1. Love as the Foundation for Unity and Happiness

Can you call someone a Ohuman beingO only because he has a body? A human being must have a mind also. Does a human being laugh at someone's sorrows? Does a human being grieve over someone's happiness? No, no. That kind of person is a human being in appearance only. A human being is capable of all sorts of emotional reactionsNdelight, anger, love, happiness.

Do not Easterners cry over something that makes Westerners weep? The things that make Westerners weep also make Easterners weep. The scenes that make Koreans weep also make their archenemy Japanese weep. The world is united in emotional responses. Are there any differences in parental love between Koreans and Japanese? Are there? No, there arenOt. It's all the same.

What is the foundation of unity? Certainly not people. Nor is it just words. It must be based on feelings. It's like a couple in love... What makes them united? They are united on emotional feelings. IsnOt that so? Without emotion, it's just an empty shell. What's in a couple without emotion? Any different from a wound-up doll? Just a talking doll, that's all. Just a talking male doll and just a talking female doll. They wouldnOt be dolls if they could feel emotion.

Friends feel friendship. Can there be friends without friendship? No, there canOt be. People feel patriotism toward their country. When people feel patriotic toward their country, that love for their country can unite them into one people. DonOt you think so? Love is the foundation of unity and also of happiness.

Without unity there is no happiness. DonOt mothers and fathers become one to be happy? Parents and children must become one to be happy. What happiness can we find in a family in disarray? What happiness in a family that quarrels among themselves all the time? They don't know what happiness is. There is no unity without love, and no happiness without unity. How can we attain happiness? First, two people must become one. When one weeps, so does the other. When one laughs, so does the other. When one goes, so does the other. How can two people become one? Through feelings of emotion.

We need to achieve internal unity more than external unity. There is no happiness or peace if the human heart is absent. The highest authority is the heart. The human heart transcends history, following absolute standards.