Children's Love

1. In the parent-child relationship, if the parents' love is the cause, the children are the fruit and result of love. The result and the cause do not begin separately but in the same place. The result and cause start from one place. What does it mean to say, “My parents' love is the cause and I have appeared as its result”?

It means that “I” comes as the result of my parents' love. Therefore, in the parent-child relationship, the child is born with a value equal to the parent because the cause and result are one in love. (127-013, 1983.05.01)

The original foundation of the universe

2. The parent-child relationship is based on blood ties. The concept of a father involves love and lineage. To be children of his direct lineage, you and he should be one body in love, connected through lineage. Blood creates life. It possesses the life that transmits the parents' traditions. And it is based on love.
(142-267, 1986.03.13)

3. The original foundation of the universe is nothing apart from the parent-child relationship. Joy blossoms from this relationship. If sorrow begins, no place creates a greater sorrow.

The joy with which children relate to their parents should be the emblematic joy of the world, and the joy with which parents relate to their children should be emblematic of what fulfills their desire and the desire of the world.

Even if it means that parents have to lose everything due to some external problem, for them, there is no place where they can live happily and with hope apart from with their children. (62-018, 1972.09.10)

4. Sons and daughters are co-participants in parental love. From whence do sons and daughters come? They come from their parents' love. So in this world, sons, and daughters come into existence by participating in their parents' love and uniting with it. Where do I come from?

I was born in a place where my parents' love blossomed frilly. Children are planted as seeds in a place of joy, a place where their mother and father, who were born as man and woman encapsulating the universe, made their love blossom.
(83-162, 1976.02.08)

5. I am the one who participated in the fundamental root at the beginning of my parents' love; I am the one who appears as the result of my parents' love. Because cause and result start in the same place, our relationship cannot be severed.

The source of my parents' love, which is the cause, and the love I have in my life, which is the result, are one. In this sense, we can say that a parent and a child are one body, based on love. Without love, we cannot talk about one body or oneness. Love is the cause.

We receive our parents' love from the time we are in the womb. The love and attention of our parents focus on us from the moment our mother becomes pregnant with us through the essence of love.

Why is that? It is because we are the fruit of love. So we are born in love and connected to life through love. When we grow up in love, and the time comes to meet our partner, we decide who our spouse will be. (127-014, 1983.05.01)

6. As participants in parental love and conjugal love, children are born with the highest authority. In other words, children emerge from that unchanging, unified love and share the nature of that love.

This is why, regardless of what they do, nothing can sever the parent-child relationship. Since children have the subject nature of their parents' love and life, cutting off that relationship would mean the parents are denying their existence.

Parents are unable to deny the results of their love. This is why parents will sacrifice their lives for their children. This is very logical. (83-163, 1976.02.08)

Participants in parents' love

7. It is from our parents' love that we were born. We were born from the love of our mother and father. Before life and lineage comes love, so it is through love that our life and lineage are connected to our parents.

Why is personhood so precious? It is not just because the person has life, but also because the person participated in his or her parents' love. It is their parents who love, but the person is the fruit of their love.

The one who is born as both the beginning and the result is not the mother or father; it is a new person. That's why each person is precious.
(140-234, 1986.02.12)

8. I am not only the one who combines the life of my mother and father, but I am a participant in my parents' love, as one body with them. Taking it further, I am one with my parents' ideal.

The ideal includes everything: peace, happiness, and all else. To parents, the joy of living a successful life on earth pales in comparison to the joy of meeting their child who has been lost. To parents, children are the fulfillment of their highest ideal. (298-303, 1999.01.17)

9. My mother and father's lifelines are connected to me, their “love line” is connected to me and their “ideal line” is connected to me. No one can cut this off. Even God cannot cut this off, and the universe also cannot cut this off.

On the contrary, all the power of the universe protects this. Thus, wherever I go, my parents follow me. My parents always want to be with me, even in the spirit world.

Thus, it is the greatest sin if you dislike your parents accompanying you. This attitude is destructive of the entire universe. If you dislike the company of your parents, it means you are off track from the universal principle and are going the way of the Fall.

Hence, thinking of and loving your parents as if they were your body and carrying out your filial duty are of the highest value for human beings. That's why it is said, “Heaven's blessing comes to the harmonious family”
(298-303, 1999.01.17)

10. People without children are said to be lonely. Our children enable us to experience deeply the heart of God, the subject partner who created the entire universe through love.

Our children are born through us, through our motivation, but by having and loving them we come to realize, “Yes, this is how God loves people.” Once you have your children, without anyone teaching you, you realize the importance of filial piety toward your parents. (136-202, 1985.12.29)

11. You have to return the love your parents gave you. When parents are raising their children, they don't worry about their hunger. If there is something to eat, they will hold their hungry stomach, keep a stiff upper lip, and give that food to their children.

