How to Strengthen the Power of the Mind

When the sinful body is led by the godly mind, true love comes into being.

The essence of strengthening the mind is to toughen your moral will. What if everyone in the world lived by God's moral code. We would immediately see peace in the world. All conflicts would be resolved through God's point of view.

We must start with the basics. To strengthen the mind, it must be built up daily like a muscle through daily habits.

Through the small choices to do the right thing everyday, despite any fear, distress or fatigue, we can make our godly mind stronger than our flesh. Therefore, to strengthen this mind, we need challenges which allows us to encounter adversity and develop inner strength and will.

Here are five ways to harvest these skills:

1. Determining and realizing your goals

The most basic way to strengthen your will is to make a determination to God and yourself and achieve your goals.

For example, this could be talking to a relative that you know is distressed over a situation instead of enjoying a book. Or choosing a career that serves humanity such as social work.

To challenge yourself more, you can set goals that rely only on your spiritual power, deep prayers, studying the truth, and your acts of true love.

“Twelve years ago when I first came to Mountainview High,” recalls a physics teacher in a rural school

in the American Midwest, “I swore that I would bring the white and Native American students and faculty together in a tangible way. I prayed about it every day, stuck my neck out more than a few times, got misunderstood a lot and once almost lost my job. But now in the faculty there are cross-cultural friendships developing and this year the president of the student council is a Native American boy.”

To make promises to God and fulfill them is significant to reverse humanity's betrayal of the Creator.

This is the most powerful way to get divine support, also through building your self-respect and faith in yourself.

Heaven and other people notice the one who can always be counted on to fulfill their promises and carry out their responsibilities.

2. True Love as a Motivator

To have motivation will give you the power to go beyond any discomfort when it depends upon meaningful purposes that make the sacrifices you encounter worthwhile.

The strongest motivator is true love.

Love is the key to unification of mind and body.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

This kind of love is familiar to parents.

A father son team was the first team ever to finish the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in 1999. Dick Hoyt, was 62 and still raced every Boston Marathon for over 20 years while pushing his paralyzed adult son, Rick in his wheelchair.

His son excitedly declared that, “It was as if I wasn't even handicapped!” This was enough motivation for his father to challenge his every physical limitation and give his son such an awesome experience year after year.

The power of love is behind the heroic sacrifices of religious and national lore.

Many of the first Pilgrim settlers to North America starved to death instead of eating their grain that was later to be planted. They endured such hardships out of love for the next generation and the hope to build a community that could worship freely unlike their previous community.

Christians recount how St. Peter faced a painful execution upside-down on the cross gratefully out of love for God and his Savior Jesus Christ.

Whether if such acts are done on legendary proportions or just a small act of unselfishness found daily, true love is the strongest means to subdue your fallen body.

3. Acting on Faith

We can mobilize a tremendous power of self-control when we can sustain a great vision of the future despite any obstacles we face right now.

Debi Faris is a woman who is familiar with heeding the call of her heart and conscience in faith. As a wife and mother of three teenagers, she heard this call when she heard news of an abandoned baby found dead. She arranged to give the child a proper burial, and soon, one child led to three.

Her middle-class family committed to ultimately $27, 000 in expenses despite other pressing expenses her family had. She recalls, “I remember praying, “i don't think I can do this, God. I don't think I have the courage.

“I stayed quiet for a while until I sensed that what we were doing was right. It was an act of love, and at that moment I made a commitment to offer it to any child who needed it.”

She has since raised funds and organized volunteers to found a cemetery for abandoned babies called, “Garden of Angels. She fights for legislation to help prevent further tragedies.

Such people who believe in their own gifts or that truth and goodness will ultimately win, those who cultivate the power of faith and hope and demonstrate “sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not curently see” (Hebrew 11.1) have a priceless advantage that enables them to harvest their strongest resources to unite mind and body.

4. Service

Serving others physically such as massaging an elderly person's back, preparing food for homeless shelters, picking up bags of trash for the community, these practices are especially helpful for training our moral will through demonstrating humility.

A man and his comrades of a service club recalls how they were ready to do whatever work was necessary for his community without any fanfare.

“The staff at the rehab center were surprised to see middle-aged men willing to just set up the party, serve the boys soda and food and take down and mop up afterwards. And it didn’t do this CEO big shot any harm either to do grunt work for a bunch of not-too-grateful teenagers. I think I learned a few things.”

5. Connection with God

Ultimately all of these methods used to strengthen the moral fiber support the greatest remedy for the mind and sinful body to unite: only through the connection to the divine Source.

The first necessary step is to center your mind on God.

Then your body will automatically become one with your mind.

