1. In love, there is no end. A love that has expired and come to an end is not love. If you asked your beloved spouse, “Dear, do you love me? How much do you love me?” and your husband or wife replied, “I love you just this much,” you would feel bad. This is because in love there should be no limit.
Self-centered love cannot last even one day. Why do a husband and wife fight? It is because each of them wants to receive love from the other. A relationship between those who try to receive love from the other cannot last long.
A family in which everyone tries to receive love breaks apart, but a family in which everyone attempts to give love to others will never break apart, even if someone prays that it will. The love that each attempts to give to the other is eternal
(36-076, 1970.11.15)
Absolute, unique, eternal, unchanging true love
2. The Creator's purpose for making man and woman was love. True love is eternal and unchanging.
No matter how much the era and the environment change with time, true love will remain unchanged. Men and women were created to fulfill the ideal of true love, which is unique, eternal, and unchanging.
Human beings were not created with themselves at the center. Creation was initiated with God as the root, at the center. Therefore, it can be said that all things were created because of love. (213-156, 1991.01.20)
3. Original love is not human love; it is God's eternal, unchanging love. The moment we encounter God's love and attend to Him as our Master, we become one with Him.
When we enter the place of joy where we can interact with God, we can conquer the world. Sharing joy with God is more rapturous and intoxicating than owning all the heaven and earth. No stimulation of the five physical senses can compare with the experience of sharing happiness with God. (7-248, 1959.09.20)
4. Everyone wants true love. No one would tire of true love even if it lasted for ten thousand years.
No group would launch a revolution against it. Then what is true love? It is not the momentary love between young men and women of this world. Since true love involves God, it has an eternal, unique, and unchanging nature.
When you look at the solar system, you can see that the planets continuously move around the sun as their center, and this does not change. The Earth orbits the sun once a year. In hundreds of millions of years, it has not deviated from this cycle. It is wonderful to consider this big earth circling for hundreds of millions of years in this orbit.
If the orbit were even slightly different, it would cause serious obstacles to the development of life. Likewise, true love is absolute, eternal, unique, and unchanging. (299-153, 1999.02.10)
5. We are born because of the love of our father and mother. There can be no result without a cause; accordingly, no life in heaven or on earth belongs to itself. God has a greater purpose, with us at the center.
Love is eternal, but it cannot exist contrary to divine law. Therefore, no one is born outside the principle of love. Furthermore, complete love does not originate from one individual alone. A mother's love is God's love.
An elder sister and younger brother may be fighting, but when their mother and father come in, they stop. In the same way, our human world needs a mother of love. But in the love of our human world, in the love of the whole universe, there is no mother of love. Humankind lost the original Mother.
What we lost was nothing apart from God's love. (20-021, 1968.03.31)
6. True love lasts forever. It is the same love in the spring, summer, autumn, and winter. It is the same when you are in your teens, your adulthood, and your old age, and even when you go to the eternal spirit world. True love does not change. (194-303, 1989.10.30)
7. Love has an absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal nature. It has the elements of these inner qualities. The foundation of all the inner qualities, the foundation that desires to form common relationships, across the board, cannot be anything but true love.
No matter how absolute and unique God may be, He does not reject a relationship of true love. He willingly makes such a relationship. (226-063, 1992.02.01)
The rights and privileges that come only from true love
8. What is the Unification Church doing? We are attending God vertically and attending True Parents horizontally, and in the place where we resonate with them perfectly we seek to inherit true love.
The attributes of true love include the right of inheritance and the right to participate together. These allow us to participate in love. Next is the right of equality, which means to stand in the same position.
When you have that love, you can go everywhere together. You are entitled to participate in everything together, everywhere. Thus, there are three great attributes of true love. When you have a relationship of love, you have the right of equal position, the right to participate together, and the right of inheritance.
You can immediately stand in the same position. (177-224, 1988.05.20)
9. When you have true love, you are entitled to an equal position. The positions of father and son are different, but a father always wants his dutiful and loving son to be with him, and the son also wants that.
