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1. When you reach your twenties, you are bound to marry and start a family, for which you have responsibility, and then you enter a competition. All families are competing. Even brothers and sisters compete among themselves, and parents compete in society to maintain their livelihood. In this way, everything is a competition.
In order not to fall behind, you should not let yourself make the mistake of following your interests. You cannot afford to lose a year or even a month, but should keep going on a clear path to benefit your family. Even figuring out the best way to go is a competition.
If you fall behind by a year, it will be more difficult to catch up. Children will come, but you are already a step behind. It is like shooting an arrow. You may have the same energy and stamina as everyone else when you finally aim and let go, but the arrows of those who let go first will fly.
For your arrow to catch up, you have to provide several times more propulsion, and not many people can do that. Therefore, during the time of your youth, the question is how you assimilate each year. That's why you need to set a clear goal of your own and follow through with it.
Before your ship sets out on a voyage, you have to know where it is going. You set the direction, start the engines, and then head out to sea. If you have to come back after you started your journey, you will face more difficulty. (120-314, 1982.10.20)
2. If you follow your original mind, the whole universe will open up before you. The original mind is faster and more forceful than a flying bullet. Once you enter such a state, you can converse with your mind.
You can hold a conversation with yourself. As soon as you consider doing something, the answer as to what to do will already be right in front of you. Being in such a state of spirituality, would you not know where to go?
The way you ought to go surely will unfold before you, and the forces of the universe will help you follow it. Even if you feel pushed into a place where you are tested, once you are there, everything will assist you. It is only then that you will be able to do great things.
This great power undergirds the lives of true men and women. They are aware of this infinite power, and it propels them forward in the direction they wish to take. They can tell in a second if their direction is wrong. You make this decision through your effort, but from then on, everything will be taken care of.
To get there, you need to decide by yourself on the direction you should take. This is something you alone must determine. It is something you know best.
(120-327, 1982.10.20)
3. Your youth is an important period. The decisions you make then will affect your entire life. If you decide on something, and you push through with it for forty, fifty, or sixty years, holding on to it and trying day and night, whether you are eating or working, asleep or awake, you surely will become a world-class person.
So once you decide something in your youth, you should follow through, even for your whole life, no matter how difficult it is. Even if your children and parents oppose you, the nation and world oppose you, and even if God kicks you away, you have to continue.
If you keep going like this, you will become a global figure. The time of your youth is that significant. (100-102, 1978.10.08)
4. In your studies, you may have a favorite subject. Think about the importance of choosing what to study. The subject should be something that you value that suits your aptitude, and that catches your interest.
It should be something that you will enjoy all the time when you are a child, a young adult, middle-aged, and in your senior years — in the past, present, and future. You have to focus on and study that subject.
Then you have to explore eminent figures in that field of the past, present, and future and compare yourself with them. If you are not yet good enough, you need to double your effort until you reach the roofing of your field.
If you pioneer the way to become the world's best in your field, you can take the position of teaching prominent leaders in every field. Then this world can be restored in a short time. (100-118, 1978.10.09)
5. When thinking about your future and deciding the area of expertise you will pursue, look deeply into your original mind and discuss it with God. You know your character best. You know the talents you have.
Follow where your original mind wants to lead you. No one can steer a boat before deciding which direction to go. When the pilot turns the wheel over to you, you will have to find the way by yourself. (120-314, 1982.10.20)
6. It is good to pray and practice devotion. Why is it good to pray? When you are focused on your mind, your powers of observation quicken. You will find that when you listen to your teacher's lecture at school, you already know what will be included in the test.
You will know whether he or she will ask this question or not. Furthermore, you will be able to read the teacher's mind. It is as if you raised your spiritual antenna. The higher you raise your antenna, the more you will hear sounds that are very difficult to hear.
Likewise, those who practice devotion have a connection to the future world. Revelations and prophecy come to those who practice devotion. Further, when you study, if you aim for higher results to develop a better future for the sake of humanity, for God, and the whole, then good spirits who were experts in that field will come to you. They surely will come. (100-122, 1978.10.09)
7. In the Last Days, we have to emphasize maintaining purity. We have to emphasize true love and true family. Without it, we cannot correct this world. This is obvious. In the world, there are many kinds of people, but they do not have a pure lineage.
