The Path of a Life of True Love

1. The greatest desire of all people is to become God's sons and daughters. This is because the parent-child relationship is the closest of all. We are born through the intense concentration of our parents' love and life; we are born to represent our parents' ideals.

Hence, the words “love” and “ideal” cannot be spoken with only oneself in mind. Life also does not come into existence just from oneself. It is created through our parents' relationship. It is the same with God.

When God made human beings, He created them as the object partners of His true love, life, and ideal. This is wonderful. The love of our parents cannot be manifest without you or me.

Our parents' love, life, and ideals are connected to each of us. We are the fruit of our parents' love, life, and ideals. Thus, the position of the child is the most valuable. God and human beings are in this parent-child relationship.
(298-314, 1999.01.17)

The way of a true husband and wife and true parents

2. The privilege of the son of God is that he can own God, and everything God owns belongs to him. Even God's love, life, and ideals belong to that son. Human beings are to restore this magnificent original value, which they all have.

Since God is the subject partner of true love, and since He is eternal, then His partners of true love also have to be eternal. Once we become one in true love, God Himself becomes us. The bodies of Adam and Eve before the Fall were God's dwelling place.

Thus, had Adam and Eve eternally united through true love centered on God's heart, they would have become God's bodies of love, life, and lineage. Then, our mind and body would not conflict as they are today, h (298-315, 1999.01.17)

3. If we asked God why He created this universe, He would answer, “Because of love!” It is because of love. Then what is that love? People talk about love like the lyrics of a Korean song, “My love is my all.” You want such love, right? Yet although you ladies have heard that song, you don't know what love is all about, do you? No matter how much we think about it, love is infinitely mysterious.

If we say it is round, it is round; but if we say it is oval, it is oval. Can a woman alone find such love? Whether she likes it or not, she has to follow the young man who is destined to be her spouse, even if he is an annoying, mischievous, disheveled bachelor. (132-242, 1984.06.20)

4. When you sing, “My love is my all,” so much is included in those words: a husband's love, a mother's love, a son's love, and even God's love. If only you had such love, you could withstand every trial. Love is the only force that can digest everything.

Parents with loving hearts want to give the world to their children. They would like to give and give and keep on giving. Love is that big. The heart of love is without end. It connects to anything or anyone; it is infinitely large and carries unlimited value.

That is why a person who owns love can own the universe. Happiness overflows in the person who has love. That person can achieve success in every area of life. On the other hand, no matter how seemingly great your life is, if you cannot become a victor in the arena of love, you will end up a loser. (132-242, 1984.06.20)

5. As a woman, when your dear husband, whose love makes you blossom unto eternity and connects you to the seed of life greets you, how marvelous it is when you give him a beautiful smile and say, “Welcome, welcome, my dear! All my flowers are yours.

Please take all my charms and do as you are !” And how beautiful it is when he offers you a prayer of blessing, “I pray that your happiness will last thousands of years!” Your first love is a rope that binds you together so tightly that nothing can untie it. Even if you fight so hard that one of you breaks a leg, you would still hold on to each other.

That is the greatness of such a couple. But if the love of a couple who lives together despite their struggles is considered great, how much more so is the love of a couple who does not fight? When we see the unhappiness of a husband and wife who fight, we can learn from them how happy a couple who does not fight can be.

When we see unhappy people, we can appreciate what it means to be happy. This is the same for everyone. (191-236, 1989.06.25)

6. Love can fill any deficiency. It compensates for all inadequacies. If you love a woman, even if she becomes sick or disabled, you will not mistreat her. You will not dislike her or hate her. You should not recklessly give your first love to just anyone. Furthermore, you should not make casual relationships.

Heaven and earth and the whole universe should recognize publicly your first relationship of love. Therefore, whether a man or a woman, you should not casually engage in any relationship without the approval of God, the owner of love. Why do you marry? You marry to find and attend this Owner of love.

Without the Owner's permission, a woman cannot do as she pleases, nor can a man. The kingdom of heaven exists in love. Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:21) This means that love is deep within your heart. When a husband truly loves his wife, and when he loves all humankind as truly as he loves his wife, he has a pass to freely go anywhere. (144-096, 1986.04.08)

7. In your family, the way you should go as a husband and wife is clear. It is not necessary who is right or wrong; the person to lead the way is the one who loves God more. The other one must follow. If the husband is lagging and does not listen, give him a good kick.

