“To become a friend and someone who is loved, one has to understand the other person’s sorrow and pain and comfort them. Only then can one become the other person’s friend. If you connect to someone’s heart and build a relationship of love, then you can move that person as you wish, and you will also do as he wants.” – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
The family is the place for training our hearts…
“The family is the place for training our hearts. Therefore, we have to love and live together with our brothers and sisters in schools and in the nation. Education from parents is education for the school, society and nation. Parents have to bequeath all emotional aspects to their children and successors. They have to lay the emotional foundation for their offspring by demonstrating how they should live in the family, in the society, and for the nation, just as how the parents have been living.” – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
The most important challenge is clearly elucidating the fact of God’s existence
“The world has a huge population. Today’s global problems can no longer be thought of as someone else’s problems. They are my problems. The democratic world and the communist world are alike in that they both long for a unified world of peace.
At this point in time, we have come to recognize that human beings by themselves cannot realize this unified world of peace. We cannot hope for peace or one unified world in the true sense of the word merely through human power, human wisdom or human culture.
What is the main difficulty in solving worldwide problems? I think the most important challenge is clearly elucidating the fact of God’s existence. The day that all humanity recognizes clearly that God exists, they will come to understand the path along which He is leading them. The world will then indeed become the peaceful world of God’s ideal.” – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
You must lead your family and live for your nation and the world…
“You must lead your family and live for your nation and the world. Spanning the ages of the individual, family, clan, tribe, society and nation, you have to play the role of showing the world’s peoples and nations the right direction based on my experience. Having fulfilled this, you must be able to serve God from a mutually inseparable position. Only then will the spirit world and the physical world become the unified world of peace. For the first time in human history, the guide will establish himself in the position of the eternal leader of the historical age and be awarded the glorious official commendation of the heavenly world. You have to know this indisputable fact.” – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
The True Meaning of Peace (05)
“Though the seven colors of a rainbow are distinct, they merge to give white light when spinning. What is the meaning of white? It means victory, peace, and harmony. White people have been controlling the world, but they do not stand together as one, being unable to harmonize.” – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
The True Meaning of Peace (03)
“The world of peace has neither walls nor boundaries. It is flat, smooth and harmonizes in the morning and evening. Fathers, mothers and the neighborhood would be in one accord. There would be no friction between white people and black people” – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
The True Meaning of Peace (02)
“What is peace, then? It can be represented by a level state without any creases or wrinkles, in which everything is harmonized. When everything is one hundred percent harmonized, a circle will be formed. When soil is mixed and rolled on this, it will soon be rounded into a perfect sphere.“ – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
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“Unless words and action are one, they result in evil. If we harmonize on all sides we are balanced. If we don’t harmonize, we lose our spiritual balance and it is almost impossible for us to right ourselves. The same is true of our faith – if we lean to one side we lose harmony and harmony cannot easily be recovered, even with hundreds of thousands of times the effort. So to keep from turning aside from our path, you must be right and true in your words and actions – behavior and feelings to draw the boundary between gain and loss in your religious life. Even one hundredth of second will make or break your fate.” – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Noble Dream
People are always contemplating doing something and are always seeking after something. The important thing is what they are looking for, what kind of dream they hope to fulfill. Men and women have dreams, as does a family, nation and even the whole world. On a wider level, the invisible world of spirit is also pursuing a dream. There is some entity which created all the universe and that entity must have had a dream or a reason for creating everything.
If you are living in the midst of a family and society that have a chaotic or confused situation, you feel dizzy, as though you were twisting back and forth, first one direction then another, without control. You want to be turning steadily in one direction, with order and joy. When you relate to some object for a certain purpose then automatically you have a common center between you. The actions of winding and unwinding both have a relationship to the axis. If you are turning first one way and then another, but you are accomplishing something by doing so, then you feel good. Even your eyes want to have a purpose for looking out, not just stare aimlessly or move independently of each other. When a person’s two eyes are looking steadily at something, you know he has a purpose in mind.
People often think dreams are phantom things without order or direction, but that is not the kind of dream we are seeking. Our dream has direction, purpose and discipline. It is a high, noble dream. Suppose there was such a thing as a company that manufactured and sold dreams. What would be the highest-quality, most expensive dream? Maybe women would consider the dream of beauty to be the highest quality; the dream would include beautiful clothes and a beautiful face. A man might have the dream of being a broad-shouldered athlete. A woman may have great beauty but if there is no purpose to her beauty, does it have meaning? Would anyone like to be a beautiful doll that stayed all day long in a glass box? No one could tolerate it. Real beauty is not just external appearance, like a doll’s, but requires active motion toward a goal, with a purpose.
Do women want to be beautiful in order to impress other women or to relate with other beautiful women? Why does a person have beauty as her dream? Beauty is not an end in itself. but a means to greater fulfillment. The goal of beauty is love. A beautiful woman is searching for a man who will love her. Beauty finds its consummation at the terminal of love.
Men want to be masculine and well-respected, but for what purpose? Suppose you wanted to become the strongest man in the world and you worked out every morning with weights. Once you became the champion, would that be the end? If a man won many boxing matches and finally became the world champion boxer, receiving cheers and a standing ovation from the crowd, how would he feel if some big, tall man came out and presented him with a bouquet of flowers to honor him? Wouldn’t he prefer instead to see a beautiful woman stepping forward to present him with the bouquet? You men, tell me, would he prefer getting an enormous bouquet with thousands of flowers from a big, burly man, or would he like a smaller bouquet given to him by a nice lady?
Beauty searches for its complement to find harmony. A man searches for a beautiful, feminine woman and a woman searches for a masculine man. When you see a strong man and a lovely woman together, you feel it is a beautiful sight because they complement each other.
Noble Dream
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Belvedere, 1981
My old self couldn’t find You, Father!
A prayer at times when it’s hard to speak…
My old self couldn’t find You, Father!
If there is anyone who knows it
it must be You.
You called me as Your child, Father,
by now I know I would misbehave
despite all the signs and hints.
Would You forgive me, Father,
if I told You a promise
once more, again?
I’m not sure if I could endure, Father,
to see a beloved one to go astray,
I feel I wouldn’t be able to bear the pain.
I can’t imagine just wonder, Father,
how You were able to survive
to see me fail.
I’ve been praying with a closed mouth, Father,
because I feel the weight,
Now I’m trying more than ever
to bring You joy beyond the grief!
Joshua Dragon
As I Can See 