The Power of True Love

1.The fastest action in the world is the action of love. In the world the highest speed is not that of electricity; it is love. It has the most amazing power; it can fly.

If two people located at opposite ends of the earth were to fall in love with each other, their love would pull them together, closing the distance between them.

Love has such power. So today in the religious world it is said, “Search for love.

Stay close to the God of love. Have a deep heart. Pray.” Why? It is because when you contact the world of love, you can participate with God in all His activities of love. This means you accompany God in His work. (112-204, 1981.04.12)

2. Love is destined to expand in all four directions: north, south, east, and west. From this standpoint, with love at the center, front and back, right and left, and above and below combine in an ideal way and begin circular motion.

Thus, the whole universe is revolving. As the universe turns, the things at the center have to turn with it. There's no other choice. What is at the center of this universal rotation? It is the axis, which is eternally unchanging.

Money, knowledge, and authority all change. In our time, when even people's feelings change, what can be the eternally unchanging axis? There is one thing that never changes and that is the relationship between parents and children. Even in the animal world, this is so. Only parents' love for their children is eternal.
(227-121, 1992.02.11)

True love's power is activated through giving and receiving

3. For people to exist, they must sustain a process of giving and receiving, starting with the physical body. Having established the prerequisites for reciprocation, men, and women interact with each

other; only then can they exist. If men were to say they don't need women, and women were to say they don't need men, this world would be in ruins within one hundred years. To maintain existence, that is to say, to give and receive, we each need a partner.

Therefore, to this day men and women have been loving each other and forming families. Love is the power that initiates the interaction between men and women, and it is the power of the action itself.

There must be giving and receiving action at the source for the power called love to arise. For this action to arise, we need men and women. To establish the prerequisites for reciprocation, we need men and women. (18-324, 1967.08.13)

4. All material things are composed of energy, but energy cannot come into existence by itself. Unless a reciprocal standard is set, giving and receiving does not occur and energy cannot come to exist.

You generate energy through the giving and receiving action of your entire body. Energy is generated proportionally to this action. Before there can be energy, there must be giving and receiving action.

Then what initiates such action? Nothing can do this by itself; an object partner is needed. This is the absolute requirement for the appearance of all beings. If there is no object partner, there is no giving and receiving action. (18-323, 1967.08.13)

5. The more you love, the more your love grows. Love does not disappear; instead, it prospers. There is no way to prosper without love. Furthermore, there is no eternal life without love.

So Jesus said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment." (Matt. 22:37-38)

This is the commandment we need to observe absolutely.

Prosperity is possible only through building loving relationships and following the way of love. (38-328, 1971.01.08)

6. When you invest beyond your limits and even your life, the power of true love generates ten thousand times more energy. You will never fail when you invest in true love.

The amount of true love you invest will multiply and develop. The more you set the power of true love in motion, the greater it will grow so that you can embrace the world, the universe, and even God. (221-251, 1991.10.25)

7. True love will never be exhausted. The more it is set in motion, the greater it gets. In mechanics, input always exceeds output. But in the world of love, output exceeds input. This is why love is the nucleus of everything.

There is always enough true love to provide for your objective partner and still have more left over. There is no shortage. Since you always have something remaining after giving true love to your object partner, the more you love, the more true love increases. (219-018, 1991.08.25)

8. In a relationship of true love, output is greater than input. Saints were persecuted and, at that time, killed, yet their constant investment in true love produced an output greater than the input, and made an imprint in history.

Since God has done the same thing, the creation of the universe was possible. When true love is invested, it grows greater and greater. If there is a heart that invests, the foundation for life to exist remains forever. (213-258, 1991.01.21)

9. True love stimulates the world and supplies it with the surplus energy it needs to rotate eternally.

It also sustains the consumption of energy by adding more than it consumes. This is why only true love can exist forever. For people, the most precious things are life and love. Life comes from love. Therefore, everyone who has a life automatically pursues love. (109-143, 1980.11.01)

10. When we say that true love is the origin of life and can sustain the universe, we can compare it to air. If I continue to give over and over again for the sake of the universe from a position of low pressure, the universe will pull me to the center and raise me.

I will be at the very center and then rise to the top. What is true love? If I go to the eternal zero point by investing myself completely, over and over again, the universe will add to me. If I go to that place, God will take notice and move on my behalf.

The more I invest and forget how much I have given, the more God will support me. If I keep investing in God's support, I will become the center. Once I become the center, as I keep investing, I will never sink into the earth. Instead, I will rise.

