people who live centered on God's love know the value of all things of creation and truly love and embrace them.

Love is so big that even God yearns for it and is engulfed in love.  Therefore, what God wishes for more than anything is for love, because love is even greater than He is.

Did you know such a fact?  Even God bows down to true love.

Love is in unity with God and occupies the center of ideal circumstances and situations. So, as long as God exists, there is love to be experienced.  

You can find money, knowledge and power in the midst of love. 

Love's power is eternal.

Those who experience true love while living on earth, do not have to learn anything in the spirit world.

What is true love?

On the intersection of the vertical and horizontal line, true love forms a ninety-degree angle.  It must fit wherever it goes.  Love should fit in Eastern homes and in Western homes alike.

True love can fit in anywhere and everywhere regardless of whether there are difference in race, cultural or religious backgrounds.

The universe breathes in and out.  Political power can never control the expansion of the universe.  Neither can all the money in the world or knowledge.  Only through the giving of love.

When you are able to look at the world through eyes filled with true love, when you see a bird flying in the air, you will think that he is chirping because he is missing his beloved.

With eyes of love, poetry and prose come naturally to mind.

Our lives harmonize with nature and reproduce the symphony of love.  That is why a breath of love, a caress of love, a song of love and a whisper of love are all pleasing.

The most evil of forces dissolves in the presence of true love. 

Even if you just pass by or only look at true love, that is enough.

Love is the element that forms the essential part of you.  Before you are given life, love is at work.  It is the source of life itself.  A life that is lived for love is a productive and fruitful one.

On the other hand, a life that does not know love leads to exhaustion and destruction.  You have probably witnessed this phenom in your lifetime.

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

This is the original way of life.  True love is absolute, unchanging and eternal.  It can not be revolutionized, or developed.  Love's original form is eternal, unchanging and absolute.

The love attained in a natural setting and in the most natural atmosphere is real love.

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

They will smile and want to become a flower blossom in order to appreciate the beauty of a flower in a spring garden.

The fastest action in the world is the action of love. 

If two people who lived on opposite ends of the earth were to fall in love with each other, their love would pull them together, therefore overcoming the distance between them.

Love has such power.

A person who receives love and receives grace from God looks beautiful.  When we are able to reach the state to feel God's love, we can thus relate and transcend everything in the universe.

When we are centered on the emotions of God's original love, we can have everything.

Our organs and our bodies were created for the one purpose, love.

The eyes were formed to seek for love, the nose to smell love, and the ears to listen to the sounds of love.

Of all the words we hear in the English language, there are words we never tire of and always like to hear and that are the words, "I love you."

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

True love doesn't lead us to only love those things that are good and beautiful.  We can define true love as that which can love the very lowest thing more than something high.

Love has such a power and quality that even God is bound by its authority.  This means that even the almighty God becomes weak before true love.

Even God wouldn't be able to prevent himself from smiling when He sniffs the scent of love emanating from humankind.  God likes to hear love stories.

What is the most holy element in the world?

It is true love.

True love starts from God. 

What God desires is the path of true love.

You must understand that if you do not follow the path of true love that you cannot have a close relationship with God.

God wants to see, hear, eat and touch through love.  That is where happiness will begin in the world, when people can live fully based on love.

We all want to reach perfection and realize the ideals of our dream, but we can never achieve these things without love.  Everything in the universe exists on the basis of love.

Everything in the creation began life through the original love of God.  

In this world, when you give something away, it is gone.  But in the case of love, the more you give, the more you receive in return.

This is why when we find true love, we delight in it.  No matter how much your give, it will be returned to you.  Then you can always be happy and joyful.

We all like money, but once you buy something, that money is gone for good.  However much you might like power, once you use it, it runs out.  But, the more you give love the more unlimited a supply you will have.

So, what exactly is true love?

It is something that even grandmothers and grandfathers can never relinquish, even in death.

Once you get a taste of true love, you delight in it so much that you can never live without it after that.  This is the same for all people: men and women, young and old, those from the East or the West.

Would a grandfather who receives love from his grand child exclaim that he doesn't like that kind of love.  That he was not used to that smell of love from where he is from.  Would he say that he rather smell something other than the scent of love?

