Peace in the Family

1. If a man and woman become one because of love, theirs will become a family of peace. The same applies to released anywhere else. There should have been happiness for all people and our ancestors, but it has not been realized.

There can be no standard for perfection apart from the place where a man and woman become one. (58-216, 1972.06.11)

The family is the starting point of peace

2. The purpose of religion is to realize one world in which all people can become good and live together in peace. Conditions for peace do not originate in the hands of the world's politicians.

Certainly, peace will not come to the world through any policy or ideology. It is even more certain that unity and peace will not come through military power. The place where you can discover the starting point of peace and happiness is in your family. (23-102, 1969.05.14)

3. Everyone would rather have laughing parents than weeping parents at home. They would rather live with siblings who know how to laugh. Then where can we find such parents and siblings who laugh?

We do not find it in families that revolve around worldly spouses and parents, but in families that revolve around the Parents of all humankind and the entire world. Where will we find the standard for families that can represent the world and all nations? If there is an absolute deity, He, just as much as anyone else, is most likely searching for a family standard of absolute peace. (35-131, 1970.10.11)

4. What happens when a man and woman unite? When a man and woman who are vertically one with God marry and become one in mind and body, they are aligned with the creative principles of the great way of Heaven, and so they capture God's love. I'm saying that you can possess God's love and form an axis.

What is the purpose of marriage? It is for man and woman to center on God's love, possess God's love, and unite. Such a union is the origin of peace and of the universe itself.

The essence of true love lies in the father living for the sake of the mother, the mother living for the sake of the father, the elder brother living for the sake of the younger brother, the younger brother living for the sake of the elder brother and so on, including everyone. Because God's eternal love dwells where people live for others, such a family will endure forever. (221-212, 1991.10.24)

5. When a husband and wife persist in taking conflicting positions, there can be no peace in their family. With a single, united center in the subject position as the standard, unity of the center and its counterpart is essential.

In the relationship between subject and object partners, who has to serve as the center? The subject partner serves as the center. The object partner should then treat the subject partner as his or her center and should connect to the subject partner. That is how he or she can fulfill the purpose of the object partner.

However, if the subject partner goes back and forth, to and from the objective position, the single purpose is lost. In the end, to realize the purpose of the family, the husband, and wife need to become one. (028-157, 1970.01.11)

6. How will a world of peace come about? What is the first requirement? We need to find the origin that unites us as one. If we cannot, then a united world will forever remain unrealized. If you ask whether you have to become one before your household becomes one, it means you have not attained unity within yourself.

When the body and mind of an individual fight each other, neither the individual nor the couple can be happy. They cannot be peaceful nor can they find hope. As we get closer to the Last Days, the sphere of the mind divides from that of the body.

One result is that each couple becomes four battling entities. Since there are two minds and two bodies, they become four entities fighting one another. If you try to become one centered on the woman's mind, her mind is fighting with her body, so you have to escape.

If you try to become one centered on her body, her body is fighting with her mind, so you have to disengage again. There is no base to hold on to. A beginning point for peace cannot be found on earth. (230-315, 1992.05.10)

7. In a family, if the father is sad, his son cannot be happy. If the father and elder brother are sad, the younger brother cannot be happy. A person whose father is sad, whose husband is sad, or whose son is sad has to harmonize with them and strive to have the same heart as they do.

Even if a child is a company president, if he or she goes to work after seeing the father sad, it is natural for the child to worry about his or her father, even while working. The father's happy greeting when the child returns home should be a source of great joy to the child. If you become such family members, your family will be happy, and you will enjoy peace and the ideal. (63-304, 1972.10.15)

8. What a happy thing it is to sleep and awaken together with your beloved spouse for your entire life, to work together and then work together again. If you have lived with such love in your heart, if you end up living alone, it will not be difficult for you.

The universe cannot disturb such love. In such a situation, the universe is ready to take collective action, and both the earthly world and the heavenly world will protect you. People who go through life with love at their center are never unhappy, whether in this world or the next.

The greatest reward given to husbands and wives who live in unity through this kind of love is their children. Their children are more precious than anything else. They want to love their children more than each other.

