Why Are Human Beings Born?
If we ask ourselves whether life or love is first, we can claim each to be first. But which do you think comes first?
It is love that comes first. Relating this to the core of the universe, for something to have value, there must be an original flow of love. 043-277, 1986.3.20)
When we examine where life comes from, we must ask as to which comes first, life or love. Until now, we have not been able to discern this.
Love comes first, then life. Because what comes second must meekly surrender to what comes first, it is natural that we offer our lives for the sake of love.
This is the way things are. This then provides an answer as to the true course for our life. Since our life is born in love, the conclusion is that we must walk the way of love and die for love.
The purpose of human life is to find the love that the macrocosm, not the microcosm, can welcome. It is to be born, to love, and to die, in the great universal love that God, creation, our parents, and the angelic world all acknowledge. This is how I see it. (Blessed Family — 1062)
Human beings are not born based on their choice. Then, are they born due to their parents' wishes? No. They are born due to God's desire. They are born through the love of their parents, which represents God's love. The person, who is born as a new life through parental love, representing God's love, is I.
Love has the power to create everything. The one who is born as the center of the whole universe by receiving all the love of the universe is none other than I.
The highest purpose of life is to be born through love, be raised in love, live by love, and leave love behind. The most valuable thing to do is to fulfill, in the family, the rules of love that lie at the center of the universe. (Blessed Family — 1062)
You should understand why human beings are born. They are not born for the sake of knowledge or political power. They are born because of love and from love.
Then what makes love so great?
It is a fact that love is the source of life. You are born amid your parents' love.
You are not born out of your parents' desire for money or knowledge. Since you were born in love like this, you should bear the fruits of love. This is why you need children.
A husband and wife become complete when they become one and have sons and daughters as their object partners. (Blessed Family — 1062)
Human beings cannot exist apart from love. Therefore, we can say that “I” live on the foundation of love. All things also originate in God's love. The existence of all things began on the foundation of love, so it is undeniable that human beings, as the center of the created universe, must also have begun in love.
(Blessed Family—1062)
Since human beings begin in love and mature through love, they cannot live separated from the standard of love. (Blessed Family -1062)
Hak Ja Han Moon
Life in Its Original Form
What do you think is the cause of human existence?
The cause of human existence is love. Then, where do you think the purpose of human existence lies? The purpose of human existence lies in completing the ideal of love.
Human beings came into being through love, and so their purpose is to perfect love by forming a foundation of love and expanding and connecting it. In other words, since the beginning is love, the purpose has to be reached through love as well.
For this, a man and a woman in partnership must become one in love and connect front and back, left and right, and above and below. (Blessed Family -1062)
No matter how firmly we have determined to become an absolute being and establish an absolute purpose, this will be useless unless we are happy. Our daily life should be happy. We live for this purpose.
When we have achieved the purpose, something new will exist that is greater than existence itself. What is it? What is most precious to a man and a woman? It is love. Love is the key element needed to experience happiness.
No matter how lofty a person's purpose may be, if he fails to establish a love that can take dominion over his purpose, he will have to pursue a new purpose. Purpose cannot stand above love. (29-130, 1970.2.26)
What are you living for?
There will be some who say they live to eat, and there will be some who say they live to work, or they live without a purpose. What do human beings live for? If you say you live for the sake of love, how great this answer is!
Human beings are born as the fruit of love, live in love, and return to the eternal love of God's bosom. This is the original life of creation. (Blessed Family -1064)
One is born through love and grows up in love. Next, he leaves the love of his parents and finds and connects to the love of a partner, which is a love in another dimension.
We can call parental love the formation-stage love and conjugal love the growth-stage love. No matter how much a couple may be in love, they cannot see the completion of their love until they have children.
This is why they want to have children. This is completion-stage love. Therefore, the process of going through parental love, conjugal love, and children's love is the fundamental core of human life and the original path of God's ideal of love at creation. (48-11, 1971.8.31)
Life is born from love. One is born from love, grows up in love while being loved by his parents, meets a beloved wife and loves her, and dies in that love; this is what is called human life.
Therefore, originally, there should have been no sorrow or pain in human life. (Blessed Family -1062)
Originally, the focal point of the universe is the place where all vertical and horizontal combinations of love come together so that parental love, conjugal love, and children's love can unite.
This becomes the point upon which the entire universe is focused and where the directions of all cells in the universe are oriented. All the spirits in the spirit world will be focused on this.
Moreover, they will protect this place so no one can invade it. If this place is destroyed, it will be catastrophic. So a certain form is needed for it to remain intact. In the Unification Church, this form is called the four-position foundation. (Blessed Family -1062)
Sun Myung Moon
For Human Beings, the Eternal Element of Life is Love
You shouldn't forget that while you lived as an embryo, you not only received nutrition from your mother, but you also received love from her.
