To Go to a Higher Realm in Spirit World

This sounds like an easy question, but what is truly the difference between those who are religious and those who are not?

Simply put, religious people believe in setting a standard of how they will live in the higher realms of spirit world their entire lives. In other words, they live their to set up a good life in the other world.

Religion begins from making a decision that you will live with God and meet in the future and living a life that leads to this reunion.

All religions teach substance of discipline, but do not dwell deeply in the details of how to live in society.  Content was taught about substance relating to the eternal, spiritual world based on the realm of God's existence.



The determination of proprietary rights in the spirit world

During this speech, Reverend Moon, reminisced about the days when he had to shiver in a cold room and sometimes go without eating even a measly meal.

He said in those days, he was closer to God.  During those times, he and church members, worried about the nation and the world, even though they did not have any position in the world to do so.

As the foundation they laid grew, they begin to care more about how to attract more people to work for the dispensation of bringing about world peace.

Father knew that knowledge, power or money was a means to bring people to hear such things, but these qualities soon wash away and the things they attract with it will disappear as well.

When we die, no matter how much of these things you acquire in life, you have to leave them behind.  All that you can carry with you to the other side is how much you expand God's love to the world.

The only record that remains in the end is how much you loved humankind and God.  This becomes the standard to decide what you own in the next world.

Every person born on earth came to this world alone, but we cannot go alone.

We must take a lot of people with us.  How many people you witness to God decides how much property you own in spirit world when you get there.

There are no signs that you wear that shows that you were a glorious leader on earth.

Love people

What is important to know is that if you did not have God's love while on earth, you cannot eat when you get to spirit world.

Spirit world is based on the life of living for another person.  The selfish individualism we witness here in society is based on the sinful, archangel's false life and false love, not God's original world.

Hell is in the opposite direction of God's ideal.  It is a place where people only can see food and good things but cannot touch or eat them.  They will have knowledge of circumstances, but will not be able to act upon them.

It is a literal eternal prison where limits and boundaries are abundant.

Yet, if one is able to live a life on earth that is centralized on God's love and is able to have a balance of good spirit world and physical world and live heaven on earth, they will automatically enter heaven in spirit world.

Others who do not live this way or do not unite their good mind to command the evil body centered on God, will not be qualified to go there.

What can we be proud of when we go to the spirit world?


When you enter spirit world and God asks you what did you do with your time on earth, would you be able to brag to him that you spent a lot of money while on earth?

Your pride in front of God on that day will be that you have lived longing for and loving people.  You lived for others to reach the temple of God.

Love God even more

The only thing that is necessary in the other world is to love God more than you love the world, nation, your spouse and your children.

This is the Principle.

When you go to spirit world, will you be able to earn a living or do you do nothing but sleep for hundreds of millions of years?

The answer is neither of these.  According to the standard you acquire while on earth, determines how free you will live in spirit world.  Therefore, a life lived for others allows you to move freely throughout spirit world and have the freedom to eat anytime you want.

Establish the family foundation

Why do we need to have children?

Surely because love is present.  Since God exists, man and woman exist, husband and wife exist.

Next, the descendants are born with God's blood, His love blood.  Here the vertical(heavenly) and horizontal(earthly) blood is mixed.  Therefore, if you are not able to have such children, you will not have a place to rest or play in the other world.

Do you think a couple can have true happiness, if they are just staring at each other face to face for 80 years?  There is a limit to this happiness.  They will be unable to live an interesting full life in this way.

It is necessary to be a daughter-in-law and have grandchildren.

There is no greater happiness for grandmothers and grandfathers than holding their grandchildren.  Those who are unable to have grandchildren, they will not be able to achieve harmony with heaven and earth or be able to keep in step with north, south, east and west in spirit world.

Once you experience many delightful experiences in spirit world, life here on earth is dull in comparison.

If you open your eyes to spirit world, you can see it and eat meals there spiritually while you are still on earth. When you reach this standard, you will never go hungry, even if you do not eat all day.  Your body will feel light and you will never get tired even if you run around all day.

So, why did God even create this world, if living in spirit world has no limits that are experienced on earth?

It is necessary to live on earth in order to give birth to children.  Once you reach spirit world, children are no longer born.

Because you are required to take your whole family with you in order to go to heaven, you have no other choice but to stay this way.

Live centered on the tradition of the realm of the heart

Do you think that you will attend church services while in spirit world?  Will the teachings of religion be necessary in the next world?

It will not.  Catholicism, Buddhism, Christianity will not be necessary.

You will be in the realm where you will be living with God, so religion teaches how to live with God and will be unnecessary.

What will be necessary?

The most precious gift is to be able to receive God's love.

We speak a lot about the realm of heart.

Where is the base?

The world of heart is where there is parental love, true conjugal love and true fraternal love centered on God's love where it can be universally expanded.

In the original world, the conjugal love or love of spouse centered on heaven and earth and the cosmos of a husband and wife is primary.  Instead, the husband and wife living for the sake of one another without a center or base became primary.

Conjugal love is important to practice, but it must be centered on the world.  Our most important question is where do we build and find the foundation of love that meets the standard in that world.

We are working to build that foundation in this world because of that.  We are the only place that has started to build this kind of foundation out of all the different religions.

So, what do we teach?

We teach people how to be successful candidates in the coming world of heart.

When you go pass to spirit world you will meet many people who love their race, you will find many couples, patriots and loyal subjects and saints.  But what about those who have lived centered on the tradition of God's original realm of heart.

The pass with which to enter the spirit world

From now on, when you start something, do it based on God.

This is a basic principle.  You are connected to all realms in spirit world based on how much you lived in accord with or have assimilated that principle.  This is from the realm of hell through the middle realm to paradise and heaven.

Does a person go to heaven when he enters spirit world just because he is a world-famous scholar?

No, he cannot.  This is why religions teach how to deny everything and go forward.  You have to give up everything and go the true way of life.  That is the logical way.

Then what is most precious?  What matters most is how much you have suffered for heaven and how much tears you shed for the world.  That is the ticket to pass through to the other world.

From God's point of view, do you think He feels a lot of joy when He sees a couple centering on themselves leaving Him abandoned?  The ones who think such a way do not have the right thinking or any common sense.

The main one that is the most sorrowful about the situation of the world is God.

His tears which He has suffered and shed until now were not for Himself.

God is still shedding tears for the universe which He created to glorify His children.

Why does God suffer?  Because He is a God of heart.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: What Kind of Place is Spirit World?

