Childhood Relationships Needed to Mature the Heart

There is also an individual order by which individuals govern themselves, which is significant in how they relate to others.

The orderings of these relationships, affects the way the realms of heart function.

The love of a mother and child nurtures and harmonizes the developing relations between the child and his or her siblings and peers.

The harmony of the child's realm of love affects the sibling's or peer's realm of love.

For example, one Saturday afternoon, Erica's 8-year-old son, Tim, and his friend were playing with Lego blocks.

Usually Tim gets along with his friend, but this particular afternoon they were quarreling.  Tim did something out of his character.  When he and his friend disagreed over a Lego piece.  He tore apart his friend's Lego construction and threw the pieces all over the floor.

His mother recognized that this behavior came from the busy week's toll on his relationship week with her and his emotions were running on empty.

Because of her motherly instinct, she took him aside and spent time alone with him.  She spent time holding him on her lap, speaking gently to him, and getting him involved in funny little finger plays.

After only a short time, Tim became calm and happy again, and went back to apologize to his friend.  He even offered to help his friend rebuild his toy construction he destroyed.

Tim needed this vertical connection with his mother in order to relate smoothly with his peers on a horizontal plane.

Often, a family’s problems involving children can be remedied by improving and solidifying the marriage. 

Psychologist John Rosemond testifies that when he and his wife shifted the center of their family life from the children to their marriage, getting the vertical order right, their children were more obedient, more respectful, more compliant, and—importantly—happier.

Rosemond likened a happy, healthy family to the solar system:   “The marriage was the nucleus of the family, the children were satellites that revolved around the nucleus like planets to a sun.”



A Healthy Ecology of Love

Relationships between the vertical and horizontal create a greater ecological system that encompasses all four realms of heart (parent's, children, siblings, spouse).

This becomes a support system that surrounds the individual and stimulates him or her needs to internally grow.

When this ecology is imbalance, people feel vulnerable and often try to fill this need in a substitute way.

This explains why a child latches onto her cousin as her 'older sister', the widower joins a dance club, and the infertile couple adopts a son.

For example, 14-year-old Elena is in the children's and sibling's realm.

When her complementary partners of parents, grandparents, and brother and sisters and maybe cousins, she enjoys a wealth of possibilities in terms of giving and receiving love and thus develop her character.  These relationships are necessary for growth in Elena's stage in life.

Jon, on the other hand, who is 27 year old may have different relational needs than Elena who is still a teenager.  He may be more challenged and fulfilled to mature by being invested in the spouse's and parent's realms.

He thrives best by having a good friend and children as reciprocal partners to relate with.

But this is in addition to the parents and siblings with whom he continues to have a relationship.  Jon's ecology of love includes all the four realms of heart.  The absence of any of these aspects will make Jon feel an emptiness in his life.


Ecology of Love

In an ideal world, people would progress naturally from realm to realm, nurtured by their partners in the realm and nurturing them back in turn.

We would achieve the necessary level of heart that resembles God's heart.

The reality of course is that humanity is far from the ideal.  There are forces that seem to prevent people from attaining the growth of heart they need in each realm.

A daughter who is becoming an adolescent may need her father's reassurance and support more than ever before, but he is struggling with finances and turns to alcohol to cope.

A mother who just gave birth to twins, may not be able to stretch her love resources to her husband and her babies which causes the marital relationship to breakdown just when she needs her partner the most.

An older sibling may say something to a younger brother or sister that was biting and stay with the children for years affecting his or her self-image.

We see that people are imperfect in their ability to love.  Yet, the realms of heart march on.

The abilities of other-centered love or love others than yourself are still too underdeveloped to cope with the demands of the realms.

This causes many difficulties.

Because of this, divorce, domestic and child abuse may result.  This inability to love can emerge as more subtle problems such as a mother who rather be her daughter's best friend and live vicariously through her

Many people may feel that they lack the heart to have concern and compassion, and do not have the ability to be refreshed from naturally giving true love.

Then people find themselves depleted.  This pattern of people who are immature in relationships raising immature people has multiplied ever since the disastrous interruption of the love relationships of parents, spouses children and siblings in the Garden of Eden.

Reverend Moon has said, “The Fall was initiated when one person claimed self-centered love. 

The one who proclaims love centered on himself, they deny the value of all other relationships in his desire to make himself the center of the universe.

Such a person seeks to bring benefit only to himself, and the disease began when this desire entered ther ealm of love.

The first parents were thus cut off from God and from one another and started a negative pattern from their brokenness and immaturity.

We see these patterns continue and proliferate to this day.

People who are not able to fulfill the earlier realms of heart, they must perform the later realms of heart and do so badly.

Psychotherapist Arthur Janov writes, “The major reason I have found that children become neurotic is that their parents are busy struggling with unmet infantile needs of their own . . . In this way the sins of the parents are visited on the children in a seemingly never ending cycle.”

The family needs great infusions of God’s love in order to repair the brokenness and restore health. 

A society that had families who exhibited true love, this would be a world of peace and harmony – a true Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

Religious history has been one of God and humankind desperately seeking to repair and restore the original love relationships where individuals, families and societies from.  Thus, they can be healed and made whole.

Therefore, it is important to understand how the four realms of heart in the family work and need mending.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook “Educating for True Love” which was written by a team of writers to explain the philosophy of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

What is the True Way of Life?

Love alone is the core of human desire.