Likewise, people living on earth are receiving physical nutrition from the universe and love from God, who is the essential element of life. (Blessed Family -1062)
Just as all plants absorb sunlight as an element of life, love is an element of life for people. We hope that the Kingdom of Heaven on earth or the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven will be built where we can live eternally in love and adoration.
(Blessed Family -1062)
Human beings are born through love and grow through their childhood while receiving love. After a certain stage of growth, parental love is not enough, and their love expands horizontally through the love among brothers and sisters and the love of the tribe.
In other words, they grow to maturity while receiving all kinds of love in heaven and on earth. When they reach young adulthood, they particularly thirst for love with the opposite sex. Engaging in this love leads them to a more comprehensive love, through which they finally find the center of love. (Blessed Family -1062)
The paths that man and woman walk exist because of love and for the sake of love. My path is the path of love. I move to attain love, keep love, and form an environment of love. It is also for the sake of love that women put on cosmetics and receive massages.
Wanting something and doing work are all for the sake of love. We overcome hardship and move on to attain precious love. (Blessed Family -1066)
From the time we are born, we are receiving parental love. As long as our parents are alive, they love us at any stage of life, be it the period of childhood, the period of youth, or the period of middle age.
When we grow up receiving parental love, horizontal love between husband and wife is bound to happen to each of us. (Blessed Family -1062)
What do you think marriage is?
It is a school, a place where men learn something they did not know about women, and women learn something they did not know about men.
All their grades should be A's for the husband and wife to be pleased. You have sons and daughters for the sake of learning how to love the world. Without them, you cannot be connected to the future.
Your sons and daughters are given to you as educational materials through which you can be connected to the future world. Fulfilling your filial duties to your ancestors and grandfather, and grandmother is like receiving education from the spirit world.
All these things are connected through love. The grandfather and grandmother, husband and wife, and sons and daughters are all connected through love. Just like the blood vessels in the human body flow up and down, you can go up and down to your ancestors of 10 million generations in the spirit world, and also reach your distant descendants through this.
So you should know that this is how the spirit world and the universe are organized. All things will be governed in this way. We can say that becoming.
True Family Gateway to Heaven 3 A servant of love and a slave of love is the greatest happiness. (Blessed Family -1062)
Sun Myung Moon
What is God's Love?
Try to discover God's love. How can we characterize God's love? It can be compared to a warm spring day when white clouds gently float in the sky, heat rises from the ground, insects fly around, ants crawl in and out to see the world, pussy willows shoot out by the stream, frogs sing new spring songs, bees swarm and butterflies flutter.
You feel intoxicated in such an environment and feel sleepy, but in reality, you are awake and feeling so good that you want to stay like this forever. When God finds His ideal object partner, He gets the same feeling, as if He is in a beautiful garden of flowers where butterflies and bees fly around.
When thinking of this, do you feel good or bad? These dull-witted men may not be aware of this. It feels good.
When you run into someone you are pleased to see, you hold his hand firmly and shake hands. When someone joyfully says, “Long time no see!” and holds your hand firmly, do you feel good or bad? If there is someone who says he feels bad, just kick him, saying, “You jerk!”
When you are glad to see someone, do you hold hands tightly or not? Do you like it when someone grasps your hand firmly? You want to like it, but maybe you do not. You have to know something to like it, and if you do not know it, then how can you like it?
Be honest! If your husband loves you, you do not need anything else. You live clinging tightly to your husband. It is always great to see a man and a woman firmly holding hands, especially when the man's hand is as rough as a cow's front hoof.
When watching movies, we enjoy seeing scenes like that. If the woman says to the man, “Oh, you have pretty hands,” the man will be offended. This is how things are. Love is eternal. Love is united, not divided. You become one.
When a man and a woman become a couple and love each other, they are bonded together. Of course, this does not happen literally, but in heart, they reach a level even higher than this. That is God's love. If you live with such love, will you be united or not? Think about it. Everything is destined to become one. (Blessed Family — 106)
When a man and a woman fall in love, all kinds of things happen, right? But if you find a way to know God's love and taste it, then His love cannot be compared to anything in this world.
If there is someone who has tasted this love, no amount of difficulty or sorrow can defeat him. Such a realm of absolute liberation should exist, should it not? The question is how to find it. (39-240, 1971.1.15)
God's love can largely be divided into three great forms of love. They are parental love, conjugal love, and children's love. The center where these three forms converge into one is God's love. (173-278, 1975.11.23)
Sun Myung Moon
God's Blessing Allows You to Inherit Love and Joy
A glorious new morning will dawn when God assumes a physical body. The time He can love His grandchildren is a time more glorious than the time He can love His sons and daughters.
How do you think God expressed His joy to Adam after having created him? God had to teach Adam about His parental joy, but that can be learned only when the children have their sons and daughters. Children cannot know what parental love is like, but they do come to understand after having babies and a family.