Through prayer, worship, study of God's words, supporting the spiritual community, acting on faith, fulfilling goals, being humble and offering service, all of these time-honored ways accesses the Heavenly Parent and tremendous resources of strength.

“Live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature,” promises St.

Paul (Galatians 5.16).

The stronger the bond with God, the more readily your mind can conquer the fallen body.

Corrie Ten Boom was a watchmaker who was sent to Hitler's concentration camp because he rescued many Jews. After the war, he gave lectures about God's love and forgiveness and healing of wonds caused by the war. After one of her lectures, a former S.S. guard of her concentration camp waited at the back of the room

She instantly flashed back to the time she and her sister were forced to walk naked in front of the male guards on the way to the showers. They were ill, cold, hungry, elderly and in deep pain. They were also mocked sexually by the guards.

She remembered at that moment, her sister's pained face as she had to bear the humiliation in front of the very guard who attended her lecture.

Unfortunately, her sister died at the concentration camp. This former guard now came up to Corrie and acknowledged God's forgiveness of his past and he now asked for hers. He held out his hands to her.

She remembers, “I tried to smile. I struggled to raise my hand. I could not. I felt nothing. Not the slightest spark of warmth or charity.”

Yet her strong religious beliefs told her she must forgive him. She breathed a silent prayer to give her the strength to do the right thing. She resolutely took his hand in to her own matching her deds to her highest ideals and loftiest words.

Then, “As I took his hand the most incredible thing happened. From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me.”

She then cried out to this soldier that he was her brother and assured him her forgiveness. Through her willingness to act upon the beliefs she always lectured upon, she unleashed a flow of true love which liberated both persecutor and persecuted.

To love another at the most difficult time requires the capability of the mind to assert itself over the demands of the satanic body.

Such efforts reduce the unnecessary pull of the flesh and at the same time enhances our moral and spiritual strength. Thus, the mind and body can unite centered on God's ideals.

Then, the heart is also liberated to give of itself freely and unselfishly, and reap the rich rewards therof.

Such a world of experiences would be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the Religious Textbook Educating for True Love, written by a team of writers to explain Reverend Sun Myung Moon's philosophy.

Love Your Spouse Centered on God

No matter how much we practice religion while living for the sake of others, we notice that there is such a resistance to the good activities that we do.

Haven't you noticed this conflict within ourselves?

This is because each one of us as an individual has a mind and body that is in mutual conflict.  Thus, we should unite our good mind as the center where God can come and dwell.

When a man and woman become a couple, they have many hopes and dreams for their future.

What couple comes together desires divorce, conflict and separation when they finally find each other?

Even if it is not their hope, the more we look into the society of relationships, we see such division and conflict.  There seems to be no solution to the problems between man and woman relationships.

Some people have a clear-cut answer and that is to never marry.

But could this be the original ideal God had planned when He beheld the first two beings on earth?

God made it clear that He wanted humanity to be matured in love and then prosper and multiply.  Since we are not living in the original way God intended the purity of a man and woman uniting has been turned around in the opposite direction.

Instead of two people who matured into perfect individuals uniting centered on God, the world is filled with billions of fallen individuals who do not fully mature in love or center their lives or marriages on God, therefore, conflict is sure to rise.

So what was God's original purpose for creating a union of man and woman?

A perfect man and perfect woman were to marry centered on God's will thus fulfilling God's whole purpose for creating the world.  Thus the three would enter a spherical relationship where God could govern all of creation through His perfect objects man.

When such a man and woman receive the marriage blessing directly from God sharing their perfect love and delighting in joy, in God's eye this is like a flower that has blossomed on earth for the first time.

All the forms of harmony that unfold through their love are like a fragrance to God.  Therefore, God will come before them because He wants to live amid such beautiful flowers and fragrances.

Even God is Enraptured in the Love of a True Couple

God can love only in the place of a true couple's love.  This is where all things in the universe harmonize.  This is the teaching of the Divine Principle and it explains such ideas and the path to follow.

What sound and melody do you think God would like to hear more than anything in creation?  It is the sound of laughter coming from an eternal married couple that likes each other and rejoices with one another.

When such a couple understands and embraces the world and lives a life with a heart that can love the entire universe, then this laughter becomes natural.

This sight is of such a loving man and woman before God is like a flower to Him.  This is not a simple idea, this is speaking about the original world which God intended for His children to live.

When you look at a mountain, a husband and wife ask the mountain for whom it comes into being.  Also, for whom does the universe come into being?

They would answer saying that they come  for me and at the same time for you.

This is the same for what a married couple is like.  The husband and wife unite through fulfilling the purpose of the universe and valuing the central purpose.

When the husband and wife speak to one another it should be centered on heart, personal character and love.  Even if a lady is a country bumpkin, what will her status be if she marries a government official or minister?

