What is an unchangeable thing? These days man and woman love each other and get married; nevertheless, the marriage is still changeable. Is the love of father and mother also changeable? Even father's love toward children may be changeable, but it may be less changeable than the others. If we seek one thing in common which is unchangeable amidst every changeable thing around our human world, that is mother's love. A mother loves a child more than the father does, doesn't she? Of course, we should be aware that the father is the center of love. Where does the origin of love and life come from? The origin of life doesn't come from the mother. The mother can be compared to flesh and father can be like bone. After taking something from the father, then the mother can have a child. This is why we have to think of father and mother. No shape can be formed without bone.

So if there is an unchanging person in a family, that one should be the father. You may be afraid of your father, aren't you? A father is somewhat hard to access. Also, he usually is inclined not to act rashly but goes in an orderly way to keep his position and dignity. But the mother is not like that. Although the father makes so many turns in one place, he will keep his position like a pole holds its place. Don't you think so?

Some time ago I went to Chung Pyung and saw a turbine and generator turning, and I found that the shaft which connects both side-parts is very thick. It can make 450 turns in one minute. When I saw it turning, it looked as if it didn't move. In the same manner, the mother makes turns centering on the father. Because of her turning, she can be changeable. If she goes to the east, she forms the shape of the east; if she makes turns to the west, she form the shape of the west. In the same way she does so toward the south and the north.

For this reason, when we look for a person who is not changeable, the first is the grandfather. Then who do you think will be the next one--the grandmother or the father? [It's the father] Well, you knew that. Who is the next, then? It's the grandson, the son of a father. All of them are male. You had better not talk about all these secret things to women, because a woman is changeable. In talking about something secret, when the mother is around them the husband and the son may say, "Mother, could you stay out for a moment?" (Laughter) It indicates what oriental philosophy is.

It is not the father and mother but the father and son who are supposed to talk about some important matter. Who knows if she would be false to her husband and get married again? (Laughter) It might be somewhat okay if she married a king, but what if she got married to an enemy? You don't think so? It means that you have to consult with the grandfather and father about an important matter. Why do we have to do so? That's because they are unchangeable beings. Something important requires something unchangeable. The subject which is never changeable is something eternally valuable. (141-280)

What is the center of a family? That's the parents. Then why is it the parents? It's because the parents exist and live for the sake of all the members of the family. Does that mean that parents are unique beings? It means parents are the sole central beings which are absolute, unchanging and everlasting.

Now we have learned the fact that it is the parents who have such an unchangeable volume of love within themselves. Any diamond or gold is wrapped in cloth. Is the wrapping cloth valuable or not? If it is used to wrap a diamond, the cloth may have a value equal to a diamond. From this point of view, we have understood how valuable parents are. Once more, we have to keep in mind how precious the parents are who have an unchanging, limitlessly valuable love. Have you ever thought of parents in that view? The word "unique" or unique parents, comes from this view. Parents are unique, unchanging and eternal, from whom all these concepts come. That's what parents are. True or wrong? Yes, it's true. Parents can be changeable? [No]

After all, even if any revolution breaks out, we can not revolutionize love. So the origin of this love will remain for good. Then such parents, as the subjects of love, must need you absolutely, continuously and permanently. (74-19)

Have parents ever been taught how to love their children? Here, ladies! You have a baby and you love it. Then, did you ever learn how to love the baby? Is there any school, elementary, middle or high, or university teaching love? Is there any need for and use of a bachelor's or doctor's degree in loving a baby? No conditions are needed for this love but a perfect standard of love which everyone wants to reach. The less one feels love toward children, the more he wants to make efforts to love them, even to the extent of 100% love. Right?

A perfect thing needs nothing more to make it better and it needs no more learning for it. The perfect thing is the thing that one doesn't have to add to or subtract from any more. Accordingly, it is something unchanging and eternal. (38-227)

What in the world are parents? There may be a son who is a world champion in both physical force and brain power, and he may think his parents are a big problem in his life. Then he might want to go back on his parents and do as he pleases because he thinks he is the best in force and brains. But why couldn't he do so? You have to know this point. Where does love come from? From yourselves? [From parents] The origin of love is not yourselves but parents. There is no result without cause. Understand that? From the light of love one knows he is not the subject. So he shall not do as he pleases. That's why children say, "Yes, mother; yes, father," in front of their parents. So when your parents say, "You may be famous and have authority in the world, but in front of your parents you should be reasonable," then the children can answer like this, "Yes, yes, yes, mother and father." Why? Because there is love between them. While parents are the subject children are the object. Can you understand this?

It is the Principle that the subject should take care of the object and the object should obey the subject. When this order is destroyed, a family will lose its value. However stupid a person may be, since he was born with the original mind, he would know that this is the heavenly Principle. Therefore, no matter how powerful he may be, he has to bow toward his parents. Am I wrong? [No] (50-135)

The human world has kept fighting continually using force and knowledge. But the time hasn't come yet to have a fight of love and with love. Religious leaders say that when the Last Days come, their time will come. The power of the sword and the pen will have disappeared. The only thing that will remain is the power of love.

Such a final age of love's hegemony are the Last Days. One day a physically stronger first son comes home, but can he act as the boss? That's possible or impossible? No matter how strong he may be, that's impossible. He may be a champion in the ring, but not in the family. Understand that? Is it possible? [No] Why? Because there are parents in the family. (50-135)