By the nature of love, children will return such love to their parents. After the parents have gone the way of love, the children go the same way to comfort their parents. It begins with your heart to comfort your parents.

Then your sons and daughters will become such sons and daughters to you. You need such sons and daughters for people of a good blood lineage to continue. You cannot become a filial child if you center your life on yourself and neglect your parents. (35-241, 1970.10.19)

12. What kind of person can we call a filial child? The son who treats his parents as they treated him is filial. A filial son moves Heaven. Even though parents devote themselves to raising their children, if the children aren't concerned about their parents, that family will go to ruin.

To gain a return on their investment, they need to establish an objective standard based on the principle of giving and receiving.

When that happens for the first time, God will come and dwell in that place and the kingdom of heaven will be realized. What kind of children can reside in the kingdom of heaven?

They are those who pay the debt of parental love on their own. When their parents become old and senile, the sons and daughters should endure the difficulties of their care without feeling it is difficult. They should possess the same heart their parents had toward them when they were little, cleaning up their urine and feces. This is what it means to be children of filial piety. (35-241, 1970.10.19)

Filial piety is the duty of true children

13. What is a filial son? The filial son is the person who, throughout his life, sacrifices everything for his parents and does not assert his subjectivity. Then his parents' true love remains.

Filial piety preserves and protects the realm of true love. Because of filial piety, we can build a bridge to the universe.
(112-151, 1981.04.12)

14. Fulfill your filial duty to your parents; become a filial son or daughter and a patriot. It is your parents who have led the nation and the world. Before becoming a patriot, become a filial child, and before becoming a filial child, become a proud family member who truly loves your brothers and sisters.

“Family member” is the name by which siblings can praise each other. You have to show filial piety to a degree greater than when men and women married and had children, created a family, and fulfilled their filial duty to their parents in ages past.

You cannot be a truly devoted son or daughter before you get married. Furthermore, you can become a truly filial son or daughter only after getting married. Besides, you can establish the realm of true filial piety only after you have married and the wife's filial piety is added to the husband's in front of his parents.

Only through this foundation of devoted attendance to the parents can a true realm of filial piety be established. (30-220, 1970.03.23)

15. To become a filial son or daughter, you have to align yourself always with the direction of your parent's heart. To walk the path of filial piety, you should not do things separately from your parents.

When your parents go east, you go east, and when they go west, you also go west. If you are going one way and your parents say, “Turn around,” you turn around. There should be no question about it.

Even if you are told to go a certain way and then to turn back ten times, you should turn back again and follow your parents. (62-032, 1972.09.10)

16. In your family, you have heard of filial piety. It means to attend to your parents on the path of love they walk. The parents' path of true love follows heavenly principles.

The parents are not walking alone; they are guided by vertical heavenly principles that move with them. Thus, becoming one with your parents means you are going the way that connects the horizontal and vertical realms of the historical heart. This is the reason to fulfill your filial duty toward your parents.
(136-203, 1985.12.29)

17. You have many gifts to offer your Father. Even though you may not have many possessions, there is one present you have that you can give to God, something apart from things of which worldly people are fond. You must prepare yourself in front of God by shedding blood, sweat, and tears for Him.

This is the best gift for our Heavenly Father, who is suffering in pain and bitter sorrow. (11-102, 1961.02.12)

18. In the family, you as sons and daughters are responsible for fulfilling your filial duty toward your parents. Why do you have to fulfill filial duty? The path of filial piety is connected to the path of patriotism, and a person who is loyal to his country should then walk the way of a saint for the sake of the world.

There has to be one straight line. From this viewpoint, if you were unable to fulfill your filial duty and yet became a patriot, your parents would not say you had not fulfilled your filial duty. They would say, “You have done so well.”

Even if you did not accomplish your filial duty but instead abandoned your parents and left home, if you then became a patriot in your nation, your mother, and father, even though they might have died and gone to the spirit world, would praise you, saying, “You did well!” (100-155, 1978.10.09)

19. Even though parents and children are unworthy, they at least have to communicate. If they don't, parents are not parents and children are not children. A filial son does not receive his parents' love because he accomplished something easy or something beneficial to himself.

He is one who, to take responsibility for his parents' sorrow, seeks the difficult tasks and fulfills his responsibility. This brings joy to his parents. If the parents have done ten units of work and the child has made the effort to do fifteen units, the five-unit surplus will translate into that much joy for the parents.

The one who tries to serve his parents and thinks how to take on some of their work is a child of filial piety. (24-261, 1969.08.24)