Godible: Recent Episodes
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification USA
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There are a lot of young people here. (Note: members of a second-generation workshop being held at Camp Sunrise were in attendance.)...
How are you doing? Good morning. (Good morning.) Today I want to talk about "Compassion." ...
In almighty America, the most powerful nation, still when a woman is powerful, this raises an issue because that still can have a biting force, right?
How are you doing? Nice to see you again. Today, I would like to talk about something called, “Leadership."
How are you doing? I'll be away for a few weeks. I'm leaving today. The reason I'm going to be away for a few weeks is that I'd like to go to China and Japan.
I'm going to keep somebody anonymous. But they have something, and they get used to a certain kind of lifestyle, lifestyle of certain things, luxury.
Some people have been commenting that sometimes my talks are a little too short and I kind of run out of stuff to say.
Do you want to die for something? You have to die for something. If you want to live, you have to think about dying.
Okay, what is your greatest difficulty when you go out there and try to convince other people who we are?
We all have problems. Nobody has problems in this room? I'm trying to find some kind of universality in sharing
So, how do you go about changing that? How do you change America when so many things have gone wrong?
You know, people with a certain level of tradition normally tell you they want their children to grow up to be a doctor, lawyer, or an accountant, at least an accountant, something that people need all the time.
So, how would you go about that? What would be the ideal position of an ideal elder son?
This book is unofficial and unauthorized. These 80 sermons were given by Hyo Jin nim at the Belvedere international training center, in Tarrytown, New York, from January 1, 2006, until March 9, 2008...
I know how to train the hopeless people: take them and kick them into the ocean for three months...
There are so many varieties of activities and different projects in our movement, but when the summer comes, the most important of all is Ocean Church...
My activities are not just religious; this is why people say I am an industrialist, a scholar, a movie-maker, etc...
Recently, I invited some elder ministers to travel the world and examine Unification Church activities...
Two weeks ago, I was in Alabama, which is known as the shipbuilding capital of the United States, looking around to buy a shipyard so we can build our own vessels...
You should know, in order to be a qualified leader, you absolutely need more training...
Up to this point, we have learned what kind of significance there is in tuna fishing...
Even when I went to Danbury, I was not defeated by this country, but fought against the injustice...
Twenty years ago, the Americans used to look at the Japanese and say, "They are just like animals, eating raw fish." ...
Since I came here, I have been fed very well in this house and that wasn't easy to take...
We said earlier that the two most wonderful terms in the Unification movement are "True Parents" and "indemnity"...
In 1975 and 1976, when I came to America and set up the theological seminary in Barrytown, and sent out missionaries to 120 countries, is the time when the American nation and the whole world came against me...
In Alaska, where there is halibut, I put my thoughts about this into practice and it worked very well...
I HAD EXPECTED a great deal from Ocean Church, but those expectations have been somewhat betrayed...
WELL, WITHOUT a doubt, everyone now knows that the Moonies have entered the fishing industry...
Witness to others (and create yourself) When you are witnessing to others you are also creating yourself...
TODAY, I want to speak to you directly, but it is difficult because I speak one language, you speak many different languages from each other, and all of you speak a different language from me...
THOSE WHO do not wish to continue in the Ocean Church mission, please raise your hands...
In ten years, you will see why I am doing this program, why I am putting so much effort into it now.
It is not my credibility that concerns me. It is your credibility that I want you to build.
Maybe you haven't thought about the fishing industry so much, but based upon what you have heard, you have come to have some new perspective on it.
The reason I called the seminary graduates is because I want you to become leaders for each of the thirty centers.
So far, we have only discussed the primary industry. What about the secondary industry such as boat equipment?
At this point, I feel that things have stabilized. From now on, there will be an increase in price.
Then, we looked at the fishing industry. As you know, fishing used to be one of America's major industries.
One thing that no one said this year was, "How come the New Hope won first prize this season?"
I know how to make good friends with congressmen and senators. Don't do it in the normal way that everybody else does.
There are all kinds of things that bring people together: hiking, jogging, music, whatever.
Let us begin. What is it that you need now, and what is it that you need most? Do you need men or money? Which is more needed?
Now we know this important area. Since you are seminary graduates and will be leaders in this movement, you must be serious to educate your members in this regard.
If we carefully examine what we say in the Pledge we can see everything from the correct perspective.
We are not yet living in the Ideal World, but instead are living in the midst of an evil world; this is why we must recite the Pledge.
Sometimes you might wonder about some of our church customs, such as bowing down. You might say to yourself, "Why do we do that?"
For seven years I have been going to the ocean and praying out there, early in the morning and late at night.
There are many resources that can be transported from one part of the world that is rich to another part where there is famine.
No one thinks I will build boats, but you will see that our boats will be 21st century boats. Once our boat is proven the best for tuna fishing in this contest, there will be a great market for them.
I have experienced all kinds of sports in the man's world, yet I have never found any that was as exciting as the struggle with tuna. Do you have an appetite for that?
The Unification Church is very special, with its understanding of the role of Abel. The world would never imagine that I spend a great deal of time on the ocean to catch tuna, so before I start on the main topic I want to talk a little about tuna.
Reverend Moon is a man with a vision. That vision, far reaching in its goals and comprehensive in its content, stems from the conviction that this world and especially the human beings who occupy it were created in order to share in a relationship with God.
Were there scrolls as wide as the skies and ink as vast as the oceans, they could not record all the teachings and life achievements of True Parents...
True Parents emphasized loyalty and filial piety as the basic precepts of human morality...
During the year that True Father was in Danbury, we had many agonizing experiences both internally and externally...
Cheon Il Guk is a world where, based on true love, heaven and earth unite, the body and mind unite, and one lives in harmony with nature...
If opening the gates of Cheon Il Guk was the mission of True Parents and the first generation of blessed families, the settlement of Cheon Il Guk is the task of the second generation of blessed families and their children...
True Parents' vision of one family under God, in other words, the fact that we are all God's children is at the core of the initiatives we carried out, based on the unification of the North and South American regions...
In the early days our church was always crowded with members longing to see True Parents...
If you take a position to pursue your self-interests, you will be in violation of the law, but if you take action to seek the benefit of the whole, no one can cast accusations about that...
We are now entering the era in which we will live under the jurisdiction of God's law...
The Completion of Restoration and the Settlement of Cheon Il Guk
Chapter 2: Foundation Day and the Inheritance of True Parents' Tradition
After True Parents proclaimed Cheon Il Guk in 2001, True Father emphasized the necessity of a constitution to guide its governance...
The 40 days after True Father's Seonghwa is a special period when Father and I, with one accord, are preparing for a new start in the providence...
As if True Father were preparing for his Holy Ascension, during the last three years of his life, beginning in 2010 when he proclaimed the heavenly calendar, he pushed himself relentlessly, to the point of being cruel to his own body...
For the first time in 6,000 years, a new heaven and new earth nave opened and a new day has dawned...
Foundation Day, which is the beginning of the substantial Cheon Il Guk, took place 13 years after the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship...
Cheon Il Guk is the abbreviation of Cheonju Pyeonghwa Tongil Guk (Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity)...
The Parent of the Cosmos is the incorporeal God, and the Parents of Heaven and Earth are the substantial Parents...
True Parents celebrated True God's Day on lunar New Year's Day for the first time in 2010 (February 14)...
On January 15 and 31, 2009, in Korea and the United States, True Parents on three separate occasions held the Coronation of God, the King of All Kings, with the Authority of His Liberation...
By holding the Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace, True Parents, as the owners of the Third Israel, can finally establish in the physical world the kingdom of the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind...
The First, Second, Third and Fourth Israels have not made the leap into unity because of the absence of blood ties...
True Parents held an event announcing the new beginning of the Pacific Rim Providence at King Garden, Kona, Hawaii, on March 17, 2007. ..
After proclaiming the Opening of the Era After the Coming of Heaven, True Father said that everything will pass beyond the era of liberation and the completion stage to enter the realm of God's ownership...
On May 5, 2004, at Cheonghae Garden in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, True Parents proclaimed Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il (Day of the Victory of the Number 10 Combining Two 5s) and declared the end of the Era Before the Coming of Heaven and the arrival of the Era After the Coming of Heaven...
On February 6, 2003, True Parents held the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity, following the True Parents' Holy Marriage Blessing Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk...
The Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk was held at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center on February 6, 2003...
Throughout history until today, people of faith were required to abandon the world, abandon their nation, abandon their ancestors, abandon their hometowns, and even abandon their parents and wife and children for the sake of the Will...
On January 13, 2001, True Parents will conduct the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship. We are going to bring God back to His throne...
In order to prepare the foundation for the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship, True Parents proclaimed the Return of the Oceans to God, the Return of the Land to God and the Return of the Cosmos to God...
On January 13, 2001, True Parents held the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center...
The Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity, Cheon Il Guk, means the kingdom of heaven in heaven and on earth, realizing God's ideal of one human family with God at the center...
I tried to have 700 Japanese women at a time participate in the workshop in Alaska, but the airline schedules could not accommodate this...
On May 30, 1999, True Parents completed the "Rally for the Globalization of the True Family" in 80 cities around the world and held the "Ceremony for the Global Proclamation and Celebration of True Parents' Victory in the East and West" at the holy ground at Belvedere in Tarrytown, New York...
