Sun Myung Moon
August 23, 1975
Barrytown, New York
Translator: Won Pok Choi
Special thanks to Peter Nordquist for finding this speech
Photo date and location unknown
As you can see, I'm all suntanned. Those who are seeing me for the first time, please hold up your hands. Newcomers shouldn't think that I am this dark. I have been out at sea for quite a few days, and you must be wondering why I go to the sea so often. I want to tell you the reason. From now on, human endeavor will focus on the sea, passing beyond the age of land masses or continents. Seas cover almost two thirds of the earth, and contain infinite resources. Thus, it will be of great importance in the future who obtains control over the seas.
But as it stands now, nobody likes to work on the ships, and the ships' crews are leaving their jobs. The women -- especially the American women, who are often so individualistic -- don't like to have their husbands work on the ships because they don't see them for weeks, months, or sometimes for years. They want to keep their husbands by their sides, so the men tend not to want to go to sea. Will you women folks here please tell me honestly if you would like to have your husbands be sea-goers? Even if I ask the men this same question, I don't think there are many who would answer affirmatively.
We are going to be the masters of the future world and we need to take hegemony over the ocean, which is not yet established. After having sent out our members to 127 nations it is only a matter of time, I guess, until we are able to influence the whole world in that way, but the problem is who will have hegemony over the oceans. There are infinite resources and natural wealth down at the bottom of the sea, so we are going to do the job with Father in the center. Nobody else but our group, led by Reverend Moon, can do the job.
Since I came here I have been to every state in the United States, and I found that almost all the wealthy people have streamlined limousines and good cars, but not too many people have yachts. And the members of the yacht club want to buy more yachts, and more beautiful ones. When we go to the coast people are anxious to know who has the best yacht in that vicinity. So I came to think that the secret of attracting the attention of people in the financial world is for us to own good yachts. That's why I came to the conclusion that I had to buy yachts. I own a Lincoln limousine and good cars to compete with those people in the worldly sense, but now I wanted to own the very best yachts. The one we own now is manufactured by Pacemaker, a very famous make, and everybody admires it. It is a fine yacht. Those who come to the coast keep asking, "Whose yacht is this? Who owns this?" Tell them, "Reverend Moon." I told you this because even you people have been wondering, I'm sure, why I am going out to sea so often in a luxurious yacht while you are struggling hard, studying and witnessing to the people. Now those questions are well answered, I think. In fact, I don't like to go out to sea very much, but the situation demands that I do this. I think it is necessary. It will be very helpful in the providence of restoration.
So in Freeport -- Freeport is where our yacht is docked, near Johnson Beach -- in the vicinity of Freeport everyone knows who I am and that I own the yacht, and consequently they are very much interested in me and in our work. Common sense tells them that the owners of yachts use them for luxury purposes and that they go out to sea for recreation and usually come back early in the evening. But they find that this man, Reverend Moon, goes out at dawn on his yacht, out to the heart of the sea, and comes back very late, almost the next morning. That frightens people.
I have established a record in catching many fish. Unlike most yacht owners, I'm almost a fisherman. They all know that I am fishing, not just using the boat for a luxury yacht. They are wondering why we don't sell the fish. They think, "That fisherman doesn't sell the fish. He must not be interested in making money. What does he do with those fish?"
My ambition is to take hegemony over the seas in the future, as I said before, and as a yacht owner, too, I want to attract people's attention. In the future people in port cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and everywhere will phone the people in the Freeport area to find out where Reverend Moon's yacht is and what he is doing now. And in the future when I want to go out on the ocean on the international level people will find me doing a good job. What I always do first is to attract people's attention and let the rumors spread. Then I will buy more yachts, more boats. Just imagine, if I buy boats in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle, on Cape Cod and in all of the eastern ports, what will happen? Then you people can have banquets and meetings there by inviting your own guests, and you will be famous. You will attract the attention of the people in your vicinity.