This post was rewritten and derived from Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Five, Chapter 2, Section 3

Love Nation, World, Humankind = World Peace

Just like God, love is not flat.  Once you are united with God in oneness, a circular motion manifests in all kinds of forms and figures. This is why the older sibling must love the younger by following the examples of their parents who love them as well. Love will blossom within a family that is united in this way. That love becomes the love within a society and then the love within a nation.  In this this expansion of heart, it will later become the love of the whole world.  This is how world peace will be established - through the family. Love of the Nation, Love of the World, and Love of Humankind When you look at the world it is composed of many nations. Nations are composed of societies.  Societies are made of of tribes. These tribes are made up of families which are two individuals coming together. Those who sacrifice their lives to live for the public purpose of humankind will come together centering on their love for humankind. Likewise, have a love for their homeland, they will unite based on patriotic ideas. As their patriotic feelings grow stronger, the citizens will unite through their patriotism in order to establish a nation. You must build relationship and gather people of like mind together once you know you have the responsibility to work on the patriotic movement.  The base where genuine love can settle down is the family. Therefore, the original family that embodies the love of the universe will expand the domain of love in the universe and be protected by the universe. We should go beyond the family level and walk the patriotic path of loving the nation.  Furthermore, we must go beyond race and nation and go toward the path of loving the world. Those who love their family are children of filial piety and virtuous wives.  Those who love their nation are patriots.  What do we call those who love the world?  We call them saints. The path of children of filial piety, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters How do you become a global figure? You cannot become one by just human morality or making people your central concern. If you are only concerned with human beings, then you will not be able to go beyond the national level. It is that which is of heaven that will enable you to step beyond the national level. If you do not have a philosophy that embraces heaven and earth, then you cannot go beyond the national level. If you look at the ranks of the saints, they revered God or did they not revere him?  Is there any saint that did not have God?  They all upheld God's will as their standard way of living. Thus, the saints have spoken about God tremendously, not just about humankind.  Moreover, the saints have taught not only the way of morality, but the path of the heavenly law. Children of filial piety serve and love their parents in a family.  Those who serve and love the nation are patriot. Those who love the world are saints. Then, what is it that I teach? It is to be a divine son or daughter who loves God, the world, and the universe. Which will you be? Will you be a divine son or daughter, or a dutiful son or daughter?  Love is the essence that moves reality. It cannot be omitted from daily life or from history.  Love provides the internal power which moves everything from a parent's body to our social institutions. This is why, when you are educated, you are taught to love your country. You are taught, brotherly love, parental love, conjugal love and worldwide philanthropy of your country. All of these contain love. What does this mean?  It means that we cannot connect to history without including love which is the realm of people's daily lives and the course of history. What do you have to become? You must become a patriot.  A patriot devotes one's effort to serve the people as they would serve the nation's ruler.  What is a child of filial piety?  They are those who devote all their efforts toward their parents. Those who devote themselves to their brothers and sisters as they would serve their parents are children of filial piety. Saints are people who have sacrificed themselves until now and died for the sake of all humankind. What is a divine son or daughter?  Those who reach out to the world centering on God and serve mankind as they would serve God are divine sons and daughters. Historical saints are those who have died for the sake of the people of the world.  Divine sons and daughters are loyal to God, but as they live for God they also live for the sake of all people.  Being a saint does not make you a divine son and daughter or God's child. What is next level after you become a child of filial piety, a patriot and a saint?  No matter how much you have loved the nation's ruler and its people, you have to know the laws of the heavenly royal palace to be a divine son and daughter.  You have to live in the rhythm with the palace law. A filial child's heart goes straight to his parents without changing. The same goes for the patriot whose heart goes straight to the king.  The saint, likewise, has a heart that goes straight toward God without changing. In other words, you can be a child of filial piety, a patriot and saint only when your heart goes straight without changing even in a situation where you may face death. A filial child serves and loves the parents in the family.  The one who serves and loves the country is the patriot and the one who serves and loves the world is the saint. You should be divine sons and daughters who love the world and universe.  Once you have such a broaden love, you must have as much love as God. The child of filial piety lives on even when his household perishes.  This is why there are epitaphs of children of filial piety, patriot and saints. Divine sons and daughters are people who know how to observe not only national laws, but also the laws of the heavenly royal palace. Thus, that which can connect straight to the path of children of filial piety, patriots and the path of saints is the path of the divine sons and daughters. Our life course can be condensed into the life paths walked by filial children, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters. Would they be paths driven by the heart of wanting to be together and live together regardless of the upper and the lower, transcending front and back, left and right, and day and night, and going beyond one's own life? This is the conclusion that has emerged. No matter how outstanding a person may be, he is of no use if he has no love.   Also, happiness becomes connected based on love. The medium that connects brothers and sisters, friends, countrymen, all humankind and heaven on earth is love.  Love is like yeast. God created the universe and established its law.  What kind of being is He? He is the Being who stands as the representative caring for others more than anyone else.  This is God. Therefore, if you want to meet God, you have to live for the sake of others.  God is the king of knowledge, but he will not tell you to come to Him with knowledge. Although He is the king of capability, He would not tell you to approach Him with capability. God is the king of money, power and knowledge, He does not need these things. God would tell you that anyone can come to Him that lives for the sake of others.  God exists in front of human beings for their own sake. This is why we want to follow God forever.  If you want to maintain your own position of existence living within the natural law, you must exist for the sake of others as the universe does. Through serving others, you connect to the East and the West, and to the past and the present.  God has the same love in the past that He has now in the present. God can overcome the East and the West and overcome the past and the present, and even the future. Therefore He is able to unify them into one.  How is He able to do this? He unifies them only in love. Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Importance of the Love of Nature This Post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, "Cheon Seong Gyeong, "True Love", Book Three, Chapter Two, Section 8

The Love of a True Parent

What is a true parent?

Is there a nation where there are true parents, true families leading lives fully based on God's will?  Where did this position of humanity begin?

Imagine if Eve had resisted Lucifer's advances and then later did not tempt Adam. If they decided to live in accordance to God's will and waited until they had matured to eat of the fruit, what kind of individuals would they be?

The fruit, which was the sexual organs which bear the fruit of children, was not lethal when it was fully matured, but could cause death in its immaturity.  If they had waited until God's direction, been blessed by God into a pure marriage and never left the Garden of Eden or Heaven what would have happened?

They would have become perfect individuals who would have been God's external body.   

God is like the bone and Adam and Eve like the flesh. 

Did you know God has a mind and body?

If Adam and Eve had become perfect in God's true love, God becomes the internal parent and Adam and Eve would be the external parents, who become intertwined through love.

This union of God and human beings in love would have resulted in true parents.  

Without this unity in love, there cannot be a perfect person.  The results of not becoming true parents and severing our direct ties and lineage to God, is the world which we currently live today.

Sinless true ancestor and savior of humankind

What has history, this age and the future been searching for?  True parents connected to God's direct blood lineage.

If we are unable to meet true parents, then we cannot find true happiness in the course of history or in the universe.  A happiness that is eternal, not only experienced for moments.

What kind of people are people who are True Parents?

They symbolize the hope for all fallen people.  They bring hope because they have reversed the mistakes of the Fall and carry God's true blood lineage on the earth.  They symbolize what humanity can finally become.

They are the fruit of history, the center of the age, and the starting point for the future where human beings can connect God's direct blood lineage.

True Parents govern history.

Through True Parents, we can return to the new, original world.  We can finally subjugate Satan completely and eradicate him from this earth.

True Parents conquered Satan and finally liberated God and resolved His sorrow and suffering.

We should be grateful for this amazing grace with which we live together with True Parents and attend them and honor their commands.