From October 20-27, 1992, True Mother spoke at Women's Federation for World Peace events in eight US cities...
True Mother was the keynote speaker at rallies of the Women's Federation for World Peace (WFWP) in 21 cities in South Korea in 1992, beginning in Incheon on May 11 and ending in Jinju on June 2...
Initiating this movement to unite women from Korea and Japan was a record-breaking historical event...
The inaugural assembly of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia was held on September 17, 1991, at the NK Hall of the Tokyo Bay Hotel, with 7,000 Japanese women in attendance...
Heavenly Father, at 10 minutes after 10, on the 10th day of the 9th month of 1999, I proclaim the Day the Parents of Heaven and Earth Conduct the Ceremony for the Unity and Liberation of Heaven and Earth...
On January 3, 1993, True Parents proclaimed the opening of the Completed Testament Age...
On January 3, 1993, at the world headquarters church in Cheongpa-dong, Seoul, True Parents proclaimed the completion of the New Testament Age and the beginning of the Completed Testament Age during the sermon, "A Review of Providential History and the Completed Testament Age."...
True Parents stressed that, in order to acquire the position of tribal messiah, we first must have the people in our tribe fill out church membership forms...
After you restore your siblings and parents, you have to seek your family's kingship...
On the foundation of having proclaimed the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages, True Parents proclaimed Heavenly Parentism at North Garden in Kodiak, Alaska, on September 1, 1989...
We have to pass through eight vertical stages: servant of servants, servant, adopted child, stepchild, child, spouse, parents and God...
At North Garden in Kodiak, Alaska, on August 20, 1989, the 4th anniversary of True Fathers release from Danbury Prison, True Father proclaimed the Providential Age of the Grace of Love...
On May 1, 1994, True Parents announced that the church's name, Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, would be changed to Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, and proclaimed the Family Pledge, the guidelines for Cheon Il Guk to be followed by all blessed families...
After demolishing the rough and difficult obstacles in the valley, True Father has built a highway across the plain that enables us to attend God in comfort...
The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification was founded to achieve the salvation of humanity and a peaceful world on the foundation of true families...
True Parents proclaimed the Family Pledge on May 1, 1994, at the celebration of the 40th anniversary of HSA-UWC...
True Parents declared the era of the Family Federation for World Peace (FFWP) on May 1, 1994, exactly 40 years after the founding of HSA-UWC, on the foundation of True Parents' Holy Wedding and the condition of having completely indemnified the 33 years of Jesus' life...
While True Parents perfected, completed and accomplished the providence on earth, they also linked the providence continuously to the spirit world...
Our beloved Heung-jin, heavens representative and the heavenly commander-in-chief of heaven and earth, reported to True Parents in a message he sent from the spirit world to the place where we are commemorating and celebrating this day, September 18, 2005...
If we, True Parents, represent earth, our beloved Heung-jin represents the spirit world...
Now that Adam has restored the act of the archangel, who usurped the authority of the elder son, we will enter the original world where the angelic world nurtures Adam to maturity...
I conducted the Spiritual World and Physical World Unification Ceremony, starting with the internal realm of Christianity...
True Parents victoriously established numerous substantial indemnity conditions during the course of their lives, by which they liberated those in the spirit world and unified the spirit world...
Only True Parents can clear up the spirit world and the earthly world and complete the ideal, the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven...
Religions until now have developed through forming relationships in the physical world after the founder went to the spiritual world...
After you go to the spirit world, if you call, "Father!" you can meet me immediately, anywhere...
True Parents have continuously invested sincere devotion for the sake of clarifying the reality and structure of the spirit world and for liberating those in the spirit world...
I am a person who knows history very well. Islam and Christianity have been enemies since the Crusades...
True Parents founded the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP) on February 6, 1999, for the purpose of connecting our international foundation, centered on the UN, with our interreligious foundation...
We must create a scripture of oneness for the sake of averting conflict among religions...
True Parents established the International Religious Foundation (IRF) on April 25, 1983...
A series of three seminars, where representatives of the Unification Church, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church appeared as speakers, was held in Seoul beginning August 15, 1966...
True Parents intended to establish the Republic of Korea as the Abel-type nation, which would attend God, by bringing oneness between the Abel-realm Unification Church and the Cain-realm Christian denominations...
"Before you seek to have dominion over the universe, you must first gain dominion over yourself." ...
If there is anything in the human world that goes beyond this physical world, connecting heaven and earth, it is religion...
When True Father started his public providential course upon Korea gaining independence in 1945, he envisioned that based on religion, he would lead the providence of salvation and lead the world to peace...
Human beings live in deep ignorance of matters regarding spiritual reality because our connection of heart with God was severed due to the Fall of our first ancestors...
The raw materials available from the land areas will not sustain us for even 50 more years...
The Pantanal, the world's largest wetlands and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, located near Jardim, is a region of God's creation of which 80 percent remains preserved in its original state, untouched by human hands...
Protestantism must stand in the position of Abel and bring unity with Catholic South America...
The Center for the Education of Ideal Families for World Peace, in Jardim, has organized 40-day workshops in which blessed families from all around the world participate as family units...
On February 13, 2000, as part of the commemorative events for True Parents' 80th Birthday at the Little Angels Performing Arts Center, True Parents proclaimed the era of the Federation of the True Parent of the Cosmos (God) and established the Family Party for Universal Peace and Unity...
On October 5, 1998, True Parents celebrated Chuseok and proclaimed the Liberation Ceremony for the People in the Spirit World at a meeting with national messiahs in Sao Paolo, Brazil...
The 4th Jardim Declaration is the proclamation to liberate God from His bitter sorrow by fulfilling our destined parent-child relationship with Him...
True Parents celebrated the 36th True Parents' Day on March 31, 1995, bringing to a conclusion the 40-year course that began with the establishment of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity...
Perdido, which is located in the vicinity of Jardim, has the most ideal land for farming, planting orchards, and planting forests...
When True Parents first visited the Pantanal, they remarked that it was the place where all living things exist in their original state as was created by God...
True Parents believe that transforming Las Vegas from a city of gambling and self-indulgence into a city of goodness in both image and substance would contribute to the restoration of the world...
True Parents identified the ocean as the next base for human habitation that people will have to develop in the future...
The recreation industry has to cater to people who enjoy all sorts of leisure activities...
True Fathers interest in the ocean was not limited to the Korean Peninsula; it encompassed the entire world, notably Alaska and Hawaii...
If you want to catch bigger fish, you have to drop your line near the bottom of the ocean...
You can hear all sorts of sounds on land—the sound of the wind blowing, the sound of tree branches swaying, the sound of people, and the sound of mice running around...
True Parents trained members and built Ocean Churches in 30 locations in the United States where there were Coast Guard stations...
In the United States, True Parents carried out the ocean providence in Gloucester, Massachusetts; and in Alaska and Hawaii...
True Father has been interested in the marine industry since the earliest days of the church..
During the 11th International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (ICUS), which was held in November 1981, True Parents proposed a movement to equalize technology globally...
In January 1985, True Parents established Seil Travel, a travel agency that handles both domestic and foreign travel...
After coming to the South, True Father stayed in a mud hut in Beomil-dong, Busan. Living the life of a refugee, Kim Won-pil drew portraits of United States Army personnel to make money, which was used to help members in need...
The ultimate goal of religion is to create one family under God, where everyone will live free from discrimination...
Thus far in the fallen world, Satan's possessions and God's possessions have been mixed together...
Everything the Unification Church is doing—praying and making offerings to God is for the sake of saving the nation and the world...
True Parents recognize that God's providence of restoration requires a physical and economic foundation...
Both the father-son relationship and the front-back relationship can be woven together, with Parents at the center...
True Parents see soccer as significant for realizing world peace because it is a sport that excites the entire world...
During the seven years after World War II, the Christian cultural foundation for the new Adam to spread his influence throughout the world was lost, so I had to restore it through my own efforts...
During the 16 days from September 17 to October 2, 1988, the 24th Summer Olympic Games were held in Seoul and other major Korean cities...
Because the Little Angels now have become a famous performing arts company, they performed at the White House for the Nixon government...
We need to compile a new encyclopedia, mobilizing world-renowned scholars and experts from every field...
In the contemporary world, parents do not trust their children and children do not trust their parents...
On April 3, 1972, True Parents established the base from which they eventually would establish universities, when they opened the Unification Theological Seminary at the Central Training Center at Sutaek-ri, in Gyeonggi Province...
True Parents have poured passionate energy throughout their lives into the work of education...
On October 3, 1989, True Parents brought professors from the PWPA together and appointed them as writers of a multi-campus newspaper, The World University Times, published for professors and students...
True Father said, "The media should be the voice of truth and the conscience of society...
On February 1, 1989, True Parents founded the daily newspaper The Segye Times in Seoul...
In the midst of my legal battle with the American government, I approved the funds necessary to launch The Washington Times. I also created Insight and The World & I magazines...
On December 31, 1976, True Parents raised the banner of their first newspaper in the United States when they established the daily newspaper, The News World...
The media organization that I have established has become so successful that media in the communist world consider it a threat and a problem...