If he does not follow you, you simply have to go on by yourself. If you do not keep going, both of you will come to ruin, as will your children. First, you must avoid responding to your environment out of habit. Second, you must be proactive, continually taking action to spread God's love.

A wife needs to live for her husband and a husband for his wife. Since a couple is originally meant to exist for the sake of God, to fulfill His Will, you need to work so that God can recover your tribe, your people, your nation, and the world. We still have realms to liberate, even the spirit world and hell, to build God's kingdom. (144-131, 1986.04.12)

8. When God created human beings, do you think He loved the man or the woman more? He loved the woman more. Men are God's dwelling place.

Therefore, when men mature and reach adulthood, they want to command the world, travel around the universe, and win first place in everything. Men are more ambitious in this way. Women, on the other hand, do not think, “I would like to be the best in the world.” Instead, in terms of their conjugal relationship, they are inclined to pursue one direction – love.

They long for an environment of tranquility and a peaceful life. They do not relish competitive struggle. Furthermore, they rather want to love and receive love and lean on someone. So they would like to live where they can be part of a family, be secure, and cultivate intimate relationships. The woman was God's final masterpiece. And women have more capacity to receive love than men. (100-132, 1978.10.09)

9. Art is something that enriches our life. This is why it is important to include the arts in children's education. Women also need to know how to develop an artistic sense toward their husbands, how to treat them gently, and how to embrace them.

This is an even more wonderful kind of art. Through the art of love, we can beautify our family and elevate it. I think this art is of great value in terms of its benefits. Having a family is not a bad thing. No matter how capable, eventually, a woman needs to return home. That is why women should marry.
(100-140, 1978.10.09)

10. In a marriage, if a husband caresses his wife with hands of true love, whether it is day or night, she always welcomes him. What is it that women are most shy about? They are shy about showing their breasts, aren't they?

Men are similar in that they conceal their reproductive organs. But what happens when the two of you are alone? Do you still hide these things? No. You want to be open to each other.

Before marriage, if a man touches a woman it is a serious problem. Once you are married, that is no longer true. Even if you hide your private parts from each other before you marry, once you marry and love each other, it is not like that. In that way, you come to have one heart and become one body. (190-220, 1989.06.19)

The way of life as you seek true love

11. “We human beings are born to travel through the world of love. We are born to travel in the universe of love. Currently, I am inheriting my mother and father's bloodline, I participated at the center of their love for each other. So I received love from the time I was conceived.

My parents loved me as I grew up in my mother's womb. During the months my mother carried me, I could feel her constantly. After I was born, my parents loved me. I was in the realm of my parents' love all the time I was growing up, when I went to school and then to college.

A mother and father love their sons and daughters more than anything, and when they cannot provide for them the way other parents do, it causes them great pain. Only when the children have a son or daughter themselves can they say, “Now I know what my parents did for me.” When the parents have to go away to work, leaving their children behind, do you think they sleep comfortably or spend their time peacefully?

When you understand that their minds are always anxious and uneasy over their children, you will realize what amazing people your parents are. This is love. At around age sixteen, we are on the verge of maturity. Just a little later, around eighteen or twenty, we are ready to marry. This begins another cycle of love. We marry, and in the early years we have sons and daughters, and we love them. And when our children marry, we love our grandchildren. (187-096, 1989.01.06)

12. Grandfathers and grandmothers love their grandchildren even more than they do their sons and daughters. Those of you who know your grandmother, don't you receive more love from her than you do from your mother and father?

If you ask what a grandmother's desire is, it is to cherish her grandsons and granddaughters. For the grandparents, grandchildren in their home bring to mind images of the things they did, from the time they were children until they were teenagers, hen they were married, and when they had their children.

They can review the entire course of their early life through their grandchildren. When we become grandparents or great-grandparents, our lives start to branch out in as many directions as we have descendants. These descendants will be interconnected in the love they inherit from us. The more there are the greater the blessing.

They are born from love; their lives flow forth through love. The course of life is the succession of generations according to the way of love. Undeniably, we are born for love. (187-099, 1989.01.06)

13. We are attracted to thrilling movies. When we are told not to do something tantalizing, our mind is naturally drawn there. All people and things gather around what is interesting and exciting. The womb of creation at the center of the ever-changing universe is a place so electrifying that all things of creation, including human beings, are attracted to it.