After doing that, I'm going to organize a nationwide yacht club where many people experienced in that line will assemble, and once they assemble under the auspices of my club, I will win them. By that time people will question whether or not Reverend Moon is qualified for that and they will find that I am a very experienced fisherman and I know where I can find giant tuna, salmon, and many other fish. And above all, they will find that I have loved the seas more than anyone else. That's the strongest point. Then people will ask me to tell them about the seas, and I can tell them many things, talking for hours and hours.
Then what am I going to do next'? At the present time you are witnessing to people one by one, visiting and talking to them on the individual level. How can we ever cover the 200 million population of America by doing that? But we can do a mass witnessing job by using the yachts. When we invite the corporate executives from GMC, Coca Cola and other huge companies to go on the yacht and win them, then they can be responsible to bring the people under them.
Then I'm going to buy a $1 million yacht and stay on the ocean like this, and then I can attract the people very fast, very quickly. However rich a person may be, at best he owns one such boat, one yacht worth a million dollars, but I'm going to buy 12 such boats. Then our yacht club membership will grow very fast, and with a large membership I can influence the yacht manufacturers, and they will be drawn to our side. Don't you think it's worth doing? (Yes) Then we will sponsor a yacht race, and even before we have bought those yachts I will lease all the yachts in the Freeport area and lend them out free of charge. When those yacht owners know I'm doing that for the people of the world, that I will pay them and that I will lend the yachts to racers free of charge, and that my purpose is to train the young people, they will really like it. Just imagine, if I do the same on the east coast in the New York area -- I borrow many yachts and lend them out free of charge for the young people to go racing on the seas. Then the mass media will cover the story and we will be widely known all over the world.
When I talk like this do you really understand me and do you really think that I am confident? And that once I say it, I will carry it out? In this way I can win over all the wealthy citizens of the United States. They cannot even imitate us because under me I have brilliant young people, very active and true to purpose, like you people. So there will be no equal to our group.
During the coming three years I will be the person who has loved the sea more than anyone else in the world. Your pilgrim fathers landed on this continent because they sought religious freedom, but in a way they also came here for their own sakes. But I am going to do this for the sake of all of mankind. In that way, too, I will establish the world record.
When I went out fishing this time I hooked a giant tuna, but not being an expert, I did not know that it could be so strong as to cut the line and escape. I almost caught it, and when I wanted to lift it up, it got away. I promised to catch a tuna for you people and I was desperate, and if there had not been a weather forecast predicting a storm I would not have come back. But in fishing like that for so many days I learned the knack of catching fish, so from now on if I go out to sea again I will surely catch the fish for you.
The place where I went is the foremost place for catching giant tuna. My dream is to buy a villa or a very big training center on that coast. Then you can take turns visiting there. How wonderful!
In doing anything and everything, I always set the record. Suppose I decide to leave my place at 4:00 o'clock a.m., I will get up at 2:30 or 3:00 and wake up my members, and they will be reluctant to go out but I will push them hard, so my boat is always ahead of other boats, and in coming back it is always the last. So in that way our boat is very famous and the people in that area know that it is Reverend Moon's boat.
What I'm aiming at is to have people know that I am the most enthusiastic person, and that once I begin to do things I will never quit until I am successful. And they will find that the more days that go by, the more zealous and enthusiastic I will become. Ordinary people, after one week's fishing, get exhausted and they feel like giving up, but in the Unification Church we pioneer in every field and those pioneer workers must never get exhausted, whatever difficulties they face. Similarly, in witnessing to people, when you are faced with more difficulties you must become more enthusiastic and more desperate. And more than anything else you must pray hard. By repeating, you will get experience. You are not expert fishermen, but when the expert fishermen try three times you will try five to ten times, and so you will acquire more experience than they have. That's the way you become the experts.