True Parents have often spoken about the importance of the media in realizing a world based on the culture of heart...
If all Asian scholars rally and work together under the PWPA, they can create a new encyclopedia, or any other type of learning that can represent Asia...
True Parents established the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) with world-renowned scholars in order to support research and activities for building a peaceful world...
True Parents believe in the necessity of establishing God-centered absolute values to solve problems in the world as well as to meet the challenge of developing unity among religion, science, and ideology...
True Parents founded and hosted the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (ICUS) which pursued the realization of world peace based on absolute values.
After a long period of prayer and meditation, True Parents discovered the Unification Principle, which is the absolute truth of God...
According to True Father, a world based on the culture of heart entails the unification of thought and value perspectives...
The world of God's ideal is a community based on the culture of heart where God and all people live in harmony.
During their speaking tour to four cities in the United States from June 25-28, 2005, ...
Island nations situated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean face the world's most complicated situation.
Asian civilization is a masculine civilization and Western civilization is a feminine one.
True Parents proclaimed that the era of the Pacific Rim civilization will arrive, focusing on the Korean Peninsula...
I have visited many nations before coming to Kenya, and I have observed that True Parents' teachings produce miracles...
From August 31 until October 14, 2006, the world speaking tour commemorating the founding of the Universal Peace Federation covered 12 cities in each of 40 nations, a total of 480 cities.
The peace kingdom corps and peace kingdom police are similar to the white blood cells and the red blood cells that protect our bodies...
The first ambassadors for peace were appointed as flag bearers for the movement for world peace during the Assemblies for the Settlement of God's Fatherland that took place in 12 major cities of Korea from July 3 to 12, 2001.
On August 18, 2000, True Father spoke at the UN headquarters in New York City during an assembly of the International and Interreligious Federation for World Peace (IIFWP)...
The first conference of the Summit Council for World Peace (SCWP) took place May 31-June 4, 1987, with 20 former heads of state, at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul...
On September 23, 2004, True Parents founded the Mongolian Peoples' Federation for World Peace (MPFWP) in Seoul.
On April 13, 2008, True Parents selected some national messiahs to serve as anointed representatives (boonbongwangs).
National messiahs are in the position where they will have to invest on behalf of God...
What we need to do is to have the Federation for World Peace, the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace, the Women's Federation for World Peace, and the Youth Federation for World Peace all become affiliated with the UN...
True Parents recognized that world peace is impossible to realize through the present UN, where nations operate to pursue self-interest.
The Interreligious and International Peace Council True Parents proposed establishing a religious council led by spiritual leaders at the UN for the realization of world peace...
On April 11, 1990, during the conference in Moscow, True Parents held a historic meeting with President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Kremlin...
During his incarceration at the correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, True Father gave the directive to declare the end of communism.
With former heads of state at the center, CAUSA (Confederation of Associations for Unification of the Societies of the Americas) was founded in October 1980...
The activities of leftwing student political activists and the students of the pro-Pyongyang Federation of Korean Residents in Japan endangered Japan by promoting communism...
In order to block the spread of communism, True Parents promoted the growth of Victory Over Communism (VOC) activities worldwide...
With participants from 163 nations, the inaugural assembly of the Youth Federation for World Peace was held in Washington, D.C., on July 26, 1994.
Mother conducted a speaking tour of 40 Korean university campuses to inspire college students...
I built the automobile factory in North Korea with Kim Il-sung's personal permission...
I went to visit Kim Il-sung. Now, just imagine how many times he must have cursed me...
After receiving an official invitation from the North Korean government, True Parents arrived in North Korea on November 30, 1991...
The democratic world and the communist world will unite once North and South Korea are unified...
When you give an anti-communism lecture while representing God, on behalf of His people, you are not doing it for just those few people in front of you...
True Parents sent out more than 700 members to 413 areas throughout Korea for 40 days, starting on July 20, 1960, to develop the education of the citizenry on an extensive scale...
True Parents have offered their entire lives to end the kingdom of hell on earth and in heaven, which arose due to the Fall of our first ancestors, and to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven...
I have lived a righteous life in the service of God's Will, while keeping myself whole under the shade of His protection...
Ever since the Fall, the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world have been Satan's kingdom...
At dawn on February 1, 1985, True Father telephoned True Mother at East Garden from the prison at Danbury, and through her, he proclaimed the Day of Opening the Gate to Heaven...
Christianity is losing ground in America and can do very little to combat the ideologies of humanism, materialism and communism...
After my release from the prison in Danbury, I heard that one of the supervisors said, "I never knew that one person could make such a big difference." ...
If the Christian spirits in the spirit world are going to come down to help Jesus on earth, what must they do?...
Chambumo Gyeong Book 7 Ep. 1 : In 1982, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York completed the selection of a 12-member jury for True Fathers trial on charges of tax evasion...
When True Parents began their activities in America, including the Washington Monument Rally, a backlash arose that developed into organized opposition...
The expulsion of students and dismissal of professors from Ehwa Womans University and Yonsei University caused True Father's suffering to continue...
From March to July 1955, Ehwa Womans University and Yonsei University harassed the students and professors who attended the Unification Church to the point where they had to choose between their school and the Unification Church...
With the founding of HSA-UWC in 1954, the mainstream of God's providence in Korea was transferred from older Christians, the first generation, to younger Christians, the second generation...
True Father arrived in Pyongyang ten days after he was liberated from Hungnam Prison...
We were hungry from right after breakfast until noon. You cannot imagine how hungry we were...
In prison, there was nothing to do after eating dinner except to kill time sitting on the floor...
True Parents’ Course of Suffering and Victory
Chapter 1: Suffering and Victory during the Japanese Occupation and in Communist North Korea
I need to create a strong movement, a proactive organization that can lead the world...
You have upheld True Parents' will in different areas and you have suffered both internally and externally to this day...
On February 1, 1974, True Father had a significant meeting with United States President Richard Nixon at the White House...
True Parents visited Japan during their first world tour in 1965, their second world tour in 1969, and their third world tour in 1972, as well as on numerous other occasions, giving encouragement to the members...
I supported President Nixon so that America could end the Vietnam War quickly and with victory...
On October 4, 1976, True Parents held a celebration at the Belvedere International Training Center in New York to commemorate the victory of the Washington Monument Rally, and declared that day the Day of Victory of Heaven (Cheon Seung Il)...
True Parents held three large rallies—at Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium in New York, and at the Washington Monument in the nation's capital...
The Washington Monument Rally to commemorate America's bicentennial was held successfully on September 18, 1976...
I have been working all along to move the Japanese government, and also to create an atmosphere in which to form a new realm of civilization for the government and people of the United States...
We need to absorb the Christian cultural realm on the world level and bring it to its final conclusion in Korea...
The Madison Square Garden rally has historic significance from the providential viewpoint...
The 21-city speaking tour across the United States began with a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on September 7, 1973...
During their third world tour, True Parents gave a series of public speeches in major cities across the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany....
The International One World Crusade, an international witnessing task force, is a peace corps of the heavenly kingdom that carries out activities transcending nationality and ethnicity for the mission of world redemption...
I am carrying out this providence centered on the United States because the United States, which is the spiritual foundation of the world and the center of world Christianity, is being eaten away...
The purpose of the third world tour was for True Parents to begin leading world mission activities from the United States...
To Omma: I have created many new memories during this time, and it is hard to believe that 70 days have passed already...
Dear Hyo-jin's Omma: How hard you must be working to fulfill your mission for the Will despite your heavy responsibilities for the children and your busy life! I know you will be enduring until the end and working hard for the sake of the future...
During his first world tour, True Father sent handwritten letters of encouragement to True Mother, True Children, Church President Hyo-won Eu and other members...
My initial, front line strategy was to connect the world together focusing on three Asian nations: Korea, Japan, and the Republic of China...
While following a rigorous schedule during the second world tour, True Parents encouraged missionaries and members in each country and gave new directions and guidance...
No matter how good they say life in America is, from the viewpoint of God's original heart, America is not promoting true happiness and is not becoming a symbol of honor and glory...
Every time I go to a place where our church is, I offer a prayer that in the future we must restore a foundation for Abel-type existence...
True Father left Korea January 28, 1965, and started on the path of his historic First World Tour...
The motto for 2011 is “Mansei for Cheon Il Guk, settled through harmony between children and the Parents who have heaven’s heart, whose harmony brings final and ultimate oneness to heaven and earth.” ...
The 2008 motto is “Mansei for Cheon Il Guk—Universal Peace Federation in the jubilee year joining 2007 and 2008.” ...
The motto for 2005 is, “Let us substantiate the ideal of the internal and external Cheon Il Guk.” ...
With the start of the 21st century, True Parents announced a motto for each year which outlined the goal of fulfilling the Cheon Il Guk ideal by achieving the ideal of God and human beings united in love and completing the victories to liberate the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind...
16 The 1997 motto is “Let us proudly testify to True Parents and love True Parents by accomplishing the 3.6 Million Couples Blessing.” ...
Until now, however much we shouted for the liberation of our fatherland, we have not known where that country is, but now we know...
In order to develop full-scale home church activity, True Parents announced home church-related mottos for four consecutive years, from 1980 to 1983, at the World Mission Center in New York...