They go the same way.

Although that country lady may only have an elementary school diploma, everyone will bow their heads to her because she is the minister's wife.  This is the way for a husband and wife to go together.

Would their love be separate for her and him?  For them, love is both your love and my love at the same time.  It is your love and my love.

True love is that with which you love with your entire bodies as one, and with your whole hearts and blood vessels as one. 

Who could such people be that can love like this?

It is the love of a husband and wife.  If there was no such thing as husband and wife in the world, would life have any appeal?

When you watch the conversations between a loving couple, their words are more beautiful than any poem or painting in the world.

Moreover, how beautiful and splendid are the words, "Just between two people in love" and "Just by ourselves," and "Just the two of us"!  These are all good phrases, but what do you think is the best among these three spoken?

If I call my partner and say, "Hello!", she will answer in a corresponding manner, saying "Hi!" and if I call her saying, "Hey," she will answer, "What?" and if the husband uses cute phrases such as, "Hello, Dear!". But if he speaks to her bluntly she will answer in like manner, "What's the matter?" This is just like the mountain echo, everything is reciprocal.

Everything is reciprocal when people are intoxicated with love.

For instance, when a man laughs, he opens his eyes even bigger and when a woman laughs, she gently closes her eyes.  If the husband's eyes get bigger and bigger and the wife's eyes get smaller and smaller we can say that they are a happy couple intoxicated with love.

The More a Husband and Wife See Each Other, the More They Want to See Each Other

When does a man and woman feel happy?

They feel happy when they become partners and share love.  If a man were to relate to a woman by swinging his fist with physical force, this couple would never be able to attain any happiness.

When the man embraces and protects the woman with his strength and loves her, she will be able to feel true happiness.  The love between a man and woman does not work just with strength or just within the mind.

The woman will be able to experience a real feeling of happiness when the man affirms his loving heart with his strength.  Then when she returns love to him with her body and mind they will be a truly happy husband and wife.

A person always needs stimulation. Happiness does not come without stimulation. 

Stimulation is necessary in a relationship.

Just as eating meals everyday is better when it is fresh only when you are hungry each time you eat, the same with the love between a husband and wife should always be new and fresh.

The more the wife and husband see each other, the more they should desire to see each other and long to be together all day.  Love has value when two people long for each other.

In asking for love, if you have a mouth, you should open it, and if you have eyes, you should open them. Only then, will the giver of love be happy.

If you just remain silenced and dumb, love would run away on its way to you. You should know this.  How would you feel if your lover was not serious and behaved half-heartedly toward you in their affection?

Would you rather be together or separated from your beloved?

The closer you are to each other the better everything is.  Why is this so?  It is because everything works together.

What is the thing you like the most?  Is it food?

If you see some food when you are hungry, of course you will eat it with more joy than if you were already full.  But this pleasure is only temporary.

If someone gives you more food, even after you have become full you would not like to eat it so much.
But this is not the case with the one you love.

Is there anyone who says of his lover, "I want to forget her?"  Even if you have seen her over and over again, you still want to see her yet again and again.  Isn't this so?

Even if you have just seen her, you want to see her again, and even after seeing her again.  This way, you first stand one in front of the other, and alternate like a wheel of a cart.  This is the place where unification begins.

A wife that knows love sometimes gets the impulse to bury her head in her husband's chest to enjoy an afternoon nap as he watches television.

This is because she is drunk with happiness.  Before marriage, the man appeared ugly and strange, but after the marriage, she misses him and has to see him many times in a day.  This is how the hearts change.

Therefore, sometimes she will ask him to come home during the lunch break for a quick visit.  This is the same for the man who has come to know love.

Whenever he has a chance, he would like to sleep using his wife's knees as a pillow.  He will run home whenever he has a free moment, regardless of whether it is lunchtime or for a short coffee break.

If he wants certain things done, he will not hesitate to do things for her, even if he didn't like doing them before marriage.  He'll do things that he probably complained and said, "This is a woman's job.  A mighty man shouldn't do it."

These changes come about in men and women because of love.

When God created humans and blessed them, He did so in such a way that the husband and wife would be happy and experience joy.

A husband and wife that that have opened and entered such a gate of blessings will be lost in whispers to each other.

This kind of couple only says sweet things to each other.

For instance, "I have been waiting like this in order to meet you.  My whole life will reveal its value like a blossoming flower through you.  I was born to love you, and I have been waiting for this day."

There is nothing in existence that is as sweet as secret words of love.  The secret words whispered by a husband and wife, even when together in bed, will be a refreshment to dissolve all the fatigue and hatred of the world.

How Conjugal Love Develops

A man and woman who meet through the mediation of God would express their love through the process of the development of love.  The first is the lips, the second is the breasts, and the third is the sexual organ.