Everything will get bigger, and since I keep moving at the center, everything will become rounded. This is how the universe stays in motion and assumes a spherical form. (221-106, 1991.10.23)

11. Since the object partner of love will be eternal, God continues to invest eternally until it comes into being. And when He has a partner He wants to invest infinitely into that partner, even to His very essence.

Since God's investment is infinite, all pairs that move in the world of love have an eternal quality. We can conclude that the love partner of the absolute, infinite God will live for eternity. (221-107, 1991.10.23)

12. God's love is love for the sake of others and only for the sake of others. Because God wants to keep giving, true love also cannot help but keep giving, and since they give to each other, they revolve.

God's love is like that. Since God wants to give endlessly, and the original nature of love is also to give endlessly, they revolve. How did the universe begin? It began from the point of revolving.

All existing things, by their intrinsic nature, have to revolve. Then what can go on forever? The love that gives eternally, the love at the very center, will keep revolving forever. When the power of giving and the power of receiving become one, and they want to keep giving, they expand. Since there is power in this principle, expansion takes place and the universe is formed. (128-292, 1983.09.11)

13. Love functions as a lubricant and as an orbit in which things move. Without love, there is no lubrication. Automobiles need oil to move. For things to move, we need to oil them.

There must be lubrication. Everything needs lubrication if it is to move. Only love can be the lubricant for the highest joy. It does not disappear because it is rooted in the eternal God. The more love moves, the more it develops.
(180-163, 1988.08.22)

The unlimited power of true love

14. True love remains even after it embraces the universe; it remains even after it flows through the universe, and it remains even after it blends with the universe. It is the driving force of life, movement, and everything.

Where there is love like that, life at last has value. From that love, all that is ideal emerges. Laughing “ha ha ha!” can be ideal. We can say that crying “wah wah!” can be ideal as well if it is prompted by love.

People shed tears in times of sorrow but also in times of joy. No matter where you are, even in hell, if there were one power that would allow you to know happiness, that would be the power of wanting to live for the whole. (129-315, 1983.12.01)

15. Love has the power to enhance that which is insufficient, to reinforce that which is inadequate, and to complete that which is lacking. That love is true love. The nature of love for the whole cannot differ from the nature of love for the individual.

To reach the world of cause from the world of result, there should be an expenditure of surplus power. This power could be both stimulating and electrifying to human beings, who are resultant beings. (112-130, 1981.04.12)

16. When you inherit the work of creation you receive the authority of true love. The reason is that to inherit the work of creation is to inherit true love, which is the strongest power.

With true love, there is nothing you cannot do, nothing you cannot make. You can love even your enemy. The power of true love is not to fight, not to force, but to win over someone naturally. There is no power stronger than this.
(124-095, 1983.01.30)

17. The Bible says, “Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Matt 10:39)

How do we explain such paradoxical logic? It is a paradox because the world of evil and the world of goodness move in different directions. It seems contradictory, but it is a widely accepted viewpoint of those on God's side.

Unless we overcome the environment that gives rise to this paradox, and unless we make a bold leap into destiny to find the way to true love with its logic, we cannot be liberated.

The power to leap comes not from military might, economic strength, political prowess, or intellectual power. It is the power of nothing but love. It is the only path to the eternal, unchanging, and correct way. (121-126, 1982.10.24)

18. Love is the essential force that moves reality; it is indispensable in daily life. This has been so throughout history. Love is the origin of the force that drives our social systems and everything else.

This is why students are taught patriotic love for their country. Brotherly love, parental love, conjugal love, and worldwide altruistic love – all are forms of love.

What does this mean? It means that without reference to love, which impacts people's daily lives and the course of history, we cannot create the thoughts and traditions that connect us to history. (187-046, 1989.01.06)

19. The power of true love is great. True love can melt even the hardest substance. It is more fearful than a clenched fist. Love can conquer any place quickly, no matter how far and wide. Nothing is strong enough to withstand the power of love.

True love can melt even our enemy. We want to become the owners of the world based on love. Love is the pinnacle of hope for humanity.
(193-042, 1989.08.06)

20. If you tap on the heart of true love, the physical body spontaneously resonates. If you become a perfect man or woman through true love, God spontaneously appears. This occurs only through love.