Sun Myung Moon


Modern life is ripe with ambiguity, pain and a lot of disappointment.

All people enter the world with a hope to have fulfilling relationships, happiness, and a meaningful and rewarding role in work and society. This path can be called the 'true way of life”.

This path is not easily founded.  It requires the same amount of lessons that are taught in school.  Schools successfully teach students knowledge necessary for a successful career.  But even with a six-figure income, a person's life can be for naught if they fail to have lasting relationships and have healthy families.

The youth today have high hopes to have love and happiness in their marriage and their families.  But they are left feeling incapable of living in the harmony they once dreamed.

Then pessimism sets in about have a good family relationship, and many youth expect to follow the pattern of “Marry. Divorce.  Marry again.”

Thus, as a result, the modern lifestyle has left the natural human longing for community in shambles.

Neighbors rarely look after the other and are often cold and distant.  Neighbors tell one another that just want to live in peace and rarely take the steps to foster a genuine community of mutual help.

Instead, when problems arise, citizens blame one another or the politicians.

When there are problems with the children at school, the parents blame the teachers and the teachers blame the parents.

Can a community really live in peace where there are a knowing of others who are suffeing?  These concerns of conscience are drowned by the thought that the less fortunate are not as meritorious, hard-working or deserving.  This smug self assurance incline others to not help the less fortunate.






On the national level, partisanship divides national policy; racism abounds, corruption festers, and issues seem unsolvable.






Nations act in their own self-interest instead of the interests of the world community.

Even generous gifts or aid from other countries come with strings attached.

Quarrels between nation spiral into a revenge-retaliation-revenge whirlwind with each side claiming that they are evening the score of past conflict.

Humankind lives in disharmony with their environment.  They often take more than is given back ruining delicate ecosystems and sacrificing God's long-term blessings for short-term profits.

Humanity is unable to share with the natural systems that sustains us.

Is there a solution to the worlds problems, or is humanity doomed to wait for the actual end to the world?

Can humanity as a whole live a true way of life that has positive results on every level?

Answers have been sought through philosophy and religion, yet the answers generated there have often created more confusion and conflict.

Also, political and educational programs flounder in half truths and superficial solutions which fail to touch the core of humanity's problems.

In seeking an objective truth, science has tried to dispel the ignorance that pervades human life.  All of these efforts have helped the enormously, still goals of curing diseases, improving communication the root of the problems have not been effectively addressed.

Men, women and children have yet felt satisfied a yearning – a hunger – they experience.  Something missing.

Writer John Steinbeck described it: “You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields.”

King Solomon wrote how he built majestic palaces and gardens and had a satiable appetite for learning and other accomplishments only to feel that the big void howling inside his soul was yet unfilled.  In the end, he wrote, “this too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Ecclesiastes 2.11

Also, Buddha did not find any gratification as a young prince and left the pleasures of the palace in order to pursue enlightenment.

Satisfaction and fulfillment is always out of reach, just over the horizon, coming tomorrow, or next year or the next.

People think they will finally be satisfied when they hit the lottery or when they make more money or when a person finally loves them.

Yet, they find that when they finally get these things, happiness still eludes them just as mercury slips away from pursuing fingertips.

The Qur’an affirms, “The life of this world is but the comfort of illusion” (3.185).

St. Augustine said that the human heart will always be restless for God until it finds a resting place within Him.

One modern preacher said, “There's a God-sized hole inside of us.  No matter how many steaks, electronics, liquor, drugs, entertainment and sex we pour down it, only God can fill this hole.”

To many people God is an abstraction. 

To many, God seems like a god of punishment with many rules and demands to follow.

Worse still, is many people of faith have done horrible things in the name of God.  There is a lot of terrorist violence, the Inquisition, and the Crusades were all violence falsely done under the use of God's name.

Loyalties to denomination and religions set believers apart rather than bringing them together.  Religion has even been seen as a tool of capitalist or colonialist imperialism and exploitation.

When one witnesses all these caveats about religion, how can we say that God is the answer to the universal human longing of having world peace?

The apostle John said, “God is love” (1 John 4.8).   What people actually long for is inside and behind God.  They want the essence of God, which is thoroughly love.  People want to feel and know pure, selfless love.  They want that love to pervade all of their relationships and their world.

Such a love of God is the true key to filling filled and fulfilled.

Paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin said, “Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them,   Love alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest within themselves.

When people have hope in something, wish for something, buy something dream about attaining something, they truly wanting to further their experience of love.

In every relationship, in every action and transaction, all day, every day, people are seeking true love. 

This universal need is found in all people at all times under different circumstances and situations.

Mother Teresa stated that people throughout the world may look different or believe in different religions, hold separate positions and have a different education, but they are all same..they all hunger for love.

She said, “The people you see in the streets of Calcutta are hungry in body, but the people in London or New York also have a hunger which must be satisfied. Every person needs to be loved.”

True love is so ultimately valued that it encompasses and informs all other values. 

People are drawn to love like bees are drawn to nectar.

Love is the wellspring of value and the standard of all value.  It is so ambrosial, satisfying and fulfilling that once have a taste of it, they will not let it go.

If a bee sucks the nectar from a flower, you can try to pull him away, but the bee will not let go, his body will half.  He still will never stop sucking the nectar.  Selfless love is that delicious.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Educating for True Love, Chapter 1 written by a team of writers to explaining Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon's thoughts on morality, society and Family.