It is through the lips that a woman when she first meets a man feels shy and will hide before starting to love him.

A woman covers her lips with her hand because of this.  It is because of love starts with kissing.
When love matures, sons and daughters are born as its fruit.

For a woman, her sexual organ is the holy place of love.  So, should she have several keys for many men to explore this place?

She should have only one key to open that gate held only by her husband.  If a husband has two or more keys to a woman's holy place of love, he is Satan.

Also, if a woman's holy place could be opened by any key other than her husband, she is also Satan.

Once the husband holds the key of love to his wife's holy place and enters there, the most precious sons and daughters in the whole world will be born.

The value of sons and daughters is such that they are an encapsulation of love, not exchangeable for anything in the world.

Parents will experience the heart by which God created the first human ancestors through loving their sons and daughters.

This is the reason why parents rejoice when they look at their children, singing, "You are my love, whether, I look at you this way or look at you that way."

No matter what your baby does, who is born through love, you never hate him, but simply love him. This is because he is part of your body, made of your own blood and flesh and your love.

Whether he pees, takes a poop, has a runny nose, he will still be simply cute and lovely to your eyes. It is because love is dissolved into such things.

In a husband and wife relationship, if their love is joined through a strong force, they must be joyful and feel their partner is lovely, no matter what that partner does.

When a wife complains about the way her husband smells or the husband thinks or feels that he hates the way his wife looks, they behave this way because they have not established perfect love between them.

This married couple is only joined together for some superficial purpose or interest.

In your own family life during marriage, in order to feel true joy, you should bring God into the center and have a relationship where you can love each other where you see God rejoice together with you.

A man and woman getting married and making love is not something you should be ashamed of.

The act of the husband and wife consummating their love is something that is most dignified, holy and beautiful.

However, because the first human couple violated God's commandment on the time period for them to enjoy their sexual organs, the history of love has been a sinful one.  This is why shame has become attached to exploring the sexual organs.

You should think that even though there are many men and women in the world, that there is only one for you.  You should devote yourself completely to this one woman, with the thought that she is devoted to you.

This is the Principle.

In the very beginning God didn't make two sets of men and women for them to pick and choose whom to mate, he created only one man and one woman.

Therefore, if God placed Eve with Adam and she didn't like certain qualities about him or thought that God was wrong in His choice, then there would not have been creation of a family or such a thing as the human race.

True happiness can be found in the place where you can laugh, sing and whisper together with your beloved with both of you intoxicated with love.

I would say that the one who is able to listen to the whispers of his beloved is a happy person.  


It is because having such words whispered into your ears can give you a feeling of joy as if you were dreaming.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheong Seong Gyeong Book Four-True Family, Chapter Seven, Section 4-6

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

America Must Change Directions

America feels that the direction that it is going is the best direction just because they have always been successful.

Americans don't even want to accept the suggestion that they have to move in another direction.  Americans insist that they are the greatest and refuse to believe that any other nation can be great enough or worth understanding and learning from.

According to the Principle viewpoint, this will never work.


Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon


If you were to observe the country decade by decade, you would undoubtedly see the multitude of changes such as the break-up of the family units, school shootings, rise in atheism and so on and so forth.

These may seem like natural occurrences, but it is a true sign that we as a nation have headed in the wrong direction.  Others may shrug it off and say, "This is human nature.  We are animals, there is nothing to stop it".

What is the true desire of our original God-given nature without any trace of sin?

When you say 'nature' most people, automatically think it conveys something we see or that is manifested.

The word 'nature' refers to the result instead of the cause.  But 'original nature' refers to more to the cause than the result.

We generally understand that there is a background or cause to a person's nature.  There is something that formed everyone's nature.  The result's destiny and direction is determined according to its cause.  People receive certain surnames from their parents such as Smith or Jones.

Each individual comes from a different cause which takes him to a certain destination and direction.
  We see that some people like a certain thing and some people don't like it at all.

We as individuals are within the universe which is a big sphere.

All spherical shapes have a central point from which a line is drawn out going in all directions.  As individuals, we each have a certain point within this sphere and form our own sphere, centering on the central core.

From that point, we proceed in a certain direction according to what we inherited from our ancestors.  Even though another person may be at the same point within the larger sphere, he might take the opposite direction depending on what he inherits.

You, as well, occupy a certain position.  Some of you go toward the north, others will go west and so forth.

When the person who is going west has reached the limits of the west, he has to do on of two things:  either he stops there, and cease to move, or he can change directions and keep moving.  Everything in motion wants to perpetrate itself without exception.  Everything wants to keep on moving and continue forever.