The father would not say, “Hey, boy, you are the son, so your position is different; you have to go to your place.” Even though their positions are different, the son always has the privilege of sitting in the same place as his father.
One attribute of love is the equalization of authority. One's beloved is entitled to participate in that. (176-185, 1988.05.09)
10. If you are united in true love, you have the right to hold an equal position and to do everything together with your beloved. You do not separate from each other anywhere, day or night. You can attend everything together.
If your beloved becomes president, as the president's spouse you can go everywhere with the president. Even if he or she goes to visit a slum, you can go there; you can participate anywhere.
You also have the right of inheritance. That is a law that applies to all people. It is a formula. This is why we naturally think about these things. (290-063, 1998.02.03)
11. God's fundamental purpose of creation is to have true people who can be the object partners of His true love. How can human beings stand in the objective position of God, who is the Absolute Being?
That is not possible through human effort or external conditions. It is possible only through a relationship of true love. When subject and object partners form a perfect relationship of true love, they immediately have the right to equal position, the right to participate in everything together, and the right to inherit.
(294-062, 1998.06.11)
12. The person of love owns the eternal God. Among the attributes of love are the right to inheritance, the right to live together, and the right to participate in everything together.
Even if a woman did not graduate from primary school, if her beloved husband is the president, whatever he owns belongs to her; of course, she can live together with him day and night, and she is entitled to participate in whatever he does.
Since love has these three great attributes, once you stand in the position of oneness with God's absolute and unchanging true love, you receive the authority to join God wherever He is and live with Him at any time.
Then you will be able to see God even without closing your eyes. Those who have deeply felt God's sorrowful heart will stop in their tracks and weep bitterly; such a realm of deep feeling exists.
Even in the fallen world, a mother's love is such that if her child has an accident far away, she can sense it. She wakes up calling her child's name. There are many examples of this. (201-356, 1990.04.30)
13. Even fallen people desire the highest, best, and most glorious position. All people of all races desire this position, whether educated or not. Only love can satisfy this desire.
Love is eternal, so when you have God's love, you can have eternal life. To stand in an equal position, a position with the same rights as God, you first have to possess God's love. (145-270, 1986.05.15)
14. When we have a loving relationship with God, our position is equal to His, and we can share in His rights. When we are united in love with God, we have the authority to participate in His work. Love confers the authority to participate in the beloved's activities. Love also grants the right of inheritance.
When you have a loving relationship with God, not only can you stand before Him, but you can have all that He owns. Originally, people had the privilege of ownership over all that belonged to God. Thus, it is natural that we have the desire to become the very best of beings. (145-270, 1986.05.15)
15. In the original, ideal world, a person who experienced true love would immediately inherit the right and ability to have whatever God desired for him or her. You can attain that qualification only on the earth while bringing your body into oneness with your spirit in a true family.
The family is the meeting point of God's love and the place where you can attain this. You can feel the true love of God by loving your fellow citizens, loving the people of the world, and loving all things of creation. (298-310, 1999.01.17)
16. God is the vertical True Parent, and Adam and Eve would have become the horizontal parents, had they not fallen. True love takes the shortest, most direct route. Then where can human love and God's love meet? Where can the vertical and horizontal meet?
The shortest, most direct route connecting heaven and earth is the perpendicular line. There is only one such line. Only true love can take that perpendicular path, reflecting the great law of heaven and earth. True love is the original common standard that can measure everything relating to the great law of heaven and earth, and there is only one perpendicular line through which true love flows. (204-104, 1990.07.01)
17. Where can God's love and human love unite? True love flows through the shortest, most direct route. There is only one shortest, most direct route to love from above; that is vertical. True love takes the shortest, most direct route from the Father above to the Son below.
Following the perpendicular lines, there is only one point where the two can make contact. Conjugal love between man and woman, representing east and west, also travels by the shortest, most direct route. This horizontal love and God's vertical love intersect at a right angle; they meet on the perpendicular.
