1) You Need Training and Experience A person's character is limited. The question is how many people could be in harmony with a person's character. How many people can relate to that character? For this reason, I must match them up. If they do not match, then they have to be made to match. You have to understand that because such a task can only be done based on experience, unless you go through such experience, then you cannot become a true leader. If you become a leader after having gone through that, then based on those experiences you can become a competent leader who will leave behind a new eternal tradition that will be praised by God and be respected by all the people of the group that you are guiding. For this reason, you must make such preparations. You must realize that you have to willingly receive any kind of external or internal training. Do not dislike them. Do not think that you cannot do them. (72-328) It is not so easy to become someone else's teacher. It was not easy to become the Teacher of the Unification Church. It was extremely difficult. It was the same feeling as wearing the prisoner's costume and walking toward the execution chamber; I was someone who was really heading there. Do you understand what I am saying? [Yes] You probably don't understand, because you have never been to a prison. I live in luxurious mansion, but I do not need it. I can just as well live in a hut. I have the training to live in a hut. I trained myself to become the best laborer if I had to change clothes and work in a construction site. If there is someone that God loves there, then I have trained my heart to grab on to him and, completely having dominion over the environment, become a friend whom he can cry with. (85-43)
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