1. Meanings and Goals of Life

1) What Our Life Means

Today your life is not just your personal life. It represents the life of all. (3-206)

You life represents the times and the world in which you live. Therefore your salvation is not your personal salvation but that which transcends your self, your family, your people, your world-ultimately to reach God. (11-254)

2) Unified Life

The Unification Church is possible only when life itself is unified. (155-119)

Life must be unified. Life is like manning a battle station. (12-172)

What kind of church is ours? "The Unification Church," you answer. So, it's the Unification Church. "Yes," But is it unified? "No, it's not," you say. What is it that we are trying to teach? Unified ideas, unified spirits, unified minds, and what next? "Unified life," you say. But can we honestly say we are unified with our ideals when we look at our families, ourselves?

For the Unification Church, the church that insists on unification, there is one purpose, and one purpose only. We are born as different individuals but become one in pursuit of that one purpose. We are all connected. The connection resembles the father and son bloodlines. According to the principles of heaven and earth, we could have all be born as one father and son, but for the fall of man. (155-139)

You must transform yourself so that you become one with God and comprehend his ways. Then you can avoid errors and frictions. There is only unification-in ideals, in action, in life. Only then would God find a place of eternal rest on this earth and take eternal delight in being one with man. (3-277)