11 In 1975 we will proceed under the banner “The realization of the kingdom of heaven.” ...
Beginning in 1960, True Parents began to announce yearly mottoes that set the direction and goals of the year for all members of the Unification Church...
True Parents proclaimed the historic God’s Day at the original Cheongpa-dong headquarters church in Seoul on January 1, 1968...
In 1963, at the original Cheongpa-dong headquarters church, True Parents fixed the 6th day of the 6th lunar month (July 26) as the date of the Ceremony of Offering in Gratitude...
On the 1st day of the 10th lunar month in 1960 (November 19), True Parents personally presided over a Thanksgiving Day service at the original Cheongpa-dong headquarters church in Seoul, and in the following year they proclaimed this day to be Children’s Day...
The engagement ceremony of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, on the 1st day of the 3rd lunar month in 1960 (March 27) at the original Cheongpa-dong headquarters church in Seoul, marked the day on which True Parents publicly appeared on earth..
True Parents proclaimed April 17, 1960, the day after the Blessing of 3 couples, as the Day of the Resurrection of Heart, and April 17, 1961 as the Day of the Resurrection of Substance...
Through the Professors World Peace Academy, we will make a global professors’ association for the research of principles...
Twenty-eight ministers from the Christian churches participated in the first seminar of the Principle for religious leaders hosted by the Unification Church headquarters from November 26 to 28, 1970...
After the 1970s, True Parents carried out extensive education in Unification Principle, Unification Thought and Victory Over Communism for leaders of society, including Christian leaders, college professors and government officials...
In the 1970s, we need to carry out our work in society, and this should not be restricted to a small number of people...
An individual needs to seek the path of life for the sake of the country and the world...
During the 40-day summer witnessing period, everyone, or at least as many people as possible, should be mobilized...
If we call the democratic world the Abel world, the world of God, then the communist world would be the world of Satan, Cain’s world...
The first seven-year course is the period in which we need to carry out the work of connecting a perfected man to a perfected woman, that is, Mother...
We need to march forward toward the day when the sound of laughter rings and resonates throughout the Korean Peninsula and all the world, testifying that we have realized the kingdom of heaven...
We know that it was God’s Will to conclude the sinful history of 6,000 years through the first seven-year course...
The period starting with the Holy Wedding of True Parents in 1960 and going through 1967 was the first seven-year course, the purpose of which was to create the foundation for the restoration of the Korean people...
On March 10, 1997, True Parents held the groundbreaking ceremony for the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center, which was to be built on an international scale at the site of...
I named the lake in front of Cheongpyeong training center Cheonshim Lake (天心湖, Heaven’s Heart Lake)...
Beginning in the 1960s, True Parents offered countless conditions focusing on the whole region of Cheongpyeong Lake in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province...
In all kinds of meetings, True Parents lightened the atmosphere by singing or calling one or more members to sing...
The writing of Explanation of the Divine Principle, which was based on Original Text of the Divine Principle, was begun in May, 1955 by former church President Eu Hyo-won...
Passing through 5,000 years of history, the Korean people have walked a path of suffering...
The Seonghwa Christian Students Association was launched on December 31, 1954, as the first affiliate of HSA-UWC...
The nationwide structure of the church was first organized on October 14, 1960 and since then the structure has evolved in accordance with the church’s development...
The Holy Wedding of True Parents, held on April 11, 1960 (16th day of the 3rd lunar month), is the starting point of the new providential history...
The physical world became the stage where Satan could carry out his activities and the spiritual world became the stage where God could carry out His activities...
True Parents organized blessed families into trinities and asked them to love their trinity more than they love their own brothers and sisters...
True Parents instructed that blessed parents, spouses and children need to unite to inherit True Parents’ tradition and that before they think of and live for their own family, they need to think of and live for their tribe, people, nation and world...
The pure love movement leads young people toward true love and the understanding of the order of true love.,,
The true family movement comes as the fundamental providential movement for restoring this fallen world to the original world of creation centered on God...
After the Marriage Blessing Ceremony of 360,000 Couples on August 25, 1995, on numerous occasions True Parents held spiritual Blessing ceremonies for the liberation of the spirit world...
According to True Parents, while we are on earth we should liberate our ancestors in the spirit world...
Looking externally, it may appear to people as if the Unification Church is following the path of Christianity, but those people do not know the internal reality, that we have gone through a history of struggle...
The 360,000 Couples International Marriage Blessing Ceremony was held on August 25, 1995, at Seoul Olympic Stadium...
In regard to second-generation education, I have emphasized the importance of giving up all bad habits they have had until now...
When the Seoul Olympic Games were in full swing, on September 27, 1988, we True Parents conducted a Ceremony for Providential Unification and Transition...
The 777 Couples need to stand in the vanguard for three years. They have to fulfill their final mission...
I have granted amnesty and opened a path to the Blessing even to those who lived as they liked in their families...
During their Second World Tour in 1969, True Parents officiated at the marriage Blessing ceremony of 43 Couples from 10 nations...
The 72 Couples Marriage Blessing Ceremony was held on June 4, 1962, at the original Cheongpa-dong headquarters church in Seoul...
On April 16, 1960, the marriage Blessing ceremony of three spiritual children and their spouses—Kim Won-pil and Jeong Dal-ok, Eu Hyo-won and Sa Gil-ja, and Kim Young-hwi and Jeong Dae-hwa—was held at the original Cheongpa-dong headquarters church in Seoul...
If you do not like the matching partner I pick for you, you may limit your investment in the marriage as a consequence...
True Parents first gave the marriage Blessing on April 16, 1960, when they blessed three couples...
True Parents said that one should participate in the marriage Blessing ceremony only after working long and hard to become eligible...
Cross-cultural marriage Blessings began between Koreans and Japanese while their countries were still enemies...
In 1960, True Parents opened a new chapter in the history of human salvation through the marriage Blessing...
All people are fallen due to original sin, and it is True Parents’ fundamental mission to save them...
When the Unification Church attempted to register as a church in Korea, there was a big struggle in the government...
When True Father dispatched witnessing teams to all parts of Korea, he allowed them to take only two changes of clothes and only enough money for a one-way fare...
In the early days of the church, former church president Eu Hyo-won single-handedly undertook the task of giving Divine Principle lectures to the guests who were witnessed to...
If visitors complain or make negative remarks about the Cheongpa-dong Headquarters Church when they see it, finding it to have a different standard from what they had expected, the heart of longing they had for the church will vanish...
The fact that we established ourselves as the Unification Church was a risky venture...
The three-gate house in Bukhak-dong where the sign of the Holy Spirit Association was hung was a shabby house with eaves so low that people could reach them with their outstretched hands...
Upon True Father’s return to Seoul on September 17, 1953, he began looking for ways to carry out his work in that city in earnest...
After arriving in Busan in January 1951, True Father moved around for half a year, living here and there as a refugee...
On May 11, 1951, True Father began writing Wolli Wonbon, Original Text of the Divine Principle...
In August 1951, True Father built a small, mud-wall hut on the side of Mt. Sujeong on the outskirts of the village of Beomnaetgol...
Upon arriving at Heukseok-dong, Seoul, True Father found his way to the home of Kwak No-pil, a fellow believer with whom he had been close when they both attended the New Jesus Church in Myeongsudae...
From February 22, 1948, until October 14, 1950, True Father persevered and prevailed, first enduring severe torture at the Pyongyang Internal Affairs Bureau and Pyongyang Prison, and then overcoming cruel forced labor at the Hungnam Special Labor Camp...
True Father was supposed to meet a woman in the position of perfected Eve on the foundation of having received the blessing from Rev. Kim Baek-moon...
After the liberation of Korea, I wanted to make my providential start with Rev. Kim Baek-moon...
The democratic world centered on global Christianity is the realm of the Second Israel...
The foundation for the providence centered on the Lord at the Second Advent was established through the victory of God’s side in World War II centered on Christianity...
With the liberation of Korea on August 15, 1945 True Father began his public course for the providence of restoration...
True Mother walked the path to victory by overcoming all manner of difficulties, both before and after the Holy Wedding at which she became Heaven’s Bride...
According to True Father’s words, appropriate providential conditions had to be met for a woman representing the entire foundation for the Bride to be chosen to become the True Mother of humankind...
Rev. Kim Seong-do, the founder of the Holy Lord Church, gave these last words to her first son, Jeong Seok-cheon, “If I cannot fulfill the mission that God gave me, it will be fulfilled through someone else...
True Mother spent most of her childhood at the house of her maternal grandmother, Jo Won-mo, because her mother, Hong Soon-ae (Daemonim), was leading a life of faith devoted to receiving the Lord at the Second Advent...
During the time True Father was living in Heukseok-dong, Seoul, he stood against the self-righteous churches that were administered under the system of Japanese rule. He opposed their way of doctrine-based faith...
In the future, anyone who wants to know the history of the Unification Church will have to visit Heukseok-dong, this place where I lived as a young man...
Around the time True Father joined the Presbyterian Church, and while he was receiving a modern education, his thinking grew wider and deeper...
As a child, once I started crying for some reason, I did not stop even after an hour; I cried about it all day long...
True Father spent about 18 years of his life within about ten kilometers of his birthplace...
When we search for the root of the phrase “the Han people,” we find that it originates from han (韓)...
