Section 1. Sung Hwa Youth [Part 1]
1. What Is Youth?
Your grandparents are about 60 to 80 years old. Those between ages 40 and 60 are middle-aged people. Those between ages 20 and 40 are the "youth." (96-238)
Which period is the most important period for people? It is not during adolescence. The most important period is when we pass through the period of youth to middle age. In other words, the most important period is between the ages of 20 to 40. From the age of 20 until they reach 30, people form the foundation to start functioning as human beings. During this period, people have to lay a firm foundation for their retirement. They also need to lay a foundation in their environment so that they can go forward with a clear goal. Those who are unable to form this foundation can only become insignificant or ordinary people when they go on to age 40. (22-314)
Is God busy now? Then why is God busy now? It is because human beings cannot live on this earth for such a long time. We cannot live on this earth forever. You people will soon pass the period of your 30s and go on to your 40s.
When we look at the entire life of a person, when is the period that he or she can best display their ability? It is between the ages of 20 to 40 or 50. During these 20 to 30 years is the period of growth. After the age of 40, you will start declining from that standard. Those of you who have gone over the age of 40, look at your physical body and think for a while. Kwang Ryol Yu, you are 43, right? (Yes) Don't you feel different from before? (I feel tired) Tired, uh! A long time ago, no matter how tired I was, I was able to recover after sleeping a few hours. But as I grew older it took time for me to recover from fatigue. Even those who worked 10 hours a day a long time ago will experience a decrease in the number of daily working hours, year by year. You will feel that your working hours are decreasing by one hour every 3 years. If you think like that, after 30 years, your working hours will shrink by 10 hours. If your working hours shrink by one hour every 3 years, then they will decrease by 3 hours after 10 years and 10 hours after 30 years. Therefore, if you worked 10 hours when you were young, after 20 years, you will not be able to work.
By the time you reach 70, you will be unable to work any longer. At that age, you will only be able to take care of things. In other words, you won't be able to do pioneering jobs or something new and constructive. From this point of view, when you think how much you can work for the providence, you should know that you will feel sorry forever. (33-185)
When spring comes and we look at the whole of nature and see flowers blooming and new leaves coming out, we come to think that spring always comes after we pass winter. We also know that after spring, summer will come. Therefore, we know that spring days are the preparation for summer. The four seasons make us think this way, but we can also see the same thing in human beings. When we look at young people, we experience something like a spring feeling from them. We know that a young person will go on to middle age after his youth. We also know that a person will complete his or her life by going on to old age. When we took at our life from one age period, we learn that we go on to the next age period after a certain period. (66-85)
2. The Way of Sung Hwa Youth
1) The Way Sung Hwa Youth Should Go
At night, I always waited eagerly for morning to come, and when morning came, I didn't want evening to come. When evening came, I didn't want night to come. I pioneered today's Unification Church without rejecting the way of pioneers, forerunners, and pilgrims.
You must know that those times were full of hardships and adventures. A wall of sorrow interrupted my way again and again, but I jumped over that wall each time. Even numerous sorrowful circumstances could not interrupt my path. They have now become the source and heavenly power of our life.
Therefore, the more we were opposed, the more we emerged with our eyes set on the world. The Korean people have not realized it yet, but in the future, they will be welcomed by the entire world. Today, the 30 million people who are members of the Korean race are unaware of this, but the time for which we are eagerly waiting will come both in name and in reality. Therefore, we should march on to the world, keeping pace together. We should devote ourselves to fighting and building a free heavenly stage where no one can interrupt wherever we go. Even if we collapse, we must think that it is man's meaningful life to collapse beautifully. You must know that is the way the young Unificationist must go. (2-165)
Where must the young people head toward from now on? What kind of people should people in our society be? We must go forward as true human beings. You must become a person who can say, "I will easily go the way 30 million Koreans could not go." This kind of person will make the day we have hoped for become a reality. Therefore, by becoming a person who can completely go beyond the national standard, we must create a heavenly village with a heavenly environment. If we can form a foundation based on conditions of fulfilling God's will victoriously, then all the nations in the world will come to recognize this. (25-90)
Our way is the way we must go. Therefore, it cannot be avoided. I straightened out and shortened the way for you so that you can find your way to the Father with less effort and pain. Reverend Moon is leading this way as a leader, so you just have to follow him from behind. (20-323)
No matter how young you are, if you are living for today, you are useless. The day will come when you will collapse like a fallen leaf.
You will never be able to become the trunk of a tree. However, a person who lives for the future will become the trunk and the root. Those who live for today can only become a leaf. Do you understand what I mean? You must know that if you live for the future, you can become the branch, the trunk and the root, but if you live for today, you can only become a leaf. Which will you choose? Will you become the branch or will you become the root? (The root!) In order to become the root, what should you do? That way is the way of hope. What should you do to become the root? When you evaluate a person, you must evaluate him based on what kind of a person he will be in the future, not what he is right now. What kind of thinking does that person have right now? That is what is important. (117-327)
2) Reverend Moon's Experience During Youth
To straighten out the world is not such an easy job. I am training you. I am especially training the young ones because they themselves desire it. The training ground is not a nice place. That place is a difficult place, a place where you shed sweat. It is blood-covered ground. In order to fulfill the worldwide mission, no matter what kind of determination you make, there may always be numerous and more difficult situations on your way. You must not retreat at that time. You must go towards that and break through any kind of difficult situation by going in all directions -- north, south, east, west, up, down, front and back.
Reverend Moon has done everything. I even became a beggar. I even did what beggars do. I was even a champion of digging tunnels in mines. If I go to the mountains, there is no grass, which I do not know. I know which grass we can eat. I know everything. When you are chased by someone and are hiding in the mountains, you cannot die from hunger. You must eat and stay alive. By staying alive you can always go on with the hope to fulfill the will. If you die, nothing can be accomplished. Isn't that so? There is no exercise I have not done.
Therefore, I'm telling you: don't waste your youth. The period of youth will never come twice. It is very valuable. Are you to live that period of youth as a single person or as a representative of 10 or even 100 people's youth? If you are going to live as a representative of one, 100, or 1,000 people, you must have a hidden motivation; the spirit and courage to do what even 100 young people cannot do. Do you understand what I mean? If I had not valued the importance of training and had not prepared in that time, Reverend Moon would also have been like a fallen autumn leaf in the history that has already passed away. I would have just been blown away without even becoming a handful of fertilizer.
There is nothing young people cannot do. You just have to do it. It will never be done if you don't do it. Is anything impossible for a human being? You just have to do it. Any kind of job. If you don't do it, it will never get done.
The adolescent period is very beautiful. Reverend Moon was a smelly man during his school years. It was not because I used perfume! It was the smell of sweat and rotting. My hair was drooping down. At school, I didn't have anything to say. Without being able to accomplish my job, what was there to say? I didn't have any time. I lived like that. (187-137)
3) Become the Base of a Building
If you are going to build a house, no matter what other people say, you need lumber and then you need to build a foundation. Reverend Moon is now like lumber, so I now need to form a foundation. In order to form a foundation, where must we work? We have to work from under the ground. If you are to build a tall building, you should first dig up the ground very deeply and firmly to do the groundwork. You cannot build a house if you think, "Let's just build the house on a broad sand bank without having to go though hard work!" You must do the groundwork. We have not been able to finish the groundwork yet. Don't think we have finished. We are still working to build the base.
What is necessary if you want to build the base with concrete? You need to prepare gravel and sand first. If you have a truckload of cement, you will need a hundred times more gravel and sand. Then where can you find gravel and sand? You should go to the riverside. No one lives on the riverside. Stones can be found in the mountains. You will not find them in the grassy plain. Sands and gravel are sadly abandoned things. Then, what you will need next is water. Who is the person who can become the sand and the gravel of the Unification Church? That's what we should do. Do you feel sad? You might feel bad, saying, "According to what Reverend Moon said, we are the ones that should become the sand and gravel!" There is no help for it, even if you feel bad. What can we do? This is the basic rule.
What I'm saying is that I will hand over the sand and gravel and all the other things to you. Do you agree? Don't you? (We agree) Then, if we pour water and cement onto the sand and gravel, what will happen? It will become a large clod. If you do this job night and day, forgetting your parents and your children, your children will become one lump with you. Based on this, we are to grow bigger. If that grows bigger, the stone lump will grow bigger, the sand lump will grow bigger, and the cement lump will also grow bigger. If that lump becomes bigger than 30 million people, then it will become a problem that disturbs the entire world.
Therefore, you must become the cement, the gravel, sand and water. Your blood, sweat and tears will be the water; your body will be the sand, and your bones will be the gravel. Therefore, you must harden your basic foundation. The foundation that has been hardened like that will be a foundation upon which you can be very creative. Therefore, even if the history of the period of youth flows away, it will not collapse.
Even if the history of ten thousand years flows past, it will not collapse. Furthermore, no matter what kind of organization tries to make it collapse, even if they try for a thousand or ten thousand years, they will never be able to make it collapse. (28-219)
If a tree tries to grow big, it is not enough to just have broad ground under it. In order for a tree to grow big, it needs a deep root. If a tree thrusts deep roots, then that tree will grow big. (18-141)
How many young men and women in the Unification Church are the partners of God? How many young men and women have the right timing, the right results, the right heart and a right way of thinking? (63248)
4) Work Hard Before Reaching Age Thirty
Reverend Moon had to establish a standard of heavenly rule and the philosophy that all Unification Church members must go through hard work until they reach 30 years of age. That is why Reverend Moon is making you work hard. Do you understand? (Yes) Why do I make you work hard until the age of 30? Harmony occurs based on the number 3. It starts from the number 3. Harmony does not occur from two. You can only form a straight line with two points. If you connect two points you will form a straight line, right? The shortest way is the straight line, but when you have 3 points, harmony occurs from there. Harmony occurs from 3 points.