The hope of humankind is to meet True Parents. 

You should meet the True Parents even though you must walk the path of death to lay the foundation to do so.

You walk the same bloody path with your own sweat and tears for you and your ancestors to return to the original position before the Fall.

Even if you may lose all of history and all of your descendants, once you meet True Parents, you will regain history and the future.  True Parents are such people.

No one can follow this path of restoring themselves and history without shedding tears.  

You should shed tears for God and True Parents.

You shed tears walking this thorny path until now in order to save humankind.  Reversing every fallen element in your family's history is not an easy task.

But how can we even think about restoring the world when we cannot conquer ourselves?

The world is composed of individuals and families, thus for world restoration, this is the beginning point, ourselves.

You should understand how amazing it is that I have come to this earth with the name of the True Parent. What are the most blessed words among all the words in the world?

For fallen people, the words True Parents are the words of greatest blessing, greater than regaining a nation or the world after it has been lost. You should know that these words are more precious than anything it heaven and earth.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Just imagine if you were raised by True Parents, without sin how radically different your experiences in life would have been being raised under God's complete protection and dominion.

Just the simple use of the words True Parents can command history.  The same as the power of Jesus' name.

Who can count the many saints, sages and good people of history who have had to walk this path of sacrifice in order to establish this phrase on the earth?

Up until now, the world consisted of just brothers and sisters fighting one another who have lost their true parents.

Even though the world is full of leaders and presidents, we are all just children who have lost their parents to teach the true way.

The name established on earth holds hope after going through the bloody strife, struggles and screaming is the name of True Parents.  Before there are True Parents, True Children must appear.

Do you think that you have become True Children before the True Parents or God?

That which is true does not change in the past, present or in the future.

Since God has worked throughout history to restore His children back to their unfallen state, it can be seen as a history to establish the True Parents.

Children need direction on earth, wouldn't it make sense that you would need parents that have God's direction, who cannot be attacked by Satan, to set a standard by which to follow?

From the time of Cain and Abel, who God had tried to reverse the Fall through Cain's offering and humbleness to his brother, but failed through murdering him, Heaven has been fulfilling the providence to realize these True Parents.

Whoever opposes or interferes with the fundamental providence to realize this purpose will be deserted in front of the heavenly principle and eventually perish.

The Messiah is the True Man who takes a bride and become True Parents.

This is what is meant in the Bible as the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.  We are therefore, to destined to become the true children.

When the Messiah comes to the earth, even though he comes as an individual, he is not just one person.  His value is such that he is the fruit of all the religions, the fruit of all hopes of humankind and the fruit of the love desired by all humankind.

The Messiah holds the key to all of the world's problems, false love and false lineage.  He bequeaths this knowledge and blood lineage to God's children in order to restore them back to their original position.

Everything connects to this fruit: the past, present and the future are connected to him; furthermore, the individual, family, tribe, nation and world are also connected to him as well as heaven and earth.

The Messiah must carry out the role of True Parent when he comes to the earth.

This was the main purpose for Jesus coming to earth - not to leave an example of how to be a True Son and a true brother, but to leave not only God's true blood lineage but how to be a True Father, True Husband and True Parent through his true marriage.

The Messiah is the Horizontal Father and God is the vertical Father.  He is the only vertical Father. Christianity says that Jesus was God, but this is not correct in the physical sense, but yes, Jesus acquired God's qualities and power, but he was not the same entity. Jesus is not the same spirit who created earth from the beginning.

There is only one vertical (spirit) Father, Jesus was to become the horizontal(earth) father.

You should know that until the appearance of True Parents on this earth, there had been many tearful stories in the background that you cannot even imagine. I don't know how many tears I have shed without you knowing about it. Only God understands this. 


True Parents who do not have the trace of the fallen, sinful blood lineage, become the ancestors of humankind even though they are on the earth today.  Thus, you should attend True Parents just as you do your own.

True Parents come to the earth to restore human beings and make you into True Parents - little True Parents - of your own clan.  This is how the world will eventually be restored.

Where does true love begin?

True love begins from the True Parents.  Even though "husband" and "wife" are good words, there is no better words than that of True Parents.

Without the appearance of True Parents, there there is no true husband or wife that can appear in the fallen world.  We must understand this.


Why do we need True Parents?

Since the True Parents reversed the acts of the Fall by carrying God's direct blood lineage and following God's words, the connection to true love has been completed for the first time in history.

This connection to God's direct lineage and being is unprecedented in history and will not be repeated in the future.

There is only one set of True Parents, one origin.  Even though we are destined to become true parents, the first True Parents are the first ancestors of humankind and cannot be replaced.

It is the same as if they were the first Adam and Eve and those who connect to them fall in order after that.

The love that your mother and father are engaged in right now is not true love.

God's original ideal for the world is realized through the creation of True Parents.  

This is the place where we meet our lost parents, our lost true parents.

All the saints have fought to bring this foundation to earth.  There have been many junctures throughout history, but this is the most valuable one.

The Fall made human beings Satan's descendants. Therefore, we must reestablish the True Parents who are on the side of heaven and have God's descendants.

We must be fully reborn through connecting to the True Parents pure love. This is the only way that we will be recreated and become citizens of heaven on earth.

God absolutely needs the True Parents.  Many people of faith wonder why God could not just accomplish world restoration in one swipe.

Without the True Parents on earth, even the omnipotent God is unable to fulfill the providence of restoration of the world by Himself.   

Without True parents, the realm of the archangels cannot find value in their work to support the realization of God's will on earth.  You need True Parents to stand directly before God.

When you look at the history of humankind, you can see how God worked through major wars, suffering and such to lay a foundation for the sake of the world to receive the True Parents.

All the religions have been seeking such parents, the world and nations have been seeking True Parents.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: God is the God of Love This Post was rewritten and derived from the book Cheon Seon Gyeon Book Three, "True love", Chapter 2, Section 2

Having Family Brings Completeness

After reading several posts here, you have come to realize that the world we live in today is not the original world God had planned for humanity if you had any questions beforehand.

Opposite of popular belief, God did not create the evil society as a part of His creation.

Therefore, God planned that humanity would mature into perfection and only have a taste of His pure love.

Through this, God would have worked through Adam and Eve in order to govern the creation through them.

We know that this did not happen.

What a glorious new morning it will be when God is finally able to assume a physical body through a perfected being.  That will be the time He can love His grandchildren.  This will be more glorious than the time that He can love his sons and daughters.

God could only work and communicate with us through mediators such as angels and prophets.

How much joy do you think God expressed after millions of years in wait for the fruits of His labor to be born?

God had to teach Adam about His own parental joy, but this can only be learned when the children have their own sons and daughters.

Children have no understanding of what parental love is like, but they do understand after they have their own babies and family.

They can understand that their parents loved them while raising them.  Therefore, the day when it is your child's turn to take a spouse is a day of glory.

Also, the day your child has a child is a day of glory.

God's Blessing Allows You to Inherit Love and Joy

You should learn your parents' love and learn how to serve them.

You should experience the conjugal love with your spouse and learn how to serve them.