I have been out to sea every now and then for one year, but for the coming three years I will concentrate my efforts on the sea. Wouldn't you want me to do that? By owning yachts, I can invite the Senators and Congressmen in the future to go on the yacht. That's the best way. While you go out witnessing, I will lay that kind of foundation for you people.
I have been in the United States two years and six months, but I've done quite a lot of work, don't you think? If you imitate me, if you do what I do, you will be successful too. If you go out to the respective states and witness to the people on a 1/1 basis or a one-two or one-three basis, then with the number of members we will have we can influence the political world. We can choose mayors and governors of our liking. Do you think that I am going to be influenced by the Senators and Congressmen, or that I will influence them? You are right, very right; I will influence them. I'm going to make out of you persons like me, and it will be no problem for you to influence the governors and Senators and Congressmen.
If you want to resemble me you must have the same ideology I have and use the methods I employ. And in action, too, you must be foremost and capable in putting your ideas into practice. My philosophy is that in the face of difficulties I feel more challenged, and I take the rebuffs as greater and greater challenges, and I feel thrilled in the face of difficulties.
If you can overcome three things, you can overcome almost anything. The first is to overcome what you eat. If you can survive hunger, then you won't fear starving or being poor. Have you all experienced at least a seven day fast? Those who have, please raise your hands. Almost all of you. Then in the future no matter how poor you may be, you can eat one meal in three days, I think, and you can survive. In that sense, too I am a most trained person. I'm not afraid of starvation. But on the other hand, I'm capable and confident of finding something to eat no matter where I go. I know what to eat from among the grasses and tree buds and things like that on the mountainside. And whenever I am hungry I know the tactic of how to win the hearts of the people so that they will give me something to eat. So I've passed that test. I don't have any fear of starvation and I don't worry about what to eat.
When I'm at the seaside I am a fisherman and I can catch fish and eat them, so I will never retreat because of lack of food. I'm having you people fund raise by selling things, but if I were to fundraise I would be the number one man in that field, too. I've done that. I can read the faces of the people and tell what kind of people they are. In my conversations with those people I can sense what kind of person this is and what he is doing these days, and things like that. The people are astonished, and in that way they are drawn to my side. I must say again, I can transcend the concern about what to eat.
I've experienced a bit of everything; there's nothing I have not experienced. I am a good carpenter, and I'm also a good mechanic. So wherever I go, I know I will not starve to death; I can do something to earn money. If I go out on the sea I become the captain of the boat. With my abundance of experience and keen observation I can immediately make best use of the few facts I glean right away from a new situation. Since I am so experienced, I even know how to live on a small fragment of bread. When people have one slice of bread I know a tactic to have the person share it with me. It may sound easy, but it is not as easy as it sounds.
My idea is that you must go through those kinds of experiences at least before the age of 30. I'm good at every athletic game. You can see how strong I look. I am strong, but at the same time my hands are flexible like this, and when I look at my eldest daughter Ye Jin, I think she would be a good dancer if I would let her do that. If you are sitting back there or standing even absentmindedly, I can kick at you and you will be blown to the other side. It is a result not only of my physical power but also my spiritual power that I can do that, a most difficult thing. Even at my age I can jump over a fence because I have trained myself for that, too. I have experienced almost everything. I know how a laborer feels and how the fisherman feels, so I can make friends. In order to make friends with such people I will take off my jacket and with the jacket flung over my shoulder I will go to them and they will be fascinated. You have been watching me doing things. I was born in the small country of Korea and the arrogant people in the United States tend to look down upon a Korean man, but this man from the Orient came here into this unknown land and has stirred up the whole society of the United States in just a few years. The boldness, the courage comes from here.
My philosophy is to have my people under the age of 30 go through the same experiences I have gone through. No matter how hungry you are and how long you have not been eating, even if your cheeks are hollow like this and your eyes look like that from exhaustion, since you are young people if I feed you with rich food for three days or two weeks you will get plump again. I'm telling you things from my own experience. Up to the age of 30 I went through many periods of starvation. Would you want me to train you in that way? (Yes.) Well, Reverend Moon has not been made in a day or overnight, just eating, getting, relaxed and doing things I choose to do. No, I put myself through trials to learn to transcend starvation.