Although the various elements of the universe are engaged in routine action, they have an inner urge to connect to something higher and more appealing. A central, attractive power made the creation of the universe possible. With stimulation from that higher place, harmony came about through giving and receiving. We can feel that stimulus, which gives rise to movement between the elements and prompts them to move to a higher dimension.

The power of that stimulation can open up our senses to communication with all things. Even God can become intoxicated and overcome by this power of true love. We wish for God to be so intoxicated. This is because we resemble Him. We also can become intoxicated and enraptured, so much so that we lose all sense of self. We cannot hide from that intoxicating feeling, and we all yearn for it.
(140-130, 1986.02.09)

14. When Adam and Eve mature, they come under the invisible dominion of God's love. From the vertical summit, God descends and firmly stands at the very center of the horizontal line where Adam and Eve are positioned at each end. When the vertical subject, God, becomes the central core of the horizontal plane, Adam and Eve, as the minus, become absolutely one with God, who is the plus.

Then based on the love of God, who is the vertical core, Adam and Eve meet at that place and begin moving up and down. Once they commence love-making, God does not simply remain still.

Even when a husband and wife kiss, they do not simply close their eyes and touch their lips; they passionately caress each other and turn round and round. God's love is vertical. When we catch fire with love, God descends at the temperature of molten lava, several thousand degrees, and collides with us. (140-131, 1986.02.09)

15. The love between husband and wife is the force that implants God within them. Originally, parents were to stand in God's position, with the husband and wife each representing one side of God. Their sons and daughters also are small embodiments of God.

Once they connect to the true love of God, the origin of true love, all of them become part of the same body. Parents are living representatives of God on earth. The husband and wife represent God, as do the children and the grandparents. In this way, three generations stand in God's position, centered on true love. Parents, husband and wife, and children are each in this position, but for this, they need true love.

A family structure centered on true love like this is the foundation for the kingdom of heaven. Without achieving such a foundation we cannot build the kingdom. This is the formula. When this becomes reality, the family will be the center of the world. (298-307, 1999.01.17)

16. Because the perfection of the family is the foundation for the perfection of the universe, if we love the universe as we love our family, we will be welcome anywhere. In this case, God, as the Parent of the entire universe, stands in the central position of love.

When a man and a woman become one in true love, form an ideal couple, and create a family, they come to reflect God's nature fully and can connect to everything in the universe. When this happens to us, all that belongs to God also becomes ours.

Then, how joyous we would be! That is the reason that we naturally desire in our hearts to gain mastery over the creation. When a man and a woman become one based on true love, the family they create can expand to a tribe, nation, and world.

They are the center of their family. The family they create should be the model for their tribe, and their tribe should be the model for their nation. Our families are to follow this way to build the ideal family, tribe, and nation. The ideal nation can't appear without first forming an ideal family. (298-307, 1999.01.17)

17. We were born through love, live our lives in love, and pass away into the afterlife, a world of love. Death is not something to fear. Death is like marriage; it is a change of locale. It is to leave the realm of limited human love, a realm that until that moment we could not escape, and expand into the unlimited world that transcends time and space.

It is to leap into a realm of limitless love. This is similar to when we were born from our mother's womb. In our mother's womb, we did not feel constrained. We thought it was the most comfortable place to be. God is the King of creation. He designed a baby's head to ease the transition from womb to world.

If we look at a baby's head when it emerges, it is in the shape of a squeezed, elongated watermelon. If the head were hard like a rock, could a woman live through the birth of her first child?

Giving birth is possible only because a baby's head is made so that it will extend like a watermelon and adjust to fit the birth canal. God is the King of creation. (178-252, 1988.06.05)

18. We use the word “cosmos” to describe the combined spirit world and physical universe. The cosmos yearns to be united through true love. True love is the only thing that can unite the cosmos and bring families to an ideal state to make them one.

True love is one thing we need, whether we are living on the earth or have entered the eternal life of the spirit world. True love is appreciated not only by people here and in the spirit world but also by all things of creation. That is why people of true love attract even animals and plants.

They want to live with such people and come under their dominion. Thus, a true man and woman who possess true love are the most precious beings in this world. (298-309, 1999.01.17)