You should also know children's love.  Do not just give out orders to your children, but learn how to understand and serve them well.  This is the only way that you can understand God's love.

You will stay in the the feeling of an incomplete state as long as you are without children.  You will not be able to fully understand God's love.

You will not understand how much God loved human beings, His children and the heart that He felt at losing His children at the time of the fall.

Furthermore, without being a husband, you cannot know the wife.  Without being a wife, you cannot know the husband.

Children do not know what parents' love is like until they themselves become parents.  So, without sons and daughters, you cannot be true parents.

Parents want their children to be married because they want to bequeath to them and completely teach them parental love and heart.

When parents pass onto the next world, they do not really disappear because they leave their real selves behind with their descendants.

They leave their spirit and tradition behind. This is why they need descendants.

Love is something that continues forever.

Since love is the highest human desire, everyone wants to inherit it with arms wide open.

When parents bequeath their true love centered on God to their descendants, they can stand proudly before God in the spirit world.

It is through the family that love becomes complete. 

You go to the heavenly kingdom through the family.

This is the realm where the oneness of love is realized through the relationships experienced in a family.  Everyone should follow this principle.

Seeds are sown in spring; plants fully develop in summer; they bear fruit in autumn.

In winter, you should stack up all of your harvest in order and carry the essence of this new seed of life deep within your heart.  This is the only way you will have seeds to plant again when spring returns.

This means that in the future, you should become parents and raise your sons and daughters like yourselves.

Why is it when people do not have children, they feel sorrow or that something is missing?

They feel sorry because they cannot form a complete circle.

When you see a young mother feeding her baby bird, you can recognize the deep love of that mother bird.  Western people may not know this, but in the Orient, children are liked more than adults are.

People are polite and have respect for adults, but they show the utmost love for children.

You realize how much your parents loved you when you are raising your own sons and daughters.  Everyone should get married and have and raise children so that they can know both children's love and parents' love.

It seems that western people are not like this.  They avoid having children and rather take up having dogs and staying single for the rest of their lives.

They hesitate having children or getting married because of what they may have witnessed in their own families with their fallen parents.

But if a person is not able to establish the four-position relationship (brother/sister love, conjugal/spouse love, parental love, God centered love), then they will not be able to go to the Kingdom of heaven because they will not be able to relate and know God's heart of loving all people of humanity.

Human Beings Seek the Center of Love

Human beings are born through love, grow up in parental love, and then mature while broadening love horizontally.

This horizontal love reaches the completion of the first stage where man and woman meet and grow together to the state where they can represent the love of heaven and earth. They then bear children as the fruit of their unique love.

Children are born from the heart's core as a result of love.

A child who is born from a man and woman who share this love based on their hearts, creates a path to the center of love.

This center will lead them directly to God.

By having children as a fruit of their love, human beings come to deeply experience the love with which God created all things and human beings.

By loving their children deeply, they experience the love they received from their own parents and the parental heart.

This is the only way to understand and know the heart of a parent and to understand fully God's parental heart.

This love that the parents pour out to their children is not based on materialistic love, but an intrinsic love.  The love that parents give their children does not change even if heaven and earth change and historical ages change, the love between parent and child is eternal.

Through becoming a parent and loving your children, you will understand and deeply experience how God has been loving human beings.  You will also feel and realize how your parents have loved you and worried and cared for you.

This is why we have much more respect for our parents who are aging.

We fulfill the duties of filial piety with this love.

If you do not fulfill these responsibilities, you are unqualified to be parents and your love towards your children would be considered hypocritical.

By becoming parents, then humanity can fully realize how much God has loved them.  Furthermore, they will love God even more sincerely.

A person should love their aging parents more than they love their own children.  They should love God more than they love their parents.

Now you know that this is the order and law of love after bearing children of your own.

Because heaven and earth has a spherical shape, they share horizontal love and rotate, forming a circle on the first level.

When they take a partner of the opposite sex and share love, they have children as the fruit and become parents.

When they love each other and rotate, vertical love is realized following the horizontal love. This forms the spherical world and establishes the center of love at the same time.

The center of love that emerges through the movement created by these love relationships is also the core of existence of the entire world of creation.

The earth exists because it is also moving continuously around this center of love.

The center of love is where infinite force is gathered that enables continuous movement. The center that appears through the sphere of love in this manner is also a place where God dwells.

Therefore, all creation existing in the world is born and exists through God's love and moves in search for the center of God's love.

God is a furnace of love. 

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Love Your Spouse Centered on God

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, Cheong Seong Gyeong Book Four - True Family, Chapter Four Section 5-8

See the Bigger Picture

"Everyone is headed somewhere," is an universal statement. People in the past, present and future have all been headed somewhere.  But what is their destination?

Children who leave the house in the morning, school is their goal.  Even though many students go to the same school, they can be learning entirely different subjects.

Modern science is divided into many fields with each scholar focusing on something different. Before there was modern technology that is highly developed, people basically worked in factories for a living and were involved in the whole manufacturing process.

Today's factories, workers may feel they are a small part of the whole and do not know what the rest of the factory is involved in and many feel that they play a significant role.

Those who go for their doctorate are often focused on a very narrow, specialized area.

Once they are able to accomplish their goal in that certain field and have considerable knowledge about it, they can be awarded with a degree.

They can be compared to residents of the large cities such as New York, who go to the countryside for the week and search the streams for a certain pebble or insect.  For that person, he thinks it is important to study such things, but the realm of the big city cannot fit inside a tiny bug.

Somehow, such research should connect to the realities of New York.

People are blinded by their focused outlook, that they lose sight of the whole.  They lack the perspective of the world, nation, society, or even the family.

As people go about their daily lives, they do not want to think about ideology, or how to better themselves or the world.

This is why the traditional value systems are crumbling.

Americans and people of the free world are suffering, simply because they do not see the bigger picture of what is taking place in the universe.

Thus, they lack any vision and do not know what to expect for the future.

Once one obtains their Ph.D, which direction should he move: toward the universe, or down?

If he goes down, he declines.

The further you descend, the less you will be able to see on a larger scale until everything turns pitch black.  Then  you become more and more confused.

When you are living in this way, your path is blocked and you see only people's misery and suffering.  This is the direction many intellectual people are headed.

Many learned people may brag about their accomplishments, but they really have closed minds.

Thus, universities and institutions are headed in that direction because of the people who are leading and running them.

Once a people live in an animalistic way only wanting to have fun and stimulate their body, they do not see the reason for ideology or even morality.  They wonder why follow a disciplined life?

People live for such lowly goals.

Reality shows have taken number one positions in the television arena with young people wishing to become like the people on the shows.  They perpetrate animalistic lifestyles as rewarding, glamorous and the best way of life.

Where are the shows that show the side effects of living such an selfish, external life without any morals and thinking about others?

Without any foundation, individuals can't relate to something greater than themselves, some higher cause. 

People don't even want to think about a higher purpose in life.

Majority of citizens only see themselves as individuals not seeing them as part of the whole.  They do understand that the world is full of wrongs, but they just want to have fun anyway forgetting all the problems.