Therefore, should we work hard until the age of 30, or should we not? (We should) That's right. The age of 60 is our 60th birthday. We return to the beginning when we become 61. If you have walked the dark road of life until the age of 30, then the other side of 60 will be the final stage with the sunlight shining over you. This is the way we view history. The Oriental historical view is right. Isn't that so? Just work hard until the age of 30. You will not have any regrets about life, even if you work hard during your entire life, not just to 60, but until you die, like Reverend Moon. (187-72)
Then, when we look at our entire life, shall we say, "Let's play during our adolescence. We can work hard when we get older." What do you think? (No) Why do you say no? Which route shall we take? To work during our youth until our backs are bent is our way to happiness. Is that your conclusion? (Yes) You are to go on carrying a heavy load. If that person doesn't go on, it's even good to hit him to make him go on, Is it better to say, "Oh, you are so weak. You should rest. Other kids in the neighborhood are all playing. You should go and play also. You young people should play like that"? (We prefer being sent out) If that kind of logic is true, then it is the same as any organization, any kind of organization. Should we wake up the young ones in the organization early in the morning and make them work hard until their bones melt, or should we make them peacefully dance and sing like a grasshopper? (We should make them work) Then where is the best organization in the world? That place will just make you work hard until your bones melt while you are still young. It will make you keep working. Are you saying that the organization that can do this is the best in the world? Then what kind of organization are our church members in? The organization that has the most number of young people is the Unification Church. The Unification Church makes young people work the hardest, but we think, "We are working hard to death now but happy times will come in the future." This is a beautiful organization. Is this an unfortunate organization? (It is a beautiful organization) (105-178)
Throughout your entire life you will be followed by financial problems. That is Satan. These problems always follow you, but you have to pull them out. Instead of doing this, you are always being pulled by financial problems. I will kick out the financial problem and live anywhere, even on the islands. I will live even if you all die. I know which mushrooms can be eaten and which cannot; I know which are medicinal plants and which are poisonous. Furthermore, if I have a wire and a string I can make a fishing rod and catch fish any time. I can live and survive anywhere. I have the wisdom to be independent all the time. It is Reverend Moon's philosophy that the members of the Unification Church must officially go through this training until the age of 30. For seven years, you must have financial training and training in love. This is why we value witnessing and fundraising while we go through the restoration course.
When we look at it historically, fundraising is the method of going through the Old Testament age. You must understand this. During the Old Testament age, they gave things as an offering when they performed a sacrificial rite. In order for us to go the way of restoration through indemnity, we have to offer things and bring victory. After passing through that, you are then able to go on to the New Testament age and witness.
You must be persecuted by people and be trained. When I meet a person for the first time I can tell: "Oh, this person is like this and like that," and it is usually correct. How can I do that? As I received persecution from many people, I studied them very carefully. That is necessary. You must be able to answer "Yes," when you are asked, "Can you Unification Church members handle people diplomatically in your life?" After this is the spiritual world. You should have the ability to defend yourself against all tests and attacks from the spiritual world. (117-24, 96-115)
Usually, the life of a young person is a drastically changing one.
When people are in their adolescence, they like things that are stimulating and ever-changing. It is O.K. to like those kinds of things. It is O.K. if you have the ability to absorb and digest that ever-changing environment, but if you don't and if you merely enjoy it, finally you will live a life that is unrelated to your true self.
The period of adolescence is the period full of adventure and danger. Because the adolescent period is full of adventures and dangers, the way I am teaching you is necessary for you to go through. You must accumulate experiences through learning from what other people have done or from the way your ancestors went. Also, if you do not know the future path, which you are to take from now on, as training for you to overcome, you need this time of youth as a period to create your internal personality. Therefore, you must know that during your youth, even if your life drastically changes or even if there are so many things you must face, you will definitely need training to regulate and beautifully overcome everything.
5) Train Yourself in Many Fields Before the Age of Thirty
Those who like the training which is easy and dislike the training which is difficult will not be able to attain the personality that will further your development. Then, what kind of mind do you need to have? You need to pay attention to the matters and problems that confront you. When you are being trained, you need to pay attention to all the tests you face. You should become a person who not only faces one problem, but pays attention to all directions. (67-86)
We must train young people in every direction. We must make them know how to go west, east, south, and north. If a person is trained this way, then people will pay attention, saying, "Oh, that person is different from me. That person says these kinds of things." During adolescence or youth, in other words before reaching the age of 30, we look for the fastest way or the best way in order to be successful and settle down. However, we can say that the way we are going now is the fastest way. If you want to go west, the road heading towards the west may not always necessarily be the fastest way to succeed and settle down. A faster way could be found towards the east, south, or even north. Therefore, you need to know things in all directions.
When we are trying to go up, it is not always bad to go down while being persecuted by your surroundings. You must think that you will find your place of settlement, the place most necessary for you during your life, the fastest route is the road going down.
Therefore, from now on until you reach 30, you must try everything and learn. For example, you might want to become a forerunner or an historical leader. You must never think that you cannot do it, and you must not wait until you are past the age of 30. Then you will be too late. From the age of 30, it is the stage of practice. That is, the 15 years from the age of 30 to 45 Reverend Moon also planned like that. During the 15 years until age 45, you should challenge yourself on the stage of practice. Make a challenge until the age of 45 and build the history of the Unification Church within those 15 years.
Therefore, we must go around the world at the age of 45. We must fight to greet the period of maturity in the world before reaching 60.
Everything is taking place according to that kind of program. This is why I am trying to make the members of the Unification Church work hard until the age of 30. I know through my experience. If you don't do this, you will not become a person who is even needed by your area.
You will merely be a person in your neighborhood. You will not become a person who can be in charge of or lead a nation.
If you have the world in mind, you must be trained in all directions before 30. You should think, "Oh, this is fun; oh, this is fun too. I can relate to it." Those who think, "Oh, I can't do it, so it has nothing to do with me," will perish on the way. On your way, if you cannot find the road on which you want to settle, you will abandon everything at that place.
However, when you find that the way you are going is not right, if you are trained in all four directions, you can choose to go in the other direction or you can just simply turn around. If you are experienced, you can find your way. Therefore, when we look at a person who is experienced and another one who is not, even if they are the same age and have the same ability, the person who can become the leader or the central figure depends upon who is more experienced. This is theoretical. (144-293)
When you have two bars of hardened iron and want to know which is harder, you will know by hitting them. You will be able to find out which is harder. If you do so, a loud noise will occur. The two bars of iron are being tested. The harder one will win. However, in one sense, hard things break easily. Therefore, it is no use just becoming hard. We usually think that hardened things are strong. Of course, hard things are strong, but you should also know that hardness includes being durable. It should have power to resist.
You must become that kind of steel. Don't you all wish to become that kind of person? (Yes, we do) Yes. You should. Our Unification Church group should be strong and durable. The springs of a car are just the same. In other words, they must also have the power to thrust.
You know the Japanese sword is well known worldwide. There is a famous sword called Masamune. In order to make this sword, it is not just heated in the fire once and pounded. When the sword is heated at a high temperature, residue often arises. That residue is removed again and again by pounding. The sword is heated and pounded, heated and pounded over and over again, once in high heat and then again in a higher heat. This work is not done without thought. The process includes the heart and spirit of devotion. The sword is pounded very early in the morning, with devotion. The person making the sword puts all his heart and spirit into his work, thinking, "This sword will cut any enemy into pieces any day." The day you use this sword with the same kind of thinking, everything will be cut into pieces. Do you think so too? (Yes) I'm sure you have seen people doing Tae-kwon-do or karate put a piece of wood on a piece of paper and hit it. When the wood is hit, the wood breaks, but the paper is all right. The person who has mastered the skill will make the paper remain even when it is struck. It takes time before the paper rips. You must strike before the paper rips.
Therefore, you must finish hitting before the power strikes the paper. This is logical and theoretical. I'm sure there is no one who does not want to become this kind of person. If so, you should spend a long time training hard.
When we look at a world wrestling or boxing champion, by finding out the amount of time he spends training, we can know how long that person will still go on and how much more power he will attain in the future. When you do karate, you cannot do it like this and hit just here. You should hold your hand horizontally and hit. You should think that when a person is hit by a single strength, that person also receives that single strength. That's why it becomes strong.
When you play a piano, the strength of this finger and this finger hitting the keyboard is different. Therefore, the basics are comprised of how to learn to play the keyboard with the same strength. You need to practice a lot in order to do that. You must take into account the places that should be strong and the places that should be weak, and all that must work scientifically and automatically. You cannot become a famous pianist unless you clearly grasp how you have trained and practiced.
When you talk, you don't have any standard of speaking. Do you have the concept, "I will speak based on this standard. This speech has a beginning here?" You are just listening and speaking and so on.
That kind of a person can only become a person on a horizontal plane. (67-213)
3. Sung Hwa Students
1) Sung Hwa Is a Big Name
Today, the young people have not realized this. Those who always sacrifice become central figures. The person who sacrifices the most is the filial son in a family. A patriot becomes the central figure of a nation because he or she sacrifices more. A sage who sacrifices more than others also becomes the central figure of the sages. This is the heavenly rule. Therefore, I gave the name "Sung Hwa" with a determination to produce people who can make harmony with everything by seriously following the way of the heavenly law. Do you now understand what sung hwa youth is! It is youth who can harmonize with heaven, humankind, and all things. New sprouts of hope will appear wherever this kind of youth goes. That is the place where God's hope will build a nest. That is the place where God's power of love increases. Please know this amazing fact. (113-326)
If we put the Chinese character dae hak seng (university student) next to the Chinese character sung hwa, then we need to use the Chinese character dae (big) for dae hak, right? Why do we use the Chinese character dae meaning big for dae of Dae? You must think that this is because it is the center of blessing for heaven and earth. You people, the students of CARP, are the subjective persons who must carry out the reformation.
Therefore, as university students, you are to restore the universities.
Universities cannot be left as they are now. They cannot be blessed as they are. Will everything be done if we just do it? Blessing should also be given at the right time.
What then is hak (learning)? It means knowledge, right? We learn to do what? Recently, university students have become very straightforward. When the female students are asked why they come to school, they will say, "Because I want to marry a good person," or "Because I want to be the wife of the oldest son of a cabinet minister." That is not right. Those people must all perish. For whom do we study? It doesn't matter for whom. We are studying after all for ourselves. It was for yourself that you became first in the class and it was for yourself that you married. Yet, when you are not in a good mood you say to your husband, "Why are men always like this?" Your eyes are slanted and you always want to win over your husband. If your husband says one word, your lips tremble and you scorn him saying, "Is there anything I don't know? Do men know everything? I was born as a female and my strength is weak, but I can do everything just as well as men." That's not good. If you do that, you are only hurting yourself.
You must know that you are studying in order to meet a true man and to become a true mother. In order to become a mother, you have to study for the nation. You must serve your husband as a true husband and you must become a true wife who serves a true husband. If you are unable to become that kind of person, you cannot serve a true husband and you cannot have a true son. Women must become true wives, and as a housewife of a family, you must live together with your husband till your old age. If you are studying to have a good marriage, then those who graduated from university must live together with their husbands till old age, right? But are there many that live a long time with their husbands or are there many that divorce? We can tell without even doing any research. Illiterate people live together longer. From this point of view, sung hwa has a big meaning. (25-109)
2) The Standard Sung Hwa Students Must Maintain
The reason the university campus is perishing now is because it is falling just like Adam and Eve fell in their teens, during their adolescence. Now it is like the harvest time of those days, like the season of autumn. Therefore, the fall is going on all around the world today. Reverend Moon is trying to restore all of that. I am trying to guide them according to heavenly law. Do you understand? (Yes) Therefore, men must not readily hold young women's hands. (25-202)
As the young kid on the university campus, don't just go to college and be pushed around or become refuse that is difficult to get rid of.