The Public Way and the Private Way

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


Reverend Sun Myung Moon


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We cannot deny this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How would God view this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why do electrons circulate around protons?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What about from the cow's point of view?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Would she want money more than love?

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

This would not have much meaning without love.

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

There is confusion about this point in America.

We observe individualism in America.

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

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

Why is this necessary to point out?

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is the way of the teaching.

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

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

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

Through love, all of the world is one.

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

This concept is not vague.

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

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




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

Can a Selfish Person Change?

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


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



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

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

Should we vote on it democratically in the resolution?

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

There is no way you can drop out.

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

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

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

What if you showed up on only rainy days?

What would God think?

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

What does one benefit from living like this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which type are you?  Are you selfish or unselfish?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isn't this kind of discipline going against nature?

Why should we do this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Has anyone become a great person through fighting?

Fighting causes division and weakness.

Democracy is based on the consensus of the majority.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody can deny the truth of that theory.

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

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

Would Westerners think that way?

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

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

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

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

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

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

We should all move upward together.

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

Only by following an unselfish way can people be united.

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

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

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




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

Are You Moving Forward or Backwards?

All things of creation are preparing to burst forth in springtime. March is the revival month.  This is the season to grow by leaps and bounds; we need to make an extraordinary jump.

Picture an open book on the blackboard.

Do you want to turn over the page?  Once you turn the page, then  you cover the previous one.  If you want to go in the opposite direction, you must turn 180 degrees.


Therefore, to find a new course, you have to turn about-face.

Each of you is in this book.

We each want to get rid of the bad things of the past and become new people.  Now we are turning over a new leaf and beginning a new life.

We use key terms that the rest of the world has not established yet: True Parents and True Children and True Nation and so forth.

We are becoming new people, new family members, new men and women. 

By going this pathway, we have completely turned around toward the greatest ideal.  There have never before been people who have worked for such a grand goal of world salvation.  Most can never dream of where to begin.

We are not just thinking about it, but we have turned around and reach out for it.  When it is Christmas, everyone wants to go to their hometown and visit their family and old friends.  Wouldn't you?


The only reason I don't do it is that it would hold me back instead of helping me advance. I cannot allow myself to retreat; my thinking does not permit it. New horizons and new goals are there waiting. I want to work to fulfill them every moment of the day. Every moment is so precious.


What about you?  Are you able to envision new days ahead?  Do you forsee a new life?

When you go out on your missions, do you go and say, "What is the next goal?  I want to accomplish it."

Or before you go, you go expecting just another tough day?

Sometimes you hate witnessing or fundraising.  Sometimes you feel passive about doing it.  But once you go to a country such as Africa, Asia or Latin America, you will really appreciate such training.

The Messiah's goal is to eliminate immorality in America.

Likewise, he has a desire to also save the Mafia, drug addicts and prostitutes.  Was that not the same level of work Jesus did in his time?

Are you able to do the same work?  Are you determined to accomplish this with your own hands?

Maybe you think that there are millions of Americans who aren't doing much so, you don't see any reason to try.  Maybe you just want to live a comfortable life like everyone else.

By coming to understand Father you have learned about the true value of existence, the meaning of creation, God's will, the true way of life and true love.  But in your heart, how often have you been scorned for doing such work of restoration for the world?

Practically everyone wishes that the church didn't have such fundraising and witnessing activities.

This world is decaying.  Our mission is to go out and save it.

Our responsibility is to apply the brakes and stop the world's decline.

Is what we are doing an easy task?  Of course we know the answer is no.

In the near future, the whole world will know and recognize our good deeds.  Then this is truly a precious way of life.


I heard that the 120-day workshop included some periods of 24-hour lecturing or fundraising. You may protest that it is too much. You all have your opinions about this and that, don't you? You may be right. The United States may not need it, but we have to turn the page.


Do you want to live this way of life or not?

This world is not the limit,  We will be able to go to another world eventually after world peace has been established.  If I was a good, concerned God, I would not want my children spreading their filthy ways to the other parts of the universe.  Once we have world peace, then the universe is the limit.

Once you have reached the spiritual world, your every deed will be judged.  The spirit world is the real, eternal world.

When you get there, will you say, "Man!  I didn't know the truth." But God would reply, "What are you talking about?  Reverend Moon gave my message to the earth.  Through him I told you truth clearly through his sermons."

Then, you would not be able to offer any excuse.

Even though the messages in these posts seem bitter, this kind of instruction is necessary in order to go in the right kind of direction.

We need to make a leap.

Now, we know that unless something drastic happens, this world will crumble under the God-denying communist world.

Once you join the church, did you continue your secular ways making a little change, or did you make a drastic change in your way of life?

After living this way, it is virtually impossible for you to return to your original, selfish way of life.  If you were able to return, you could not live there for even one day.

Then, you would turn around and come back even though it would be difficult at first.

You are a new kind of citizen, not ordinary Americans at all.

Father has dealt with tens of thousands of members.  Many have betrayed him and left.  He would not say a word once they left, but he knew they would eventually return.

When one is doing Gods work, they can face him.  But someone who became a weak solider and turns away cannot face Father and rushes away when they come face-to-face again.

There are many cases where people returned with a bowed head and said, "Father, can you forgive me?  I was weak and was not thinking deeply.  But once I went back to the world, I understood the true value of what you were teaching."

Once you hear the new truth based on the Bible, you came to know God.