True love is the power that leads to such events. So what is true love in reality? True love connects vertically and horizontally. It can weave together above and below, right and left, before and after. Because of that, love can weave together heaven, which is above, and earth, which is below.

Going laterally, it can weave together the right side and the left side. I am saying that love is the power to intertwine everything: before and after, right and left, above and below. (181-087, 1988.08.28)

21. What is it that can give life the taste of honey? It is the taste of true love. It is not the love of man and woman living in this fallen world. Once you taste true love, everything is united. All eyes focus on one place.

All the cells of the body are drawn together into a ball and begin to roll. True love has that power. All kinds of cells are drawn together into a ball and roll down the path of love. While rolling down that path, I forget my existence. The concept of “me” is lost. (109-274, 1980.11.02)

22. The schisandra (omija) fruit is used to cure many illnesses. The berry has many uses in Oriental medicine. It combines five different flavors, and makes an effective medicine.

Love, which is the medicine of medicines, also has five flavors. It is bitter, salty, sweet, spicy and sour. The taste of love is like the five-flavor schisandra berry. The tastiest dishes are made with this berry. This is a medicinal food.

Everyone likes food that is good for the body. (195-068, 1989.11.05)

23. In the right season, a beekeeper gathers his honey with equipment designed for that purpose.

Honeybees store the honey in honeycombs, but there are many holes. Bees save honey to get through the winter, but the beekeeper collects all the honey and provides sugar water for the bees to live on during the winter. So the bees live on sugar water all winter.

Then when spring comes, and they taste real nectar, they become intoxicated. When the flowers bloom in spring, the honeybees fly from flower to flower. If you look at the bees on the flowers sucking their nectar, their abdomens are raised and their heads are

buried deep in the flower. If you were to pull at a bee's abdomen with a pincer, it would still keep sucking, even if its abdomen separated from its body. How delicious that nectar must be! Now, how does the taste of that nectar compare with the taste of love?

Which do you think is better: the taste of honey or the taste of love? What kind of taste would God like most? If God were to smell many aromas, which would He like best? If He were to choose something to listen to, what would He like to hear, and if He were to seek something to feel, what would He like to feel?

There is only one thing God likes, and that is love. Nothing apart from love can focus on God's five senses and fill Him with joy. (136-116, 1985.12.22)

24. Is the color of love blue or red? What is love's color? It has five colors. Its taste is like the Schisandra berry. It has five flavors. If something has five colors, won't that be dazzling? A rainbow has seven colors. Think of all these colors mixed. What color would that be?

When you mix all wavelengths of visible light, you get white. What color do people like most? When God created all things, do you think He first created the color He likes most or the color He likes least?

He created the one He likes best. What color is the flower that blooms in early spring? It is purple. The color purple includes red links and all other colors. That's why all elegant things are purple. In the spirit world, the most beautiful color is purple. (197-049, 1990.01.07)

25. A man and a woman embracing and kissing light up like two poles with opposite charges touching and sending out sparks. If that light is white, we must add heat to create five brilliant colors.

When this colorful display is mixed with the vertical love of God, it is transformed into a world of ideal, brilliant hope, like the colors of the rainbow. Since human love is on a horizontal plane, it is simple.

People of original love want to combine colors, to see perfectly combined colors through the love of a man and a woman. When that occurs, vertical love will come down. Like a rainbow, God's love will descend to this horizontal love.
(134-171, 1985.04.07)

True love brings unity

26. A sense of love is not one-sided; it is all-inclusive. Even cells function in that way. We sometimes say that people are intoxicated by love and that everyone should have this experience at least once.

If you are intoxicated by love, when you call out to anything in the universe, it will respond without hesitation. You can sing for a thousand years while watching the water flow.

The whispering sound of the flowing water is infinitely sweet. Think of it! Through love, people attain the value of owners who harmonize with the entire universe. You want to go the way of completing this purpose.

Once your heart can capture God's love, you can sing and dance for thousands of years. At that time, you will have completed everything; you will need nothing more. There is nothing on earth more precious than this. Once you capture God's love, you do not need gold, silver, or treasure, absolutely no need.
(39-211, 1971.01.10)

27. True love fills everything. When God's eye perceives love, He becomes intoxicated.

In a family, when the father is intoxicated by love, the mother likes it, the sons and daughters like it, and the whole family likes it.