A family in which the mother and father unite to give and receive love is a foundation of peace, rooted in love. The family in which the children and parents become completely one based on love is a family of peace. (129-056, 1983.10.01)

9. God's Will is to realize the family kingdom of heaven. Your sons and daughters are the most frightening beings in the world. They learn from your behavior. Therefore, they are the most frightening beings.

If you tolerate and forgive everything, living peacefully, then your children will learn to do the same. It is difficult to be the mother or father of sinless children. (100-302, 1978.10.22)

10. The kingdom of heaven is realized in your family. Nowhere else, will you find fulfillment and peace. If your family goes in the wrong direction, you will be unhappy even if you gain the world and everything in it. Families with such love will certainly follow me to the kingdom of heaven. (130-169, 1984.01.08)

11. The family is a training ground for setting up the palace of peace in this world. The husband and wife have to live for each other, with true love as the center of moral law.

The couple walking the path of eternal love and their sons and daughters all have to fulfill their responsibility. I am saying that the family is the foundation for peace. (143-169, 1986.03.17)

12. A family tradition centered on True Parents must emerge. Because the laws of love with the Parents at the center have not yet been set up, a standard of peace has yet to be established on earth.

In the absence of a standard of peace centered on love, there are no sons and daughters of peace, no families of peace, no tribes of peace, no peoples, nations, or world of peace. We need to enter the embrace of love, following the person who comes as our Parent. (157-166, 1967.04.02)

13. What is the task that Unification Church members desire to accomplish? It is to restore our families. That is where all our desires lie. The family is the source of the peace of all nations, of the happiness of heaven and earth, and of the new dispensation.

In the family, we find the beginning of the new heaven and new earth, the passing away of the first heaven and first earth, the root of all values of human life, and the starting point of hope. They are all there. Then who stands at the center of the restored family? The true ancestors, the father, and mother, are at the center.
(21-047, 1968.09.01)

14. The nation God desires is the nation your Parents desire, and the nation your Parents desire is the nation you desire. The root of that nation starts from individuals and families. You need to climb over the wall pull your family with you and place it at the center. The family is the foundation for an ideal world.

The family with love at its core is the foundation for hope and peace. We place original true love at the core. Become husbands and wives who have eternal, unchanging true love between you. Become a couple that does not change. You are here to create endless strength.

You have to take with you the foundation of a family, so you need to dig deep. The family is called to follow this path. (205-233, 1990.09.02)

15. Bringing world peace depends on the foundation laid by parents and children in their families. The Unification Church emphasizes individual perfection and family perfection because I knew that this was the overall solution for peace. Take Korea, for example.

If North and South Korea reunite, but there is no peace within the families, the national peace will crumble. It is said that the leading nations bring peace to the world through international conferences.

However, if those Parents who are at the center of the global family do not establish a family foundation capable of bequeathing peace, peace in the world will crumble. (267-198, 1995.01.08)

16. Without the Family Federation for World Peace, a peaceful world is outside the realm of possibility. That is how important families are. A peaceful world starts with the family.

If there are ten members in a family, these ten need to stand together as one. They become one by harmonizing with one another three-dimensionally: vertically and horizontally, to the front and rear, and the left and right. With that in place, we will witness the advent of the ideal world of peace. (232-325, 1992.07.10)

17. To have a healthy household, your grandmother and grandfather, mother and father, you and your spouse, and your children all need to live in harmony. You need to attain harmony and unity with one another. So the question is, how can you unite?

If each of you serves yourself, you separate from one another. When eight family members live together and want to unite, what do they need to do? The grandfather and grandmother need to serve the whole. If they try to serve themselves, eight factions will arise.

The way to become one is to serve one another. The grandmother has to serve the grandfather, and the grandfather has to serve the grandmother. The father has to serve the mother, and the mother has to serve the father. The husband has to serve his wife, and the wife needs to serve her husband.

Furthermore, among the children, the elder has to serve the younger, and the younger, in return, has to serve the elder. This is the simple secret to making unity. If you create bonds by serving one another, peace will come to your household.
(241-301, 1993.01.01)

18. Where is world peace? It is not in the world; it is within me. Even if the world is out, there is unity to the degree that everyone is celebrating joyously, if my body and mind are not one, what will that unified world have to do with me?