They do not worry about the direction or history because they think that somebody else is running it.

Such people are not worried about their community and they do not have strong patriotic feelings toward their nation.  This is the situation America has found itself.

Majority of people do not have any real goals and they do not make an effort to go beyond their situations.  They could at least pursue the well-being of their country as one goal.  Even if they cared about their home town, they would have a place to return in the future.

When people look at the past, they conclude that God cannot exist because they cannot find any trace of Him.  Then because of this belief, they do not see the need in religion.

In any school, the student who is a little better than the rest of the students will be the winner.

People see someone who has a Ph.D and they want to follow him, but someone who has a doctorate's degree that keeps hitting stonewalls in life will only cause the people that follow him disaster.

We all must go somewhere, but where?

God created the human mind where there is a corner of the brain which simply cannot accept a totally animalistic way of life.  Even portions of the body will rebel such a lifestyle saying that life should not be like that.

We can hear this voice whispering from within.  People's carnal desires tries to push them in a certain direction, but then another part will place on the brakes saying, "No, that is not right".

What if someone was to eat at a different Chines restaurant for every meal for one week?  Afterward, he wouldn't even want to look at Chinese food that he once coveted just a short time ago when he was very hungry.

We are living int he age where free sex is rampant.

People meet and have relations without even getting to know each others first or last names.  These kinds of people are able to satisfy their bodily desires, but then what?  Can they live happily ever after or even affect the world with such behavior?

What if there was a man who was having sex with several women a week? He along with several others would believe that he was living a satisfactory lifestyle envied by others.

But once he is alone back at home, he truly know that he feel empty inside.

Then he may reminisce about the time that he dated a simple, country girl who was only mildly pretty.  She may have not worn make-up, but she had a pure heart.

He will remember the days when he was in love with her and he now realizes that those times were better times than he is enjoying now.

Even though externally it looks as though he has everything he needs to enjoy life, it does not satisfy him.  He feels empty once he looks back upon how he was living a pure life and had pure love for someone.

Some people may quarrel once with their spouse and accuse them saying that they do not care about them and leave.

On the other hand a true husband and a true wife will disagree at times, but their relationship has a cohesiveness which nothing can destroy.

Even though they may fight, they do not want to break up.  Which of the above examples do you want for a spouse?  Of course you wouldn't want the first kind, but why?

Anybody with a conscience will say no to this.

Everyone comes to this same conclusion.  How can one talk about the ideal way of life when they are living in such volatile situations constantly?  Where can you find true love in that situation?

Can we find any righteousness in a society that is filled with selfish individuals?

People will feel that this world is evil, bleak, dark and sinful and they would not want to have anything to do with it.

To follow the path of the world brings only calamity and disaster. 

Would anyone disagree that living a life only for oneself leads to destruction?

Since that is the path to ruin and death, what way should we go?

We do not see the solution anywhere in America, Europe or in the great Western world.  In fact, all of the Western society is walking that path toward disaster.

We can conclude that God exists.

God must be hastening the decline of the Western world by letting it crumble in order for it to rebirth into a new world.  It is the same as killing a germ that is trying to infect the rest of the world.

Wouldn't this be the logical conclusion?

If God exists, would He just sit back and watch as the rest of the world crumbles or would He take action?

God would want to exterminate the evil germs quickly, like a diseased person, in order to keep the healthy parts of the world from becoming infected.

Those whose thinking is parallel to God's thinking would be also concerned about reversing the trend in which the Western civilization is headed and turn it toward a new and good direction.

Some Western people have decided that they rather live somewhere else and end up denying their home country.  Americans were once revered by other nations, but now when they visit other countries, they are rejected.  This is the reality today.

America's greatest need today is finding hope in the midst of despair. 

Because God exists, He must have placed a beacon of hope somewhere.  He has made a way to stem the tide.

Anyone who wants to have a part in accomplishing this change is taking up the most critical challenge in America.

When you really think about it, has there ever been a religion or a philosophy that has been able to save America?  So, far we have witnessed none that have been able to completely eradicate this nations's problem.

There has not been any political, religious or social ideology to liquidate the problems of its citizens.  In fact, when we compare the situation of America to just 30 years ago, we see that the country is in an emergency situation.  Even the religious powers in this day are being eradicated.

People may even judge that God is not concerned with the problems of this society.

Do you think it is possible to find a solution?

Of course man has tried all throughout history to find pragmatic compromises to attempt to justify people's fallen way of life.  Many people today claim that God is dead.

So, where can the solution be found?

Through the almighty God.

God is of love, so He must somehow devise a solution for this nation.  Therefore, something new and great should come about so the change can come to the United States spreading throughout the world.

The Communists have claimed that God does not exists; He is just made up to comfort the poor.

The Marxist ideology, based on material,  has been on the offensive in the world and many Westerners have been heavily influenced by those ideals.

If you follow the communistic way of life, you will decline.  Even if you follow the Western way of life which looks glamorous, you will decline.  When we look at this situation, there seems to be no hope.

Communist denies God and on the other side, the free world recognizes God, but have abandoned Him.

Everybody is headed some place, but where?

We can make an analogy of the situation humanity faces right now.

Imagine a boat full of blind people.  Now, they are approaching Niagara Falls.

Everyone knows that they are going somewhere, but they are not aware of the imminent danger ahead where they will plunge thousands of feet to their death.

How will we stop this movement toward destruction?

This is not just one person's theory.  This is a very real problem.

Would we be able to escape this disaster by making a magical leap?  Do we have enough energy to do that?

Why are we even here?

First, we proclaim that God exists and that He is here and not dead.

Next, we have a steadfast philosophy of hope, not despair.  Our philosophy is based on the living God, not on fixing things quickly.

Furthermore, we have a genuine solution to the world's problem which no one else has been able to solve.  This solution is capable of bringing all the people of the world into unity.

Communism is the archenemy of God and religion; thus communists also hate the Messiah. 

America has abandoned God and has acquired a loose standard of living, thus becoming God's adversary.

To follow this true way of life, we were pulled out of the secular way of living in order to become a new breed of people who can go out to the world and bring new life everywhere.

Many from both camps have tried to destroy this work, but what if everyone trying to better America disappeared?  Would America automatically improve?

Right now, as we go on our missions in other countries, Africans may say for us to go home.  But if we were to make a change in the nation, we can quickly influence the world and turn it in the right direction.

If people of America were to demonstrate a true way of life, the rest of the world, especially the less-developed nations will follow.  This is why God placed His focus on such a nation as America built on religious freedom.  Our purpose is for world salvation.

The Western way is now based on selfishness, not caring about others.

Many people want to take advantage of other poorer nations, but we are working to transform the American way into an unselfish and sacrificial way of life.

The only way the United States will truly survive and prosper will be to have its white people and youth give out their sweat blood and tears for the sake of other nations, creating a true revolution which no one can stop.

Do you think that Harvard University professors or deans are up to the task?

Only one person proclaims that Americans should do this work of restoring the world and make it a reality.  Yet, he has been opposed by the U.S. and the entire world.

