You must understand that the things of the created world do not belong to an individual. When you own a good piece of land, if you brag about it you will decline because it belongs to the public. You are just a manager of that land. Therefore, according to the laws of management, if you manage it properly in a public manner you can rule it for eternity, but if not you will decline. However, the problem is that no one on earth understands the true public management laws towards all things. (31-247)

You should become a person who can manage all things publicly. When you eat, what if all foods are on strike against you, protesting your eating them without thanking them? What if all of them are on strike together, refusing to go inside of people's mouths? Have you ever thought of it? It is fortunate that they cannot do it as plants, yet what would you do if they could? If humans were under such circumstances, would they do it or not? Things feel the same.

Therefore, when you eat you should understand the value of the foods that you are eating and should ask them, "By whom do you want to be eaten? For whom do you want to provide energy as part of his bone or flesh? What would you like to leave behind for the world of goodness?" Do you believe that foods would like to go inside the mouth of a thief?

For example, cooked rice will be eaten by anyone; but if possible, each grain of it would like to be eaten by a good person who is public-minded.

The same goes with the air. Suppose that all the air on the earth gathers together and decides to be on a worldwide strike against humans for 5 minutes. Then all humanity will surrender to the air. If God wanted to subjugate humans by force, He could use the air against them. If He took the air away from the earth even for a few seconds, they would say: "We unconditionally surrender." Truly, the air can be a fearsome weapon. What is public is fearsome. What is public can kill an individual. These days, there are campaigns that oppose air pollution, which is a good thing to do. Otherwise, humans will be attacked by the air. The same is true with the water. Thus, all things are public.

The sun is the source of life and has an infinite value. We are receiving such sunlight free of charge. Have you ever seen a person who is carrying money to buy sunlight? Have you ever seen a person who paid even one penny because he or she received sunlight? If the sunlight was for sale, would you buy it or not? People would buy it even if they had to sell their own bodies. All of the elements of nature, such as water, air and sunlight, do not belong to an individual. If someone thinks they do, he or she is a thief. (31-248)

Then, as a religious person, how would you treat all things? You should treat them with a public mind. Suppose that an object has a value of ten. Then you should not value it as ten only, but instead, value it as a thousand, thinking that God is in it. If God dwells in the object that you cherish, the value of that object will be infinite.

If you treat something with such a mind, you will be very happy when you look at it. If you work with such a mind, you will feel the content of multi-dimensional. (40-282)

You should respect public management. If you are dealing with objects, you should respect them. When I used a notebook in my childhood, I did not start writing from the first line on it, but from the very top of each page. Sometimes, I used each page even twice by writing twice on it. Then it was like using two notebooks instead of one. We should save natural resources.

I am very stingy and tight towards myself. I have never voluntarily purchased a custom-made suit for myself. Because people around me pushed me to do it, I did. If I did it on my own, it would not be so precious. But if I involuntarily do it at the request of others, people with me appreciate my appearance, making comments. If you purchase it on your own and ask people how you look in the new suit, it is like complimenting yourself before them. I do not do such a trivial thing. That is just not the way I am.

What kind of person would God like? He likes a person whose philosophy is to lead a public life, always taking a public position. The same goes with all things. They like such a person. Such is a principle, and a heavenly law.

In the secular world, some people who have gone to a major university tend to brag about it and judge or criticize others arrogantly. But no matter what, I feel awkward doing such a thing and cannot do it. Sometimes, such people visit me, but if I see them I feel like running away from them. That is still the way I feel toward them even now. Sometimes I intuitively sense such feelings in them. Then I am not happy to be greeted by them. They might feel hurt because I did not receive them warmly, yet that is the way I feel.

But I am speechless before a person who made many special conditions for God.

As I have been leading the Unification Church, when I meet with two people to resolve some problems, I do not see who is handsome or not, but see the direction of their mind. In other words, I see whether their mind is public or personal. (31-260)

You should know the public way of managing all things. You should also know the public way of managing people. If you know it before some parents do, you can even take their children away from them. Do you understand? That is what Rev. Moon of the Unification Church is doing. He marries their children, letting them leave their parents. When I Blessed the 36 Couples, their physical parents came to me and protested, "Who sent the wedding invitation of our sons and daughters?" So I boldly answered them that I was the one who did it. I could say that because I was in a greater public position.

At that time, I thought to myself: "You do not know now, but just wait and see. You will come to realize whether the son-in-law or daughter-in-law you were given is better than others' or not." Soon afterwards, they admitted that their son- or daughter-in-law given by Rev. Moon was good. At least, they could not come up with excuses to accuse me of making a wrong decision about their son- or daughter-in-law. (31-256)

I never taught you to live for me, Rev. Moon. I taught you to live well along with Rev. Moon for the nation and the world. A wrong teaching will lead people to destruction and make them leave a church. However, if my teaching was not incorrect, even if they have left the church, they will return. Is that not what is happening now?

Until now, for more than half a century, as I was walking this course, I have been persecuted and pushed around. But someday, if I were to say to those who persecuted me: "You can be liberated if you can compensate me by a thousand of times or tens of thousands of times for your persecutions against me," even if I did not force them all of them would rush to follow my suggestion.

Through hardships, if we can reveal public value, such circumstances can be of great value. Then, the circumstances can be automatically absorbed. (31-253)

The time when you can manage all things publicly should come. If that time comes, even if fertilizer is not supplied for the land, all things will grow well. Even all things would like to hear the sound of laughter, not crying. Among you, is there anyone who would like to hear someone crying? I do not like it, but you may be different. Well, you seem to be like me. Then, those who like to hear laughter, please raise your hand. I see everyone's hand. Then, what about God? God also likes laughter. Originally, all of us were supposed to live in laughter.

If God is good, where is goodness? It dwells in a life filled with laughter. God is the subject with an eternal authority who can digest everything into laughter. No matter how evil something is, God can digest and make it into goodness. Some people might say that the principle of heaven and earth might change, but that is not the case. They also might say that life is not meant to be lived only in goodness, but that is not true either. That is my belief. (31-258)

If you walk a public life centered on such a principle, you will never perish. Therefore, you should manage things in a public way, treat people in a public way, and attend Heaven in a public way. If people who are doing this well are gathered and become couples, centered on those families, a new people and a new world will be established. Accordingly, you should become people who can lead a public life. (31-261)