Fresh baked bread or rice stimulates every cell in your body.  The cells respond that it tastes very good.

Love is like the essence of everything.  When you can treat anything and anyone with that kind of love, a path will open up along which you can freely go anywhere without restrictions.

True love lasts forever.  

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

Who owns love?

Not man or woman, but God Himself.  True love is the only way for God and human beings to become one, because love is absolutely essential to both God and human beings.

Wherever there is the harmony of love, circular motion takes place.

When humans and God unite centered on love, God can come down, and human beings can go up, and they will meet midway.

Thus God becomes the center of the sphere and then there is a spherical motion occurring with this give and take.

This is where the central point is.  This point is where harmony in love is established and is the place where life first stirs.  This is the starting point for equality and sharing together.

That is because the power of love is there.

The power that acts on and embraces everything in the universe is love. 

Love's quality can never be felt by yourself.

This can be said of happiness as well.  Even the concept of peace cannot be applied to just one nation if the rest of the world is at war or suffering.

You can only feel true happiness, when you can love based on a relationship with another on an equal footing.  It is the same for freedom.  You don't experience freedom on your own.  True freedom is acquired within love, together with love.

Even if a dictator was to give out true love and wield absolute authority over everyone, even with a whip, it would not hold the people back, Instead, it would bring richer joy and happiness.

This is because it is something that is given to others for their benefit, through which someone sacrifices himself to save others.

Love is the pillar that stands at the center where the mind and body automatically unite.

The individual, family nation, world and universe are all situated at the central point at that one pillar.

Since this central point does not move, this is why true love is the eternal place of settlement.

Jesus told the people that he was the way, the truth and the life and no one could come to the Father but by him.  However, he left one thing out, the most important aspect of all, love.

He should have said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life and the love.  Those words should be inserted into the Bible.

When Christians hear such a speech, they will say that it is blasphemous.  But if you ask God or if you just simply think about it, you know that Jesus, God's true son, was love.

From this, we can see that God really likes love, but he likes true love the best of all.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong Book, "True Love" Three Chapter one, Section one

New History of Love

If you told your hand that it could not participate in a family feast, the hand would protest loudly. All your senses would insist on participating in that love.

When a young couple feel the rush of their first love, their whole bodies concentrate on this, day and night.

This should not be the high point of their love experience.  It is easy for a couple to get lost in the romance, but the intensity of their love should become even greater over time

Have you experienced such a total concentration of love?

How is it possible to get 100 percent concentration of God's love?  God wants to come to you and touch every part of you.

When you possess love, then everything sparkles with love once God comes to touch you.  So far, no one has been able to place all their five senses into that genuine love, therefore, we are making a new history.

All five senses were created to be intoxicated in love, thus you become a total chunk of love.

God sees such delicious love, He swallows the whole thing without peeling it.  Even though God is very hygiene-oriented, whenever He sees love, He would not stop to wipe anything clean; He would just swallow it.

When are the five senses able to unite through love?  When you are intoxicated in true love, then with that love you are able to love your husband or wife, your children, neighbors, and nation.

This is the perfection of man which God sought in the beginning of creation.

Where can we find such love today?

The heavenly order of loving God first, then love between man and woman who then love humanity and creation, has been destroyed by the fallen world.  They don't like the heavenly principle and resists its restrictions.

People often misuse the freedoms in this country.  Therefore, love also has become perverted.

Is it really freedom if one just lives only for themselves?

Freedom can only blossom as true freedom through the discipline of heavenly principle.

Maybe men and women go to the club for the evening.

It will be all right for the husband to dance with one of the girls if his wife is there, since then nothing is hidden.  But if a man goes there deceiving his wife while leaving her at home, then doing an unprincipled act with another woman, that is totally wrong.

In love, there must be strict discipline, a strict principle to follow.

After the presidential inauguration there were several inaugural balls. Many men and women were dancing and socializing.  How many of them were thinking about the true order of love?  In many cases, such events help to split up families.


Celebrating in dance is beautiful. I have nothing against it, but it should come under the Principle. Otherwise, such things can be destructive to homes and society. 