You know you have come into contact with a true religion.

Whether you fulfill this mission or not is up to you. Many have failed, but many have succeeded.

You have to take a giant step if you want to be successful.

Those who follow this way of life are transformed people, who are no longer their old selves.

After you learn the Divine Principle, can anybody erase it from your brain?

Even if you went away from this teaching and you won a million dollars living a lavish lifestyle, no one would be able to eradicate this Principle from your mind.

Would becoming a millionaire satisfy you if you know you were not following God's will?  No one can be happy until he lives up to the requirements of the Principle way of life.

Doesn't the truth ring clear in your heart?  It may be raining or murky day where you are, but now you think it is a sun shiny day, correct?


When I came to America  in 1973, I foretold this nation's decline. I declared that the United States must turn around and make a change, but nobody took me seriously. People laughed at me then, but now many of those who mocked me have come to the realization that I was correct. The problems haven't ended-ten years from now you will see people weeping as they realize how right I was.

I have done my duty in the sight of God. 

Father received the mandate from God and has done his best to fulfill that requirement.  He has dealt with the highest possible authorities in this nation, and carried out his mission for the sake of America.

People in the nation have not treated him with courtesy, and have done a lot of wrong to him.  He was able to transcend his personal feelings by acting for the sake of he nation and the world.

Who would be more correct.  The one living in this way for God or the government administration?

History will be the best judge.  There will be a time when people will understand this content and flock to Father's tomb to pay their respects for the great works he has done for this nation.  His tomb will receive homage more than any President that held office.

There is hope for America.

There will be a new generation of people that will crop up and understand the true value of this movement and push forward to bring Heaven on Earth.   People may not be able to understand this today, but in the future, they shall know this content and want to take action.

Wouldn't this be so?

You know this is true in your heart.

The world is moving toward a God-centered culture step-by-step.  You will see that this is true.


I know this like I know the sunlight. I see this truth so clearly. Once we turn America around, the whole world will turn around. Think about it. The United States is a gigantic country, so it's not going to be easy to turn it around. I knew this from the outset.


Where are you?  Are you moving forward or standing still?

Many people think they are moving forward based on certain goals.

There are three people among you: One is indeed moving forward, another is standing still and another is retreating.

Which group do you belong?

You are only fooling yourself if you say you don't know your status.  You do know where you are precisely.

Which person would get the approval rating of 100 percent: the one who just sits around and relaxes, going slowly everyday or the one moving forward constantly without stopping?

Of course, it is the one who is moving and pushing forward beyond any obstacles.  Why don't you give yourself a grade?  Are you 100, 50, 30 or minus 30 percent?  Is anyone below minus 100 percent?

There should be someone who is spying on us from the communist camp to the speech because they believe that this information is very vital.  Maybe the CIA. The communist that participates listening to this speech is really at 100 percent.

To do this work, you have to be at least above the 50 percent mark.  Those of you who think you are above that standard might wonder why you should even march forward since no one else went ahead of you and no one is behind you.

You might think that you should turn around and join everybody else even if they are going in the wrong direction.

Those of you who are above 50 percent are you going forward? Are you 50 and going up or 50 and going down?

After you hear or read these speeches that last for an hour and a half, you are a new person afterward.  You think that you have changed much.  You then feel a great power surging through you that makes you want to shout in agreement.

But when it comes time to do the mission a couple of hours later, you will discover that you have a mountain of work waiting on you.  You will wonder where all your energy went.

Living this way of life living to witness to others the truth of the age, you will find the same old peanut butter and bread when you go in the kitchen.  Once you see that Sunday is not a holiday for you and you do not have time to watch television, you wonder why you are doing this kind of work.

Well, there's one simple solution: quit.

Even the Messiah has the option to quit, as well.  Would anybody volunteer to take his job?  He is confronted with terrible news and difficult situations being told of accidents and problems all of the time.  Then there are campaigns, fundraisers, new developments and problems that need to be solved in every country.

As this movement spreads around the world and members become part of all kinds of intense activities, we suffer casualties the same as people dying in the front line during war time.

Once you are able to face one problem, you wonder how you will handle another.

Father listens so much discouraging, shocking and agonizing things that happen day after day.

Conscientious people, especially young people who are on the side of God, can you say that you are indecisive, mediocre or half-hearted?

If you are at the 50% point, you are 150 points away from the minus 100% point. If 100% on the plus side is the destination, you have only 50 more points to go.

Which direction would you choose if you are wise?  Should you choose the plus or minus?

The most important thing is do not stand still.

You must be constantly moving forward the same as running water.

This world is stagnant corrupt and rotten.  The world's water is too impure for drinking.  But, if you are able to become running water, everybody will come to drink and be nourished.

So, where are you now: standing still or moving forward?  Moving forward or moving backwards?




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This post was rewritten from the speech Everybody is Headed Somewhere

The Right Way - Just Do It!

Sacrifice and service are the cardinal rules of life even though nobody really likes those words. Fallen people hate a sacrificial and serving way of life, but that is the only way to reach the ultimate goal of human life.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon





Who can deny that the sacrificial life is the only way of human life and dignity?

If you are a person who only thinks of themselves and lives for your own purpose, do you think that others will like you and want to help you?

To live a sacrificial way, you need somebody to assist you.  If you live the sacrificial way of life and practice serving others, then everybody will want to help you.