Once people see him living in this way and continuing to move forward as an immovable rock, they are repentful at how they have criticize him in their heart and misunderstood his direction.


You think, "Of course, Father is trying to do some good, but he is doing it in his Oriental way. He is just forcing the Korean direction on us."  But let's think together this morning. Does America need my direction and the solutions I offer? How much does America need a solution? 

If your parents oppose you and if the government or the entire nation came against you, would you still be convinced that this is the right way of life? But what would you do if nobody helped you? If you were all alone, would you give up? We must not give up. Our devotion will continue as long as we have breath.


How can you say after only doing this work with less enthusiasm that you are tired of witnessing and walking this path?

Father came to this land from another country.  America is not even his native land, but he came as a fireman to put out the immoral flames waiting to consume her.  So, if anybody gets tired, or needs to retreat it should be the one who does the most.

March forward without faltering.  We should be able to say, "Let's go farther" or  "Let's take a rest".


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Everyone is Headed Somewhere

Can We Become 'Ideal'?

What does the ideal mean?  Is it possible for a man to become ideal?

Only God can be the subject to this explanation.  This means that God is central to the ideal.

God's goal is the creation of the ideal house of the universe.

The Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon, teaches that the Messiah will come to the family, which is the building block of the universe.

Your home began with your parents.  A husband and wife, plus children are there.  Is this all there is needed to have happiness in the home is having parents and brother and sister?

Happiness comes when you have harmony in relationships, when there is loving give and take.

A happy home is an environment that allows you to freely express yourself in love.

If something joyful happens to you, would you like to celebrate it by yourself or look for someone you can share it with?

You would look for a loved one to rejoice; a husband wants to rejoice with his wife, parents with their children and children with their parents.

Would the ideal home consist of siblings that fight with their parents?

Wouldn't it be more natural for them to want to be with their parents?  A wife and husband do not come together for just their own happiness, but solely for their children.

The relationships that are contained within the four-position foundation (husband, children, sibling, God) can cover the entire earth.  Children eventually become parents who have their own children, who in turn become  parents continuing this cycle.

Would the children think that it is bad that their parents call the town together to celebrate with them when they are happy?

Would children want their parents to only share their happiness with the children instead?

Father's children could understandably complain in their hearts that their parents spend too much time with the church members instead of having fellowship with the children.

If children have this selfish thinking can they be called good children?  Father's children would not complain because they understand that they labor to pour out their love for the sake of the world.  For that reason, they appreciate their parents.

What is happiness within children whose parents work hard for the members of their church and for a public purpose?  They have happiness because they know eventually that love will come to them.  The ones who receive that devoted parent's love will pour their love to the children.

If those parents instead spent time with their children instead of the the members, then the members would be justified in their complaints that Father only loves his own family.

Those parents aren't neglecting their children, of course they love them, but more than their own children, they love society, nation and the world. Eventually that love will come back to our children.  This principle is true and will not change with time, nor will its value diminish.

When you love the universe more than your own family, you are entitled to receive more and ultimately it will benefit your own children. 

Ideal parents will expand their love universally.

If the parents bring a great benefit and love to Russia, when their parents visit there, they will be well received with love and respect.  If the parents love the world, then wherever their children go, they will be welcomed.

When people receive a lot, they want to reciprocate.  When parents see that their parents are loving the world and working hard to spread that love, the children should not feel neglected.  They should be able to understand this realization and see it as their hope.

What if a wife only wanted her husband to pay attention to only her, or a husband wants his wife to ignore other families and pay attention only to him?  Such a person deserves hell.

Many American women are this way.  They even look for a man who does not have a family ties so he will pay attention only to her as the wife.  A husband or wife usually become jealous when the spouse pays too much attention to the family, resenting the love that person gives to someone else.

If the world is filled with such husbands and wives, would this be a hellish or heavenly place?

Women should realize that the ideal husband is he who loves his wife, but loves his parents, brothers and sisters and neighbors as much as he does her.

That kind of husband is not wasting time with others, but inviting their love for his wife.  It is only natural that the love he shares with them will come back to her.  A daughter-in-law can become the central figure to the husband's family because of the love she gives.

She can become a queen of love in that house.  Any home that violates that principle is judged and shall decline.  Is this true or false?

Some women who are humble and live this principle may not be as pretty, but are ideal because they have this concept of ideal womanhood, ideal family and ideal love.

What kind of husband would you want?

The kind that does not have a family or the one who has nagging parents and grandparents and even great grandparents?  The husband with the big family will be the most exciting place to go.  There you have more objects to love and fellowship with.  By having this foundation, you can receive more love.

This principle is very simple, but American women are blind to it.  Once they are awakened to this way of life, however, a revolution will occur in American homes.

Now, you have the tools to become an ideal husband or wife.

What if your husband disappeared on the night of your honeymoon?  Then you find him in fellowship with his father-in-law, and the next night with his mother-in-law.  If you were unable to see your husband the whole honeymoon, would you complain when you see him loving your parents instead?


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This post was rewritten and derived form the speech Ideal Home

If Nature Protests Humanity's Behavior

We don't think much about the natural occurrences in our lives.  We don't think about our heart beating, the sun rising or the fact that nature exists outside our very home building nests, flying south and giving birth.

 What is the purpose of creation, why do any of these things exist?  They exist for one purpose.  For the love obtained from humanity and God.


So, what if you woke up one morning and trees decided to return back into the ground, all of creation went to the north pole and decided to stop living for humanity?  We would then be aware how much a gift is the creation.

There is an Alfred Hitchcock movie called "The Birds" that exercises this point very well.  I think one of the characters mentions that when you see one or two crows it does not make a big difference.  But then when you see the amount of crows that covers the rooftops, playgrounds, cars and the sky, then you start to become alarmed and have stepped into a horror movie.

What if nature decided they had enough with how humanity has treated the gifts it gives everyday and decided to go on the offensive?  Then we would realize how perfect and glorious, God's ideal for creation really is in its giving of itself to His children and in everyday functioning.

All of creation exhibits God's dual characteristics and are connected to Him through the vertical and horizontal position.

God is Spirit and the created world is material. 

The substantial world is horizontal while God and the spirit world are vertical. God's invisible dual essentialities were manifested in visible form, so everything is made in the image of God.

So, where does this place humanity?

Each man is the microcosm of the universe.

Each of us are made of every element that is seen in creation.  This places us near God, but we must not forget to look at it in this way as well: Nature supplied each ingredient that makes us who we are which means that without the universe, humanity could not exist.  How can we be arrogant toward the creation when it is essentially a parent to humanity?

What if nature all the sudden, like the birds in the horror movie, demanded you repay everything that they loaned you.  What would be left of you?  We can feel that the universe gave birth and made us.

Therefore, nature is your first parent.  All the universal formats or formulas can be found in you. You could accurately say that you are a small walking universe that can move, whereas the cosmic universe is stationary. 

In this way, God had planned for humanity to govern the universe which in return the universe would want you to dominate it.  But would nature want to be abused, overused and misused as we are witnessing in the world to this day?  The universe would reject such behavior.