True Mother’s father, Han Seung-oon, was born January 20, 1909, and died on March 18, 1978...
My mother, Daemonim, told me that she had a mysterious dream right after she gave birth to me...
Many years ago, in order to try to eliminate me, Satan assailed the members of my family with all kinds of incomprehensible spiritual phenomena...
The founding ancestor of the Nampyeong Moon clan, Moon Da-seong was given the title Duke Museong...
The Korean Peninsula is a providential land. Having the role of a bridge between the civilizations of East and West, it is where preparations were made for the birth of the Lord at the Second Advent...
The country where God sent True Father as the Returning Lord suffered from natural disasters that caused famine throughout the land during the years just prior to his birth...
Ever since the Fall of the first human ancestors Adam and Eve, God wanted to complete the providence of salvation...
As a result of Adam and Eve’s Fall, we are destined to travel the path of restoration...
If you have absolute faith in the indemnity course that True Parents are walking and that you walk with them, when you go to the spirit world it will become a condition by which you can surmount the barriers of the past...
I have to represent 4,000 years of history; that is why I have not been able to sleep comfortably for the past 40 years...
After the Holy Wedding and the subsequent seven-year course, True Parents formed the True Family and established the four-position foundation on the family level...
After the Holy Wedding 14 True Children were born in True Parents’ family, starting with the first daughter, Ye-jin nim, and the first son, Hyo-jin nim...
After True Father traveled the path of blood, sweat and tears to indemnify Jesus’ course, he was engaged to True Mother...
The fact that at present you cannot see God’s face makes it seem as if you are still living in the womb...
On the day when two human beings, a filial son of God and a filial daughter of God, can stand before God as the Bridegroom and Bride for the first time since the creation of heaven and earth, God will say to them, “You have worked so hard to come here seeking heaven’s heart and the heart of the Heavenly Parent, even amid all the adversity on earth!”
The Marriage Supper of the Lamb prophesied in Chapter 19 of the Book of Revelation was realized through the Holy Wedding of the True Parents...
The true vertical parent is God, and the true horizontal parents are the True Parents...
Adam and Eve were created as God’s substantial object partners—Adam as the representative of God’s masculinity and Eve as the representative of God’s femininity...
I devoted my entire life to abolishing hell and the middle realms in the spirit world and to opening the gates to the kingdom of heaven...
The Holy Spirit that Christianity speaks of actually refers to the mother spirit, the Second Eve...
The True Parents about whom the Unification Church speaks are human beings, a man and a woman...
Human beings start from a family. A family begins with a man and a woman becoming husband and wife...
The original Adam was one individual, yet he was meant to be the center of the family, the tribe, the nation and the world...
God created human beings to experience joy for eternity. Adam and Eve, the first ancestors of humankind, were created to be the object partners of God’s absolute true love...
Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors, should have obeyed God’s commandment, “Do not eat the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil,” and safely passed through the growing period...
Beyond True Families: Gateway to Heaven, I have given you middle school textbooks, high school textbooks, university textbooks, graduate school textbooks, and textbooks to guide you in fulfilling your responsibilities for the nation...
You must know that we have left the Era before the Coming of Heaven and have entered the Era after the Coming of Heaven...
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask that you closely analyze the current state of affairs in the world..
Beloved families that have recently received the new lineage of the absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal God through the Blessing, citizens of God’s kingdom, Cheon Il Guk:..
These victories that I attained through blood, sweat and tears, and on the basis of the unity of the True Parents and all humankind, laid the foundation for a series of historic proclamations...
Peace-loving leaders, among the 6.5 billion people on earth today, almost 5 billion of our neighbors, relatives, and brothers and sisters belong to the Pacific Rim region...
However, we know quite well that humanity has been unable to free itself from Satan’s deception, and instead has walked a path of restoration through indemnity for the past two thousand years...
Distinguished guests from one hundred and ninety nations, who have come to celebrate this significant and providential day: ...
Ladies and gentlemen, true love brings about the order, peace and happiness that support the common good...
Ladies and gentlemen, each person has a mind and body, and a spirit self that is more elevated than the mind...
Leaders from all around the world who are working hard for the development of the Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace, and of the Universal Peace Federation, which was established under Heaven’s providential call, and which is now living up to its position as the Abel UN: ...
Esteemed leaders of all nations in the world, honored guests of Heaven who have gathered from every corner of the earth to celebrate this treasured historic and providential day, and people of the spirit world and physical world who are being reborn as citizens of Cheon Il Guk...
Respected Governor Hak Gyu Sohn, Honorable Minister Byeong Jik Choo of the Ministry of Construction and Transportation, leaders of the Korean helicopter industry, residents of Gimpo, and distinguished guests from abroad, including Sikorsky executives who have come to congratulate us on this joyous day: ...
Do you think that God, omniscient and omnipotent, seated on a glorious throne, would say to His children, “Come up here; I’m not going to leave this seat?” ...
Distinguished current and former heads of state, respected members of the clergy, leaders from America and around the world, ladies and gentlemen: ...
Then what is the perfection of the realm of the heart of parents, and how can it be achieved? ...
Therefore, the core of the true family principle lies in the perfection of four great realms of heart and three great kingships...
Nonetheless, in order to attain this state of perfection, as descendants of the Fall, we first need to shed our fallen nature. How can we do this? ...
Thus, the starting point of the kingdom of heaven lies not in the individual or in the nation, but in the family...
Respected leaders representing the religious, political, journalistic and academic spheres of America and the world, ladies and gentlemen: ...
Distinguished leaders from around the world, respected dignitaries from Korea and other countries, ladies and gentlemen: ...
You need to know that it remains your destiny to gain respect and praise from the highest beings of the heavenly kingdom, to register yourselves in Cheon Il Guk, which is the new global nation, and to enter that nation as new citizens...
Respected guests, do you know the main point of the speech I delivered at the ceremony marking the founding of the Family Party? ...
Respected present and former heads of state, world leaders dedicated to establishing the realm of God’s ideal, leaders of youth and university students, ladies and gentlemen: ...
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters of my beloved homeland, and the seventy million people around the world who are watching this historic rally: ..
This is why the mind can draw close to God through Jesus, though the body continues to struggle with evil...
Leaders of the Women’s Federation for World Peace, it must have been difficult for you to hold a succession of rallies, and you probably complained about being given only ten days’ notice that this rally was going to be held...
As President Han mentioned in her address, Christianity teaches that the first human beings ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil...
Although human beings have been reduced to the position of orphans who have lost their parents through the Fall, the fundamental relationship endowed by Heaven remains intact: ...
Then how did human beings, created as the children of the all-knowing and almighty God, come to fall into such a state of ignorance? ...
We need to recover the original positions of parents and children by restoring our relationship of heart with God, which was lost through the Fall...
Have you ever prayed for all the people of the world, with such a serious heart that it was almost as if your own children were dying? ...
Ladies and gentlemen, we have come to a time of great urgency in God’s providence, when we must bring His work for human salvation to a successful conclusion...
Where there is an absolute subject partner, an absolute object partner will come into being...
I hope you will accept the words I am speaking from my deepest heart, citing lessons from the history of Judaism and Christianity...
When you look at chapters 9, 11, and 60 in the book of Isaiah, you find testimony that the Savior will appear majestically as the Lord of glory...
In 1971, I left my family and homeland to come to America, because I heard the voice of God sharing His concern about the current state of affairs here...
I was enlightened regarding the Will of Heaven, and rather than letting this remain only in my heart, I have worked to bring God’s vision to reality...
Even at this moment, more and more conflicts are breaking out across the world over disputed borders....
We know that peninsular nations, extending into the ocean, have given rise to important civilizations in history...
Respected chairman, distinguished guests from around the world, representatives of all walks of life in Korea, ladies and gentlemen: ...
For my part, I have traveled the world to reveal God’s ideals and His providence in order to actualize the vision of world peace on the basis of God’s original plan...
Honorable guests from around the world, ladies and gentlemen who are gathered here to attend this global convention of the Federation of Island Nations for World Peace: ...
Ladies and gentlemen, today’s creation of the Federation for World Peace must be different from that of the League of Nations and the United Nations...
At the dawn of human history, when God began to realize His world, something tragic happened...
Respected present and former heads of state, international leaders from all walks of life, esteemed scholars and leaders of religion: ...
Honorable chairman, former presidents, former prime ministers, members of royalty and nobility, distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen: ...
There are critics who say, “Why is Rev. Moon so involved in America’s bicentennial? ...
If the Puritans, who had come forth dreaming of an ideal nation to fulfill the Will of God, had joined forces with the Anglicans, England could have united under the Will of God with the power to move the world...
Ever since I was sixteen years old, I have constantly encountered the presence of God...
From this perspective, it is vital to understand how to live in accordance with God’s Will, in the contexts both of daily personal life and of historical time...
Every aspect of your lifestyle—eating and sleeping, coming and going—has to be for the establishment of God’s homeland...
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, what is the path we need to take at this time? ...
If and when the nation that the Unification Church envisions is established, we will have to take down the Unification Church sign board...
Distinguished international guests, my fellow citizens gathered here for the sake of the reunification of North and South, ladies and gentlemen: ...