Such a way of life will raise you up to the spirit world and beyond, to God.  Everyone wants to assist a sacrificial person and accompany him.

This is a universal truth.


All these years, I have been teaching you how to be sacrificial, dedicated, and serving people. Is that a great teaching?  Why do you answer yes? It is because you are living this way. You know it. Because I have always practiced this way of life, people have followed me. 


It is an incredible fact that Father, who is Korean, came to the United States and all around the world and people are following him at the cost of their lives.

Why would people do this?

He has a tough spirit and could have become a selfish person, but a self-centered person faces constant difficulties and obstacles because of the way they treat others.

The greatest teaching is how to live in harmony with others.

Someone who truly practices a sacrificial way of life is totally free. 

A person who lives for other's sake is able to overcome any obstacle and pass freely in every direction.  He will be welcomed everywhere.  When such a person returns home, his whole town may give him a hero's welcome.

Once he leaves, he will be given a farewell party.  Such a person will freely come and go with honor any time he wishes.

This is the goal for an ideal way of life.

Of course, living in this way is not easy.  Every part of our fallen sinful bodies wants to do everything only for oneself.  Our unselfishness has been ingrained in us.

A person who lives unselfishly is able to dedicate himself to bigger goals.  He is able to sacrifice himself for his family, society, nation, the world,, and God.  This is the most ideal way to live.  This is God's original pattern for life, but most people do not follow this path.  Then it is a truly special gift to be receiving such teachings.

Our way of life is very clear: we learn to sacrifice ourselves for our family, society, nation and world and God.  Is there anything wrong with this life?

These teachings are given so you can be a truly great person.

At first, the Divine Principle, the Completed Testament, was met with opposition, but people are changing their attitude about these teachings and Father.  Why is that?

It is because everyone understands the value of the truth.  They realize that he is living for the highest ideal and is leading mankind toward a new hope and goal prophesied in the Bible.

How do you show that you are living the sacrificial life and serving others?  Well, what is the content of sacrifice and service?  Is it in just giving away money?  You need to give the very best you have.

The sacrificial and serving way of life is a reflection of the heart of God. 

Many religious people and leaders strive to emulate the saints and the spirit of their founders.

Christians follow the lifestyle of Jesus.

When you were growing up, you learn the heart of a parent.  In relation to your nation, you exhibit a patriotic heart.  Toward the world you embody a saintly attitude.

Someone who lives God's way of life and expresses His heart is living the most dramatic lifestyle.

There are no loopholes to be found in this theory.  You should strive with everything possible to reach this goal. Father freely teaches this making your job easier.

You are pursuing a "Ph.D. degree" in God's heart, which is the greatest knowledge one can seek. 

A doctor's degree from Harvard does not even compare to obtaining a signature from the Messiah telling you "job well done" for the sacrificial work you have done for humanity.

Are you doing everything possible to obtain such a signature or are you doing whatever you wish everyday expecting to be praised as a person of faith?

Even if this is difficult, you have to live the right way.

Every person, even the President of Harvard must go this way, also.  It seems we are living such a lowly life, but we have been given the greatest gift in having a chance to live God's original way.  We don't deeply realize in our hearts the Messiah's value.

Father has been treated with less respect than those in the secular world.  You give more honor to government officials, you admire senators, movie stars and think that congressmen are great people.

When Father was very young, he discovered the universal truth of the Principle which he teaches.  He asked God many questions that even scholars and religious could not answer for them.

After he read that a local young student had committed suicide, he asked why was there so much suffering in the world?  Why didn't God help to stop so much evil and where did evil originate?


I have sacrificed everything to pursue this truth and bring it to fulfillment. I never gave up and I gained a triumphant victory.


Why is being self-centered wrong?  We are individuals given free will, so we should live however we want, correct?

When you live just for yourself, you cause division.

That way of life never succeeds.

It isolates you  and holds you back.  On the other hand, when you are able to live a life for others with the heart of God, you encounter no barriers.  You just move on, advancing with total freedom.

You may think that these ideals are crazy, but it is more important that we follow this way of life no matter what.  If you are not able to follow this way, somebody else will.

If "white" people don't follow, "black" people will. If "black" people don't follow, "yellow" people will. If "yellow" people don't follow, somebody will.

One way or another, this way of life will certainly influence the entire world.

Even if this sermon was given a hundred years from now to your descendants, do you think that they will be able to agree with it?

Yes, because it truly describes the best, and most righteous way of life which God had purposed.  This is the eternal way of the Principle.

You will not be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven without being able to go on this broad super-highway.

Now you understand clearly the purpose of living such a way, do you like this way?  It is not a easy way or well accepted in society, but it is the true way.  The universe protects such a person.

After hearing this standard, do you think that America is headed in the right direction?

What does God think about the American way of life or the family?  We must stop the direction in which America is headed and turn it around.  Even though Americans put up a fight and want to continue to live in destructive ways, we have to do it.

Do you think we can do it?

Does a fighter or champion sit at their desk all day mulling things over or when they encounter barriers they break through it?

You may be at a point where you hit your head against something for so many years, trying to overcome the obstacle and you may think that your head will break into pieces.

Actually, the stone wall will break when you are strong and armed with the truth. That is why you should be strong, bold and courageous.


I am fearless in this court battle, standing up to the fight. An incredible conspiracy has been at work, but I will shatter it. They can go ahead and put me in jail, but I know that the jail door itself cannot defeat me. I am tough and strong and I am not acting blindly. My actions are based on commitment as well as logic.