Even by just sitting still, you must become a group that cannot be ignored by the environment. (25-169)
There once was a time when it was announced on the radio that young people had to go home before 10 o'clock, right? If you are a university student, you must be the central person who will take responsibility in the future and lead the nation. In order to do that, there must be a standard. You can go backwards and forward centered on that. If you free yourself centering on the principle, are you on the good side or the evil side? You studied this during the indemnity course, right? This is a bag of evil. Satan comes here. Reverend Moon thinks Satan is called Sa-tan (Satan in Korean) because it is sa (to buy) and tan (to ride). These kinds of realistic words are necessary. Then who buys it? You people are going to be bought. You are those who are bought. How can you raise your heads and come here standing tall? (25-270)
For the sung hwa students, the place to go after graduation has already been set, so don't think of other things. You must not recklessly use your eyes, nose, hands, body and mind. You will stand in the vanguard holding a beacon for the salvation of the nation. From there, a new history begins. (25-207)
Among the intellectuals, the young male and female university students should become one and stand at the forefront of the nation. If so, this nation will be restored instantly. Those of you who are university students should also receive the Blessing in the future. According to the view of the principle, the direction you should go has become clear. You must go this way in the place of your elder brother or younger brother from a long time ago.
Do you understand? You should dissolve Jesus' han (sorrowful resentment) deep in his heart which he experienced during his adolescence from his people and his nation. You should stand and go forward by overcoming Jesus' lonely and miserable situation when he was persecuted and kicked out, all alone. By doing so, you can settle and be triumphant in the boxing ring with Satan. This is the law of accomplishing indemnity and resolving han.
If you oppose this way, you will perish. Those of you who are receiving that opposition will not perish. If you just believe me and go forward, you will never be forced out. Just overcome for three years. (25-214)
3) After Graduation, the Way of the Will Is More Important than Finding a Job
Everyone, let's think of the existence of "I". Let's think about ourselves for a while. "I" was born on this earth, but where did this existence "I" come from? There must be many reasons for it. Let's sit down and think for a while. Where did this existence "I" come from? How have I, now in my 20s or youth, lived from the past until now? I went to kindergarten, primary school, junior high school, high school, and university, but where am I headed from here? When I look from this point, right at this moment, there is a course, which tells from where and to where we are to go. This course is a course we have to go by any means. (156-256)
What is the general goal of people of today? University graduates will try to get a position in a company or a bank that gives a good salary. That is their final goal. After forming that foundation, they then think they just have to meet a beautiful woman and have children. What can you become if you live like that? They don't have any concern for humankind or for any of those kinds of things. (25-263)
What will you do, after graduating from university? Will you become a salaried man, receiving so much money? That's a very trivial thing that doesn't even amount to blowing your nose. Do you want to become the slave of money? Raise your hand if you want to become a salary man? Those who don't want to become a salary man, raise your hands. What is this? If you say no to this and no to that, then what are you going to do? If you are not going to become a salary man, what are you going to do? If you don't want to become a salary man, shouldn't you become a boss? You must become the boss. (25-167)
When I took closely at the youth of today they say, "Job, job, such and such dollars, salary, jobs. A job is more important than anything else." I can't even relate to them. You cannot be included in the group of humanity if you say you cannot go the Way of the Will because of a job opportunity. How can you be included? Well, everyone, think for a while. Do you think you can be included in the group of humanity or not? (No) Do you feel good or bad? There is no use even if you feel bad. You might say, "Oh, this feels bad," but you must feel bad. (62-205)
You are all young people. Now almost all the young people, especially the university students are thinking, centering on themselves, how to succeed in their own country and how to realize a happy life.
However, the young people in the Unification Church must not be like that. More than your own happiness, you must think for the sake of the people and the world based on the moral ethic of a higher dimension. You must have a broader view of happiness from that higher dimension, and you must also be able to practice it. I'm sure you know from the Principle that you must have the consciousness to carry out a central mission. (25-79)
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Section 1. Sung Hwa Youth [Part 2]
4. Our Attitude Toward Knowledge and the Pursuit of Learning
1) Life and Knowledge
When we think of the value of knowledge and the value of life, can these be equal? Would you risk your life in order to become an academic doctor? Would you exchange your life for a doctorate degree? Then, if you compare a person living in the countryside who knows the value of life and a doctor who does not, who has more value? (The person who knows the value of life.) Therefore, life and knowledge cannot be compared. (41-176)
What did the sages come in touch with? They did not come in touch with knowledge. A person is called a sage if, centering on a more valuable and meaningful life, he practices and longs for life's transcendental value, greater than the nation, greater than the world; the universal value. That person is called a sage if he dies longing to establish an ideal nation even under a life and death situation.
Therefore, Socrates cannot be included in the group of sages.
What changes current trends of thinking? Philosophy does. However, philosophy has nothing to do with life. You all must know that.
Philosophy cannot stand as the very origin that influences life.
Philosophy can be the source of knowledge that stands in the objective position to life. However, it cannot determine the context of life.
Therefore, we can conclude that life cannot be saved by philosophy.
Sages are not philosophers. What was the basis for the lives of the sages? They did not have any life strategies. Of course, they did teach knowledge. They taught one aspect of the way of life, but based upon what? Did they teach some kind of a strategy to occupy the world? What they taught was different. They were all different.
The more knowledge you acquire, the more it makes you want to possess. Today's Western philosophy is very possessive. The more you learn, the more possessive you will become. The more you learn, it will try to expand its territory to the world going beyond yourself. Centering on what? Centering on the world or you? Philosophy says it follows the way that is for the sake of the world. But centering on what? Philosophy is always centering on you, on yourself. Philosophy says you are the center. Philosophy cannot solve the problems of our life in a fundamental way. Therefore, philosophy can be included in the objective value, but it cannot be the fundamental determining factor.
Since the sages knew this, what did they pursue? Even if they pursued knowledge, they did not pursue it just horizontally. What was always at the center of the sages' principles? It was not the self. Do you understand? What was philosophy centered on? It was centered on a person who asserted the hak (learning). That was the problem. Sages also assert, but they do not assert centered on a person. That was the difference.
With philosophy, the person who asserts the idea always becomes the problem. Say, for example, Marxism. The person who asserts Marxism plays the leading role. It has developed worldwide in order to unite all the people under that territory of thought. Who is at the center? Humankind. Today's philosophical trend is working to unite the environment centering on humankind. (40-330)
Human life is more valuable than anything else. However, if we do not live as the objects of the power that moves and gives impact to our lives, we will not be able to settle down peacefully in this world, which is also the object of that power. Therefore, humans try to relate to the absolute life being who is larger than their lives.
This is a natural outcome. The will is not ours, and we are not responsible for it. This is why people confer nouns such as the Absolute Being or God on the one who carries out the providence according to the will.
You all know that the more knowledge a person living in this historical final age has the greater burdens he will have. Anyone knows that burdens will control that person's life and will not allow him to pioneer the blessed land in which he can settle peacefully. What is required the most at this time is a place of settlement for life that comes from the Absolute Being. We are all in need of that. We must all know that everyone, transcending race and culture, East and west, are in need of this. Here we can recognize that what we are longing for is to relate to the Absolute Being. The more a person is knowledgeable and has gone through moral mental training, and the more sensitively aware he is, the more he knows that he cannot pioneer the place of settlement within just the area of his major. (9-306)
You people say out loud, "I go to this university," or "I went to that university and got a doctor's degree and became this..." But you couldn't even eat, couldn't even go out to play, always with a towel around your head. Are you saying that you got a doctor's degree by studying overnight, not even being able to rest? We say you are a great person if you received the Nobel Prize, but if you look at yourself closely, there are lots of things that are miserable. It's the same. It's the same. It doesn't matter if you received the Nobel Prize. That's only a small area of study. You have only dug a small tunnel within this broad world, and because you know about that area, you are just sitting inside that enclosure. When you took at the entire world, you are just an extremely small being. You boast that you know something, but you know very well that you are only an extremely small being.
When we think of that, does knowledge or the fact that we know something bring happiness to human beings? Does it bring a sense of ease? No, it doesn't. You will find that the more you study, the more you realize how little you know.
Just try going to a good school and becoming a famous professor. You will always have a pen in your hand, writing something and being asked to be responsible for something. Think about living your entire life like that. Eating ink... even if you boast, you are merely boasting about your major. What influence can you have on the world? You will know nothing about what's happening in the world. There will not be room in you to think about changing the world. God's will or not, there will be no room in you to think about it.
You don't know anything more than a person who does not know because you are sunk deep inside. Even if you have knowledge, you merely finish your life as a bookworm. You did not acquire confidence in yourself When a person says a word that is related to your major, you are just picking it up and collecting it and doing comparative research again. If you are like this, then you are in a bad fix. You don't own yourself. Even if you become a famous professor, what is that? It's such a waste to put all your life and everything you have there. (98-84)
When we say, "Oh, that person is good," are we saying that based on his or her knowledge? That person has to have a good heart. In order to be called a good person, that person has to have an innately good framework of life and original nature. Whether that person is knowledgeable of not, he or she has to have a good heart. (39-315)
You try to become rich or famous because you want to be the center, respected by everyone. You don't want to go to a country far away to be respected, right?
2) Knowledge and Heart
Reverend Moon has never thought of being knowledgeable or having this and that. The heart is the problem. Are we to dominate through knowledge? It's no use saying, "I'm the boss of so-and-so" with authority and a power-centered mind. We should dominate through heart. Since the territory of heart is at the center of the universe, if you come in contact with heart, or if you try to become one with Reverend Moon, then a territory in which you can participate together with Reverend Moon will be formed and you will stand in the same area as Reverend Moon. It will be effective only if you stand 90 degrees within that area. It will not work if you come out of that. No matter how much you try, if the angle does not match, it will not work. (171-20)
History laid the foundation of external happiness through knowledge. It also laid an orderly standard in society through religion, ethics, and morals. However, history could not provide an order in which human beings could interact with each other based upon heart. You should all understand this. History could not lay the heartistic order. You say there is God, but what must God do now? God has given us the external environment and has restored the standard of blessing that was externally granted to humans. Therefore, now we must be able to form a heartistic relationship with God worldwide. You must know that the person who comes to form a world that is centered on this heartistic relationship is the Lord of the Second Coming. Therefore, until now, the world has experienced a revolution of knowledge and a revolution of social organizations. The world has tried to form a revolution of heart that transcends the standard of conscience.