They understand that their parents loved them while raising them. Therefore, the day when your child takes a spouse is a day of glory, and the day your child has a child is a day of glory. (Blessed Family — 934)
You should know God's love. You should experience your parents' love and learn how to serve them. You should all experience conjugal love with your spouses and learn how to serve them. You should know your children's love.
Do not just give orders to your children, but learn how to understand and serve them as well. Only then can you understand God's love.
Without children, you are in an incomplete state. You cannot understand God's love. You cannot understand how much God loved human beings, His children. Furthermore, without being a husband, you cannot know the wife, and without being a wife, you cannot know the husband.
Children do not know what parents' love is like until they become parents. So, without sons and daughters, you cannot be true parents. (133-138, 1984.7.10)
Parents want their children to be married because they want to bequeath to them and completely teach them about parental love. When parents die, they leave their real selves behind with their descendants.
This is why they need descendants. Love is something that continues forever. Since love is the highest human desire, everyone wants to inherit it with their arms wide open.
When parents bequeath their love to their descendants, they can stand proudly before God in the spirit world. It is through the family that love becomes complete.
Going to the heavenly kingdom through the family means that the realm of oneness of love has been realized. (Blessed Family — 934)
People should follow this principle. Seeds are sown in the spring; in summer, plants develop fully; and in autumn, they bear fruit. In winter, you should put things in order and carry the essence of this new seed of life deep within your heart.
Only then will you have seeds to plant again when spring returns. This means that in the future, you should be parents and raise sons and daughters like yourselves. (26-158, 1969.10.25)
Why do people feel sorry when they do not have sons and daughters? They feel sorry because they cannot form a circle. When you see birds feeding their young, you can recognize the deep love of the mother bird.
Western people may not know this, but in the Orient, children are liked more than adults. People show polite respect for adults, but they show the utmost love for children. You can realize how much your parents loved you when you have your sons and daughters and raise them. (Blessed Family — 934)
Everyone should get married and have and raise their children so they can know both children's love and parental love. It appears that Western people are not like this. They avoid having and raising sons and daughters.
They hesitate to have children because the children may limit their freedom to marry and divorce. But when people fail to establish the four-position foundation, they cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven because they do not know God's heart of loving people. (Blessed Family — 934)
Sun Myung Moon
Human Beings Seek the Center of Love
Human beings are born through love, grow up in parental love, and mature while broadening love horizontally.
Horizontal love reaches the completion of the first stage when man and woman meet and grow together to the state where they can represent the love of heaven and earth and bear children as the fruit of that love. Children are born from the heart's core as a result of love.
The child who is born from a man and woman who share love based on the heart creates a path to the center of love. This center will lead them directly to God.
By having children as a fruit of love, human beings come to experience the love deeply with which God created all things and human beings. By loving their children, they deeply experience the love they received from their parents and the parental heart. The love parents have been pouring into their children is not a materialistic love but an intrinsic love.
The love that parents give their children does not change even if heaven and earth change and historical ages change. By becoming a parent and loving your children, you will understand and deeply experience how God loves human beings.
By becoming a parent and loving your children, you will feel and realize how much your parents have loved you.
This is why we revere our aged parents even more and fulfill the duties of filial piety with love. If you do not fulfill these responsibilities, you are unqualified to be parents, and your love towards your children can only be considered hypocritical.
Human beings should feel and realize how much God loves them by becoming parents themselves and loving their children. Furthermore, they will love God even more sincerely.
A person should love their aged parents more than they love their children and love God more than they love their parents, knowing that this is the order and law of love.
Because heaven and earth have a spherical shape, they share horizontal love and rotate, forming a circle on the first level. When they take a partner of the opposite sex and share love, they have children as the fruit and become parents.
When they love each other and rotate, vertical love is realized following the horizontal love. This forms the spherical world and establishes the center of love at the same time.
The center of love that emerges through the movement created by these love relationships is also the core of the existence of the entire world of creation.
The Earth exists because it is also moving continuously around this center of love. The center of love is where infinite force is gathered, which enables continuous movement.
Sun Myung Moon
The center that appears through the sphere of love in this manner is also a place where God dwells. Therefore, all creation existing in the world is born and exists through God's love and moves searching for the center of God's love. God is a furnace of love. (126-245, 1983.4.24)
Our Life Passes Through Three Ages
Human beings are born after developing in the mother's womb. They live on Earth for a certain period and then die. Before birth, the fetus spends ten months in the mother's womb, where it has limited freedom.
It grows by receiving nutrition from the mother through the umbilical cord. It opens and closes its hands, opens and closes its mouth, and wriggles its feet. This is all it can do.