But if the father is frowning, the mother can't help but frown, and the sons and daughters frown too. If the mother is intoxicated by true love, that true love will melt the father. It will melt the sons and daughters too. If the sons and daughters are intoxicated by true love, their mother, and father will melt in turn.
(106-099, 1979.12.16)

28. True love is almighty. There is nothing it cannot do. If someone imagines the ideal, the ideal object that they imagine appears. Even if a husband is not handsome, when his wife comes to love him, he appears handsome to her. Love transforms unattractiveness.

We don't know our faces well. Even though we see them in the mirror every day, we don't know them. When we see ourselves in a photo, we say, “Oh, so I look like this?” but when we look in the mirror, we don't think that way. According to our mood, we sometimes look like the most repulsive person, sometimes like the most attractive.

Sometimes our faces look around, sometimes long. If we look with the eyes of love, no one is better looking than we are. When your eye is very close to something, can you see it well? You need a certain distance to focus. If you are too close, you cannot perceive it. (106-102, 1979.12.16)

29. Love has great power. Even if someone is a farmhand working in the fields, when he forms a love relationship with the owner's daughter, the owner has to give him all he has. Love can leap from the lowest place to the highest place. It can break down any barrier, no matter how strong.

No matter how confused the world is, once you experience God's love, you can leap beyond it. If the American president falls in love with a country girl who is naive, ignorant, unqualified, and lacking in many ways, from that day forward she is invested with the right to participate with him in his position.

Likewise, if you have true love, no matter how low you are, you can leap to the highest place quickly. Today, no matter how miserable our circumstances, once we have a loving relationship with God at the center and can say, “There is no doubt that You are my Father, and I am your child,” we can freely go in and out of God's master bedroom; we receive that privilege.

Only love can make this possible. (142-037, 1986.03.03)

30. When you meet your beloved, you want your love to be a flower that blooms forever. You want to explode. When two lovers come together, there is an explosion. Love conquers everything with its brilliant power.

There is nothing that can suppress that power. Love has that explosive quality. All beings are in awe when thinking of love, and all cells open their gates.
(179-115, 1988.08.01)

31. Would you prefer to hold on to someone because of love, or because the person had earned a doctorate? Why do you prefer true love? No amount of money has the power to make your mind and body one. No amount of knowledge can make your mind and body and five senses focus on one thing.

These cannot make your eyes, nose, and ears focus on one thing. Power cannot do that either. But love can. That is why love brings the greatest joy. Our five spiritual and five physical senses can unite their focus through love.

In love, we enjoy explosive happiness by having the five spiritual and five physical senses unite in one focus. We feel tremendous stimulation in love. We ignore everything else and all our cells unite into one. The power of true love unites the spiritual and physical cells as one. Nothing else can do this. True love is the highest peak. (189-194, 1989.04.06)

32. Love is the power that unites man and woman. When two people love each other completely, they think, “I am in you, and you are in me.” It is like St. Paul; when he had his spiritual experience, he could not say whether he had been in his body or out of his body.

What binds subject and object partners together? If one man and one woman just casually meet and live together, that is not love. In love, the direction should be right, the physical constitutions should match, and there should be a common base.

One is minus and one is plus, which makes for a perfect mutual relationship. Love is when I say I would die without you, and you say you would die without me. When two people are bound together completely as one, their two personalities combine and become one personality, and they have greater value than they do as two individuals. They then become owners who can build a world of higher dimensions. (33-047, 1970.08.02)

33. Neither money nor knowledge can give rise to unity between mind and body. A Korean maxim says that a habit you adopt when you are three years old will last until you are eighty. It is very difficult to change your habits and your deep-rooted fallen nature. These have a historical and global character.

Only enlightened people who can crush such things underfoot, clear them away, and transcend the world, can overcome this problem. Man and woman are physiologically different, and the components of their original natures are different, but they can unite in love. (211-264, 1990.12.30)

34. The very cells of a mind and body are made to resonate with each other when united in true love.

If there is no true love, this is not possible. When you hit one side of a tuning fork, the other side resonates automatically with the same vibration. When they resonate, the frequency is the same.

Likewise, when our original mind and original body reach maturity and blend with God's heart of true love, and the environmental conditions are right to allow that, they move automatically and harmonize perfectly. Power is put into action.
(164-048, 1987.05.03)

35. When you enter the realm of resonance with true love, you have a wide view of heaven and earth.

The Buddha said, "Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one."

Why did he say this? If you reach the center of the realm of resonance, the whole world is in your hands; God is inside you, and you are one with heavenly law.