Father has been imprisoned 6 times for his beliefs and working hard to spread the truth even being thrown out in the snow and left for dead.

People will call such people crazy, but if you are living in a disciplined fashion going the true axis, you are not crazy.

When people move about without  a central point, or any axis, then they are truly what is called crazy.  But we have a disciplined craziness.

Be centered on the axis and never waver from the center even one iota.  No matter how many turns you make the axis remains firm, like a rock.

But the problem is that as we turn, our axis moves.  In other words, instead of sticking steadfast to the Principle, we let the worldly matters move us instead of breaking through those obstacles.

Do you think you made a mistake by living this way; do you think that you have sacrificed a lot for this life?  If you say no, you are better than even the Messiah!  To live a true, absolute course for others, denying your worldly desires is the hardest even for the Messiah.


The only reason I stay in this position is that I have accepted the responsibility. No matter how I evaluate the situation, this is the only right way. I cannot leave it. What about you? I know exactly how you feel. 


To make a long story short, this is the only way period.

Even the top-level student does not really like to work hard to prepare for an exam, but he still has to do it.  Students need to discipline themselves to get good grades.

Learning this teaching is a tough school; this is a lifestyle test.

No one really wants to live our way of life every day.  However, no matter how much we struggle against our fallen selves, this is the only way.

We must live this way of life to reach the eternal heaven.

Are you going to pack up now and go home?  We are standing on a solid foundation now, built by many saint's tears and sacrifices.  Have you laid your own foundation?

Americans hate cowards, but are you a coward?

You admire the brave character and the courageous spirit.

In Westerns, we applaud the strong hero and boo the cowardly characters, right?  Do we want to be cowardly people of faith?

The title of this speech is, "Everyone is Heading Somewhere".

There are two basic ways to go: the selfish way, or the unselfish way.

Which way are we going as a movement?

Is it selfish or unselfish to make your fiancee wait?

If you have the time or energy to party with them, then you have time to think about your mom, nation, world and God.  Your fiancee can wait.  If they are a good person, they will not be corrupted and can wait.   On the other hand, this nation's morals are crumbling, society is crumbling and is in an emergency situation.

You are the spiritual fire fighter and doctors that can save this nation.  Then is what we are doing right or wrong?

Some members are engaged and in the meantime, they fight for the salvation of this nation.  You sacrifice yourself, but you know that God will directly preside over your marriage and that you will have a better wedding.


I have no reservations about letting you suffer for the sake of the nation and the world. When you do that, the entire earth, spirit world, and God Himself will embrace you. This movement will be the guide for America to follow. You will automatically become leaders of the nation.


By living this way, following God's will ignoring fallen desires, we are going the right way.

We are headed in the proper direction, so we must march forth with courage.   Even though you may be spat upon as you do this work of restoration, this is truly the most prestigious and distinguished way of life.

You should be proud of this fact.

In whatever you do, do it with pride.

I have lived a truly remarkable life -- one filled with great drama. I may appear to be a normal person, doing nothing and knowing nothing, but I have special penetrating vision. I have super-sensitivity to the heart of other people, so I know many things about each of you. My way of life is to sacrifice myself, my family, my wife and children for the greater purpose.


Now you should clearly know which direction you should head.

Those who make a determination to follow this unselfish way of life raise you hands and show me.  May God bless you.

Return for Tomorrow's Post:  See the Bigger Picture

This post was rewritten from the speech Everyone is Headed Somewhere

The World's Future is Bright

Since we are flowing toward one world, what is the one language that you are going to use in the future?

Will learning this language be more important than learning English, Chinese or Japanese?

Within the Korean language, you can find the deepest thought in the world of religion.  The ideal and the deepest thoughts are all combined into one.

That precious understanding is found in the Korean language.

Right now, the world does not know this, but the world is evolving and moving to the other side.

The high will go down, and the low will go up. And the lowest will go to the highest point. 

This principle happens automatically, not through force.



Wise Use

In the future, ownership will move from the individual to the group.

Possibly, through ownership by family or extended family.  Have you noticed companies that have been around for over 100 years were and are still a family company run by members of the same family?

Vertically, this is a "world property" concept.

Horizontal relationships vary; horizontally, it is a group that covers 360 degrees group property not individual ownership.

Vertical relationships are one.  In the future, the world will inevitably go from a wasteful society to using resources frugally.  We will save resources, because they will be limited.

It will not be necessary for everyone to cook everyday at the house for the family.  There can be a village bakery, which uses a small amount of resources that yields the maximum product.

When you do cook,  you can make a particular dish, but you would make enough to share with other people in the village.  If everyone was to do this like a potluck, then there is no need for everyone to cook everyday.

If a village was to share in this way, the citizens wouldn't have to cook but a few days a year.

That day of such unity is very near.

People of faith think that this day is slow in arriving.   This day has not only been prophesied, but the foundation of manpower and preparation is connecting in every area to bring this about.

Even though China is becoming an ultimate power, it will crumble if it does not have this kind of standard in the future.  The reason why we know this will happen is because spirit world is like this.

Spirit world is our original hometown.  The earth is our body's original hometown. 

The spirit world is the mind's original town.

From here, the only way to go is toward the world of the mind.

Americans like hamburgers with cheese; Koreans cannot do without eating smelly kimchee.  Trends here on earth have to follow the pattern that is set in the spirit world.