In order to complete this revolution of heart, we must become true sons and daughters of True Parents before the fall and of God whom we lost through the fall. The revolution of heart will be completed when God, True Parents, true sons and daughters, all of whom we have lost, reunite centering on one point. That is the Last Day. You must all clearly understand this. (9-60)
3) God Did Not Recommend Having Knowledge
What is the fall? The fall betrayed God and the heartistic relationship with Him. The fall is what happened when human beings betrayed Him without completing the standard of conscience God wanted. The fall occurred because human beings betrayed Him without establishing the ideal of God. The original point of the fall was at the point when humankind lost the standard of the heart of God.
Therefore, Heaven came looking for humankind. When He came, He did not say, "Love your body. Love such-and-such kind of knowledge or learning." He said, "Come and stand with God's love." This is the standard, which God established as the principle way. (10-98)
Since the day Jesus was unable to complete the will, God promised the Second Coming of the Messiah, the Lord of all Lords. What will this hero bring when he comes? He will come with the blessed land of the heart which human beings, history, this age and all of heaven and earth have hoped for. This is why God advised us. He did not advise us with some kind of knowledge. He did not advise us to enjoy having power. In life or death, He advised us to come forward with the integrity of a bride. (9-56)
What is it that God needs? God does not need money or knowledge. What kind of knowledge does God need? What will God say if you go to Him and say, "I am a doctor of natural history because I am very knowledgeable"? Will He say, "Oh, you great one"? Or will He say, "Oh, you ugly one"? There is nothing you can boast about to God. God is the king of truth. God is the king of knowledge. If you say to Him, "I was a president of such-and-such a country," He will say, "You fool." You try to show God the authority of a president centering on your power, but God already has it all. Then what is it that God needs? It is not money and it is not knowledge. It is not even power. What God needs is love. (187-44)
Isn't knowledge so? If all theories change, you will stick to them, right? You will follow them. That's what usually happens. It doesn't change. Knowledge, power, then money, or economy. What is called "economy" is something that is consumed. A unit of economy, or money, is always used. Why do we need money? It is to consume. You require consumer products that can replace all things. In order to live, we need consumer products.
Where do the things we consumed go? They do not rotate after being consumed. There is only one side. It does not rotate. What is the only power that can rotate within this power? The power of love can rotate there. Love cannot rotate by itself. (180-144)
4) In Order to Become a Specialist
Let us take learning. When we think about learning, in order to stand in an authoritative position in one kind of area, you must study and complete a specialized course. Even if you do business, you will not succeed unless you go through a special course in that area. The same applies to a country. When a country tries to follow one political strategy, then it must bring together the knowledge of the specialists in that area. We all know that unless this is done, it will be impossible to carry out the political strategy of that country.
When we look from this kind of viewpoint, there is no need to repeat that we definitely need a specialist of God in order to solve the problem of God's providence of restoration. The same goes for the Unification Church. Our church also definitely needs a specialist.
Then, in order for us to become a specialist, what kind of spirit should we have first? You must put all your heart and mind in the area of your goal. You must put all your life and pour all your spirit into it.
The Bible says, "Love God, your Lord, with all your heart, all your will and all your nature." In other words, you must put in all your heart and mind when you love. You cannot become a specialist of love unless your heart becomes one. (29-80)
Not long ago, I heard from a student who goes to a university that whenever the professors hear that there is some world famous or useful material somewhere, they pour out all their energy to desperately get hold of it without even thinking about their behavior. Professors will even use up all their fortune to obtain that material. That is the mind of professors. If the person is even risking his life for the sake of research in his major, that person will not spare anything. (12-199)
In order to become a specialist, you need to dig into that area. You need to do that in order to teach the correct things. You don't necessarily need to study, but if you want to go to the very deepest place, you can know by digging into it. Then you can be the leader. (67-231)
There are famous basketball players, football players or soccer players in the world, but do those players just become champions of their country? Those champions are specialists. They are the best specialists. Do those specialists become specialists by just sitting down saying, "I'm going to be a specialist"? They have to do the same thing ten times, one hundred times, one thousand times, ten thousand times. The more that number is, the greater that specialist becomes (81-135)
5) You Must Control Centering on Absolute Value
Many people in the world have a one-sided or partial personality. Even those who once walked around boasting that they have a Ph.D. are not much use when being criticized. Academic doctors cannot solve the problems of the world.
Therefore, centering on absolute values hasn't Reverend Moon become the teacher of ICUS (International Conference of the Unity of Science)? I gather all the professors and guide them. Isn't Reverend Moon the locomotive that pulls the Nobel Prize winners? No matter how much they boast, they can only be specialists in a parts factory. They can only be the specialist or a manager.
Therefore, you should go to the assembly factory, not the parts factory. Then, what is the Unification Church? Is it a parts factory that makes parts or is it an assembly factory that makes finished products? (It is a place that makes finished products.) Yes, it is a place that makes finished products. Then, will it be easy or difficult to go through the factory process of the Unification Church? (It is difficult.) How complicated is it? There is nothing that the Unification Church doesn't do, right? When American people try to label me, they say Reverend Moon is a business operator, a preacher of the Gospel, a businessman, a religious leader, a scientist, and so on. You guys! That's not correct. How can I be a factory boss? Reverend Moon is the boss of the factory that assembles everything and makes finished products. You feel bad, right? (We feel good.) Then where is the origin of that? Where is the basic form of what should be assembled? I'm talking about the blueprint. Where is the original manufacturing product? Will that be the origin that comes from God or Reverend Moon? That is the problem. If that origin came from Reverend Moon, that is artificial. If it was from God, then it can be real. It's not completely real yet. It could be real. (72-35)
Will you lose this battle of thought? Will you lose or will you win? (We will not lose) We have already finished conducting the experiment. From now on, those professors in the world who advocate that now is the age of Reverend Moon's Godism will increase.
Until 1988, I will dispute with and criticize the entire professors' world in the summit centering on absolute value. We will send our members and teach them. I will tell them to teach everything from all the areas of social science, natural science, philosophy and religion. I gave out these kinds of orders from this year. From now on, it is the time when I have to work directly. Therefore, those who are the great stars of the academic world should straighten out the direction of their thoughts. Do you understand? You should not forget that Reverend Moon is the champion or the leading person who cannot lose the thought battle. Do you understand? (138-60)
There have been many great people who have listened to Reverend Moon's teachings. I'm sure that there are Ph.D.s participating even here. You are boasting that you are a doctor of philosophy and a doctor in physics. But you must know that a doctor is a specialist in just one area. You come to the Unification Church saying, "Oh, Reverend Moon will perish going on like that. While he is in jail, the Unification Church will disappear. Who will follow him when he does things like that?" But, I will follow even if no one else does. I will follow. After all, now I am standing in a more prosperous position than those people. They are all standing in one small comer. (132-233)
6) What the Young Ones Should Know
Those people who do not know us ask, "Who are your' when they meet us. Reverend Moon wishes to ask the same question of you people. I'm sure God will ask you the same question as well. The answer that God likes is when you say, "I am a young person." For an individual, the best time is the period of youth. (11- 117)
We can now see a tendency for many religions to be pushed by today's trend of thought in spite of having a history of hundreds or thousands of years. Christianity also has a history of several thousand years, but it is now in the state of needing to persevere once again for the sake of its future. If there is some kind of a racecourse that sprang up from the marrow, this course will be a historical one, a course of this era, and a course for the future.
Therefore, we need to have knowledge about that. Today, we hear that there is such-and-such a new truth, but it will not be good if that truth is the truth of a single age. You young people should clearly know this.
That truth will not be good if it is from a single age. No matter what kind of "ism" or thought there is, they will all merely pass away if they are only for one single age period. What we now need is a new "ism" or a thought that can transcend everything. That new "ism" or thought must appear on the base of a successful history and must overcome the thought trends of any particular age. (7-139)
What kind of era is our age today? It is an age when good and evil intersects. At this time, we flow inward, coming together with goodness. What will happen to those of us who are in the middle of this era? What kind of a world will this world become after good and evil intersect and meet? When this world passes away, what kind of world will come? This is a problem we are very anxious to know. Today, we say there are young men and women who have the will, but they must keep pace with each other and know where God is and know the hope of all things on this earth. You must come to realize that you yourself are the hope, not this troubled world. (6-112)
Young people should clearly know the standard of good and evil. They must know this clearly. (70-73)
You, the young ones, are standing at the turning point of good and evil; therefore, if you make one wrong step, you will fall into a steep and deep hollow. It may be difficult, but when you climb up step by step, you will then be the king of victory who overcame to see the hope of the bright tomorrow and who will have a vision of the broader plain of hope. You need to watch that one step. You need to be careful of that snow-covered road. When you study or when you read a page of a book, you must become a person who can feel earnestly, through deeply understanding, all the content of that page. One single word that you catch and understand clearly may be the foundation on which you can dissolve the country's unfortunate history. You must become a person who can study from this kind of viewpoint. Then you will be studying for the nation.
Even when you read a book, you must think that God's will of the providence could open the door from there. Those who read through a page of a book with that kind of seriousness will definitely be preparing him or herself for God's need. God will use that kind of person. However, those who are moderate, vague and think this is good and that is good and who follow the beat of any old tune and dance without integrity cannot become the main figure of that nation. You girls and men must not dance together at any place. You must know that the Unification Church's way has a different color.
We must go the way of goodness.
Before you is the dividing point of life and death, good and evil, and prosperity and decay, but I have not prepared an anchor line for you. Then, who is to hold the line? I have to tug it in. I have to tug it in saying, "You rascal anchor line..." We must say, "Anchor line of goodness, let's go upwards and upwards."