Nevertheless, for the fetus, the mother's womb is a world of freedom and the whole world. After ten months, the fetus is born into the contemporary earthly world, or human society. (Blessed Families and the Ideal Kingdom of Heaven — 1062)
Why are human beings born?
They are born for the sake of love. For this reason, they are grounded in true parental love and grow in the mother's womb, which is a bosom of parents' protection and love.
Children grow to maturity, embraced by parental love that digests with joy all the hardships without complaint. Upon reaching maturity at about twenty years old, the child should meet their eternal love partner and be engrafted into heavenly love, in which they live entirely for the sake of one another.
Following this life course, this new couple should have their sons and daughters and love them. Only when they experience the depth of God's love can the substantial realm of God's love of the object partner be completed. (143-283, 1986.3.20)
Human life can be compared to the life of a fetus in the mother's womb. People will live a one-hundred-year span in the womb of the universal mother. Just as the fetus is ignorant of the world outside the mother's womb, the people living a physical life today are ignorant of the reality of the spirit world that awaits them after death.
They can venture a guess. They have a vague sense that, just as they did not know about the human world while in the mother's womb, a world after death must also exist. Regardless of people's feelings or convictions concerning the world after death, the spirit world does exist.
Because the world after death cannot be perceived by our five physical senses, we must overcome the unbelievable through religious faith. (Blessed Family — 1062)
Human beings go through three ages. The animal world also has the water age, land age, and air age. Everything must go through these three ages.
For human beings to stand as the lords of creation and be qualified to rule over all things, they must be a complete life form, more complete than any other creature, in the water age, and live therein.
Next, they must exist in the land age and be the highest being among all creatures there. Then there has to be the air age. But human beings have no wings. How can they fly without wings? They should be able to fly higher and farther than any bird or insect. Then what do they have to do?
This cannot happen when they are in a physical body. They cannot get far, no matter how high they jump. However, because human beings are to be the lords of creation who have dominion and because they stand in the reciprocal position to God, a spiritual being, their stage of operation should be the same as God's.
Human beings can travel faster than light, which travels 300 thousand kilometers per second. This is none other than the spirit. (112-201, 1981.4.12)
We live in this world, but it is not everything. There is the spirit world.
Then, what is the place we are to go to and live in?
Sun Myung Moon
It is the eternal spirit world filled with the air of love. Our physical life is a time of preparation for life in the eternal world of spirit. (140-121, 1986.2.9)
Earthly Life is Training to be in Rhythm with the Spirit World
I have a depth of spiritual experience. The spirit world is a place enveloped in the elements of love. On the earth, we breathe air, but in the spirit world, people live by inhaling love. The love you share in the spirit world is not secular human love but true love. (145.267, 1986.5.15)
When you go to the spirit world, you will find that those who have fully loved their parents, brothers and sisters, spouse, and children – that is, those who have experienced deep love in their family life – will be able to enjoy great freedom.
They can go everywhere without restriction. Conversely, those in the spirit world who have no experience of love are narrow-minded; they find themselves isolated and alone, with no freedom whatsoever.
The love between parents and children is a vertical relationship, the love between husband and wife is a horizontal relationship, and the love among brothers and sisters is a relationship that circles and surrounds.
These three relationships differ from one another. Therefore, only when you experience deep love through these three mutually distinct interactions on earth can you circulate freely vertically, horizontally, and in a circle.
Those who have not tasted parental love because their parents died early are in a rather tragic position because they are missing an important experience of love.
Likewise, those who have not experienced the conjugal love relationship of husband and wife, as well as love in the family, become poor people in the spirit world because they lack a crucial experience of life.
Those who have no brothers and sisters will also be in a poor position in the spirit world because they lack this experience. (Blessed Family — 1062)
The reason to marry is to deeply experience parental love, conjugal love, and children's love. We need these experiences because the spirit world is filled with the air of such love. You need to have a family to train yourself to be in rhythm with the spirit world.
Those who go to the spirit world without these experiences of love cannot follow the rhythm there. They will be as one without a nose to inhale such air of love. (Blessed Family -1062)
You are born from your father and mother. What is more fundamental is the fact that you are born from God by having borrowed your mother's womb. You find true parents through the universal parents and your physical parents.
Your physical parents are temporary, so the moment of your death is a time of jubilation when you go to meet the True Parents. The true love of the true parents is there.
This is the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven, where the atmosphere is composed of love and filled with parental love.
That love is not for me; it is a love that is maintaining the unilateral law under the principle of service and sacrifice. In accord with this principle, you must love the universe and humankind. Your life on earth is the training ground for the development of such love. (105-108, 1979.9.30)
How important is your life on earth?
You only live it once. It is a brief moment that only comes once.
When compared to eternal life, earthly life is but a point. It is too short a moment.
Currently, we must go beyond our physical life and prepare for the spirit world. (207-99, 1990.11.1)
Sun Myung Moon