The problem of lineage has become so complicated through all the ups and downs of history. Who can solve it? Unless we solve the problem of lineage, we cannot return to the heavenly kingdom. (279-078, 1996.07.24)
8. If we were to ask God, “Within human beings, where does Your love dwell?” what would God reply? Where is the holy of holies in which God would want to dwell, the place of His settlement in the human world?
Put it this way to God: “Where is the place where both You and human beings want Your absolute love to settle and stay?” We can conclude that this place of union between God and people is nowhere apart from the reproductive organs.
This is a revolutionary declaration. It is here that world peace, which brings everything into unity, begins, and from where the perfection of the ideal world expands. (279-073, 1996.07.24)
9. We live for those we love. We would not exchange them for the whole world. Love is absolute, unique, eternal,l and unchanging. The place where that love can settle is within each of us.
There is no higher hope than finding and uniting with our counterpart of love in that place of settlement. That is where God is; that is where the root of the universe germinates. That is where the root of love is created. What is the motivation for men and women to relate?
Even for those who do not know God, the motivation is love. We cannot deny this, even physiologically. No one can deny the fact that all created beings move in pairs, as subject and object partners, male and female. Why was this pair system created? Love made it that way. (279-073, 1996.07.24)
10. God invested all His heart and devotion in making your most precious part, your reproductive organ. This organ is not bad, but it became bad because, at the time of the Fall, it was misused to destroy God's world. Happiness is related to it. History is related to it. Originally, it was holy.
The Bible refers to it as a place known as the holy of holies. For people, where is the holy of holies? The human body is a holy temple, and the reproductive part is your holy of holies. Heaven punishes the misuse of it. Its misuse can ensnare the whole tribe.
You do not know how much I have had to suffer to recover this foundation. I had to carry the cross of love. I had to go through incredible suffering; I was dragged over the pass of tears, the pass of the cross, while being whipped and shedding blood, to fill the abyss with bitter sorrow.
Furthermore, I tell you: do not get too close to a man or a woman. Unless you go through an earnest process, you cannot reconnect to the destined pure lineage.
(183-087, 1988.10.29)
11. In these Last Days, the time of harvest, the unprincipled love that Adam and Eve planted in the Garden of Eden is rampant throughout the world. A woman does not own her reproductive organ, nor does a man own his. The woman is born for a man, and the man is born for a woman.
The owner of a woman's reproductive organ is not herself; the owner is her husband. The owner of a man's reproductive organ is his wife. If he uses it selfishly, it will ruin him. God, being wise, assigned the ownership of each person's reproductive organ to his or her marriage partner. (183-086, 1988.10.29)
12. Those who are called by God are responsible and destined to protect the blessed lineage, without stain, for thousands of generations. Those who cannot do this will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
This teaching is not mistaken; it is correct. You must build the kingdom of heaven by yourself. You do so by uniting your mind and body based on true love.
(263-110, 1994.08.21)
13. After you experience love in your family, you have to expand that love beyond the bounds of the family. To achieve this, you must sacrifice for the greater love. Your family must sacrifice for the sake of your tribe and your tribe for the sake of the nation.
Once you set up the condition of expanding your love through sacrifice, you will connect to the ideal realm of love everywhere. Once you open this environment of love, you can enter the kingdom of heaven.
In reality, even if your love does not reach that level, if you practice such love only within your given environment, you will pass the test and be able to enter the heavenly realm in the other world.
Even if you stay within the boundary of the village, you can join with and share the benefits of those who loved the world and heaven and earth. (133-139, 1984.07.10)
14. What is the principle of the Unification Church? It is that the individual has to sacrifice for the family, live for the sake of others, and lead a life of love. The purpose of the family is to serve the tribe and live for that which is greater.
Thus, with a heart that you are representing the entire Cain world, you need to live for the sake of others. If everyone in the family — the grandfather and grandmother, father and mother, husband and wife, and sons and daughters — lives with the same heart, you should be able to go freely anywhere in the heavenly world.
You can even go to the realm of the Patriots without any problem. The place where we live like that is the kingdom of heaven on earth. (133-140, 1984.07.10)
Sun Myung Moon