Let's go up until we reach Heaven by going over the individual, family, tribe and nation. Go up like this while hanging on to it. Do you understand? Based on this principle, especially the young ones must clearly know what the standard of good and evil is. They must become the victors of tomorrow. After accomplishing the glorious restoration of our country, the day will come when the young people will welcome the happy day of the opening of the world's heavenly nation. Through this, you must not only receive the love of God as princes and princesses of victory, you must also become persons who, representing the entire world, can receive endorsements such as "Follow the example of this person." (59-214)
Young people of the Unification Church! We must regain the territory of our home country. You believe in the Unification Church because you need to regain the parents of your original hometown. It is in order to regain our original family, tribe, people, nation, and the world of our hometown. Do you understand? In order to do that, we must go forward, restoring the things that have been lost. (21-159)
5. The Attitude Sung Hwa Youth Should Take
1) Establishment of the Internal Self
What is most important for you, is to always be united with God and True Parents. If you separate yourself from them, accidents will occur over and over again. When you separate yourself, you might be thinking you are doing it for the sake of the will; however, if you do that, you have become traitors without even knowing it. I'm sure no one thought from the beginning that he would become a traitor. You might have thought you had done something good, but actually it turned out like this. Therefore, those of you who are here must find the three points of union. You should all know that these are the most important cardinal points in order for you to fulfill your responsibilities. The foundation that can internally become one with God and True Parents is the heart. (24-132)
Those who cannot be officially recognized by God in your internal church life cannot represent God in external social life. (22-36)
How does Reverend Moon guide the Unification Church? What have you done for God until now? The method, precisely is, "Come into contact with the mainstream of history." (21-109)
2) Push Forward More than You Determined to
A person who knows the Principle will make a resolution when he or she turns 21 years of age (because three times seven is 21) saying, "This year I will live 365 days exactly as I have planned." Let's say that this person, on New Year's Day, swore and pledged, "God of Heaven and earth! Please watch over this nobody. This year, since I turned 21, I will live 365 days exactly as I have planned," and begins to do so in that year. That same morning, this person denied himself, putting on a solemn stare and hardening his stomach. Yet, after one day, that mind of resolve was already lost. That person is constantly forgetting.
If you have made such a determination with a solemn stare and hardened stomach, unless you stare harder than that and stand up seriously, you will never be able to fulfill your resolution. That is the reality of our life. Isn't that so? (Yes, it is.) You should push forward more than you originally determined to.
When you want to make a motor rotate faster and stronger, you need to give it more and more power. If the power decreases, it will not work. Isn't that so? This is also the principle, isn't that so? Therefore, every morning, day and night, for one week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, one month, two months, half a year, one year, the older you get, the more you need to have a spirit more powerful than the strong determination you made at the start. Can you accomplish the goal if your spirit becomes weaker? If your spirit becomes weaker even a by a small amount, will you be able to accomplish your goal or not? No, you can't.
You need to have the same determination for 365 days. If you become a person who has a stronger determination and a stronger power than the one you had at the very beginning, then after 365 days, you will be able to say, "Oh, the year I turned 21 became a very memorable, really beautiful and happy year." But once you lower your determination, what will happen? Will you go up or will you fall down? (We will fall down.) Certainly, you will fall down. You will fall down with one eye like this and the other eye like that. Even if you have stared solemnly with your eyes and pledged, you don't know whether you can make it or not. That is the life of a fallen human being. Isn't that so? Is that so or not? (That's right.) (57-141)
3) External Attitude
We, the young men and women, must stand up in front with a banner calling out for the lay people to unite against the reality of today's churches and against denominationalism. You must all know that today's trend of thought is requiring us to do that. A long time ago, a ruler, a monarch, or a sovereign wielded power in the place of God. Even so, were they the real God? Is it only they that can wield power? No. It is not so. Since we are all sons and daughters born with the flesh and blood of God, we are all sons and daughters of heaven. (6-311)
Today, are there any young men and women who can embrace the people of our nation? Is there anyone who can pioneer the way of the people and feel responsible for the mission of bringing the people closer to the goal? There may be that kind of person. However, when he or she finds out that Jesus appealed to God, watching the reality of the people who tormented him, shedding tears to hold on to the people and keep them historically connected until today, this person will also appeal to heaven for the sake of the people just as Jesus did.
Both the historical trend of thought and the future hope of the people are like that. We cannot deny that humankind is waiting for the very moment of the revealing of heavenly law, but we must know that we are undergoing torment in that process. Therefore, you must be able to have confidence in the journey of life you are going on. You cannot go this way without that. (7-32)
Well, then, young people of the Unification Church. What are we in the Unification Church trying to do? We are the group that says, "Let's make God and human beings one." There is no mistaking that we are that group. Is that true? We may say, "God, please come to us." Are we to say, "We will go to You"? What are we to say? (We are to say "We will go to You") You must know that this is the difference between the general established churches and the Unification Church. (87-13)
Is there any young man or woman who pounds on a rock on the mountains and cries out saying, "Rock, did I ask to see the misery of the people?" If there isn't, this country will not be released from its misery. (14-155)
Young men and women of the Unification Church must have the heart to do anything. (11-10)
For you people, whether you are born good or bad, whether you know such-and-such a fact or not, is not important. The important thing is from where you learn, from where you come to know, from where you move, from where you stop, and where you put all your zeal. This will determine your entire being from now on. (25-95)
We need the young ones more than the older people. We need those young ones with overflowing energy and power. (14-170)
No matter what you do, you need a strong foundation to do something big. With what kind of attitude must we young ones of today be intoxicated? Will you be the locomotive (engine) or the passenger car of a train? Of course, you must be the engine. However, the reality is, we are stuck at the rear end of the passenger car and we follow as the wheels roll backwards.
If you don't have power, you need to roll just the wheel and go over the hill. We are the ones who must go on pulling the engine. We must become a Unification group with power. We must have a 100 percent drive to move. You must have a dynamic impulse to break through the barriers. More than anything else, you young ones need to know from where and to where you are headed. You must know what kind of attitude that you should have today. (14-104)
What is the perfect way of life for us young ones of the Unification Church? No matter how harsh a storm blows when you are out on the front line, you are to penetrate it. Even on the way to the cross, you must clench your teeth and go forward. Likewise, the right path is to go the way God desires. Those who have not experienced sorrow from that kind of situation will not understand through mere explanations. If you shed tears and cry out, "Father" in that kind of situation, then you will understand the painful effort of the Father who has been bearing the historical cross. You will also understand that it is because of God's han (resentment) that we are unable to become true filial sons and daughters before the Father. When God says, "Oh, it was My hope to meet sons and daughters who can become My true filial sons and daughters here. Oh, thank you," then, at that place, for the first time, the position of filial sons and daughters, loyal servants and virtuous women is filled. (15-319)
6. Prayers Given To Youth
Father, please let us decorate our time of youth beautifully. Please watch over the path of these people who are connected to You and let them grow centering on the foundation of that beautiful environment. Please make them become true sprouts that all the people of their tribe, the country and the world look to. Please make them the trees of new life that can embrace all of humankind. I sincerely pray that You will allow us to remain even after we bear new flowers and fruits and disperse them to all of humankind. (33-346)
Youth is fleeting; and life will flee along with the years. Even as all others fly away, we cannot be like that. We must even go against history and the social environment, which are also fleeting, and we must become the fertilizer and the cornerstone. I sincerely pray that we can become those kinds of people.
The young sung hwa men and women have gathered here from all about. I'm sure, Father, that you are eager to relate to these people. We know that you always wish to be together, with even with our pulses beating together with Yours, centering on heavenly heart. However, we are so inadequate to become Your sons and daughters who can push past the limits and fulfill Your heart.
When we come to think how great Your hopes for us are, we must took back at ourselves and ask whether we are indeed proper before You. Acknowledging our insignificant and unworthy selves, please let us have the heart to endlessly shed tears before You, Father. Although we are miserable, please let us become persons who can embrace Your ideal in our hearts eternally. (25-130)
Please let us realize that our life passes away in a matter of seconds together with fleeting time. Please allow us not to forget that we can become wanderers in life.
When the sun rises in the morning from the east, all the animals rejoice, reflecting the sunlight. However, after several hours, we come to know that sunlight hides itself in the west and lonely shadow descends. Likewise, we may want to boast about the wonderful things of youth, but let us become those young ones who have the will to leave something behind on this earth from our youth, before the sun sets.
The time has come for us to have world class ability in our young chests. The time has come to prepare for victory with courage, fire, and spirit for our new moral principle. An extraordinary mission remains to create the original kingdom in which we can serve the Father as individuals, as families, tribes, peoples, nations, the world, and in the universe. Our physical body was born to do this mission. By all means, let us consider that our body was born to fight and win and to return glory to our Father.
Please let us go forward today for this purpose. Today, the earth is calling for our true selves. Please allow us to become persons who can hear those voices. Also, please let us know that the future image of Korea and the future image of the world is calling us. Please advise us, Father, every foot of the way, and please help us realize You are with us. Sharing all the results with You, Father, please let us appreciate the mission and feel the joy of a pioneer in our hearts, full of hope for tomorrow. I sincerely pray that we may realize that You, too, are eagerly waiting to see those kinds of selves emerging within us. (24-91)
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Section 2. Youth and the Right Time
1. The Present Time
The present time is the age of fruition for the six thousand years of human history. Therefore, it is a time when all the leaves fall. (82-142)
This is the most important period. If we express our feeling of tension in one phrase, we can say it is the "time of extreme emergency." (123-75)
What kind of time is it now? This is the final time. Therefore, everything is in a state of confusion. We are in an age similar to the point of death, unable to control ourselves. If there is a God, and if He can cope with this time, the problem is how He can restore it all. The problem is how we can turn self-centered thought into whole-centered thought. This is the primary factor in determining life and death. (126-112)
Now is the time to cross the Red Sea. It is the same time for you, too. You will perish if you do as you wish. This is the time to cross the Jordan River and the Red Sea. Do you understand? When we cross the Red Sea, you will all perish if you do as you wish. (135-202)
Now is the time we must accomplish that kind of world. Just as Moses, Jacob, Abraham and Jesus armed themselves, we also have to go forth armed. For what? Not for the sake of the country, but for the sake of the world and for the sake of Heaven, we must arm ourselves. (11 -29)
2. The Right Moment
1) There is an Opportune Time
The right time will come. We are busy waiting for the opportune time, but we must know that God is also busy looking for the right time. (11-29)
There is an opportune time for a person. If you miss that time, you must know that the era will pass by without you even noticing, leaving behind han in history. (78-94)
On this earth, even if there is a person with a perfect background, who is very knowledgeable, very capable and able to do anything according to his or her will, if that person misses the right moment in the right environment, then he or she will not be able to accomplish what they willed. (9-254)
Therefore, even so-called "heroes" cannot succeed as heroes unless they are born in the right era. Time is so important. If you do not have the right timing, then everything becomes a failure. (58-238)
You must know the value of the right timing. Seeds are sown during spring. If you sow seeds during autumn, the plants may not survive the winter. (18-185)
2) The Call and the Right Timing
When any person, regardless of who he or she may be, is chosen for something, they try to become the true inheritor of that chosen position and pursue the greater value. That is the desire of human beings. However, even if that desire stimulates our hope, it is not so easy to actually put it into practice. We all know that we can become successful if we try hard, but it is not that easy to succeed. Being called to God's providence is difficult, but you must know that it is more difficult to answer that call and to carry out that mission.
