The World of the Culture of the Heart

1. The heart is the mind of emotion. Our deepest feelings belong to the realm of the heart. God created human beings; therefore, the flow of God's heart is internally connected to that place.

The electricity of God's love flows in the realm of the heart. Experiencing this is like feeling electricity flow through you. How powerful that is! Through this, you gain a sense of what goodness is.

The realm of the heart contains the substance by which we connect to everything. Because there is nothing that does not belong to this realm of the heart, the electricity of God's love can flow everywhere.
(112-013, 1981.03.15)

2. When a mother who has just given birth to her baby sees the town beggar's baby, or the baby of a woman in dire poverty, who has no one to breastfeed it, and has the impulse to nurse it as her own, that is her heart.

Only when you love other children as if they were your own, and practice that love beyond the world level, will the world of the heart emerge. If many children are born in your neighborhood, you should love them with the same heart you have for your children, and even more.

Only this will create the world of the heart, the world of liberation into which God can come. You have to love them as if they were part of your body.
(524-196, 2006.04.13)

3. The heart has substance and power that enables it to pass through everything, including the concepts we entertain in daily life. It is positioned at the very core of life. You can deny life, but you cannot deny the heart. You may deny existence, but you cannot deny the heart. Heart precedes existence.

That is why we conclude that God is love. We cannot see the heart. If someone demanded to know how long, round, or high that heart is, we would be unable to answer. But when a person we love departs, we are immediately overcome with longing for that person.

We are filled with that longing to the very synapses of our nerves. We do not need the kind of heart that can be measured within the confines of our five senses. If we experience such a longing heart in our human relationships, what would we feel if we were bound to God, the subject partner of absolute heart, and were in touch with God's heart?

God's heart does not appear on the surface of things, but there is no doubt that it exists. The brave warriors of the Unification Movement are striving to advance toward a new world that is centered on this teaching and the ideal of the heart. (015-038, 1965.01.31)

4. The deep heart that we understand in the Unification Church is the heart of hope for which all humanity longs, the heart to which we all need to connect, and the heart that God has always sought.

This heart can embrace all the heaven and earth, enveloping everything, and still take in more. To become Heaven's brave warriors, the first step is to connect to this heart, and the next step is to connect to people. Nonetheless, as a result of the Fall, Adam, and Eve could not understand God's heart.

If each had perfected their character and come close to God, He would have blessed them in marriage and bequeathed to them His heart. God intended to build a family of His lineage through Heaven's couple, to whom He could connect His love and heart completely.

Originally, Adam and Eve were to inherit this wonderful heart of God and, on that basis, become the true human ancestors. Due to the Fall, the basis of the heart was lost. Man and woman could not inherit God's heart. T

hey lost God's heart, lost the character through which they could resemble God, and lost the Word and the purpose they were to fulfill had they perfected that character. (014-177, 1964.10.03)

5. The Fall led to this world of barriers between nations. It also changed our roots and our cultural environment. The culture we have is one in which God cannot freely come and dwell.

It is Satan's cultural sphere, not Adam's cultural sphere. As a result, human beings could not live in the ideal realm of love. Originally, we should have lived in a realm with one root and one lineage at its center, where we could cultivate one heart, and we could govern the three-dimensional world of north, south, east, and west. Instead, we are living in a deplorable situation, outside that realm. For that reason, we need to return to the original ideal realm. (169-038, 1987.10.04)

6. All cultures have been developing in line with the flow of history. Today's civilizations are making the world flourish. Nonetheless, when it comes to resolving mind-body problems, or problems of the heart, they are not helpful at all.

Externally, human beings have created a complex environment and complex systems, but our hearts cannot connect with them. We are in a state where we cannot harmonize with them. Although it should, the standard of the world in which we live does not fill us with delight and make us shout with joy together with heaven and earth.

Today's era is flowing in a direction entirely different from that toward which our minds are heading and for which our hearts are longing. Human beings are seeking the heart that can guide their minds and their external lifestyle. We need to set a standard of heart in our lives to which we can adjust our body and our relationships.

Otherwise, we will never be free from this struggle, regardless of what era we live in. The world that God seeks is not the culture or the civilization of today's world. God has always desired a world governed by a civilization that upholds a true standard of mind and heart. This is the world that we, as future ancestors, want to leave to our descendants. (019-230, 1968.01.15)

7. Today's world may appear to be a place to which God would come, but it is not the world of the heart. It is an environment where people attend to external matters, but not one in which they connect through the heart. When God comes down, He will do so through the heart.

If a people were capable of governing all of humanity and representing the world, it would be a people with a tradition based on God's heart. Further, it is not the human mind and heart that will create a culture that can govern the world; only God's heart can do so.

This is the final issue to be resolved. You need to understand that you cannot lay down your burden and settle down until you realize a world where everyone connects through the heart. Our objective is to achieve the world of the heart. (011-093, 1961.02.12)

8. What kind of world is God striving for? It is not this present world, with its cultures and civilizations. Heaven wants to set a standard of heart and mind that can guide civilization in the proper direction.

The world is destined to meet the standard that our ancestors dreamed of establishing for their descendants. This is the central Will that Heaven desires. (007-080, 1959.07.19)

9. Everyone yearns for a world of peace, but such a world will never come about through the type of culture we find in today's developed nations. It will only come about through the True Parents.

Even if the True Parents were still sleeping on straw mats, carrying bundles of tattered clothes on their backs, dressing in faded, worn-out garments, and climbing out of deep holes, appearing utterly exhausted, fallen human beings would need to learn the heart of God from them.