In the world of mechanics, the energy produced by a system is less than the energy put into it...
Ladies and gentlemen, at this moment, North and South are going in different directions...
Distinguished guests whose fervent desire is for North-South re-unification, ladies and gentlemen...
Distinguished presidents and prime ministers, former heads of state, government leaders, and eminent leaders from all walks of life gathered here today in Seoul, Korea...
Mrs. Moon and I have just returned from visiting North Korea at the official invitation of the government of North Korea...
Ladies and gentlemen, you cannot understand these things unless you know the way of Heaven...
I am truly delighted for this opportunity to speak to you economic leaders of Korea who have come here this evening at my invitation...
If I were to give a title to today’s speech, it would be “True Love and the World of Unity.” ...
Mr. Chairman, distinguished former heads of state, prime ministers, honorable legislators and ambassadors, ladies and gentlemen...
I declare with complete confidence that the next twelve years will be a decisive period...
My fellow citizens, we are gathered here today to mark the founding of the Citizens Federation for the Unification of North and South Korea...
Why in working His providence did God put the Korean nation through the way of the cross? ...
My fellow citizens, distinguished guests, fellow colleagues working to defeat communism here at home and abroad, ladies and gentlemen...
The mission that God has given me is not something that I may relinquish as I wish or abandon when things do not work out...
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for assembling here from all parts of the world, behind your various situations in order to welcome and encourage me on my return home...
Since North Korea represents the entire communist world, you have to be mindful of the fact that other communist nations, beginning with the Soviet Union, stand behind North Korea...
As the Unification movement expands globally, communism has become its greatest obstacle...
Patriots, Victory over Communism members, guests from home and abroad who have filled the stadium...
Yet since 1945, after the victory of the Second World War, America has been showing ominous signs that it is falling away from God’s Will...
Then what accomplishment has God been seeking during the last two thousand years of history, and what is the key for beginning the new history...
Respected leaders from every field of endeavor, I am sincerely grateful to have received your invitation to this meaningful meeting, and I am much honored to address you as leaders who are the backbone of our nation’s development...
God loves Korea so much; He intends to establish a global civilization of unity starting in this country...
Today the worldwide membership of the Unification Church from sixty countries has taken a stand and united in the name of God with all people of the world, to carry out His Will in this meaningful place...
Honorable and beloved brethren, and world members of the Unification Church from sixty countries...
Respected leaders from around the world, distinguished guests from home and abroad, ladies and gentlemen...
Distinguished guests from Korea and abroad, and athletes participating in this interreligious sports tournament...
Distinguished guests from around the world, ambassadors for peace, representatives from non-governmental organizations, leaders of the Mongolian People’s Federation for World Peace, beloved blessed families, ladies and gentlemen...
Unfortunately, due to the Fall, the first ancestors, Adam and Eve, did not establish the true family that had been God’s aim for the creation...
Distinguished guests from 120 nations, leaders of religious, academic, political and civil society, youth participants from the Interreligious Peace Sports Festival, participants of the international marriage Blessing ceremony, students and youth leaders, ladies and gentlemen...
Respected present and former heads of state, eminent religious leaders, leaders in various fields from countries around the world, young people representing each major religion, ladies and gentlemen...
Guests from home and abroad, professors, students, and members of the university staff...
Respected world leaders and delegates to the Eighth World Culture and Sports Festival and the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace Assembly 2002...
Honorable former and present heads of state, distinguished religious leaders and representatives of world leaders...
Distinguished chairperson, present and former heads of state and government from around the world, world leaders from diverse fields, ladies and gentlemen...
Guests from home and abroad, and members of the Youth Federation for World Peace from all parts of the world, thank you for coming to Korea, the homeland of heart and the fatherland of faith, and for traveling long distances to attend this festival...
Most esteemed Mayor Marion Barry and Mrs. Barry, distinguished guests from home and abroad, members of the World Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles participating in the Sports Festival, ladies and gentlemen...
Distinguished guests from home and abroad, young people and students from all parts of the world who have come to Korea, the homeland of the heart, to attend this competition...
Ladies and gentlemen, God wants a religion that stands in the parent position to govern this age...
On this day, the fortieth anniversary of the founding of our church, I stand at this podium with profound emotion...
Our families are being destroyed by the illicit relationships and decadent lifestyles that have accompanied the disappearance of sexual morality...
Distinguished chairpersons of the first World Culture and Sports Festival, guests and participants from Korea and around the world...
Respected president, eminent guests, and head and leaders of each clan representing the Korean people...
Originally, God’s ideal of creation sprang from sacrificial true love that is capable of giving and forgetting and then giving and forgetting again...
Esteemed President of the Youth Federation for World Peace, honored Co-Chairman Richard Rubenstein, guests from all parts of the world, and ladies and gentlemen...
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, Youth Federation for World Peace (YFWP) members and representatives from each nation who have filled our stadium!...
Now the Unification movement, centered on YFWP, is taking root in more than one hundred sixty nations around the world...
My dear members of the Youth Federation for World Peace (YFWP), representatives from nations across the world, and guests from home and abroad...
Distinguished guests, leaders of the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP), and representatives from every nation...
Our WFWP Women’s Conference for Peace in the Middle East, which has been held every year since 1997, has attracted widespread interest and participation from woman leaders of the Middle East nations...
I would like to extend my warmest welcome to the woman leaders, peace leaders and members of the Women’s Federation of World Peace (WFWP) from one hundred ninety-four nations, who have come to the Cheongshim Peace World Center in Korea to take part in the historic Abel Women’s UN Inauguration Assembly...
Ladies and gentlemen! True Parents have already prepared the last words for all people...
Rev. Moon established me as the representative of Eve, and revealed the origin of the human Fall as well as the meaning of related parables in the Bible and patterns of history....
Distinguished guests from Japan and abroad and Japanese members of the Women’s Federation for World Peace...
We are now living in the historic time of a great cosmic revolution that will change history, unite the spiritual and physical worlds, and create the ideal kingdom of heaven that God has longed for since the beginning of time...
My beloved Women’s Federation for World Peace members and most honorable women leaders for peace...
Beloved leaders of women everywhere, what are the central directions and activities of the women’s peace movement going to be for the coming ten years?...
Distinguished guests, leaders of women’s organizations, and members of the Women’s Federation for World Peace...
Women leaders from China and from various associations here in Korea, and leaders of the Women’s Federation for World Peace...
Ladies and gentlemen, if a family is not centered on God’s ideal of love, there will be conflict among the members of that family...
To bring Godism into reality, Rev. Moon has made efforts in a wide variety of fields...
Respected guests, members of the Women’s Federation for Peace in Asia, ladies and gentlemen...
Leaders of the Women’s Federation for World Peace who have come to Korea from the nations of the world, and of women’s associations in Korea...
To save someone suffering from an illness, you need to discover the cause of that illness...
The unification of South and North Korea, which is our long cherished wish, is possible only through the spirit of true love, of loving even our enemies and living and making sacrifices for their sake...
When body and mind are united based on true love, you become the companion of God’s own love—His eternal object partner...
Most respected guests from Korea and abroad, and members of the Women’s Federation for World Peace...
In order for humankind to make a total break from the false love, false life and false lineage that derive from Satan as their false parent, it is necessary that we be grafted onto the true olive tree...
Distinguished guests, representatives of the Women’s Federation for World Peace from seventy countries, women leaders and members of the Women’s Federation for Peace in Asia...
Distinguished guests, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, representatives of the Women’s Federation for World Peace from seventy countries, women leaders and members of the Women’s Federation for Peace in Asia...
If the first created man and woman had fulfilled love in this way, they would have become true parents and the starting point for the realization of God’s love...
Distinguished president of the rally, members of the Women’s Federation for Peace in Asia, and my fellow women leaders who have gathered here from all parts of Japan...
Most respected present and former heads of state, leaders in the field of media, ladies and gentlemen...
Where do you think Rev. Moon gets this ability to predict historic changes in the world situation?...
Modern developments in transportation and communication have allowed people to overcome the obstacles preventing human interaction...
Honorable chairman, Dr. Paul Johnson, distinguished speakers, conference participants, ladies and gentlemen...
The societies of the free world today are exhibiting a phenomenon that is every bit as evil as communism: the spread of materialistic humanism and the extreme individualism and selfishness that are the offshoots of this philosophy...
Respected Chairman MacArthur, honored guests, distinguished ladies and gentlemen of the media...
It was while I was in Danbury prison that I helped to found the American Freedom Coalition, due to my anxiety regarding the decline of the United States...
It is a great honor and pleasure to convene with you this historic eleventh World Media Conference in the city of Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union...
Respected scholars from 120 nations across the world, distinguished guests from home and abroad, and ladies and gentlemen...
Honorable chairman, vice chairmen, committee chairmen, distinguished scholars, ladies and gentlemen...
Honorable chairman, committee chairs, distinguished professors, ladies and gentlemen...
Honorable chairman, committee chairmen, distinguished professors, ladies and gentlemen...
Long before the first ICUS, I became convinced that scientists should play a decisive role in building a good and hopeful future society...
I will now explain why I invited all of you to Korea to observe the National Rallies for Victory over Communism and to attend the first international congress of PWPA...