We all see the same morning. We also see the same noon and the same night. However, when we look at each individual's spirit, they are all different. In a day, there are people whose spirits are like noon when it is morning and like night when it is noon. They crisscross like that. In other words, when we try to follow the will, everything does not go smoothly. There are people who follow the will from a very different position. Everything will go wrong for these people. Even if you go the way of the will, confrontation will always occur.
What kind of people are those? Those are the ones who started around the time of the autumn or winter season, but do not know clearly when they started. There is no way that they can know that. After winter comes the beginning of spring, but those people will have a hard time recognizing when the beginning of spring comes into their life. Likewise today, because we fallen beings cannot match the right timing, we work at cross-purposes. Therefore, what is most important is how we capture and match the right timing and go forward.
We come to recognize in our life of faith that what we must be careful of is how to match with the right timing. This is an extremely important problem. If you cannot match the right timing, then a day will pass by, a year will pass by, ten years or decades will pass by without any result, and you will merely live a life with paradoxical results. When we think of this problem, in order to find the right timing, we must live a deeper life of faith. In other words, a deeper prayer life is necessary.
3) To Find the Right Timing in History
The phrase "right timing" brings to mind the right timing of heavenly fortune, individual fortune, and national fortune. However, the right timing comes without warning to the individual, family, tribe, nation and world.
That time does come, but it comes progressively. Yesterday succeeded today and today succeeds tomorrow. Therefore, you will have a hard time recognizing the clear turning point. You will have a hard time recognizing whether it comes in the morning, during the day, or at night. It is extremely difficult for you to match your objective position and your life to the moment when the right timing passes a certain point.
Within the process of history, there were many time periods of the providence: for an individual, a family, a tribe, a nation, etc.
There was also the right time for one chosen tribe or a nation. There were also time periods of many surrounding nations. Have a nation or people ever known at the right time that it was the right time and the time of heavenly fortune? Have they ever matched that timing? Prophets usually make predictions, and the predicted time always comes. However, that time does not come for several months or days. It comes in one moment, one day, and it passes by centering on a point. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to match the pace exactly with the point that is like a dividing ridge.
Almost everything that the prophets predicted has occurred. However, we must know that there were only few moments when we truly knew the significance of the time right at that period and were prepared and able to meet it from an objective position. After the time passes, you reflect on that time, saying, "Oh, spring came at that time. It was a time of good fortune for our nation. The time so-and-so predicted has passed away." This has always been the way of life for human beings -- to reflect on the time after it has passed by. Human history has been like this.
There are important moments in your life, too. During your life, an important point of time, which is definitely necessary to your life, will occur in our lives. Rare is the person who clearly knows the right time, thinking, "This is the right time," and with a "Ready, go!" greets the new age with happiness. (58-239)
Those who live day by day saying, "Oh, that day is that day and this year is the same as last year," or "They say the providence is developing, but that is that," becomes a falling leaf. You must know that since this person cannot connect to life, he or she will become an autumn leaf, which easily falls.
For this reason, we must think about the right moment more deeply.
When morning comes, we have breakfast. Even when we eat breakfast, there is the moment that we start eating, the moment when we eat and the moment when we stop eating. To know these moments day after day is very difficult. Likewise, the heavenly moment is passing through our process of life, but we miss it over and over again.
Therefore, when we put our hearts into something we should not begin recklessly. You must know what kind of time that moment is and begin by setting a goal based on that moment. You should devote yourself much more than anyone in the entire world. There are several billion people living on this earth, but you must devote yourself more than these people centering on that moment, that one focus point in time. If you devote yourself centering on everything, when that degree of devotion becomes the core before these several billion people, then God has to go forward binding a relationship with you. You must know that this is the providential course of God.
If there is a person today among the members of the Unification Church who has a rebirth experience and devotes him or herself, pleading, "Please let me sincerely keep pace with the time valued by God, the world, and the entire spirit world" and who also prays for God's will to be done on earth through our church organization, then he or she will be blessed. You will receive the special blessing to participate in the providence of that time.
Even if you are a person without anything, if you prepare and devote yourself without being told clearly, centering on the right timing, then you stand in the objective position to the central figure that has the responsibility for the mission. Then even if no one knows about you, God will acknowledge you. If there is a person who repeats this kind of a work once, twice, or three times, then that person will receive the come centering on a certain period. Centering on a certain day, that moment will definitely come and will cross over the peak of a mountain. (40-142)
Within human history, the time when we can come into oneness with Jesus' suffering on the cross for several hours or several seconds is very precious and will never happen twice. That time is the precious time when you can welcome and receive official recognition from God. However, in spite of that, Peter, James and John failed to be aware of this time, leaving behind han forever. This han was connected to the whole from the individual and it turned the blessing which God was to give to all people upside down, making a large hole. When we think of that, we must know how heavy was the responsibility of the disciples in that representative position. (40-154)
4) The Method of Matching the Right Timing
A day can be divided into morning, day, and nighttime. They look similar, but they change every moment. During the process of moving from morning to noon, there is a time when it is difficult to know whether it is morning or noon. Also, when it becomes night from noon, there is a time in the middle when it is difficult to make a distinction between day and night. The same goes for the night. There is a point of separation where it divides. It is easy for us to miss that parting moment. Isn't that so? We don't know when it changes. Even when we look at the four seasons, spring changes to summer in a moment, within the sound of a tick. You do not know when spring becomes summer. It is a very simple problem but very difficult for anyone to know. Also, we cannot know the time when summer becomes autumn and when autumn becomes winter.
We can say the same thing with our life. The life of a human being changes from childhood to adolescence, middle age to old age.
However, when we pass on to adolescence from childhood, there is no one who remembers it and says, "Oh, I have finished my boyhood and I am going on to my adolescence." No one has ever felt this moment as acutely as a racer standing on the starting line waiting for the split second to run.
Therefore, it is also difficult to know the moments we pass over in blessing of the time. You must know that God will acknowledge you through the foundation of that one generation.
We members of the Unification Church have a rope of blessing or heavenly fortune. We, the central figure and myself, pull this rope together. If we both stand in a position where this rope stretches tightly, then you must think how blessed that position is.
Therefore, if you are a member of the Unification Church, you must dedicate your life and be loyal to the way of the Unification Church. You must devote yourself day by day, hour by hour, matching rhythm and angle with the right timing. That person will grow together with the fortune of the Unification Church.
Those who follow the Unification Church might become tired and collapse. However, even in the midst of that, if there is a person who tries to tie a relationship with the fortune of the world and who devotes him- or herself in matching with the right time, that person will remain even after all others collapse.
There is also right timing in the way of the providence. Therefore, I'm telling you, let's know that time. Let's find that time and devote ourselves. We must devote ourselves at the right moment. It is no use if we devote ourselves without any preparation. When we devote ourselves, we must devote our entire selves at the right moment, knowing what kind of moment it is.
Through that time we must come into a relationship with God,
When we think of this problem, we must think how extremely valuable it is to be able to stand in an objective position to God at the right moment, precisely knowing the importance of the right timing. (40-152)
I am telling you, don't miss the time. Don't lose the time and have your work stolen. There are only two ways in which Reverend Moon told you that you can follow in order not to lose. Don't be a repellent person; be a loving person. You will never lose if you just do these two things. You just have to pass these two. These are the only things you need. Those were the only two things I could find out. (94-143)
3. The Enormous Value of This Time
In what kind of time can you accomplish your wish? It has become possible for the first time at this moment. Do you understand? No matter how many people there are in a family, tribe, or in a nation, if this is not the time you can individually make an achievement, then there will be no other moment like this ever again in history. If the Principle we teach in the Unification Church is correct, then there is only this moment. Do you understand what I mean? It is an unprecedented time in history.
For example, imagine yourself nose diving just once to pick up a grain of sand which was thrown into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Work that is more difficult than that is occurring in front of your eyes.
It is the same thing. You are watching something extremely difficult happen. It is similar to putting the ends of two needles, one in heaven and one on earth, together at a single try. Do you understand? This has never happened before or nor will it happen again. The heart experienced here becomes the original point of the history of a new ideal age.
Therefore, from now on, happiness will not be found anywhere else. It will not be found in the future either. The moment when you can find your country and your world with your parents and your brothers is the happiest moment. Do you understand? That moment is the moment of ultimate happiness. If you lose your parents, your relatives, and your tribe, no matter how successful you become, you cannot have true happiness.
Isn't it the best happiness to live together with your parents whom you love, your wife whom you love, your children whom you love, the people of your country whom you love, humanity whom you love and God whom you love? That is the ultimate happiness. That kind of moment is now only. After Reverend Moon goes, this kind of moment will never again exist. Do you understand what I mean? Therefore, together with the historical original point, this will become the original point of society and the motto of human life forever. That original point begins from here.
If you accomplish something now, it will remain as a characteristic representation. The achiever of providential work here and now will appear as the representative of achievers who can dominate human history. We look at it like this. This story is like a dream.
Isn't it a story like a dream? Numerous drops of vapor come together to form a cloud. Something similar to a single drop of vapor in that cloud or something similar to a hydrogen molecule came in clear contact with me.
When the feelings of all human beings within the age of human history are harmonized, that will be the best place from which good hope is determined. Therefore, think about it for a moment. Are universities a problem? Nothing in the world is a problem. The moment from which that place of good hope is determined starts here. The original point of a radiant culture, which has never existed before, starts from here. If you become the achiever of providential work and a filial son and daughter here and now, then your name and work will remain glorious in history forever. (51-258)
You were born in an extraordinary age. You were called to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You must realize that you were called at the peak of the historical providence, which has never existed before or will again, only once in a lifetime in history. This is the time when the two lines of history intersect centering on the life course of your one generation.
Even though there were many sad things and ups and downs in the six thousand years of fallen human history, they could not subjugate today's tangled human beings. This is why the historical restoration can occur from this idea. God's resentment and sorrow can be solved and accomplished here. When we think that this indeed will become the origin of the solution for the ills of all of humankind, more than any, thing else, you must be proud of being born in this age.