This is why the first duty for humanity to truly achieve the three great blessings is to love nature.  This means, that wherever you are, you will love the creation and appreciate it.

Then, because you love the grass, trees, flowers, birds and running water you would then love your fellow man who is made of these elements as well.

There is this quote that is spreading across the internet that humanity has fallen in love with man-made material things instead of loving man and this is the cause of humanities turmoil.  Another example is when someone drops their phone it seems to affect everyone to the core as a valuable thing of use, but when a young person falls on a crack in the street and lands on their knees we are more apt to laugh at this person.

This is the situation in which society has found itself.

God had such a mind that when man lies on the beach, you can feel that you are lying in the bosom of your parent, or that when leaning against a tree you are leaning against your own brother.

Would nature protest you for living in this manner?

Or, would it sense that you truly love and appreciate it?  Did you know that all things exist for you?  When you observe it, you can take pleasure in them for that reason.  As a man, you are the only begotten son of the universe, and as a woman you are the only begotten daughter of the universe. Then how much love would be possible between the two?

How many songs and words of love have been given to the sun?  Even still, these poems and songs are superficial when compared to the truth of how much nature has given to humanity as a parent.

Love the entire nature as your parent

If nature is your first parent, your second parents are your own father and mother. They represent the universe and labored to bring your life into being.  They, too, gave of themselves in the process of creating you.

Our parents who are representatives of the universe gave us a physical life on this earth, thus we can feel that we are the center of the universe.  Isn't this what every toddler feels in retrospect?

Our parents represent more than just a father and mother.  They represent all of mankind, so when we honor and respect our parents, we are serving mankind, not just these two particular people.  Then when you love and respect your parents, you will be loved by all mankind.

This is the historical background each of us stands on to serve our parents as a filial son and daughter.  When you look at the dynamic of a family, it represents the microcosm of humanity: your sister represents all women, your brothers all men.  

A true person would treat every stranger and look at them in the same way as they do their own family members.  As a true man or woman, you would view every senior citizen as your own parent or grandparent.  You would see other young men and women as your own brothers and sisters.

If you are a true man, then you love not only your own family but also all mankind.

It is against the Principle to care only for your family and not the rest of the world. 

If you happen to be white, then it is a most exciting adventure to become a member of your black family, or to find senior citizens and young men and women whom you love as much as your own grandparents and brothers and sisters.

When you see someone who is in need of help, you want to help them not because they are a fellow man, but because you see them as a brother and sister.  In America, when our parents become old, do go to their childrens' home or to a senior citizens' home?

Which is the more ideal choice when looking at the ideal of the original creation?  Would a grandmother be happier to live where her grandchildren reside or be visited by them in a senior citizens' home?

Are you willing to accept your grandmother into your home?

Would you do it in reality, or are you only saying yes because you are here? As a new wife, would you rather go to live with your husband's family with many in-laws, or to live only with him?

If you want to live up to the public law of the universe, then you want to go live with his family.  American homes before the 50s consisted of grandparents, parents and grandchildren.  This is more like God's ideal.  Many answers to society's problem can be solved in a family of three generations.

Families now consist of barely both father and mother, grandparents live far away.  Grandparents represent the past, parents the present and children the future.  You have your own physical parents, but ultimately you have one most important parent who created you -- God.

Your parents were the instruments that God used to create you. 

Before we search for the original True Parents for humanity, we must first start by loving nature our first parent.  Then we love our physical parents and then we love the ultimate parent which is God our creator.  God is the ultimate destination and eternal Parent.

When we live our lives in the right way, we can't help but end up at the common Parent.  Then the moment of death which we all now fear, was actually meant to be a fulfillment like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon to live in the air.  God did not create this moment for sadness but for liberation to live with Him for eternity.  We were meant to live for eternity with our family and human brothers in sisters and God.  God is the True Parent to us all where His true love never ends.

This life with God is called the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.

Why distinction?

Because the original world of creation was meant to begin with Heaven on Earth which we have called the Garden of Eden or Utopia.  In this world, the atmosphere would be supreme love, a love that is not self-centered, but based on sacrifice and service. Supreme love flourishes in this environment because it is based on the universal law.


Ideal Public Life

You must become people who can manage all things in a public manner. How do you handle the situation if all grains of rice in the world were to organize a demonstration against you because you eat a bowl of rice without gratitude or waste it.

What if creation had a strike and not go into the mouth of any human being because of not exhibiting love?

We should live a public life of gratitude.  When we eat, we should appreciate the grains of rice and think of it as becoming part of your bone, flesh and energy.  Grains of rice and a leaf of a vegetable are alive, so would they want to be part of a greedy person or one who serves the highest purpose?

Do you think grains of rice want to be eaten by evil people?

In fact, creation does protest those who do not follow the heavenly order.  One who is constantly angry or causes pain to others, the food would protest in his stomach or make him sick.  Isn't this the case?

Every grain of rice wishes to be eaten by good people. 

In other words, all things including humanity wishes to be a part of a public person.  What if the air decided to strike humanity and stop providing itself for five minutes?  Then the entire population of humanity would probably begin to obey its demands to love and have appreciation, wouldn't it?

If God decided that He was tired of waiting for humanity to love one another and wants to force their loyalty, He would definitely do so through sucking all of the air out of the earth.  Everyone in the world would surrender to God then - air is this precious.

The air is such a precious thing to all of you.

You hear people are saying that we must not pollute the air in urban areas. Of course, we must not pollute air. Your health will be affected if we don't clean the air. The same is true for water surrounding us. As you see, all created things are public goods.

We are told not to pollute the air or the water systems because it is a life sustainer.  This means that all of nature is for the public's use - not for one greedy individual.  Also, we enjoy the source of life which the sun provides.  The sun has unlimited value and does not demand for us to give anything in return.  What if we had to pay for the nourishment and illumination of the sunlight?

You would buy it even if you have to give your own life for it.  Humanity must not think of nature as it private possession from which to purchase.


What kind of person does God prefer?

God wants to see a person who has and lives for the public purpose.

One  who manages how they use the resources of nature from a public position.  Also, all things of creation loves such a person because this is the Heavenly logic and Heavenly law.  Isn't it true that people love public figures in society for this reason, but the moment they use public goods or funds or live a very self-centered life their life crumbles away from the public?

Therefore, a person who lives such a public life will never perish.  To become such a person, you should handle all things of creation publicly, deal with people from a public position and attend Heaven with a public attitude.

What if every person in society managed all things and people with a public mind?

When people who live a public life come together and form families, this would become the ideal world which God envisioned from the beginning of His model for creation.  It would become a new race of humanity centered on such public-loving families.  Thus, you must be such a person who lives this kind of public life.


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This post was rewritten and taking from the speeches:
Nature is Our First Parent   and
Become a Person Who Can Have Public Dominion Over All Things
Sun Myung Moon
June 4, 1970
Laws of Public Management

Lack of Love Cause of Society's Problems

Sometimes, years down the line in a marriage, a spouse will wonder with pain where the love they imagined for themselves has gone.  To them, it seemed there was more affection at the beginning of their marriage and they lost it as the relationship progressed. People boil this down to the honeymoon stage is over.