The after life is better than here; it is heaven.

No matter how long you live on earth, it is like a small grain of sand on earth compared to eternity.  It is like one second of life compared to the life we are going to lead there.  Because we were born as human beings instead of animals, no one should deny this.

Once people begin to understand the reality of the spirit world, then they will understand the true way we should live our life while on earth.

You cannot occupy important positions without training first.
 

Is this thinking practical and powerful enough to bring the unification of spirit world and physical world?

This is a dual structure, which does not mean that this is a relationship between two things that are the same.

One is vertical and the other is horizontal.  This is what makes it dual.

All existence has to follow this 90 degree angle where the horizontal meets the vertical.

A tree follows this principle and orients itself to grow vertically.  Even if a tree is on a slope, it never takes the horizontal line.  It is smart.  But man follows the horizontal line, the fallen thought world, which is far away from the vertical line of God.

This is where we observe that nature is higher than humans in that it follows its own purpose of creation brought about by God.  It always stands at 90 degrees based upon the vertical line.  People should bow down to a tree because they are better than fallen man.

A tree, unlike fallen humanity, absolutely fulfills God's purpose and will.

When you are working hard at your mission, it is very difficult if you do not understand the purpose of why you are doing it.  This becomes a hopeful activity once you have that understanding.

There are two ways to follow: one is to clearly see the objective, and the other is when you don't want to do your mission work, but you have to.

In the latter, you will not be able to go fast.

With this type of selfish thinking, it would weigh you down and you would get behind and be defeated.  When you understand the historical purpose behind this work we are doing, you will go beyond your complaints and go forward quickly for the work of God!


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Corrupted Love Decreases, God's Love Increases

This post was rewritten and derived from The Tide of the Heart.

The Public Way of Life

Which world do we currently live: the Godly world or satanic world?

Of course, God is the originator of this world, but it was stolen and pushed from its original position of a heavenly culture.

The satanic culture of "me, me, me", and also war and deceit has gone as far as it will go and has now bore fruit.  That world has nothing more to accomplish.

The satanic world has love, but it is definitely not true love.  What God's world center on?  It will center on true love.

The evil world starts in the highest position, but it becomes smaller and smaller and drops down into hell.

On the other hand, God's world starts small, yet it becomes bigger and bigger.  The fallen world was established on a selfish love centered on the individual thinking not based on God's word.

They have enjoyment centered on the self.  Everything is individualistic, including the economy.

Even though it doesn't look like it and it has humble beginnings, God's dispensation is going up.  It does not rise for the individual only, but for the sake of the whole..  This means that the individualistic way of life will come down to hell.  Where else could it go when God's direction is going up?

People of faith start small, but move toward the great, big world of true love.

Evidence in history shows that the selfish way of living will inevitably go down into the bottom of hell.  Even though it looks like evil prospers, it is bound to fall into hell.

The satanic side keeps getting smaller and smaller, step by step losing the family, the clan, the nation and the universe.  This means that those on the side of Satan eventually lose everything.

On the contrary, in God's world, the lower it goes, the bigger it eventually will become, because we live for the sake of everything greater than the individual itself.  This is the public way of life.  You want to stand in love representing the individual family, clan, nation, world and universe.

If the individual in the center representing each level has true love, every realm of ownership is connected.  His ownership is unlimited.  The individual does not own himself, but his own family, nation and so forth.

On the satanic side, you start having everything but everything will be lost one by one.  Until it becomes narrower centered on the individual's thinking and finally everything is lost.

With true love you come to possess the heavenly family, clan and nation, but with satanic love you can have none of those things.  This is happening in America as it declines.

No one owns anything beyond the sphere of the self.

The individual is ultimate; he is number one.

Therefore, the individual demands they have a right to exist as an individual alone and never marry.  This attitude is  never adequate.  Because of this thinking, the American individual denies his brother, sister, his physical parents, and the president and first lady because one claims they have nothing to do with him.

But, when we look from God's point of view: everything has a lot to do with the individual.  As an individual, you represent the family, your clan, your society, your nation, your world and your cosmos.  This is the original purpose for God creating the human family.

When we live this public way of life, this is what we will inherit.  Therefore, we see that the way the individual and world is today is far from God's ideal for humanity.

So, in accordance with God's great will for development, if a group or eventually country replaces the satanic way with God's way, then the earth will come to have meaning.  On the other hand, if humanity continues in the direction it is headed, humankind will reduce down and stop developing.

This is hell.

So any group and nation which diligently works in God's way will eventually replace the satanic way of life.

Everything looks the same, even to a confusing degree, but the origin is clearly different.

Satan started his world centered on his will and ideas as an individual.  On the other hand, God started with everyone in mind, not Himself in mind first.

These are clearly two different beginnings.  So, God ends up in what we call heaven and Satan ends up in a frozen hell.

God's ideal and will is that every person is treated the same and ends up in heaven.  God did not create hell and intend for even one person to live there.

Those who stay in the individualistic realm goes to hell to live for eternity with the individualistic Satan. 

There is only one way for all of us to be able to survive and prosper:  that way is to lead a public life.

This means that every individual invest what you have into another person instead of taking away  what others have.  Satan's motto is to "take away".  The only way Satan survives is by God giving him more.