It is truly beautiful to witness a husband and wife going out together and rejoicing while they dance and love one another.  If a wife introduces another woman to her husband and then they dance this is fine if it is not initiated by the husband.

However, most times, the man will disregard his wife and look for another sexy woman to dance with or be with.  This is not principled.

God is the master of Principle and He dwells in love.

Love blossoms through the Principle way.  Therefore, when a man and woman marries within the Principled realm, they are building a principled foundation upon which true love can blossom.  This love must be public-minded and unselfish.

Why?

Because no one is able to possess love.  Love is activated only when there is an object which it can relate.  So, without an object, love is impossible.  Even God must obey this law.

Love needs an object in all four directions.

The object completes a circuit that can channel love to you.  In order to receive love, you have to activate it by giving love.  Once you are able to love and serve someone or something, that love will return to you.  Selfish love dictates, "You must love me.  I am here to receive love."

Satan works in this way.  He works through selfish love.  That kind of love always drags you down like an anchor.  In most cases in America, women marry because they want the man to love and serve them.  The women are ready to receive love once they marry.

This thinking is wrong and should change.  You should think, "I want to marry so I can have an object to give my fervent love to."

No matter how big and strong a man is, he will be melted by true love. 

Your giving love will melt him.

Unfortunately, American women are often good about speaking about their love, but are not good at showing it.

Love is an action and deed.

A good woman acts out her love and speaks praise with her mouth.  That's the way it is supposed to be.  If there is love, if it is not public-minded, then it is destructive love.

Which do you think should be more important to a couple?

A savings account or their love?

In homes today, there are two savings account, one for the husband and one for the wife.  If one was to borrow from the other, they would even write a receipt!  If the son asks for money, he would have to pay back with interest.

Is love cheaper than a paper or a piece of money?

When a husband and wife are truly in love, they are one body.  When your whole body becomes sacrificial, a bank account is nothing.  The husband's money is the wife's money, and the wife's money is his money.

God's love dwells in the public place, in the public-minded person. 

The Church promotes the public minded action and love.

When you fundraise, this is with a public mind and is a public deed which you do for the sake of America and mankind.  At the end of the day, you do not even save a penny for yourself, but give it as an offering for the restoration of the world.

Through your blood, sweat and tears, you are able to restore that money from the world and the people by offering it back to God and His will.

You want to set this tradition that we live our entire lives for the public purpose.  What reward do you get for doing this?

Your reward is receiving God's love which is the public love.

People stand back from this public-minded living because they believe that they will lose everything including their sense of self.

Actually, by sacrificing your carnal desires, you get no better deal than this because you gain everything.  Everyone thinks the one who lives such a life for others is a loser, but we are not at all.

Through practicing it, you have become more and more prosperous and closer to the center of love, God.  We know there are many well-educated, good-looking people who come from good families.  In comparison, we look like lowly merchants who do not have anything.

Yes, by the worldly standard, they appear to be far better than Father, but once they determine to stop their worldly ways and go this true way of life, they try to live up to this standard.

Once you are able to practice this public-minded love, you get a taste of real love.  If you need proof, then leave the religious way of life and then compare what you get in the world with the life of a true person of faith.

Then when  you look back at all of the experiences you had in witnessing and touching other's life and bringing them to God's true love, then you will really know what an exciting and rewarding life you have been living.


I have a pretty sharp mind. Do you think I have not thought of this point? By living with public-minded love you gain everything, including the love of God. I will be practicing this the rest of my life. When money comes to me, I don't think about putting it into my children's bank account. I want to spend it for the public purpose. I even want to borrow as much money as possible in my lifetime to spend for the public purpose.  If you know my attitude, then when I tell you to raise funds, no one will complain. Instead, everyone will respond, "You can depend on us."


This true way of life is just and righteous for the past, present and the future.  When you live in this principled way, even though your circumstances seems meager, you feel good.

You are not able to explain it, but your conscience is clear and you are able to sleep well at night without any worries.

The difference is, this is a public-minded place.

We pursue public-minded love because that is where God comes to dwell. 

If we want to attract God to us, we have to live in a public-minded lifestyle

Once a former Harvard professor came to hear Father at East Garden.  He told father that he was the first professor to join such a movement and asked what he should do for God's dispensation.