The fond feelings have been replaced with something that resembles contempt.  Children and teenagers witness this loss of love in their parents' marriage and react.
Disillusioned by their parents' failing love, they seek love among their peers and mostly in a destructive way such as sex outside of marriage which their parents disapprove.  When people look back on their family relationships, they can only see guilt and regrets.

Lack of love robs us of community among our neighbors and frustrates our desire for peace in the world.
For instance, when we do not exhibit love, when we see our neighbor's children not deserving the love and attention we give our own children, we will not intervene in their mischief to avoid  offending their parents. If we want to begin to resolve conflicts that lead to war, terrorism, oppression of minorities and the poor, and ethnic violence, we have to sacrifice for true love.

How many individuals possess such a love in this day where they would put their lives on the line to stand against the hatred?  Saints and pioneers of the past have suffered greatly for the whole, but in our modern time it is a rare find an individual who suffers greatly for the whole.Somehow, the pipeline of true love has been broken. Love is thus the core of human striving and the raison d’etre of the created world.

No matter how deep the hurt, how intractable the trauma, no matter how profound the alienation or how deep the sin, love can seep in and penetrate like cleansing warm waters to ease the pain, salve the wound, and restore wholeness.

No matter how deep the hurt, how intractable the trauma, no matter how profound the alienation or how deep the sin, love can seep in and penetrate like cleansing warm waters to ease the pain, salve the wound, and restore wholeness.

Love makes life on earth worthwhile, and it presages life in the next world as well.

Everybody, even those who deny it, yearn for love and yet, it eludes us.  We seek it through love stories, relationships and everyday life.
The Centrality of Love
That “mysterious identity” is true love and God is love.
Psychologist M. Scott Peck said that issues of love were at the bottom of all the problems his patients struggled with. He asserted, “The essential ingredient of successful, deep and meaningful psychotherapy is love.”

Dr. Karl Menninger, a towering presence in medicine, observed, “Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” Health experts are finding that feeling loved is far more predictive of long life and good health than even such important factors as diet, exercise, and abstinence from smoking.
When a parent must discipline and educate their children of the way of the world, it is impossible and not effective unless one gives priority to the questions of love.  When one sees the value in relation to love in every aspect of life, we can tackle and address any issue in life.

Teilhard described love as a force, mysterious yet binding, even on the molecular level. Within each entity in nature, from the most sophisticated and complex to the simplest, he found an observable attraction to other entities. Teilhard said, “Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other.”He saw the entire universe as bound together, molecule by molecule, by the force of love: “We do not get what we call matter as a result of the simple aggregation and juxtaposition of atoms. For that, a mysterious identity must absorb and cement them.”

Many religions and cultural traditions call the beginning of this broken pipeline "the fall of man".  It is the beginning of evil and sin flooding the gates of a once world of paradise where according to many traditions, man walked in oneness with God's heart. Many religions and cultural traditions call the beginning of this broken pipeline "the fall of man".

It is the beginning of evil and sin flooding the gates of a once world of paradise where according to many traditions, man walked in oneness with God's heart. Still, we have not exactly been able to pinpoint the true beginning of the problem in order to bring about a true solution to lead us toward peace.  There is not enough love in the world, and where it exists, it is rarely true love that is connected to God.  There are two kinds of love, false love connected to the fall and true love connected to God.

Love is a healer. 
Philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote, “In the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.”

When  we do find love, we find out that it is rarely true.  When we see this absence of true love in life, we can identify it as the root problem that colors human life with its dark and ambiguous hues.
If we were to define love, it is living for the sake of the other, which requires one to let go of ego and to sacrifice for the other.

For example, let's look at the relationships within a family.  It is very hard to give and to continue to give to one another and forget what we have given.

When we do not have love for one another, it is hard to back down from blaming others, arguing, become power hungry or refrain from sowing seeds of resentment within each other.

This can be quickly remedied by looking at another's point of view, to listen and really understand their opinions and different interpretations on subjects.  This is almost impossible to do without love being present.
When we look at the national level, patriotism is beautiful, but this level of love for nation falls short of what we need in order to acquire peace.  In a way, nationalism is a form of self-love even though it is on a larger scale.  This can take a monstrous turn.

Paul Tillich called it “a god who certainly proves to be a demon.”

Just take a look at North Korea, the last frontier of communism that wants to exalt its power and beliefs onto the world.  Rarely will you see a nation that is capable of unselfish love that would b able to create lasting world peace on its own.

No matter how rich, successful or aloof a person is, we all desire for true love which dominates all human life.

Philosopher Erich Fromm noted that love “is the most powerful striving in man. It is the most fundamental passion, it is the force which keeps the human race together, the clan, the family, society.
The failure to achieve it means insanity or destruction—self-destruction or the destruction of others. Without love, humanity could not exist for a day.”

Even our very cells which flow through our body unceasingly responds to love, yearns for love and drives to seek for love.  Our face was meant to communicate with others in love.  The face is meaningless in isolation away from love.

From the arched eyebrows that rise in conveyed interest, to lips capable of smiles and words of affection, the old song rings true: “You were meant for love.” As Benjamin Disraeli observed, “We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”



We all yearn for unity with another and others.  This yearning for oneness in love is a glue that binds the universe together, thus, without love there is no existence.

When we search for the understanding of the principles that delineate a true way of life, there is no better way than to study the principles of true love.

When we catch on to true love, we feel that we can give all, risk all, love all for the sake of true love.  It is what motivates a mother to run barefoot over glass to save her child.  It moves an older student  to confess to a teacher, "It is my fault," and to take a punishment that his younger brother may have incurred.
It was the motivator for Jesus to stand against his accusers, to love them after their beatings and taunts and to take the unjust way of the cross.
Love is a sustainer. As Viktor Frankl recounted of his life in a Nazi concentration camp:

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way—an honorable way—in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

“Death, where is thy sting?” Romeo inquired when he realized that his love for Juliet went beyond her demise.
“Death, be not proud,” penned poet John Donne, for love lasts beyond death. Many widows and widowers continue to love, talk to, and pray for their deceased partners, cherishing hopes of meeting again on the other side.  The ultimate experience is that of divine love.

“Man is meant to be intoxicated by the love of God,” Reverend Moon has declared.

“Since humanity lost this original capacity, people seek unnatural, artificial intoxication—getting drunk on alcohol, marijuana, or other drugs. The perfect individual, however, is created to be intoxicated in God’s love. There is nothing that can go beyond this feeling of joy. Every cell in your body will explode with joy. Your eyes and ears, the tissues in your face, your arms and legs—everything will be newly alive in a rapture of joy.”

To paraphrase Saint Paul, no power, no principality, not even the gates of hell, can prevail against it. Inevitably, then, our search for the true way of life will take love as its major theme.

True love alone has the power to breach distances, resolve problems of opposites, and dissolving the complexities into an integrated whole. All of this only comes through true love and that alone.
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This post was rewritten and derived from the Textbook: Educating for True Love