Your faces are nothing and you yourselves are nothing, too. I don't know what kind of foundation or good achievements your ancestors made, but by following the glorious achievements of your ancestors, you must realize that you yourselves are the representatives who can receive all the grace your ancestors wanted to receive. (43-335)
Those who meet Reverend Moon of the Unification Church will greet the age in which they can breathe the light of the spring of love for the first time ever in human history. (140-306)
It is the hope of history, of nations, of thought, and of providence, that the parents of humankind would appear. The time that the parents appear is an unprecedented time. It is a time that comes only once in history. How can I say it? It is the peak. How narrow a chance will that be? If we look at it from the eternal world, the life of a human being is like one sip of a breath. Isn't that so? I don't know if it is because you are blessed or because you are lucky, but how did you get to be born in this age, meet this time and get to join the Unification Church? In order for you to come to this place, numerous ancestors devoted and devoted themselves for you. So many people perished and died pursuing goodness, and the hope of those people was connected to God's providence throughout our long history. Because those people stood in a position similar to a high mountain where the sun rises, you, the ones gathered here, are receiving the sunlight from there.
If such a thing as a connection of love were to occur during this time in human history, then it would be the first time. If there were a time when value would be given to life, that time would begin from this moment. Now is the only time when we can acknowledge the authority of the country and the world with value. Now is the origin of history, the original point of hope, the beginning of blessing and the original source of eternal life. Now is the time when all of this will happen. (51-335)
4. The Present and a Day
1) The Present Is Important
We are not in a single age period now. We are connected to three age periods. Now represents the age of the past and the age of the future. The position we are in today represents the past, and the entire world is included in the present. Now becomes the central moment for humankind. The present reality represents the entire past human world and it is the central point representing the entire world. (68-225)
When we look at a moment in our day to day life, that moment does not only connect to the present. When we take the present and divide it, we can find that the past is connected to the tip of the present. Even as I speak, the past is connected to this moment. Also, the future I am thinking about is also connected here.
When we think like this, where is the real point of origin for the present? When we say this, we must think of the present as both one that can be indicated by a single line and also one that is conceptual and cannot be indicated by a single line. We come to realize the surprising and frightening fact that a line or point of the present can determine the direction of our daily life.
When we took at a day, there is yesterday and also tomorrow in relationship to it. When we look centering on a month, there is also last month and the next month. When we look at a year, there is last year and the next year. When we look at adolescence, there is childhood before that and middle age after that. When we look the present age, we cannot deny that the past and the future are connected with it. Therefore, the present cannot deny the past or the future. (68-204)
2) One Day Is Important
No human beings in the entire world are living as they wish. They are living according to a direction. A day that you live is like this kind of a direction. (Reverend Moon points) We connect these directions. Isn't that so? We live a year according to this kind of a direction. (Reverend Moon points) Therefore, you must wake up in the morning and say, "I must go like this today. I must draw a line setting a direction and go that way." Don't you think you should do that? Even when you live a month, you should draw a line and live saying, "I will live like this." If you don't draw a perfect line that is clear and correct, then you cannot leave behind a perfect day or a perfect month. If you cannot leave behind a perfect month, then you will not be able to live a perfect year. If your entire year becomes a failure, then your eternal ideal will be in vain. (168-212)
Therefore, faithful believers must always go forward longing for that level which God's providence demands. When you wake up in the morning, you must start the day thinking of where your heart and your life's goal are directed. By doing so in the morning, then when you come home in the evening and go to bed at night, you must be able to say, "Today was good. I did everything today. I was able to save face before the will. Today I can be proud of myself, representing this month and this whole year." Without going through a serious battle, you cannot stand in this kind of a position. (27-98)
Is the past valuable? Is today valuable? Or is it the future that is valuable? It is not the past that is valuable, and it is not the future that is valuable. Today is what is valuable. (45-24)
3) Keep the Moment
The problem is today. The problem is the one single moment.
Therefore, extend and expand that moment to a day and let's hold on and set the direction of the days to our side. Let's accumulate the days and establish one whole month on our side. You must live day by day with a standard of victory, accumulating that into a month.
Therefore, keep the moment. I am telling you to watch the present.
God does not reside far away. If you cannot welcome God, who is happy now, you will not be able to welcome that happy God eternally.
For those who cannot greet the victorious God, victory is forever far away.
The problem is the present. Those who ignore the present are those who ignore the eternal world of the victorious God. What we call this moment right now is the point where eternity is judged. We are standing on a course of life where that kind of moment continuously happens. When we know that, we live seriously. We are indeed risking our lives in everything we do. (65-247)
You are now at a very young age. How are you to live this youthful age and make the foundation of your adolescence? If you can form a foundation of victory during this moment, then it will become the way of filial piety and the way of loyalty that is tens of times bigger. Therefore, keep the present! You must not be in debt to yourselves because you could not keep the moment, now. You will be sorry to God if you think everything you do is difficult or unpleasant. God is indeed a miserable person.
Even right this moment, we are standing in a position where we must form a base or foundation of victory for world restoration to God. You must go that kind of way. If you go that way, God will definitely sympathize with you. Therefore, keep the moment. Keep now.
Especially since you are in the adolescent age from which you can create a brilliant history during your lifetime, you must keep the day with value. You must keep today as a filial son. That day could be the determining moment when you pass the highest peak of your lifetime. Therefore, you must have this kind of a consciousness even when you wake up and when you go to sleep. Everyone in the Unification Church must be like that. Keep your time now. Keep the moment, even when you put on your shoes, when you play, when you rest and when you go to bed. You must know how valuable this moment is. How valuable is this moment? (65-247)
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Section 3. The Life of a Desirable Youth
1. The Will Is More Important Than Success
Numerous people living in this world are longing to become successful and to have worldwide territory according to his or her own desire. Until now, people have fought to gain that. Even at this present moment, people are moving to gain those things. Even when we look at ourselves, we cannot deny being intoxicated by that kind of a position. When we look at this age, we can see that each individual is longing for success and victory, and we are longing for that to happen on a worldwide basis. (30-73)
If I ask you, "Do you want to become famous within your neighborhood or within your country?" by no means would you answer, "I want to become famous within my neighborhood." If I ask, "Do you want to become famous within your country or on a worldwide basis?" you would answer, "I want to become famous worldwide." (40-317)
Raise your hand if you really want to become successful. Did you join our church to become successful? We must exclude that kind of a person. You lose your purity. (145-11)
What are we to do? The problem of what the social life of believers should be arises. What I am telling you is that it is important to have a method of thinking to carry out the ultimate will instead of placing importance on success.
The world from now on is depending on the young people. I'm sure all of you who joined the Unification Church think you know things very well, but when Reverend Moon asks, there are many things you don't know. Some people might say, "Why is it necessary for us to be exceptional like that?" But you are not.
2. The Road to Success
1) Understanding Which Leads to Success
Every human being determines to become successful. I'm sure there is no one who does not dream of being successful centering on a larger goal. Every individual goes out with a dream to accomplish his or her goal, but the people who have actually realized that goal are extremely few. (43-20)
During a lifetime, there are people who climb up to the peak of success and there are people who don't. Think of a mountain, for example. Even though the peak is higher, there are those who stop at a certain place, saying, "Oh, my peak is here. I barely made it even to here." If that person would go one more step, he or she would make it to the very top, but he or she often just stops there and lies down. Even if you collapse, even if it is harsh work for your body, you have to pass the center point and collapse on the other side. Then you will find the country on the other side. No matter how harsh the work is, if you cannot go beyond the dividing line, then you will still be under the control of the country on this side.
The same goes in the satanic world and in God's world. I'm sure there are those who say, "Oh, I have succeeded," centering on this kind of a standard. Some might have lived based on this standard and others would have lived on that standard. Looking at a chain of mountains, when one is asked, "Which peak is the highest?" will there be anyone who answers, "This is the highest," pointing to a low peak? Will anyone point to a low peak and say, "This is the peak I want to try climbing?" That is a crazy person. That kind of a person cannot be considered human. (63-33)
Within the course of your life, if you rest saying you have succeeded, then you will perish. That success must not be a success centered on you. Today, the members of the Unification Church must not stop after individual success. They should go on for the success of Korea.
Furthermore, without stopping there, we must go on developing until we reach the success of the entire world. (26-132)
2) Reverend Moon's Key to Success
You young people all want to become successful and famous, right? Gloriously? That's not simple. There is a saying in Korea that says the pagoda made with great labor will not collapse easily. There is some truth in this. When I go somewhere, Reverend Moon's philosophy is that I will never return without doing something good.
Whenever I went somewhere, I did not come back until I was able to leave behind a good result. (144-301)
In order to become successful religiously or economically, you cannot realize your goal unless you first suffer a loss. If a businessman plays around like a scamp without working hard, will he be able to succeed? You must work hard. You must go through the hardship of mind and body. In order to overcome all the hardships and sufferings inside and out, you must devote your entire body. Then you will be able to succeed. Also, by showing that you have suffered loss, then you will be able to overcome difficulties, and success will come back to you which equals the amount of your loss. (26-47)
What is the key to success? You must become a person who can connect all of his or her feelings and want to go anywhere for the sake of the goal. Does that kind of a person succeed very quickly or very slowly? He or she will succeed very quickly, right? He or she will meet the success very quickly. Even if you don't meet it, you will be able to meet it in your dreams. (63-60)
What is Reverend Moon's key to success even in the midst of persecution? What has that key been in the course of my life? When the United States opposed me, I stood in the position equal to God and went on forward in the name of God, standing the United States on an equal footing with me. By the name of God! It is not possible to penetrate a wall with power. Money cannot do that. It's not possible by machinery. Not even human wisdom can do that. (166-163)
In order to succeed, live for the sake of the whole. (15-289)
Those who continuously go forward will definitely succeed. (186-93)
3) The Key to Success
If everything that we planned fails and we become failures, what will you do? The road of a person with big hope will not fail. The more that person goes forward, the more success there will be. You must go on with this kind of resolution. Then you will certainly succeed. In order to advance forward, you must either live or die. You must choose either one.
You people must definitely succeed. What must you do in order to do that? When the other wins once, you must win twice. When the other sleeps one hour, you must sleep half an hour. When the other eats one bowl of rice, you must only eat half. You must fight with this kind of a strong will. The key to success is not found somewhere else.
It depends on how much time you spare, how hard you work, and how many funds you invest.
It is a battle of time, a battle of spirit and a battle of effort. It is just like a student preparing for the coming entrance exam. Those who failed the exam are the ones who slept more, ate more or did something more comfortable than others. (19-143)
When we look for a key to success, or the foundation or motivation necessary for victory, I'm sure you know how valuable perseverance is. There is a proverb in the Orient, which says, "The one who perseveres is the one who wins." (76-221)
You must know how important it is to endure. How valuable is endurance? Endurance is the motivation of a new start and it also can be the motivation of a new creation.
