1. WHAT SHOULD YOU LEAVE BEHIND?

The question is what kind of life should I leave behind? Some of you may be over 60, some of you may be over 40, and there may be some really young people here. In the position you are in, what kind of life do you want to leave behind? You have to have the mind to worry about the future of this nation, you have to be able to feel by yourself what kind of mission you have. When you older people reflect on your past you will realize that you have no fruit, and you will probably feel that no matter how much you struggle you will not be able to reach the level you are seeking.

But the more you feel this, this more you understand about this, the more it is not a time to feel discouraged. You have to determine that for your remaining short life you have to invest yourself more and more with all your power to settle everything up. There is no need to worry that you are old; invest all your remaining life and make a new determination, thinking about how you should invest yourself for your country and for history. (35-18)

What should you leave in your lives? What should you leave? This is the big question. Can you feel sure about this standing in the position where you are standing? Even if you have done one thing well you can feel solid. In the last moment of your life you have to be able to say to God, "Father, I am a good child." You have to become a child with that kind of qualification. That person is greater than all the undefeated generals and history-changing figures in human history. (45-265)

What remains forever? It is leaving the standard of goodness. I am telling the people in the Unification Church to do this. So the problem of whether you have done it or not done it will follow you around. You have to know how to be a person who knows how to repent if you take a nap during the day because you are tired. No one who has the wrong attitude can be happy. You have to understand this. (24-31)

There are many people in the world who live and eat well. There are many handsome men and pretty women. There have been many people who have been the hopes of their villages, but none of them could influence the world. In the world where people live and eat well, those who don't live well strive to do so. Do you understand? Even if they don't eat and live well, they still try to eat and live well. People are born to live for their family, live for their country or live for the world.

What is the purpose for being born? What do we absolutely have to leave behind? Climbing Baekdu mountain? Saying that you have prayed on top of the highest mountain? No, it is not this. You have to leave a spiritual something that all the people can respect. For example, let us say that a patriot was killed fighting. The more wretched his death, the more desolate and forlorn the place is, the more value his death has. Do you understand what I am trying to say? The value is decided in reverse proportion to the circumstances. The things that move history cannot be seen. Isn't that so? (181-13)

So, our Unification Church members... I am like a free spirit. Other people say that I am great, but I like to live it rough. I don't like appearances. I like nature itself. Even if I am wearing a suit, I don't care if there is any dung, I just sit down without looking. I don't clean the place first. In our lives, can there be anything more simple and honest than nature? There are so many false things in the world. Do you understand? [Yes.]

People in the Unification Church must know that the way of true love, the way to go into God's realm of love, is not to advance yourself or put yourself forward. I have learned this through testing everything. People in this world who have a lot of money are waiting to leave it all to their children. You have to first prepare what you can leave to the world and then leave it to your children. That is the right order of things. In that way everything can be connected. (130-52)

What will you leave to your growing children? The only thing that you can leave to them is the fact that you can say, "I lived for the nation. I lived for the world." This is the greatest inheritance you can leave. Physical things or a masters' or doctoral degree are not important. "Live for the world." This is what you should leave your children. You should say to them, "You were born as a Korean but you are not Korean. You are a child of the world so you must live for the world. Not only that, you should live for heaven and earth." This is 'cosmosism'. People who have heard and understand this astonishing truth must not be of little account. (29-223)