And just as you are trained to transcend hunger, on the other hand you must also train your stomach to be able to digest anything and everything. Do you follow me?
Second is the problem of shelter. You must feel at home in the whole world. The whole world is your home. The whole world is your bed. The whole sky is your quilt or blanket. No matter where you are, you have a place to shelter yourself or to sleep. Even in the winter, if you have trained yourself you can survive the cold. Even in the snow, if you can find a piece of wood you can survive. If you train yourself like that, you cannot complain about a poor place to shelter yourself, or worry about where to sleep. If you can't find any shelter at all you can go to some corner and snuggle yourself up against the wall and rub against the wall. Since I have trained myself in that way, I can sleep soundly in the car sitting up straight like this. You must never waste the time when you are riding in a vehicle. Utilize the time. If you know how to use the time when you are in the vehicle to sleep, then you will save more time. So a place to sleep is no problem at all. If you cannot find a place to sleep, sometimes you can find a tree outdoors and you can climb up and fasten yourself with your belt in the branches and sleep. So there is no question about where to sleep.
Then you must know how to win over beautiful clothing. Even though you may be clad in rags, you don't mind. That kind of attitude is necessary. Even though I am a man, I know how to sew. When my shirt wears out I can patch it. I can knit my own socks. I can do almost everything to clothe myself. You cannot believe it, can you? In my childhood days I would teach my younger sister how to knit.
With those three main needs -- food, shelter and clothing -- solved, you will not have to worry about your living situation.
Then the next thing you want is to do something worthwhile. In doing these things too, you must invest more energy, more time and more zeal; those three will enable you to win in doing anything you undertake. If you want to invest more time than other people would in some task, you must sleep less. That's the knack of the thing. With just two hours of sleep every night, I can go on. It is because I have trained myself in such a way. When I bring people out on the boat, out to sea, even Mother is not sympathetic with me. They all say, "He's a superman anyway. He has an iron skeleton, and such strong muscles that he can do the job; but we can't, so we must rest." Well, you must train yourself. Would you want to go through that kind of training? Why, when you have such affluence as not to have to worry about what to eat and what to wear? How come? Why do you have to train yourselves? You must remember that in Africa and in the underdeveloped countries your brothers and sisters in the same human family are starving to death. We are doing this, training ourselves to transcend what we eat, because of those people, because we want to save those people.
I guess all the women members would want their mate to be like me. It is because with a husband like myself your life would be very secure, because there is nothing that I cannot do. Do you really want to find a mate like myself? Because you do, that's why I want to make our men into persons like me. Then like a blacksmith I must pound on them. Are you ready to go through that kind of training, you men folks?
In America you have running water, bathrooms, toilet facilities and things like that, but those who have been in Korea and in Oriental countries must have seen people shouldering excretions and carrying them to a distant place, perhaps to the fields. If you are really sympathetic with your brothers and sisters living like that in any corner of the earth, you must start training yourself. In that area of the world they must even handle the excretions with their bare hands, because they want to use them as fertilizer. Can you do that, if you are put into that situation? You will say, "Oh, I'm a college graduate, how can I do that?" But you must feel the thrill of experiencing most unusual things like that while other people are doing the same, and then it becomes something of a higher dimension. At first you want to shut your eyes, you know, never breathing, with your mouth shut tightly, but later on I want you to breathe normally and talk while you are looking at those things and handling them. Then you will make friends with those dirty things, because they become fertilizer and grow things that you eat. And you will get deeper and deeper in your philosophy of life. So the question is always your attitude, what you think about something. You must first digest every situation in your mind, in your thinking.