The person who has reached the limit of the direction of the west can turn to the north and then turn back toward the east.  This person can think, "I have been going west and it is very meaningful to me, but I can go east because I am flexible."  Then that person keeps moving forward.

If that person however does not have flexibility in the direction he is going, when he has reached the limit of the west then he will be in trouble.  Then instead of willingly going forward, the nature of the sphere will force him to change his direction maybe pushed to go toward the south.

He can do one of two things: He can be absorbed by the environment of the south, or he himself can digest the environment of the new direction. The person may think that heading east he will never once deviate from that direction, but unless he can willingly move to a new direction, once he reaches the limits of that direction, he cannot continue to progress.

Why is it necessary to change directions?  Why can't he just continue to move east?

It is the will of the universe, which is in the shape of a sphere, to maintain that spherical nature. 

Therefore, changes of direction are necessary.


Here I am, Reverend Moon, an Oriental man. People wonder, "Why doesn't he stay in the Orient? Why did he come to the west and face all this criticism?" Externally, there are many barriers for people to understand this, but internally I am well understood and able to communicate. Your original nature, your true nature, can estimate your own value, the value of Reverend Moon, and the value of the relationship you can have by uniting with me. Although I came from the east, it is also important for me to move toward the west.


Once you enter another person's property you have to ask person for permission to go any further.  Once you are allowed to enter, you may tell them that you will obey the rules of the territory.  The same thing applies to the existence of men and women.

Women today who say that they are sufficient with being by themselves forever and why do they need a man, does not understand her need to move in a different direction.

Or on the other hand, a woman who has seriously been searching and finally finds a man, but she instructs him that he has to do everything the way she wants.  Certainly men do not want such a woman.

Her movement toward another direction towards a man only came to a certain point.  She actually cannot truly enter the territory of a man if she has such an attitude.

By the same token, a man who has been in search of a woman must be willing to accept her and behave in a way that pleases her. Otherwise, he too stops right there and does not actually enter into the territory of a woman. He does not actually change his direction.

Why should men and women live according to the desire of the other instead of continuing to just live in the way they desire?

By living for the other, men and women make a spherical movement, not a linear one.  Living in this manner, there will be no end to their movement, and they will continue forever.

As they move in this spherical manner, they are headed in a certain direction, or along a certain path..

When a man and woman are truly living in perfect harmony with one another, they are able to go any  place in the world and adapt, no matter where or how difficult it is.

A couple may be headed east and say that they do not want to go west, but once they get all the way in that direction, there is nowhere else for them to go.  Then they cease to develop.

Why do we need to change our direction?  Why is the going in the opposite direction necessary?

It is because in order to keep moving in a spherical motion requires that we embrace the opposite direction.

All living things move like a spiral which is small in the center and is large on the outside.

Just like we all breathe in and breathe out, all living things go through the motion of shrinking and expanding.

Through this phenomenon, it ensures that the central point will eventually move to the outside and the outer point will eventually move to the inside.

When we exercise our muscles, our bodies naturally go through the normal shrinking and expanding.

Have you noticed people breathe in different ways?

Some people breath in a deep long breath, but exhale in short puffs.  Others may take in a short, strong breath which takes a long time to exhale.

Also, the earth expands and shrinks.

We must be connected to the rest of the universe and have a relationship with it.  Would you only want to be recognized by people in your school, or by everyone in the United States or even in the whole world?

The biggest trend these days is reality shows that showcase everyday people.  There are different scenarios that one can imagine even wife swapping.  It seems that everyone wants as many people to know who they are as much as popular.  Everyone wants their 15 minutes in the limelight.

Why do we want to be recognized on the largest scale possible?

We want to be recognized by the largest scale so we can be connected with it and move out to the largest level of value.

Another way to express your desire to be recognized by the world is by saying that it is natural to want to relate with the cause of your being.

It is good to go back to our cause in order to participate in the value of the whole universe.

Your value as an individual can be involved in the value of the universe.

If someone was to pluck a hair from someone's head, to whom would that hair belong?  The hair was attached to the body, but the whole body contributed to the elements of the hair.

All beings are perpetually in a spiral, spherical motion, coming back to their cause.

In a circle, we can draw a spiral that begins at the outer rim and goes to the inner point of the circle, but we can also draw a straight line that leads from the outer point directly to that inner point.

You may wonder why we just don't go in a line which is the shortest distance, but the universe does not work that way.  Only in a drawing, in two dimensions can we move in such a straight line, not in the realm of the ideal.


Where should I go after having been here in the west? I will go to South America and Africa, then to the north and such countries as Russia. There is work that needs to be done in the southern and northern countries. 


A person has two options when they go to another country:  either be absorbed by that country or digest everything there.  Traditionally, the United States is a place where other cultures are absorbed, but Father has tried to influence America to become a better place.