This is why he could say such a thing. If you enter the realm of resonance of true love, you don't need a religious faith. You don't need a Messiah. This is liberation. (201-361, 1990.04.30)

36. When can the mind and body unite? If the vertical and horizontal had been united, then the great law of heaven and earth would have united the mind and body forever.

Only when I love do I attain my true value and find myself. For a man, it is possible to realize his full value as a man only through marriage. That means that the fullness of human potential is realized through marriage.

Only by knowing love can a man become complete as a man and a woman become complete as a woman. Completion occurs with love at the center.
(211-263, 1990.12.30)

37. Among the things people seek, the most precious is love. We are driven to seek precious things, precious people, and precious love. God, the center of love, has no beginning and no end. To God, governing heaven and earth is not a one-day operation. He will do this for eternity.

The center of all precious things is human beings. The center of precious love is God. God sacrificed the things He created to find humankind, and God sacrificed human beings to find love.

Love makes two into one. God wants to give humankind that kind of love. In a place without relationships of love, everything scatters, but if you make love the center, everything is drawn together. (14-080, 1964.05.24)

38. That which can harmonize everything is love. For example, when a girl marries and goes to her husband's home, she discovers that his grandfather and grandmother, as well as his father and mother, are all living there.

In the past, in a nobleman's house, do you know how great their influence was and how great their authority was? Do you know how complicated their traditions, and their moral principles, were? In that environment, a wife could not even stretch out her legs as she wished.

So when a bride goes to her husband's home, what is her husband to her, such that she willingly leaves behind her mother, father, and brothers? The power of love is a moving force with the ability to harmonize. (181-025, 1988.08.28)

39. The word love cannot stand on its own. It requires a mutual relationship. Subject and object partners appear as two, but the two become one. If one becomes the top, the other becomes the bottom; if one becomes east, the other becomes west; if one becomes south, the other becomes north; if one becomes the front, the other becomes the back.

Love has an active nature that brings two into natural balance in any environment, in any place. (193-135, 1989.10.13)

True love is the source of harmony and equality

40. True love can transform even sorrow and pain into joy. More than our power, knowledge, or money, what we want to leave behind in the universe is true love.

This is our original desire. This has absolute authority over each individual. Where does this true love come from?

Needless to say, it comes from the true love of God, the foundation of the universe. It derives from Him, and God also wants to experience that love. When you ask a man and woman, who are engaged to be married, about their future spouse, the bride will say, “I expect my husband to be better than I am.”

The bridegroom will also say, “I expect that my wife will be better than I am.” Parents always hope that their children will be greater than they are. This heart comes from God. These words arise out of true love. (201-345, 1990.04.30) 41.

Just as flowers bloom in many colors, even though love comes from the same root, it appears in an endless variety of forms. This is love's response to the action of its object partner. When you relate to someone sad, you feel sad; when you relate to someone happy, you feel happy.

Love matches the feelings of its object partner. A loving wife's face shows that she can accept everything from her husband's past, even a dark background.
(233-131, 1992.08.01)

42. God breathes true love. Since this is the rhythm of the universe, the universe continues forever, based on true love. In love, there is eternal life. Everything moves in one direction, with God at the center.

True love is eternal, absolute, and unchanging; once it begins, it lasts forever. It moves according to the shape of waves and circles. When it moves in waves, it connects horizontally; when it moves in circles, it connects vertically.

When it moves up, it grows larger; when it moves down, it grows smaller. Thus, heaven's side grows larger and earth's side grows smaller. God's true love is eternal. (201-191, 1990.04.01)

43. What makes someone an amicable person? If you fight with your wife every day, are you such a person? An amicable person is one who, while heading east, can turn around and head west without any problem. If someone grasps his head and pushes him down, he goes down without resisting, and as he rises somewhere else, he does not change.

The universe is round, and so is the sun. Everything is round. What is the source of all-round things? They cannot become round by themselves. They become round only based on a relationship with something else.

The world is one existing entity, a substantial entity of relationships that integrates a realm of relationships. It continues on the foundation of this realm of circular relationships. Here, the source that can form circular relationships, the source of harmony, is the action of love. (164-078, 1987.04.26)

44. You should live enraptured with love. One who is enraptured by love is truly happy. An artist is enraptured by art. A person who loves literature writes books and is enraptured by them, or by the great masterpieces he or she reads.