I don't want you to become leaders only in America, but in every corner of the earth, so you must experience every kind of thing people experience. If I were you, if I were sent to the southern tip of Africa or to the jungle area, I would plunge myself into their way of life, and side by side with my skin rubbing against theirs would work with those people mingling with them with love and heart. America has been giving foreign countries financial aid, but you are reviled. Why? What is the reason for that? It is because you aided people with your material wealth in such a gesture as to throw it to them, but your heart has never gone with it. It should have been that your heart went first and you felt deep sympathy with them, and with tearful eyes and aching hearts you would then help them out with materials. If you had done that, America would have become the leading nation of the world in both heart and wealth.
People call us names and we are persecuted, but why? Why are American young people attracted to our movement? It is because you find good people, loving people, in this movement. And with keen observation people will find that everything we do we are doing for the sake of other people. So never mind the persecution. Just endure a little while longer. It is only a matter of time before they will know that we are doing good things. We want to help other people not because we have an abundance of money and things to give them, but because we have heart and truth.
You can be confident that no matter how severely your parents, your schools, cities and states persecute you, your faith in this movement will get stronger and stronger, and there will be more and more people who will want to belong to our movement, centering on Reverend Moon. People find in Reverend Moon a quality of leadership different from that exercised by other leaders. Do you know clearly what I mean? I'm an Oriental man with black hair, black eyes, and a different complexion; why do they follow me? Why do you follow me? Is it because of the wealth I have? Because of the knowledge I have? You follow me not only because of my knowledge, but because of the ideal I teach which contains heart and truth.
When I ask you to be united with each other, what I mean is that you must become one, heart to heart, bone to bone, flesh to flesh; every particle of you, including your inner selves, must become one.
However great a nation America may be, the future of America will certainly depend upon her youth. Then what kind of young people does America need? She needs young leaders who can really shoulder the future of this nation, but the existing educational system cannot educate or raise young people to be these leaders. The Unification members are a different breed of people from the others in this vast American society. Do you realize that? We are 100 percent different from other Americans. We are different in that we are closer to God, and -- some of us, at least -- one with God, one with Him. That's the qualification for the future leaders of America. Then we can be confident that the future of America will be in our hands. All the rest of the American young people will drift away with the winds and tides of time, but our young people will remain as the leaders of this country, and finally of the whole world. I have always been confident of this. All the people of the world may drift away with the tides of time, but I will remain forever with my ideal and the truth, I am absolutely confident of that. I have tested myself in many ways not only on this earth but even in the spiritual world to determine whether or not I am qualified to do that. I have concluded that my ideology -- which is God's, I know -- will take hold of the whole world in the future. I feel that kind of confidence and faith in every cell of any body. If I think of myself as a bullet, I'm the strongest bullet in the whole world. If I'm a drill, I'm the strongest one, opening my way wherever I am. However hard or strong America may be, if I drive my drill I can open the way, and the hole will become bigger and bigger and open up a channel to reach out from here to the whole world. So I want you to become persons like me. If I am the trunk or root of the tree, you must become the branches and leaves and bear fruit. It is the nature of the tree which decides whether or not it is a strong tree, so even though you are only branches, the branches and roots and trunks all have the same nature or quality. So you will resemble me in that way. Have you become like that, or are you on the way? In order to test you, I must kick you and push you hard.
I began my talk this afternoon by telling you about the boat, so I will conclude my talk with that point. In order to teach you people, I have taken the staff members out on the boat, one by one. For instance, the other day I took Neil Salonen out on the boat. But most of them wanted to escape from the hard work. Would you want to go out on the boat? You would become exhausted. Then without waiting for me to take you on the boat, why don't you buy your own boat and train yourself, like I did? That's my philosophy. Even in the face of difficulties I will never become exhausted; rather, I will take it jokingly, or as a challenge. When I was tortured in the prison camp I would make jokes to the person torturing me. "You are a human being, too; how can you torture me like this? Do you want to test me? I can enjoy it, and I can survive, so go ahead. How can you kick me like this? How can you poke me?" I could even joke at that moment. And they would become appalled, and finally they would be touched in their hearts and I could make friends with them. Then the torture would be lessened, and we would be friends forever.