If a nation comes to the end of the direction they are heading and refuse to go in another direction, it simply will perish if it is not willing to change.  This is the law of the universe.

This is why Westerners are taught in the church that they must change directions.

If Americans were to go to the the southern countries, where the people are predominantly dark-skinned, with an attitude that their way is superior and "black" people should bow down to them, this is not good.

This is the same attitude of the woman or man who refuses to harmonize with their spouse.  Of course the spouse will not accept such a person and he will be isolated.

If Westerners refuse to recognize the value of any other direction just because they have been going in one direction, then they will be isolated with no place to go.

We can see that all over the world this type of non-changing attitude has caused strong anti-American sentiment.  Some nations are bitter toward America.

Americans may not know this fact until they are exposed to such feelings.  Someone has to point out to them that, yes, they have been successful so far, but they must recognize they have come to the end of this direction and must turn around and go another way.

Someone from the east teaches this important lesson because America was started from a certain cause and has come to a certain result.

Now, the spiral must begin to turn inward toward the original cause.

Maybe someone is happy that they found God, but they still want to continue to expand himself.  However, it is more natural to go inward toward the cause which means that one must become smaller.

A spiral motion goes inward only by shrinking, not expanding, therefore, modesty has been traditionally considered a virtue.

By becoming smaller, a person can return to that cause in the center.  But a selfish person is not normally modest or humble.

Sometimes, humble people are criticized or treated poorly.  They may be told that they should be more expressive and reach out to the world and give themselves more.

Once this person has gone to the inside of the spiral, then they move out again to the outer part toward the result level.

In other words, once he has gone all the way down to the smallest point, there is no other way to go but up and out.  If he stays around and doesn't want to go out, someone will come and push him.

Why must there be constant motion?

The purpose of all movement is eternal motion, this is the nature of eternity.  

The effect has become one with each other in perfect harmony.

Then they can move in any direction, just like an harmonized couple that is welcomed anywhere in the world.

You have within yourself a mind which is the cause and a body which is the result of your mind.

They want to be in motion, this is natural.  The mind wants to express itself and go beyond itself through the use of the body.  The body, also, wants to go inside the mind.

Which is the subject and which is the object?

The one who takes the initiative is the subject.

Thus, the mind is in the subject position over the body.  But we find that the body sometimes refuses to respond to the good mind.  This is the general nature of Satan.   Satan resists ever becoming smaller.  Once he does go up, he never wants to go down.

The true, original nature of man is in accordance to the principle of perpetual motion from inside to outside, from up to down. Constant motion.

Then do Western people need Eastern people?

Yes, because both directions are required within the sphere of the earth.  The one who gets the closest to the center is the one who is adaptable and willing to go in all four directions no matter how difficult it may be.

That kind of person is qualified to be closest to the center.

There may be a humble woman who is close to that central point, but because people just judge her by her outward appearance, they many not see how good of a person she is.  However, she has a quality that is the most beautiful and adaptable to all four directions.

She is harmonious within all four directions able to digest everything never making demands for herself.

Even is she does not realize it, as she continues to move, she will eventually end up at that central position.

Who do you need more: yourself or your neighbor?

If you are from the west, whom do you learn from more, another Westerner, a Northerner or anyone from another direction?

Because of this principle, we can conclude that all people must live for the sake of others.

When you ask a college student why does he study, he may answer because he wants a better position in life or want to marry a better person.

This answer is not universal.

The better answer would be that he goes to school in order to have more to offer in service of his nation and the world.   This actually makes more sense.

If a person continues to go up the ladder of success step by step and becomes a rich man of influence, eventually he has to return those accomplishments back to his cause which are his parents.

Even though the whole world may willingly bow down before a man of greatness and influence, he will stay humble before his parents like the day he was born not demanding them to bow to him.  This is more natural than one who tries to remain in a lofty position never wanting to go back to his origins.

In Korea, parents say to their children, "Go out and come back quickly," wishing their child well.  In the English language there is no simple word to express such an idea.

Within this wish is such a knowledge that unless you are welcomed by the world, you cannot go out and come back quickly.  So, you want the world to welcome your child.

It is a natural desire for parents to send their children out to become successful, then come back.  Also, we want to go to the level of true family because the original mind needs to reach that level before it can move up to all the other levels.

This is the standard way and no one can change it.

You may have many people tell you that you have beautiful eyes, but do the cells of your eyes feel isolated from the cells of the rest of the body?

Even the eye wants to be harmonious with the rest of the body even though it is a small part of the whole.

Some people might want to stay in the same position and not move up to other levels because they are satisfied being by themselves.

