Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) was a Korean religious leader who, together with his wife Hak Ja Han, founded the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly known as the Unification Church.
At the age of 16, on Easter morning in 1936, Moon experienced a mystical encounter with Jesus during deep prayer. In this vision, he was instructed to take up Jesus' unfinished work and establish the Kingdom of God on earth. Over the years that followed, Moon had numerous spiritual experiences in which he received revelations of the Divine Principle, a text that illuminates God's nature, his purpose of creation, and his work throughout history up to the present day.
Moon's teachings, centered on the Divine Principle, emphasize the importance of family, marriage, and restoring divine order. He is particularly known for the mass marriage ceremonies he conducted, uniting couples from diverse cultures in a symbolic act of promoting peace and unity.
In the late 1990s, the Unification Church officially became the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, refocusing its mission on global peace, human development, and interfaith dialogue. Moon also founded several NGOs, such as the Universal Peace Federation and the Women's Federation for World Peace, which hold consultative status with the United Nations and work on peace initiatives aligned with his vision.
Despite facing criticism during his lifetime, Moon's teachings and organizations continue to influence global peace efforts today.
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Habits can last forever; it is so hard to change them. But still, they can be changed while you live on earth. You can eliminate your old habits by overlaying and overriding them with new habits.
You must start now. If you don't, you will have problems when you enter the Spiritual World. Once you are there, you will realize that you have been caught.
Many kinds of religions have developed. Since people's cultural backgrounds are different, this was inevitable. There are five billion people outside the Christian cultural sphere. Do all people who do not believe in Jesus go to hell? No! Christians claim this because they do not know better. When you go to the spiritual world, you realize that Confucius and Jesus are friends. Buddha and Mohammed are friends. Famous saints of Christianity and significant monks of Buddhism are friends. A curtain is the only thing between them; they all belong to the tribe of God.
Even with closed eyes, you will be able to perceive who is passing by and whether they are good or bad people. You will become spiritually perceptive.
"Our standard" is true love and conscience. "My standard" is also true love and conscience. In order to make it the "world standard" we have to give to the world by serving all mankind-eating, fund raising, witnessing, marrying and having children-everything for the sake of the world. We want to reach the nation and world quickly in order to achieve the standard of God.
Significance and Necessity of Prayer
Prayer means to offer your mind and body to God. Instead of a material offering, prayer time is a time when you offer your mind and body completely to God with your utmost sincerity.
Saint Paul was originally an intellectual, but since he was struck by spiritual lightning from heaven on the road to Damascus, he changed his mind and went on by faith instead of his head. He felt that by searching internally one found an explosive path rather than by searching externally, which led him to deny everything that was external and to start respecting things that were internal. Through this, he became a standard-bearer of the new Christian revolution.
In giving us love, how much would God want to give? God’s love is not given according to a limit that says a certain amount is enough. It is a love that wants to give infinitely. Even after giving everything, God will still say, “I want to live in you because of you.”
No ordinary people in the world know the taste of water that you drink after returning from having gone out and spoken with a serious heart while shedding sweat. How does it taste? It cannot even be compared to cola or honeyed water. It tastes different each time you drink it.
The phrase “God exists” is not an empty one. It is not that we deduce the necessity of God's existence by understanding the subject-object partner relationship through the Principle. It is that God existed before we came into existence, that He existed before we could think, and that He leads our senses and our whole beings. This awareness is more important than anything else. The basic point is that awareness precedes knowledge, not the other way around.
The fundamental aspects of our nature are intellect, emotion, and will. In which of these three does the Kingdom of Heaven reside? Which of the aspects, intellect, emotion, and will, is the most fundamental? It is neither the will nor the intellect. It is emotion!
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