Such people are happy people. Your entire body should live in the rapture of God's three-dimensional, ideal love, and you should follow only Him. (59-318, 1972.07.30)

45. Love flows into the heart of the individual, into the center of the family, and the center of a people. Wherever it goes, it enters the mainstream. And wherever it flows, everyone welcomes it.

There is no way to block it. God created people to relate with one another through the power of love. The one who lives and breathes along with the universe, connected through ties of love, can go freely to the Palace of God. He or she can open the gates to the Palace and enter at will.

There is a sanctuary there, where God is attended. He or she can go in and call out, “Heavenly Father!” Then God will answer, “Oh, my child, you are here!”
(164-047, 1968.08.11)

46. The word equality is meaningless without love. Equality is based on love. No equality is not based on love. Then what is happiness? Happiness is the fruit on the branch of the tree of love.

Happiness is the front side of love, the back side of love, the summit of love, and the feet of love. These words are all correct. Since love is on, and round, these words are all correct.

Without love, can there be happiness? No matter how beautiful a woman may be, she can find harmony only when she meets a man with whom she can be equal in love. (140-143, 1986.02.09)

47. In a realm with true love at the center, there is no injustice. It is like the nature of water and air. The power of love always balances things out, like water and air. Water always forms a level surface.

High pressure in the atmosphere always transfers to a low-pressure area to create equilibrium. Love is the same. Love balances everything. With True Parents at the center, one culture of the world of the culture of Adam begins. Starting from the individual, it connects eternally to the spirit world. (294-329, 1998.08.09)

48. In love, men, and women are equal. In love, a mother and son are equal, even if her son is the president. In love, everything is equal. When a husband comes home he should say, “I'm returning to my beloved wife's house. I'm returning to my wife's loving arms.” A wife should say, “My love, my husband, come into my arms!”

This is peace and equality. In this way, a husband and wife become one. A husband wants to be held in his wife's arms, and she wants her husband to come into her arms, so the two become one. There is no high or low between them; they are one. (129-051, 1983.10.01)

49. When you say people should be equal, what kind of equality are you talking about? When you receive original love, you have original equality. What kind of equality? It is equality based on love.

The highest realm of equality is based on love. The most important thing to people is love. Since love is also the most important thing to God, when you have equality of love, everything is magnificent. Everything can be accomplished.
(130-119, 1984.01.01)

50. If you want to interact well with the universe, you have to give love. Without love, you will never experience interaction with eternal value. Love is said to be meek and humble, and indeed it is so that it can flow eternally and fully.

This is the one method to create flow without resistance. Meekness, humility, and sacrifice are accepted everywhere. They cause no resistance anywhere. So it is not a sacrifice.

One secret method for working without resistance is to live and sacrifice for the sake of others. (122-330, 1982.12.01)

51. Love transcends even national borders. God's love has no national borders. It transcends all races, feeling no difference in value between black, white, and yellow races. God's love is great.

The flow of love is not dependent upon the environment. As it flows it assimilates the environment, which does not resist. God will be pleased only when we adopt the perspective that can make this happen. (164-093, 1987.04.26)

True love is the origin of peace and happiness

52. When you enter the realm of God's love, it is as if you are intoxicated by the fragrances of a million spring flowers. It is like the indescribable feeling of sitting on grass and looking up at fluffy, white clouds.

At that moment, you feel all the cells in your body dancing. That's why we say that God's love is the origin of the power of all living beings and the origin of all happiness.

God's love is the condition that is necessary for happiness, peace, and all that we hope for in life, and it is an absolute element of faith. (24-325, 1969.09.14)

53. Men and women have to be united through love. When they become one, what happens? It is not conflict, but loving harmony. That is where happiness dwells, peace blossoms, and the eternal heavenly kingdom begins to spread.

From there, the eternal world rushes in. We are called to make love blossom. Love is the foundation of happiness for all people. That is why if we open the world of true love, everything else we want is guaranteed. (234-034, 1992.08.02)

54. Our first ancestors' union in marital love should have been simultaneously the perfection of God's love. It should have been an occasion for celebration, in which God, Adam and Eve, and all things were intoxicated naturally in blissful joy and blessings. It should have been a happy ceremony that marked the settlement of God's love, life, and lineage in human beings. (288-127, 1997.11.26)

55. When a person who is the subject partner of love is full to the brim, everything is full. Because all things are complete when one is full of love, one can give boundlessly and authentically.