The Unification Church is a place that teaches the way of God's heart, and all of you need to be engrafted onto it. (017-129, 1966.12.11)

10. Heartfelt longing arises only toward that which we love. However, our longing should arise not from humanistic love, but from God's love, the source of eternal settlement and eternal life. That is what inspires Christianity. More than other religions, Christianity strives to fulfill its mission as a religion of love.

The purpose of religion is to foster people of good character. We can do so by applying the principles of the world of the heart. Human beings have the authority to govern the things of creation and should relate to them with our hearts in our daily lives.

Though human beings have been as insensible as stones to God, He has conducted His providence for six thousand years with the same heart, always yearning to find His people.

History has unfolded in cultures of all shapes and forms, but God, who is the alpha and omega, has never lost His heart of yearning for us. Hence, those who diverge from the heart of God, as it has been revealed throughout history, will lose everything. (006-349, 1959.06.28)

11. Many people in the process of restoration have tasted the kingdom of heaven, but they did so within the sphere of Satan's accusation. No one has truly experienced the eternal homeland of peace, the kingdom of heaven, in the realm from which Satan is completely removed.

One who has truly experienced the kingdom of heaven and God's love would surely be inspired to fight Satan. One who experienced that state and that love would never leave God. People on Earth have to experience God's love.

How do you draw the line that determines God's ownership? You start from a single blade of grass, from one plot of land, from one single person, from the very beginning, all the way to the kingdom of heaven, the world of God's heart.
(005-024, 1958.11.09)

12. The original hometown we long for is different from the place that each of you normally regards as your hometown. The original hometown is the resting place of the heart, the place in which the mind delights. It is the home of the heart.

If God looks for me, I will tell Him, “Please come to see me because of the condition of my heart, not because of my circumstances.” My circumstances can greatly change, but the condition of my heart never changes.
(007-023, 1959.07.05)

13. There are no restrictions whatsoever in the world of the heart. Relative conditions restrict the world of the mind, but no one can restrict the world of the heart. What can restrain the love of parents for their children?

A wall as high as a mountain may block the way, but it will not be able to stop a parent's love. The mind submits to constraints because it is in the position of object partner, but the heart is in the subject partner position.

The mind is multidirectional, so it calculates and considers many things. The heart, however, is different; it desires only one thing. (007-246, 1959.09.20)

14. Who do you think is the ancestor of the heart that beats within God's Will? The Unification Church members know of the sorrow that lies deep within the heart of God.

We know of the injustice and pain God has endured, and we know He can bring down instantaneous judgment on the world of the enemy. From this standpoint, the Unification Church members can be considered the ancestors of the heart. (014-316, 1965.01.10)

15. The world of the heart is not isolated. The standard of love is the ideal of the heart. The importance of this is that the heart serves as the common denominator in this great universe. The heart is the bridge that connects our daily life to the victorious realm of love.

For the sake of all the people in the world, the heart builds a bridge of love that begins from the earthly world, passes through hell, and goes all the way to heaven. (163-313, 1987.05.01)

16. To reach the world of the heart, you have to have the mind to follow the path God has taken, walking in my footsteps. Only on that path can you experience the world of the heart; there is no other.

You cannot imagine how many tears I have shed to come this far. You should truly understand how painful and sorrowful it has been for me to follow this path.
(224-339, 1991.12.29)

17. When you love someone, no matter how much you give that person, you still want to give more and more. True love wants to give and give and give continuously. Even after you give endlessly, you are still not satisfied that you have given enough. S

Such is the way of true love, the way of the world of the heart. Since God, the original Lord and the root, is like that, as His ideal object partners, we can go to a position many times better than His. No one has ever realized that human beings have such value. (266-218, 1995.01.01)

18. The world trends that many religions today are advocating will pass away. In the Last Days, the era of a new cultural sphere will come through the bridegroom, the Lord at his Second Advent, who meets his bride.

This world will transition into an era where languages, life, action, hopes, and even hearts will be united. Knowing this destiny, the Unification Church has embarked on the task of setting the standard for this one world culture.
(050-062, 1971.10.31)

19. To establish the world of the culture of the heart, we need to foster good character through true love, educate with True Parents' teaching, and work to spread the movement that creates families of true love through God's Blessing. On the foundation of our life of faith, we attain the character of true love by living for the sake of others, investing in others consistently.

Only by doing so can we realize ideal couples and ideal families. This path alone can free us from our habits of egoism, individualism, and materialism, and give us hope of a bright future for humanity. (260-129, 1994.05.01)

20. The heart is the source and fundamental element of the mainstream culture in the ideal world of the future. Everyone needs a culture of the heart. This culture cannot come about if parents do not have children and children do not have parents.

It cannot come unless we have our siblings, our people, and our nation. Naturally, it cannot come unless we have our world and our heaven, and our earth. This is the culture of the heart. When we speak of a bright culture dawning in the East, we refer to the culture of the heart. Hence, we are to create a culture based on the heart. (151-056, 1962.10.07)

21. The future world will be the world of a new culture of the heart that brings harmony between God, humanity, and creation, and a culture of love based on true families. It will be a world of true love where everyone lives for the sake of others, and all people live together in harmony and cooperation.

It will be a world of interdependence, mutual prosperity, and universal values. In the future, we have to live the dream of one global family in which we are all brothers and sisters. It will be based on the ideal of a true family centered on True Parents and realized by true love that transcends race. (288-174, 1997.11.27)