Satan has worked his destruction throughout history.  On the contrary, religion and religious people on God's side have been paying the indemnity to turn history toward God's side.  God operated the whole dispensation through religion.  Therefore, this makes God Himself a public being.

You stand as an individual, but the individual himself has no place in God's world.  You are not "I".  "I" only exist in terms of representing the larger levels.

Even the most 'evil' person still has their original mind given by God.

This individual on the satanic side even knows that he should represent other levels outside himself, but he has no foundation to do so.  This causes him tremendous pain.

Pain accompanies the individualistic way of life and happiness follows God's way of life.

These are two different worlds.

America is a country that follows the satanic fashion of life, but God's great movement is sitting in the middle of America trying to replace this fashion of America and in the whole world.    God does not want just one race in America.

Those on God's side go beyond racial concepts and boundaries.  

The true country is the country that can live beyond the sake of themselves.

God's side: each person respects and loves others and they gradually go up.

Satan's side: they do everything to live for the sake of themselves.

This means that Satan's side is always about, 'me', 'me'.  Everyone pulls everything to themselves, want others to live for them and take from others.  Those who live this way gradually go down and further down.

God's and Satan's side are two different routes.  When one goes up, the other must go down.  They cannot both survive.

God's way of true love in history is the original way.

This original way of love is the reason why happiness comes as a result of living for the sake of others.

Why is God's way this way?  Because when He began creation, He sacrificed His whole being leaving not one bit of Himself to Himself.  When He invested everything He had, He did so while forgetting and investing more, and forgetting again.  

This is the fundamental principle for love and happiness.  It is very obvious that the other side does not practice this way of life.

The solution to bring the world into this way of life is to effectively change the self-centered way of life into a public way of life.  This is a major key to solving the world's problems.

God's Words

We will discover new life, new love, and new lineage when we change from the satanic blood lineage to God's pure blood.

From where does life originate?  Life originates from the parents.  We have veins and arteries.  Veins pull and arteries push.  This comes from the pushing and pulling of love from the father and mother.  This was inherited from God's original way of love.

The heart and a mother represent the universe itself and both must be strong.  They are a small cosmos.

Everything we find in the universe, we can find in each and every individual.

The sperm and ovary are each exactly half.  When these two meet together, they make a whole, a brand new individual.

This is God's way:  exhale and inhale, meet together and separate, get married and give birth, go low and high - God performs this movement.  The whole universe does this movement.  When we look from this perspective, each one is a true masterpiece of creation.  Therefore, the masterpiece of creation is the individual self.

When we think about it, we have billions of cells flowing uninterrupted through out bodies.  How is it possible for them to find common joy and excitement?

Even cells find each other when true love is an action.  What action will bring forty billion cells of a man and forty billion cells of a woman together?

This invisible power is true love.   True love causes this kind of vibration.

All the cells of a man and woman will shout for joy when the two are joined by true love.

This is the same love that we are willing to invest 100% and more for the sake of another.

Do you know a couple like this in your family?  Do you yourself try hard to devote everything to your spouse?

When you conceived your children, did your cells jump for joy in excitement?  What kind of children do you have, heavenly or earthly children?  We can ask our children what kind of parent we are.  Are you a 100% parent, or only a partial parent?

Your spouse, your children and even the entire universe want you to become a 100% parent.

Thus, we should look back on our actions within our family and see how much inadvertently we have damaged the world and the universe.  There is a system in the heavenly world that measures what degree our mind and body are united, our couple is united and what percentage parents we are.

A great movement that will change the world desperately wants to become part of the universal tide and then increasingly propel it.  Thus we want this black current to go around and around the world and become greater every moment.  We should have this same hope and purpose as people of faith.

We must erase our satanic behaviors, leaving no trace of their existence.  

Then, the heavenly current will swell in the forty billion cells of our body.  By doing so, we will have open ourselves up to receive that in ecstasy and joy.  We must gear our lives toward that.

Even if we do not have the capability to do so as of now, somewhere in the world such a movement will form to do so.  Is this something to become a part of or create?  Will God do it for us or do we need God's help to build it?

In the Last Days, people believe that Jesus will miraculously appear and either cleanse the earth automatically after Armageddon, or destroy the earth and bring along God's faithful back with him to heaven.

Can restoration be automatic with a push of a button?

Does God have hands and feet to build?  No, God works through His children which are you and me.

Even when God speaks, most people do not have the ears to hear Him.  So, God has His people of faith speak on His behalf so that everyone from all walks of life can hear.

God's words are Divine Principle. 

When we relate to others the Divine Principle, we are God's mouthpiece.

Divine Principle is the material used to write every single post on this blog.  The taste of the Divine Principle acquires a newer taste even after you have heard it a thousand times.  Even a person who has heard it more than a thousand times will never get tired of it.

The more one hears it, the more you discover from it.

Even re-reading the same words a year later will have a different and more complex understanding to a person as they grow in spirit and heart.

Just listening to Divine Principle ten times is not enough.

Our body needs food to continue to grow; our spirit body needs God's word to continue to grow into maturity.  Do you get tired of eating and say that you will not eat this week because you have eaten this month already?

Can you get tired of eating food:?

When you are exhausted and hungry, isn't it exciting when you get a chance to eat?

Humanity hungers for the sweet taste of God's words.  We should hear God's words everyday, eternally.  This is true even once we reach the spirit world.

To prepare for that, we should train ourselves while we are on earth to hear God's words daily.



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The Tide of the Heart