Honorable chairman of this international congress, distinguished PWPA presidents from seventy-two countries and respected members of PWPA-Korea...
Likewise, from the beginning, Rev. Moon and the Unification movement have endured tremendous misunderstanding, accusation, persecution and tribulation, not only in the area of religion but also in politics, economics, culture, science, technology, media and education.
Honorable chairmen, committee chairpersons, distinguished scholars, ladies and gentlemen...
Of these five causes, the last one, the lack of adequate ontology, is the most significant...
To bring unity between the people of the upper and lower classes, we must encourage those of the upper class to embrace those of the lower class and then to be elevated together...
Honorable chairman, committee chairs, distinguished professors, ladies and gentlemen...
The formation of this vast universe is the common purpose shared by all subject-object pairs...
Allow me to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you on the very successful Second International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, which has convened eminent scientists of our contemporary age...
People go through the stages of formation, growth and completion during the course of their lives...
Since the society, nation and world in which we live are far from ideal, all manner of suffering occurs and good and evil are at cross-purposes...
Your living body cannot be perfected unless your entire existence becomes a foothold for absorbing nutrients...
We are born in love, are raised in the love of our parents, and mature as we broaden our love horizontally...
If we ask the question, “Which came first, life or love?” the answer can be argued either way...
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, our bondage to the lineage of Satan has caused so much suffering throughout history...
Ladies and gentlemen, each person has a mind and body, and a spirit self that is more elevated than the mind...
The second stage of absolute sexual morality applies to the relationship between husband and wife...
Beloved blessed families of the world, respected ambassadors for peace, leaders from all walks of life, and distinguished guests from home and abroad...
Ladies and gentlemen, the reason we miss the family we have left behind is because at home there is love for one another...
Distinguished world leaders, ambassadors for peace and blessed family members who have come from all parts of the world in hopes of bringing about the realization of world peace, and building the ideal hometown in heaven and on earth...
God’s love is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, and so too are the attributes of His Will...
Today in the United States and in the entire world the deviation and degradation of young people is threatening healthy societies...
Once true love is perfected in the human world, what possible political, economic, cultural or environmental problems could persist? ...
Honorable scholars, respected faith leaders and world leaders in various fields, I warmly welcome you to this special convocation entitled, “True Family and World Peace.” ...
The strategy of Satan, who originated sin, is always to destroy the ideal of the true family and to prevent it from taking root and becoming substantialized...
I welcome you and extend my heartfelt thanks for your participation in this Fourth World Peace Conference of the Federation for World Peace to address the theme “A World Vision for the Twenty-first Century”...
Once the Son of God was born on earth, he needed a wall of protection in order to grow up safely within the satanic world and fulfill the Will of God...
From the overall perspective of the providence of restoration, the foundation of cooperation between mother and son is very important...
Respected religious leaders and distinguished scholars representing the world’s religions...
Thus, the core concept of the universe is the concept of the family. Heaven represents parents and earth represents children...
Respected and honored guests from at home and abroad; most especially, distinguished ladies and gentlemen whose presence is brightening this venue!...
Honored guests, distinguished representatives and members of the Women’s Federation for World Peace, and women leaders from diverse fields...
The Messiah will become a True Parent, and centered on that lost true love, will work to establish a completed family on earth on the foundation of true life and true lineage...
Now, if we compare the human conscience with God’s conscience, which would be larger? ...
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you this evening...
Ladies and gentlemen, because human beings fell, our life course is not a smooth path...
When a man and woman become one centering on true love, they form an ideal couple and build an ideal family...
When you go to the spirit world, you will find that it is made up of several very large realms...
Respected heads of different religious denominations from around the world, distinguished guests from home and abroad, and religious scholars and leaders...
Respected major leaders of the different religious traditions, leaders in faith and scholars of religion...
Respected and eminent religious leaders from countries around the world, distinguished representatives of worldwide religious organizations, scholars of religion, and all participants who are present here...
I would like to extend a heartfelt welcome to all of you at this Second Assembly of the World’s Religions, where we will discuss the transmission of our religious heritage to our youth and society...
If there are believers in Jesus among you, would you wish to stand in a position quite close to him, like that of his sons and daughters, or would you wish to stand in the position of a next-door neighbor...
I am grateful for this opportunity to meet all of you prominent figures of every religious denomination...
Respected representatives of the world’s religions, when we take an honest look at reality today, we come to see that it is time not only for belief but for action as well...
Honorable chairman, scholars and leaders from religions around the world, ladies and gentlemen...
So precious was this true love that to violate such love was the ultimate crime, a crime of universal magnitude...
Honorable chairman, members of the God and Freedom Committee, distinguished clergy from all parts of the country, ladies and gentlemen...
Dear Pastors, I send my sincere greetings to you and your congregations from Danbury...
Honorable chairperson, distinguished scholars, and clergy, participants in the Youth Seminar on World Religions, ladies and gentlemen...
When you understand the scope of my work, can you really believe I came to America to defraud the government of $25,000...
When we look at human beings, we can see they are made according to a dual structure...
The Jewish people could seize Jesus by virtue of their understanding of the Old Testament, yet what about John the Baptist...
Then the question at hand concerns how the Lord is going to come, and we need to clearly know the answer...
It is an undeniable fact that the purpose of beings, created by the absolute God, is one with God’s purpose...
In the Bible, we read in Genesis 1:27, “So God created humankind in His image; male and female He created them." ...
Since the Fall of humankind, conflict between good and evil has been unending, replicating itself from the level of the individual to the whole of creation...
The eighth verse reads, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, having entered the Completed Testament Age, to achieve the ideal of God and human beings united in love through absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, and to perfect the realm of liberation and complete freedom in the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, by centering on true love.” ...
The fourth verse of the Family Pledge is, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to build the universal family encompassing heaven and earth, which is God’s ideal of creation, and perfect the world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness, by centering on true love.” ...
The first verse of the Family Pledge is “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to seek our original homeland and build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the original ideal of creation, by centering on true love." ...
Respected leaders of the Mongolian Peoples Federation for World Peace who have come from around the world, distinguished guests from Korea and abroad, beloved leaders and blessed Unificationist families...
Beloved blessed families, today, in the fifth year of Cheon Il Guk, we have entered a significant providential time...
As the Lord of true love, God created human beings as His children based on the standard of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience...
Respected guests from home and abroad, ladies and gentlemen: This is the time of a great historical transition...
Respected leaders from countries around the world representing all religions and nations, let us first gather our hearts together...
Ladies and gentlemen, have you spent even one day before God our Father, shedding tears of sincere sympathy and repentance...
Distinguished guests, once we come to know God with certainty and know the spirit world not just in concept but also in reality, our life can move forward as smoothly as a car on an expressway...
Respected current and former heads of state, distinguished guests from around the world, leaders from all fields of Korean society...
In the past century, many people placed their hopes on utopian movements under the banners of communism and equality...
Respected guests, distinguished leaders from 191 nations, ladies and gentlemen, and beloved members...
Respected current and former heads of state, distinguished world leaders, ladies and gentlemen...
Respected former heads of state, religious, political and academic leaders who have gathered from around the world, honored guests from the diplomatic community, and esteemed leaders of Korea...
It was because Christianity, which was the central religion of God’s providence, did not accept my teaching of Heaven’s way that I had to create the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity...
The ultimate purpose of religion is to recover the original Parent and the original homeland...
Respected current and former heads of state, leaders from the religious, political and academic worlds, representatives of one hundred and eighty-nine countries, family representatives, ladies and gentlemen...
If we consider the relationship between a man and a woman, we see that neither man nor woman was born for their own sake...
Under this principle, I blessed many millions of young couples from all continents in the international Holy Blessing ceremonies, as a means to save all humankind and establish one world under the one God...
During the course of God’s providence of restoration, Jesus was the only one born with true life directly connected to God’s true lineage...
Respected members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, members of the diplomatic corps, recipients of the American Century Award, whose contributions help make this country the most blessed by God, ladies and gentlemen...
Satan knew that the Lord of the Second Advent would come in the Last Days with the strategy to save all people, who are in the realm of the Fall, by lifting them up to the realm of absolute love with God’s true love as the center...
In the same way, we have love, life, lineage and conscience, and because they are one with us and in balance, we do not feel them...
With the end of the Cold War, new hope for peace and justice has spread rapidly across the globe...
Ladies and gentlemen, all the activities I founded around the world are models of movements that transcend national barriers, work to tear down the walls between races, and are interreligious in nature and global in scale...
I thank you for gathering here today, in spite of your busy public and private schedules, to create such a grand occasion in celebration of my seventieth birthday...
At this point we need to come up with something new in order to realize peace and unity...
I would like to praise the recent establishment of the ecumenical and interdenominational Association of Religions in Korea....
Respected members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, religious leaders from around the world, distinguished guests: I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your presence here this evening in such large numbers, in spite of your busy schedules...
Respected leaders, peace is not something that is realized only in the external world. It is realized initially within each individual...
Respected leaders, going through indescribable hardship to follow God’s call, I have established the foundation for peace to settle in various fields of life...
God created us to become one in heart with Him, to share His value in true love, and to experience an inseparable parent-child bond with Him, enabling us to relate with Him through our strongest emotions in daily life...