Giving and receiving in this love is the realization of the ideal and the multiplication of the ideal. The world of love transcends distance. What is the speed of love? Not even light can keep up with it. Nothing travels faster than love. Furthermore, nothing is brighter than love, and nothing surpasses the perfection of love.

The fullest thing is love. Even a girl who is dozing off bursts into bloom at the appearance of the partner she loves. Only love can make this happen. What love is this?

It is true love, the love that is the source of the universe, the center of the universe, and the owner of the universe. (95-039, 1977.09.11)

56. No one wants to unite if the purpose of doing so is only temporary. Everyone wants eternal oneness. What single element can bring that about? It is love. Love is the foundation for building unity. It is the foundation of happiness that is worth unending dedication. Without love,e there is no happiness.

Without love, there is no peace. Without love,e there is only conflict. But when love is abundant, everything is harmonized. (50-114, 1971.11.06)

57. When we speak about love, we mean the standard that God has in mind. Love is like leaven. It is the cause, motive, and source that can break down the barriers between one person's mind and another's and bring them into unity.

If we consider love to be small, it is minimal; and if we think of love as large, it is huge. Between the two of you, the blink of your loved one's eye can make you feel as if heaven and earth are turned upside down. A smile from the one you love can make you feel as if all heaven and earth are encompassed within your heart.

If you think of love as sensitive, it is sensitive; if you think of it as small, it is small; if you consider it to be big, it is big. If you think you can see it, you can, and if you think you can't see it, you can't. Love alone can melt barriers. (51-162, 1971.11.21)

58. There are so many barriers. Then what is the one central point that can break them down? In this world, money can overcome barriers. Knowledge and power can as well. But once you get past one barrier by such methods, you just encounter another one on the other side.

Knowledge has a limit; money and power also have limits. Only true love can destroy barriers globally, above and below, front and back, right and left, from the past to the future, and from the East to the West. The one point that can dissolve the barriers between all people is true love.

Such is the power of true love. If you have true love, you can climb on the crown of your father and mother's heads, and they won't mind at all. If you travel while focused on love, there is no door through which you cannot pass. You can pass through every nook and cranny of the world. True love can manage and govern the world. (123-135, 1982.12.26)

59. True love naturally upholds the proper order all the time. That is how absolute it is. The son or daughter cannot intrude into the positions of the father and mother. The parents cannot intrude into the positions of the son and daughter-in-law. Such positions are absolute.

Love arises when we maintain perfect order, one with another. Love is not disorderly. In true love, there are always front and back relationships, above and below relationships, and right and left relationships. These are not barriers; they define order and process. (123-136, 1982.12.26)

60. If you looked at the world through the eyes of love and saw a songbird, you would say, “Why is that bird chirping? Oh, he must be missing his beloved.” You would recite poetry, or even just spout it off spontaneously, and write works of literature.

The scenes of your everyday life reappear in constant repetition. Ordinary people see water in a stream go by all the time, winding its way, following the lay of the land, meandering along.

When it hits a rock, it sprays drops of water and flows on. But a person who fathoms the love behind this water's flow will receive unending inspiration – really! He or she will write poetry and novels about it for a millennium. How pleasing are the breath of love, the caress of love, the song of love, and the words of love! (112-258, 1981.04.19)

61. Through love, happiness will come into the human world. Without the standard of love, people cannot realize the ideals that they desire. Everything in the universe lives because of love.

All things of creation originated through God's love. We human beings, having originated from a greater love than anything else, are the center of creation. We are to return to the spirit world having been born in love, attained maturity through love, led a life in society through love, and completed love.
(137-208, 1986.01.03)

62. In this world, once we give something away, it is gone. Yet concerning love, the more we give, the more comes back to us. That is why we delight in love. We can always give love and in return be filled with love, so we can always be happy. Giving centered on money leads to collapse.

No matter how much you like power, trying to accumulate it leads to misfortune. Knowledge also has its limits. But love is different. The more love is given, the more it circulates. (121-106, 1982.10.24)

63. Where does eternal life begin? It begins with God's love. I'm talking about God's love, not His money, power, or knowledge.

Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)

However, he left one thing out, the most important thing of all: love. He should have said, “I am the way and the truth and the life and the love.” These words should be inserted into the Bible. When I say this, some people will say, “Oh! How blasphemous!”

But if you ask God about this, He will reply, “Of course!” From this, we can see that God likes love, but He likes true love best of all. This is very logical; I am not speaking out of ignorance. (149-017, 1986.11.01)