God is also enduring. God is enduring. God endured when Adam and Eve were about to die and He also endured when Jesus was taken and nailed to the cross. God pretended not to know when He knew. Even when He knew, He pretended He didn't. It was very difficult for God. You also do the same. If a person knows all about you but pretends not to know, how embarrassing will that be? When you see that person, you will want to escape and hide under his feet, but you surrender because you have no place to go. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that the more we endure, it will become the motivation to possess more. Do you understand what it means?
The same thing can be said in a family. No matter what your brothers and sisters say, if you endure and endure, your parents or anyone else will bless you, saying, "Watch him or her in the future." Therefore, let's make one rule here now. It is good to endure for yourself and it is good to open your mouth for others. If a person is in a difficult position, I will open my mouth and console him, and when that person is slandered, pretend you do not know, even if you know, and then open your mouth and support him. If you look for the key to victory or one necessary foundation or motivation to become victorious, you will find how valuable perseverance is.
There is a proverb in the Orient which says, "Those who persevere are the ones who win." Do you understand? Do you understand what I mean? (76-220)
When you play tug of war, who wins? Will a person who suddenly tugs with power win, or will a person with perseverance win? (The person with perseverance.) You must not attack suddenly like a tiger and become weak later. You must stand firm pulling. You should not give in. You must stand firm until the end. Does the Bible say, "The one who perseveres to the end goes to hell?" The person who perseveres to the end loses? It's the same thing. If you go to heaven, that means you won. If you go to hell you have lost. The person who perseveres to the end wins the fight. (64-57)
In order to become a victor, you need conditions. In other words, you need confidence, you need courage, and thirdly, you need a fighting spirit. (18-12)
4) There Is Suffering Before Success
If you want to succeed, big hardships will definitely follow in proportion to that success. (27-181)
It is the same with the fate of an individual. Whether a person succeeds during his or her lifetime or not, whether a person leaves behind something shining and honorable or a sad and sorrowful life, all depends on the course of life of that person. From the time that person was born, how many times will he or she be able to unite with the direction of history and heavenly fortune? Furthermore, how many times will that person face the hardships that come to him or her up front, with a heart to pursue the future? The answers to these questions will determine that person's present personality and also his or her future. It will also determine whether this person will become a center of respect or not.
Everyone welcomes success; however, no one welcomes the process he or she has to pass through in order to realize that success. When you look back at the past before the success, I'm sure there were series of historical days full of sorrow and resentment when you became sick of doing it and wanted to abandon everything. This is the same for your parents, your colleagues, your friends, your children, and husband and wife. It is the same for anyone. (27-273)
In order to accomplish your goal with conviction, you must go through a process of struggle. The bigger your hope is, the greater proportion of conflicting elements will block your way. These elements will oppose you instead of being absorbed by you and will shove you out instead of welcoming you. The bigger the goal you are heading toward, the proportionately bigger the hardships that are waiting for you. (43-20)
If you succeed instantly, you will perish instantly. You must know this also. If you succeed instantly without any foundation, you will be robbed and you will be blown away by a typhoon. Therefore, instant success is meaningless.
We must have big ambitions and ideas. In order for you to become a person who can live up to those ambitions and ideas, you must not become successful instantly. Your desire will tell you to accomplish everything in one day, but that will not do. You might say to those who oppose you, "Oh, those enemies. It would be nice if we could throw away all those who are not on God's side and improve this environment by ourselves. Where is God?" There may be people among you who think like this, but that is not the way to think.
In order for the ground to harden, it must rain. But if it rains all the time, what will happen? If it rains continuously, nothing will be done. The sun is necessary. However, if it's sunny all the time, that will not do either. In order for the ground to harden, it must go through a long period of time with wind, becoming cold and hot, freezing and melting.
The ground will get harder the longer the time passes. If you want to blast the ground that has hardened like this, you will need power that is even greater. (19-35)
Within our lifetime, there are many peaks we must go over.
There are peaks even within a day, and there are peaks within our youth also. We need to go over peaks when we have a family and when we take responsibility for it, and we must go over peaks within our social life. In other words, there are peaks along the way of an individual, a society and a nation that could determine their fate. The same thing goes for the world.
When we look from this viewpoint, you must know that everything is connected centering on these peaks. We often say so-and-so became successful or so-and-so failed. What kind of person do you call successful? It is a person who overcame the peak of his of her goal. What kind of a person do you call a failure? It's a person who could not overcome that peak. During your lifetime, if you accomplish your goal, then you are a successful person. If you cannot accomplish it, you become a failure. (31-7)
5) The Main Reason for Failure
Do people not know the way to success? Yes, they all do. This is why a problem arises here. Why can't they succeed if they know? Why can't they? They all know the method to succeed. Do you know, or don't you? (Yes, we do) Then why can't you succeed? It is because you cannot control yourself. We must know that is the state of human beings. (97-13)
If people plan by themselves and try to accomplish their goal through their own ability, then they are made to fail. We can know this by looking at the process of history up until today. History, which was woven centered on human beings alone, has always failed. (42-298)
3. The Road to Become Great
1) All People Hope to Become Great
When any individual is asked what kind of person they what to become, they will all answer they want to become great. If you want to become a great person, how great a person will you want to be? Will you become the President of Korea? When we look at the people in Korea, they all want to become the President. Even if you become the first in Korea, you should not finish there. You must become the first in the world. Then what must you do, after you become the first in the world? If there is a higher place and a higher person than the world, then you will want to go there and hold that person's hand. (41-323)
2) In Order to Become an Historical Person
What is a great person? The person who knows how to do deep work with higher thinking is great. Do you understand? The person who does the work others cannot do is a great person. Why? It is because that person does his or her work keeping his vertical position with God. (175,234)
3) You Must Be Able to Maintain Your Determination
If you look, you will find that there is a normal way of life for a normal person and a special way of life for a sage or a great person. If I ask you what kind of person you want to be, you may answer, "I want to become a great leader," but that is not something that can be done at once. In order to become great leaders, you must digest many things in the process, and you must go forward sacrificing many things.
You can become a great leader if you can use the sacrificed things for greater purposes.
When you say a person is a great person, what kind of standard did that person fight under in order to become great? The people who became great were those who risked their lives. Will it do just risking your life once? You must go through the process of risking your life again and again. (67-88)
Sages or heroes in history were those who kept the determination and resolution they made when they were very small until they died, and who lived within that goal. It's very simple. Reverend Moon is living like that, too. Even when I am asleep I am directed towards my goal. Even when I wake up in the morning and open my eyes or when I associate with a person, I get along with that person in order to find something good for the sake of accomplishing my goal. If you live your life like that, then your life environment will naturally become a base for your future. Are you all living like that? If young people smell the good smell of a flower, they go that way; if another good smell comes, they go that way. But that will not do. If you think you must go towards right, go only in that one direction with all your might. You must determine whether you can digest and absorb it or whether you will be absorbed by it. You should go on fighting like that. (15-129)
When we look at history, almost all of those who accomplished something big were not Ph.D.s. They were all people who had a strong fighting spirit. Those who did things, which seem reckless to others, became historical persons. In other words, until now, history has been woven by the champions with fighting spirits. (18-12)
4) The Search for the Way of Suffering Voluntarily
The life of a person is not smooth. Besides, a person does not live his or her life alone. Men and women live together. When we compare man and woman, they are completely different. They are like opposite poles. When a man and a woman who are completely different in nature live together, it will be difficult for both of them. They should try to match each other centering on the centerline, with one going up while the other goes down.
Therefore, you need to be trained when you are young. If you want to become a great person, go voluntarily searching for a way of great hardship. Try walking 40 kilometers overnight to experience hardships. In order to voluntarily work for the sake of others, walk 40 kilometers overnight, dragging your tired body. Go to a working place, a farm, for example, and sacrifice yourself for others. It will not do if you are sleeping peacefully. (144-299)
When a person tries to go a special way, the element or factor that determines that special thing is usually not something people like. That way is a difficult way with barriers you need to overcome and with unwelcome matters blocking your way. However, you should not try to turn around and return just because it is blocked. If you could reach your goal that way, then anyone would go that way.
If there were one thousand people, all of them would choose to go that way. Because anyone can go that way, that is not the way a special person should go. A special person must not turn around and go back. On the contrary, that person must go forward, penetrating that wall. You must penetrate and go the shortest way. In order to do that, you must overcome hardships that are one hundred times more difficult. There you will find things normal people can never imagine. Therefore, unless you become a person who can overcome and break through the barriers, you will not be able to go this way.
5) Strengthen Your Third Power
If there is one great person who tries to go forward toward a big goal, the bigger the goal and the greater the person is, the more incidents will be incidents waiting for him or her which involve the entire country or world. Those incidents will appear to you not in a welcoming way, but as a condition that opposes and contradicts you. The bigger the opposing factors are, the greater is the chance that they could also become factors of disappointment and failure. Therefore, when such an incident occurs, the person who greets that incident must also appear as a core of power concentrated in a bigger and stronger determination. Unless you crash into that environment this way, you will never be able to resolve the incidents.
Therefore, those who stand in that environment and make a determination must be extremely serious. In order to overcome these problems, you always have to have a stronger conviction. The important key to solving this problem is to know how to find the internal strength that can overcome the approaching external hardships.
In the course of their lives, human beings have tried to overcome every time they encountered these kinds of problems; however, they failed every time. This was the pattern of the lives of human beings.
God knows this, so what will He want from us? God will want us to determine and pledge once again and go forward. In the future, we will also face the peak of hardships, but in order to prepare for that, we must make a determination once again. In order to win over the external environment and accomplish one great goal, we must introduce a stronger power and impulse greater than that approaching hardship. This is more important than anything else. This is an important problem which not only God worries about, but one which we ourselves must solve.
People will require stronger power when we encounter these problems. Because people need a stronger impulsive element, they search for a third power. It is inevitable that the greater the person, the more he or she will require a third power.
6) It Is a Great Thing to Accomplish Without Knowing
Reverend Moon does not like propaganda. I never boast about what I did, wherever I go. I try to hide it as much as I can. A great work must not be done in the wide open. Do two thirds of the work without people knowing, and when you do the last one third, then you have accomplished a great work.
Therefore, before a great event appears in history -- whether it is some kind of a thought or any kind of work -- two thirds of it had already been accomplished behind the scenes. When it appears before the crowd and becomes known to the people, it appears with a foundation and result that can be officially approved of by the public. (141-121)