Authentic peace does not begin with the outside world. I create it, starting with myself. Thereafter, a family of peace develops from the place where Adam and Eve are completely one in true love, with the standard of each having achieved mind and body unity. That family of peace is global. Being a unified family makes it a peaceful family, and that means it is global. (241-024, 1992.12.19)

19. According to God's Will, if there had been no Fall at the beginning and one family had been established, that family would have been humanity's single origin. Through that one family, all humanity would have found peace within God's love.

That family would have been one where God would be present, a family with God at the center. That family would have aligned itself with God and become the center of a tribe. Thereafter, a people would have become one with that tribe as their center. A nation would have become one based on that people, and the world would have become one based on that nation.

Because that world would have arisen in the natural environment using the ideals of true love following that progression, it would have realized a single ideology.

And because it was created by the expansion of one tribe from one lineage, that world could not possibly have been divided. It would have been a united world, nothing more or less than the ideal world. (101-088, 1978.10.22)

20. A man and woman are born into the world, and when they are drawn to unite with each other as husband and wife, they each feel, “I am happy; I am at peace.” God is naturally drawn to find that place of unity and to relate to them. This is the primary motivation driving the relationship between God and people.

When God relates with us in this way, it is good not only for God and us, but it is as well for the animal, plant, and mineral worlds, which welcome that unity with gratitude. (218-207, 1991.07.29)

21. Within a family, there is an arena of love that enfolds a man and a woman. Putting that family at the center, we embrace patriotic thought, saintly thought, and the thought worthy of a divine child.

When we follow this harmonizing direction to our destination, the value of our united purpose will emerge as the world standard. When we follow the historical direction of God's love and embrace the world, unity and peace will be possible. Without it, the ideal kingdom of heaven cannot appear. (207-302, 1990.11.11)

The family ideology of the global village

22. Who is leading history? The people who create history are those who are pursued and driven. History develops by going through stages. As we go forward, let us bear in mind that we are promoting an ideology of world peace.

Therefore, we must not move forward by putting our people at the center. Instead, we need to put all the people of the world at the center. As we advance, we need to explain that we are working for global equality. A group of people such as this will never fail.

This thought was Christianity's contribution toward the development of history. Christianity has advocated ideas such as the equality of all people, the brotherhood of all the world's peoples, and humanity as one great family. For this, it has been attacked throughout the ages. (18-074, 1967.05.21)

23. The United Nations of the political world has to unite with a UN of Religions and a Women's UN: these three need to unite as Cain, Abel, and Eve. If they become one with the True Father and True Mother, then all of humanity will enter the realm of one family.

Moving in this direction, all the nations and their leaders can enter a peaceful world. A single nation will emerge, with God at its center. The world is composed of family systems.

Therefore, the family is where this process begins. With that in place, no one will fight as we naturally move to the tribal foundation. In the same way, we will advance to a nation, the world, the cosmos, and God.
(254-315, 1994.02.16)

24. Many religions have the concept of a Messiah or Lord of the Second Advent. This tells us that there is a single common purpose for the establishment of religion. That single purpose is world peace and unity. Why should this be so? It is because there is one owner.

The idea of God, the absolute being, is one, not two. Then what is the one thought behind the ideology of oneness? It is to make the world into one. It is to realize a world of peace, a united world. God's Will is for brotherly and sisterly love to harmonize the world as a single family with love at its center, to realize a realm of oneness. (249-171, 1993.10.10)

25. All the humankind is one family. I am saying that we are a family. We are one family, connected through true love. Humankind is one tree. Your family is made up of many families living together. In your family, there are babies, boys, young men, middle-aged men, and elderly men.

Your family is a training ground where you educate others by example. You educate your children to connect them to the family of the world and the great universe. People who have been trained in your family fall into four categories: your grandfather and grandmother, mother and father, elder brother and sister, and you.

Thus, training in your family is the way you graft onto the world family. You invest in your family to connect it to the world family. I am saying that you need this investment to accomplish the larger purpose. (289-209, 1998.01.02)