They don't even want to go to the family level.  If somebody wants to stay in such a position, he will eventually be miserable.



Return for Tomorrow's Post: Our Original Nature, Not Animal-like

This post rewritten from the speech The Deep Desire of Our Original Nature

To Be a Leader Live for Others

All the members of the church have difference in light of the service each has done for humanity, or for the whole.  There are some members who belong to spring, others to summer, still others belonging to autumn and the rest belonging to winter.

These four seasons put together we call one year.  The church is like a body where some have the roles of the eyes, some the ears, the other the mouth, limbs, or legs.

They each have one aspect in common.

The eyes do not live just for the eyes themselves, but for the whole.  The same with the nose.  We must realize this point.

We should not go in different directions as individuals, this movement has the goal of saving the whole world, so our thinking should not be individualized.

We should see through "Unification eyes", hear with "Unification ears" and smell and talk through "Unification nose and mouth".

If we are able to have this unity with each other in that way, we will be the strongest group.  Then what we do is in the will of God.

We all go together a certain way directed by God.

The whole body moves, not just certain parts.  If you are willing to live this way for eternity, then the movement will prosper through eternity and never perish.  We exist as a whole for the sake of the whole world not for the individual.

When the whole world is restored, the individual and family is saved as well.  Just as God had sent Jesus for the sake of the world, He sends the Lord of the Second Advent for world salvation.

We should not live for our own small family or ourselves, but for the sake of all humanity to be restored back to God's bosom.

Do you live this way yet?

We may wonder that if we live totally giving our whole to others that we disappear and we think that we are losing.  But if we are able to deny our own desires and think and invest our whole being for the sake of the whole, then the whole in turn will support you and will live for you.  This is Principle.


As I always say, those who live for the sake of other people become the central figures. If you say that person is the central figure, without exception, that person is a sacrificial person, living solely for the benefit of others.


Every man and organization would support the man that is a sacrificial person living for the sake of the whole.  The definition of a central figure is the person who lives for the sake of other people.  God is like this.

Do not try to figure out your identity in yourself, but in the whole world.  If you are able to live for others and reap what you have done, it will come back to you and you become the central figure.

You must never forget that you are the representative of the whole ancestral past.

You represent your past ancestors. And you represent your family, your relatives, your neighbors, the nation, and all humanity on the horizontal level.  This is for the present.

To the future generations, you must represent them.  You must be the good start or seed from which to be multiplied.

Who is the representative person?

The representative is the person who has lived a life of total sacrifice for others.  The central figure is the person who has not only lived for the past, present and future generations, bur for God in the past, present and future.

Isn't this what we strive for?

When you are in that position, this would make God proud of you before the ancestors of the past, and before all of humanity living in the present, and before the people of the future.

Of course you are born to your parents and are part of your parents.  If all of your ancestors were each to claim a part of you, there would be none of you left for yourself.  You must know that you do not belong to yourself.  The concept of yourself comes about in relation to other people around you.

You can only find yourself and place value on yourself on the basis of your being a product of your past ancestry.  This is the only way to find your value.  Then, only in this way can you consider yourself as a central figure.

You are in the center of the cosmos with all the rest of the people around you. 

That's all right as the basis of the idea.

If you begin by wanting others to serve and you be sacrificial to you, you will have nothing from those people, and you will have lost the whole world.  If your whole existence is for the sake of other people, then you can say you are a central figure and others will support you.

In order for you to claim yourself, you must put yourself in the central position, being sacrificial and doing things for the sake of other people. Then alone you can claim yourself.

If you forget about everyone else and think of yourself alone, then you come to nowhere. And you will have lost everything.

In God's ideal world before the fall, man was to live for others; so this world of harmony and unity has to come about.  But because of the fall, man began to live for the sake his own selfish desires and thinking, doing all things in a self-centered way.

Selfishness, putting self first, is the primary character of the fall.

Because God has been investing His whole being for the sake of the cosmos and is at the center, He can claim Himself as the center, or nucleus.  After you have served other people, you as well can come back to yourself to locate yourself, place yourself in the central position and think that you are important.

After knowing this, where are we all headed?  To the center.

To become the central  point, you must be willing to be a living sacrifice.

When it is time to eat,it is natural to reach for the best food, the most rich food.  We, also, want to wear better clothing then others, get the good things, what is convenient and you want this all for yourself.

This is not the way it should be.

Now, you have a clearer understanding of the responsibility once you are the central figure.  You should put it into practice.

You have a natural way of wanting to give orders to others, or have others do something for you, but it is not easy for us to do something for others.  You should go the reverse way.  Do things the opposite way as you have been doing.

When you receive orders from others, in utter humbleness, and do as you are told, then you can have dominion over those people, and over their minds.