You must be thankful that you are endowed with life in this age and that you have joined our movement, and that you are armed with this philosophy. It's a great thing. Are you still fearful of difficulties and hardships? Will you retreat, or advance forward? If someone severely persecutes you people, you must visit him, not let him alone. When you are really hungry and you find that person eating something, you must seat yourself at the table and eat with him. Since you are a starved person eating, he cannot blame you. While you eat you just smile at him, and he can never be angry. Most people are still in the satanic world, and how can you choose to work in the face of their defamation? Instead, why don't you venture to meet those people while they are reviling you and attacking! You young people have that kind of generous heart and adventurous spirit.
Just imagine, I was an utter stranger in this land two years ago when I visited the senators and congressmen and predicted that I was going to stir up this nation. I told them I was going to mobilize many brilliant young people under me, so they must get ready to use those people to save this nation. They were very skeptical about what I said. I know they must have been thinking: "Well. I was born in America, educated here, and I have worked for many years to become a senator, and I could barely win this seat, and I'm not at all successful in my work. How can you, a stranger in this land, manipulate the young people here? I cannot even manipulate my own family, my daughter; how can you do that?" They looked so doubtful, and looking at their doubtful faces I eagerly accepted the challenge. I resolved to show them, to prove my abilities to them, and what happened? I have done that. So you can see that difficulties, hardships and persecution are stimulants to make you more spiritual in the things you are going to do, so you must never shrink back in the face of persecution.
If I were in your position and sent to one of the most underprivileged, underdeveloped nations, I would make the land change in one year. I can do it. You must be like me in this respect. Are you confident you can do that? If you don't bring that result, it is because you haven't tried hard enough. Try very hard to do your best and you will accomplish it.
And so when I go out to sea on the boat, you know it is not for recreation. You know what it means to be a leader. Everywhere, even on the boat, to lead and guide the people. I sleep less and work more than they do. I may tell my people that tomorrow we will leave at 5:00 o'clock a.m. They will sleep until 5:00, but as the leader I must get up at 4:00, get prepared and wake them up to go. Suppose it's already 2:30 and I have to wake them up at 4:00, then lest I should oversleep I will just stay up the whole night. That's the way leaders should be. I watch them sleep while I stay up the whole night thinking and planning.
I'm like any other man who feels fatigue. I want to lie down and sleep. But I stay up the whole night because of my responsibilities. Once I do lie down, I snore. (Even sitting in the car I snore so loudly that Mother always nudges me.) I've been awake working while she has been sleeping so that's good material to use to train her not to sleep, or to get along on less sleep. She cannot complain because I am doing this myself and telling her to do as I do. That's how leadership should be. If I tell you to go here or there, to do this and that, without doing that myself, you wouldn't obey me. But when you see me doing more than you are doing, you are willing to obey me.
On the boat other people would want to take a nap but I would never, never take a nap. When I get sleepy I immediately think of the people who are praying hard under difficult conditions, and my members who are praying for me. Wherever I may be, whatever I may be doing, I always think of you people, and the spiritual bond goes straight to you, always linking you and me. It is the principle of principles that if you give out love and truth to other people, their hearts, without their being conscious of it, are moved because God operates there. God moves your heart, and in that way you are linked to me and miss me.