Father answered him, "I'll tell you.  You can go out into the world, get persecuted, cursed and and give out your life for the dying world."  Without reservation Father sends out members in this manner to suffer.

This is the Principle way of life.

Such a professor with a glorious track record may have been looking for praise and a complement instead.  This is the heavenly declaration: to go out and receive persecution, be condemned and live for the sake of the world.

This principle is the same for the President and prestigious professor.  Father would give the same answer if the President of the United States asked the same question.

The tombs of those who had died for the sake for God and mankind would never be dry.  Generations of people to come will lay flowers and shed tears there in their honor.

God loves not just America, but the whole world.

He is experiencing many problems that only people of faith can solve.  A faithful person can go to God and tell Him that they will take on the worst problem and solve it for Him.

Right now, God's greatest headache is communism.

The other problem is the decline in the true Christian spirit.  We are to go out in the world and revive this once thriving Christianity.

Another great headache for God is the moral decline around the world, in particular the young people.

So, we must go out to the world and assure God that you will take away His headache by restoring the young people.

Americans have become individualistic and have become selfish.  You should become a good example by serving the world, suffering for the sake of others.  Because you have dedicated your life for this cause foregoing the secular way of materialism, you are told that you are brainwashed.

How should you reply?

You can reply, "We are the new breed of people who hate injustice."

No one wants to suffer, that is human nature.

But you are asked to go down into suffering.  Do you think the Messiah has an easy task to fulfill of world restoration?  We would soon to believe that the Messiah returns and at the snap of the finger restore the world to a peaceful and beautiful existence.

The reality is, it is far more difficult for him, than for the person who gets his instruction.

Many people think that the Principle is wonderful, but they want to go about it in the American way.  This idea is rejected.  By following the principle order in an American way, then we become part of the declining America and then God would say goodbye. There would be nothing left to work with.

The third principle we must practice is sacrifice.  Why is this so when no one naturally sacrifices oneself for the whole after the fall?

The love of God dwells with you when you sacrifice.

Sacrifice with love; give yourself to others with love; then you shall win everything there is. 

When we look at Jesus' situation from just a human viewpoint, he looked miserable and defeated.

Jesus was pounded to a cross, ridiculed by soldiers, yet, the same Jesus was able to eventually conquer the world because he sacrificed with love.

Even though there are more people who have a more miserable death than Jesus, their death was not able to bring anyone to salvation before God.  This is because they died for their own individual cause, or for their own crime.

Plus, Jesus had grown to a perfected being without sin, and through his death, he died for the sake of the world, with love.  That is what true sacrifice is.  That love has the power to conquer the world.  When you are conquered by this love, you don't mind that conquest.  When you become a prisoner of true love, you sing and dance.

These are the three principles that are points that a noble religious teaching always emphasizes.

One: You should follow the heavenly Principle.
Two: You should be public-minded.
Three: You should be sacrificed.

This is because that is where God comes to dwell.  That is the only way you attract the infinite love of God.

Through the fall we severed our connection to God.

As fallen human beings, it was not natural for the pure, perfect God to embrace and love the children of sin.  Through our suffering and repentful spirit, God is willing to forgive and love us as his adopted children.

You are bound by your own will.  There is no need for someone to look over your shoulders and check to see if you are doing it or not.


My life was so hard many times that I wanted to quit, but I couldn't. No one else forced me to go on, but I kept going because I had tasted the love of God. When you experience the deeper love of God, you can't for one moment go away from it.  In a way, I miss the vicious persecution and life in the communist prison because there I tasted the love of God the most. 


Within God's love, nothing is impossible.

Because of this love, God was able to endure and be patient through the thousands of years since the fall.  He was able to be patient after many saints and people were martyred, persecuted and suffered to bring about this world of peace.

You would want to experience this total overwhelming love don't you?

If you are able to practice the sacrificial way of life, then you become the central person in your home.

First, become Principle-minded.

That means that you respect your parents because they are your parents.  This is the Principle.  Be sacrificial for the sake of the whole household.  Then the family will naturally want you in that position.

Whoever can truly put this to practice for the nation, they shall become the leader and master of the nation.  The same Principle applies to America and to the world.




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