The love between brothers and sisters also flows along the shortest, most direct route, and meets God's love only at a ninety-degree angle. Consider a man and woman who can establish the perpendicular with God's true love at the center. Where in the universe should they meet? They have to meet on that perpendicular, which is the shortest, most direct route. (209-101, 1990.11.27)
18. God's true love moves along the shortest, most direct route. True love flows along the fastest, closest, shortest, most direct way.
If there were one place on earth where true love could settle, it would be the place at which the shortest, most direct route arrives. This place is absolute. It is eternal. Yet because of the Fall, this place was lost. Love has nowhere to settle, and its axis shifts back and forth.
Unless True Parents begin the process of settlement, having actualized the philosophy of the love of heaven and earth, based on the logic of true love, this world will not find the way of the ideal with love at its center. By God's love, horizontal love is drawn to connect with vertical love.
Had there been no Fall, the horizontal love between man and woman would have flowed along the shortest, most direct route to intersect with the vertical, perpendicular line at the central point. This is the formula through which we can reunite with the love of God's original creation. (221-344, 1991.10.27)
19. True love travels by the shortest, most direct route and therefore arrives in the shortest time.
When your beloved child is overseas, you can think of your child and be with him or her instantly, right? Love transcends distance. Since true love travels at the highest speed, with it, we can travel anywhere in the universe; the entire universe becomes our sphere of activity.
Since love transcends time and space, we have no sense of separation. Everything seems to be right in front of our eyes. (210-093, 1990.12.01)
20. Love travels at the highest speed as it flows along the shortest, most direct route. This is not secular love but divine love. What is divine love? It is true love.
If we enter the realm of true love because we can come and go at the highest speed through the shortest, most direct route, we will be able to act on the stage of the universe in the realm of thought. This may sound like a fantasy, but it is true.
(210-226, 1990.12.23)
21. Love chooses the shortest path. If we are to form a perpendicular line with love at the center, then love has to come through the shortest and most direct route possible.
When you go to visit someone you love, you don't saunter along as if you were touring a neighboring village. You go directly, swift as an arrow. Whether night or day, whether spring, summer, autumn, or winter, however long its history may be, love always takes the shortest, most direct path.
Vertically, the shortest distance is along a line perpendicular to the horizontal. This is how that which is the highest contacts that which is lowest.
(187-051, 1989.01.06)
22. What kind of love is God's love? Love is the heart that is never satisfied with what it has given; instead, it feels embarrassed that it cannot give more. One who feels sorry even after giving is truly the owner of love.
After parents have bought new clothes for their children, they still feel sorry that they could not buy better clothes. Even after giving, they don't feel satisfied, so they supplement that with love. (38-327, 1971.01.08)
23. The person who most readily lives for others becomes the central figure. The one who lives more for others rules supervises, and inherits all things. This is heavenly law. Within love, there is the right to be always together.
You can do everything together in any place, day, or night. Do you need permission to go into your sons' and daughters' rooms? Would you require permission to go into your wife's room? If you love God, you can participate in everything with Him, wherever He goes. (170-199, 1987.11.15)
24. True love gives and forgets what it has given. It does not remember. What is the standard of good and evil? Evil is giving for the sake of making a profit. Goodness is giving and forgetting about it.
Even in a family, the person who lives more for the others is on the side of goodness. The person who lives for others eventually becomes the master of that family. If there were ten friends, the best friend among them would be the one who lived for the other nine.
Then the nine people would make that one the central figure and serve that person. This is how to inherit the universe. (141-253, 1986.02.26)
25. The original nature of dominion is love. There is one element of life that can connect with the original nature of love. That is my value as an object partner before a subject partner. At that point, my value corresponds to the value of my subject partner.
The value of the object, which is the result, is equal to the value of the cause. My body, about my mind, always has the value of an object partner. My mind, about my body, has the value of a subject partner.
These two together make up the being called “I.” In this way, the universe brings about connected relationships. Immediately, the relationships between front and back, internal and external, left and right, and above and below are all connected. (145-177, 1986.05.04)
Sun Myung Moon