You can dominate the heart of God., because God is constantly giving orders to us to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of humanity.

If you are able to live up to that standard, then you can dominate God's heart, too.

Now that you understand this, and pledge to begin living in this way, then you will be pushed hard from now on and you cannot object or complain.

It is natural to think that our bodies needs eight hours of sleep, and three meals a day, so there should be limited work of only eight hours, but you will be pushed beyond that standard to work through all the 24 hours a day.

Will you be able to be grateful in that case, or would you complain?

If you are able to live like this, then God could not help but to dance about for joy and live with you and visit you all the time.


You must remember this -- I must repeatedly say that you must be living for the past ancestors and present humanity and future generations; not only that, but also for the God of the past, the God of the present, and the God of the future. Then you will be living through eternity with God as your Father. God is looking for one like that. Human history of the past, present, and the future is looking for the person like that.


Of course we would all like to meet such a selfless, universal person.  With such a person setting the example, you want to be just like him.

To really become like him, he must teach you.  He would teach you how to become a sacrificial person who lives for the past ancestors, present humanity and for the future descendants.  Also, you would live for the God of the past and the future.

In other words, you will learn how to deny your fallen ways, your worldly habits.  You will learn how to die, to kill your sinful self.  Jesus' teaching was that those who wanted to live would die, and those who wanted to die would live.

All people of faith go this way of death.  If someone dies for his nation, then the nation comes under his dominion, and if he is able to die for the sake of the world, then he can dominate the world.  What other group professes such a ideology?

When we speak of dying for others, we are not speaking only of the physical.  Those who want to live for the world and stay in sin are actually like dead corpses with no life within them.  And those willing to sacrifice their worldly desires and walk this bloody path of faith, find life through the word.

What you have done, your deed, is what you alone can claim; and with what you have done, you will live through eternity.

When  you look at how you should die for the nation, world and God, you cannot say that you are tired after having fought for several months or years in this way.  You can never dream of complaining on this path.

Religions have taught this on a smaller scale.

We have been taught that we as humans exist for mutual benefit.  Parents live for children; children live for parents.  A family as a whole lives for the relatives and the tribe.  And so forth leading up to living for God.

In this way, we are able to erect the kingdom of heaven on earth.  Would you rather stay living in the kingdom where people live for themselves or the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth where everyone recognizes others as brothers and sisters of the One Family under God?

Then we can safely define that those who live self-centered lives are doomed to hell; and those who live unselfish lives, for the sake of other people, are destined for the Kingdom of Heaven. 

You have nothing which belongs to you in the real sense.

You cannot claim your eyes are your own, because they are created for the sake of other things and other people.  You inherited your eyes from your ancestors.

First of all, you should never complain.

We should learn how not to complain or become discouraged during the times of difficulties.  We should learn how not to be exhausted after a long day.

It is only during the times of difficulty, that God is able to see what kind of character you have.

At that moment, God takes out His notebook and grades you when people are more apt to grumble and complain.  Instead, you should smile at that time and go through difficult situations in that manner and you will feel victorious.  You are victorious.

God thinks of beauty in a different way from our thinking.

Suppose there is a beautiful woman that has worked hard in the sun all day and does not have any make up and looks rather ugly and dirty.  But this is the utmost beauty that God esteems in you, too.

If you were to work this way for just your own self, there is no merit in that.  But if you are able to work this hard for the sake of other people, then there is value to your work.

Sometimes you go door-to-door selling candy and you are rejected by many people.  You're called many names and you may cry.  But because you fundraise for the sake of others, that is the time that your tears are something of beauty.

If you are grateful and happy in your heart to do this hard work of restoration for His sake and the sake of humanity, then that merit is yours and God will be proud of you.  For generations to come, mankind will have to be grateful to you for your work.

If your attitude is like this, doing the same thing, that becomes heaven on earth. But, if your attitude is the opposite, that becomes hell.  So, even though you are crying, don't cry for your own situation, but cry for the whole, cry for God.

Also, if you must complain, do not complain for the sake of yourself, but complain for the sake of God.  For instance you can complain about what to do with this evil world and how you will destroy evil from the world.  This kind of public complaint is acceptable.

Every moment, you must be careful not to be accused of something by Satan.

If you continue to live your life for the sake of the whole, you can be proud of yourself.

We put this into practice everyday, sacrificing our own desires for others.  We will live for the sake of restoring humanity back to God's bosom.

You should be proud of what you are doing and proud of the church.

In this way, you will succeed in this mission and build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth with our own hands.  While others are waiting for the rapture to carry them to Heaven, we live this way in restoring the world toward Heaven on Earth and can be proud of ourselves.  Do you understand?  Let's pray.


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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Whole and Myself.