Honorable current and former heads of state from around the world, eminent religious leaders, peace ambassadors from various nations, representatives of all areas of society, respected ladies and gentlemen...
Although God has advanced the work of establishing one absolute nation by sending His beloved sons and daughters to the earth, at each point in time, there was no base through which a nation could be restored...
Leaders of religion, politics, and academia who have gathered from around our country and renowned ambassadors for peace: Today, you have assembled here with hopes for a peaceful world...
Respected peace-loving American dignitaries, ladies and gentlemen, I extend my warm greetings and gratitude to all of you for coming here this evening...
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: I am very happy to welcome you to the opening ceremony of the 2002 World Culture and Sports Festival in my homeland, Korea...
If you can feel that your family is like one body that constitutes a realm of true love before God, your family can stand as a cornerstone of the place of settlement where you can attend the King and the Parents of heaven and earth...
Respected leaders, ladies and gentlemen: At this transitional point in human history, we have gathered as leaders from around the world who are concerned about the unification of Korea and world peace...
The third rule is to not steal public money and to not use public money for your personal purposes...
Respected guests from home and abroad, ladies and gentlemen: I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the members of the National Assembly of Korea and the distinguished guests who have come to participate in this meaningful gathering despite your busy schedules...
Jesus was aware of his path as the Messiah, and he lamented by himself these lonely circumstances and the serious obstacle they presented to fulfilling the Will of God...
For a son to be born on earth with this seed of God’s love and life, there first must exist a mother...
Ladies and gentlemen, could the Fall have been the result of eating the fruit of a tree...
Honored chairman, distinguished former and current heads of state, ladies and gentlemen...
Please realize that the position of husband and wife is the union between a son of God and a daughter of God, the union of a brother and sister within God’s family, and the union of a father and mother...
True love in a parent-child relationship is vertical; in a husband-wife relationship, it is horizontal, and in a brother-sister relationship, it is on a front-to-back axis...
Dear President Mikhail Gorbachev, distinguished co-chairmen, honored heads of state and government, respected ladies and gentlemen...
Presently, we are experiencing the winding down of the Cold War and a new era of peacemaking between East and West, North and South...
In order for us to understand more about the direction humanity has to take to achieve harmony and peace, it is first necessary to understand God’s ideal for the creation...
This Mr. Moon, who carries the name of the Lord of the Second Coming, has suffered most severely as a leader...
Until now, we have not considered the significance of the ideal origin of the creation...
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to express my deepest gratitude for your gathering here this evening...
Those of you present here this evening may wonder how you can know whether someone is evil or good...
You may not know that I had a keen awareness that the issue of Korea was causing much trouble at last year’s United Nations General Assembly session...
Just as God exists as the central Being of the entire universe because He exists for the sake of others, a person who resembles God by existing for the sake of others will become the central figure in the household...
If God were the King of wisdom and the center of everything, wherein the relationship between the subject partner and the object partner would He place the origin of the true ideal, true happiness, and true peace...
I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to you eminent figures from all walks of life...
If there is a God of love, life, and ideals, and that God does not manifest all these qualities in human beings as His object partners, then God has defeated the very purpose of creating...
Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation for your coming tonight...
It is my view that a history of indemnity is unfolding during the Last Days centered on the United States...
Let us take a moment now to think about the way in which a person can enjoy eternal life...
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to express my gratitude for your attendance this evening...
Pyeong Hwa Gyeong is a collection of public speeches given by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, on themes related to peace (pyeonghwa)...
For years I have called for a world where all religions live together as one, all races live as one, and all nations exist as one.
Children are born from the flesh and blood of their parents. Without parents, there would be no children.
People say I am one of the richest people in the world, but they don’t know what they are talking about. I have worked hard all my life, but I don’t own so much as a single house in my name.
When we meet someone new, we are always curious about who he or she is. God has the same curiosity about each human being...
To solve the problem of hunger, we must have a patient heart that is willing to plant seeds.
If you are never hungry, you cannot know God. The times when you are hungry are opportunities to be nearest to God.
Three of the greatest challenges of modern society are solving pollution problems, creating a consciousness for protecting the environment, and increasing food production.
In 1988, Seoul hosted the Summer Olympics. I saw this as a potential festival of peace in my own backyard and had many of our members from around the world come to Seoul for the event.
The twentieth century was a time of tremendous change. More happened in that hundred-year period than during the past two thousand years...
There is deep meaning in the tragic history the Korean people have experienced up to this point...
I miss my hometown so much that I visit it often in my dreams. My hometown is far beyond Seoul, in Jeongju, North Korea.
It is not just the ceasefire line that divides our people. The Youngnam and Honam regions are also divided by an invisible line...
The Korean peninsula is one of the last remaining divided countries on earth. We have the responsibility to unify the peninsula...
I had not gone to North Korea because I wanted to see my hometown nor because I wanted to tour Mount Kumgang. I wanted to meet President Kim Il Sung and have a serious discussion on the future of our homeland...
As I was leaving the Kremlin after meeting President Gorbachev, I turned to Bo Hi Pak, who had accompanied me, and gave him a special instruction...
There are a number of materialism-based theories that are popularly held but not verified...
Selfishness is rampant in the world. Ironically, however, the individual is destroyed by this, and not just the individual, but those around him and the nation as a whole...
On August 2, 1990, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, igniting the possibility of war in the Persian Gulf...
A true life is a life in which we abandon our private desires and live for the public good.
No matter how much a man and woman may love each other, a complete and happy family must have parents who act as a protective shield around the home, and there must be at least one child for the parents to love...
International and intercultural marriages are the quickest way to bring about an ideal world of peace...
Not long ago, the Korean media carried a story about a Japanese woman living in Milyang, Korea, who received an award for her filial service to her family...
Many Western people live truly lonely lives. Their children leave home once they turn eighteen, and the parents may only get to see their faces at Thanksgiving or Christmas...
The family is the only institution created by God. It is the school of love where people can learn how to love each other and live together in peace...
During our matching and marriage ceremonies, I ask the brides and grooms to make promises to each other that must never be broken.
My wife and I made a promise to each other after we were married. We agreed that no matter how upset or angry one of us might become, we would not allow anyone to think, “It looks like Reverend and Mrs. Moon had a fight.”
The first time I saw my wife, she was a young woman of fourteen who had just graduated from elementary school (sixth grade). She was a quiet girl who never raised her voice and never sought to bring attention to herself.
Even in Danbury prison, I followed my principle of living for the sake of others. I would wake up early in the morning and clean places that were dirty...
Good is often followed by the bad. Some people drew mustaches on posters and advertisements carrying my picture, trying to make me look like Hitler...
As I toured the world, no one knew I was making plans to develop economic foundations on a worldwide scale...
Near the end of 1971, I went to the United States again. I had certain tasks that absolutely needed to be accomplished there, but getting there was not so easy...
There are two things we must leave our descendants when we die. One is tradition, and the other is education.
We were not a rich church. We were a poor church started by people who couldn’t afford enough food to keep themselves well-fed...
Funds accumulated through business operations are sacred. For business profits to be sacred, however, it is important not to lie or to take excessive profit...
People rejected the new expression of truth I preached, calling it heresy. Jesus, born in the land of Judaism, likewise was accused of heresy and was thus crucified...
The detectives of the Special Intelligence Section of the Office of Public Order who raided our church and took me into custody brought me to the Chung Bu Police Station...
Yonsei University and Ewha Womans University were embroiled in crisis and finally chose a measure that had never been used before and has never been used since...
Koreans have a saying that a person insulted by others lives a long time. If I were to live in proportion to the number of insults I’ve received, I could live another hundred years...
When we built the mud-walled house and began the church in Beomnetgol, there were only three people to hear me preach...
After crossing the Imjin River, we traveled by way of Seoul, Wonju, and Kyungju to Busan...
On May 20, three months after being placed in Pyongyang prison, I was moved to Heungnam prison...
I continued to devote myself to prayer, and I came to feel intuitively that the time had come for me to marry...
Just as I had done in Seoul, I made it a point to go everywhere in Tokyo. When my friends would go to places such as Nikko to see the beautiful scenery, ...
After graduating from the Kyeongsung Institute in 1942, I traveled to Japan to continue my studies. I went because I felt that I needed to have exact knowledge about Japan.
Just as I had climbed all the mountain peaks around my hometown, I explored every corner of Seoul.
I was thrown into extreme confusion. I couldn’t open my heart to my parents and share my huge secret with them.
As I grew older and more mature, I became preoccupied with the question, “What will I be when I grow up?”
My personality was such that I had to know about everything that I could see. I couldn’t just pass over something superficially.
My father was not good at collecting debts, but if he borrowed money, he would honor the pledge to repay, even if it meant selling the family cow...
The Moon clan originated in Nampyung, near Naju, Cholla Province, a town about three hundred twenty kilometers south of Seoul
Once I set my mind to do something, I have to put it into action immediately. Otherwise, I cannot sleep.
I have very small eyes. I am told that when I was born, my mother wondered, “Does my baby have eyes, or not?”
I have lived my life with just one thought. I wanted to bring about a world of peace, a world where there are no wars and where all humankind lives in love.
"I have lived my life with just one thought. I wanted to bring about a world of peace, a world where there are no wars and where all humankind lives in love."