I want you to know that we are going to take hegemony over the ocean from now on, and to remember me when I'm out on the boat, and to remember that I don't go out to sea for recreation but for another purpose. In the future I don't want you girls to dislike the idea of having seamen as your mates. In the future if you are faced with the possibility of having crew members as your future husbands, you must immediately think of me. The women who will marry the ships' crews and the maritimers will, I think, be the type of girls who are more emotional and artistic. By emotional I mean that in waiting for your husbands you will sometimes miss them and feel melancholy. I used to ask Mother what she feels when I am away at sea, and if she understands the heart of the fisherman's wife, and she says, "Yes." This time I brought Mother with me and she stayed in a small bungalow I leased while I went out to sea, and in the evenings when our yacht was coming back she would come out to the dock and wave to me. And that sentiment -- that emotion -- is very poetic. And when I saw the delight and welcoming expression on Mother's face, it warmed my heart more than ever. So when you have one disadvantage on one side, there is always some advantage on the other side. There is always some advantage.
Suppose I buy a big ocean liner and take you out on the boat and travel all around the world, not coming back for three years; would you like to do that? What if some of you die on the boat? What if we bury you in the heart of the sea? When you think about it maybe it sounds ideal, but when you experience the ocean life for three years, it may not be so good as you have imagined. Everything is always the same. What you think about is always the question. When there is some difficulty you must think of something opposite. As Unification members we have experienced many such things. After joining this movement, in the face of hardships and persecution you sometimes feel discouraged, but the next moment you get encouraged and pepped up again with more promising things to come at the price of your difficulty. So how you view the situation is always the key. You must learn the knack of digesting and grabbing hold of the situation, not let the situation manipulate you. The problem lies in you, your attitude, not in the environment.
You have been educated and directed to do this or that, and by experiencing things and by doing things you become more educated. You learn more. The sea is a wonderful place. I think in the future people will even manipulate the thunderstorms and things like that. If that day comes, all the people in the world will want to go out on the sea instead of staying on the land. When I look at the glossy, calm ocean the deep sentiment I feel in the bottom of my heart is something I cannot describe. I am sometimes thankful for the roaring waves and tempests, because they force the wealthy yachting people to stay on land, and only poor or adventurous people go out on the sea. But if we can handle the problem of storms and weather conditions in the future, I'm sure all the rich people will prefer to live on the ocean instead of on land. I think that things never come with everything advantageous. So when troubles come, there's a promise of good times ahead of you. If you are equipped with that idea, you will never be afraid of anything. The deeper the valley is, the higher the mountains are. We are now digging in to the low part, the bottom, and then it will be our turn to soar up.
When you have a wheel, when it turns in its circular motion, what was on the top will come to the bottom, and right up again. When the cycle speeds up, what was on the top will quickly come down and quickly go back up, with all the intermediate variations.
In the future if all the Unification young people are ready to voluntarily shoulder the heaviest responsibility, then this nation will be changed for the better in the soonest possible time. So if you want to become really happy, you must be able to digest both ends, both extremes. You girls have the possibility of becoming the wife of the President. It is easy; all you have to do is marry a President. For me it is easy to get hold of persons in the highest positions in society, but it is much more difficult to win the hearts of the people on the bottom levels of society. The happiest people are those who don't look only at what is high up there, but also look down at the people -- on the lowest level. When you can enjoy life not only on the land but also on the sea, with those two complementing each other, you will have developed a well-rounded personality. While on earth you want to get hegemony over both the land and the sea, and when you go into the spirit world after your physical death you will have lived fully during your earthly life, and then you will enjoy your spiritual life as well.
Everything has two sides -- for example, look at your hands, the backs of your hands and the palms. Up to the present moment American youth have seen only one side of things. You have many people who are allergic to fish, and not too many people have seen live fish, but if America is going to get hegemony over the Pacific Ocean, then you must be interested in what the sea contains. In talking about the sea, I wanted you to know a different side of the earth. You have been thinking of the land, not the sea, but I want you to be wholesome and well-rounded, with knowledge of both. And in living on the land, too, I want you to think not only of the fields but also of the high mountains. I want you to be well-rounded in your thinking.
Actually, I didn't mean to tell you so much about the sea, but since I have already talked for several hours I will stop here and reserve other topics for the next time.