1) Life Mottos

Father's three great life slogans: a) Before controlling Heaven and Earth, perfect your control over yourself. b) Act after asking. c) Act according to order. (27-298)

2) Three Great Goals of Self-Discipline

In order to hold public authority, ask: a) Please give me faith. The faith with which I can do everything for the sake of God's Will. b) Please give me love, the love with which God loves. c) Please give me wisdom. (27-298)

So far I have established three great goals for my self-discipline. When I appeared with this Will of God, I established three great goals. What is the first? Before desiring to control heaven and earth, you must perfect your own self-control. This is the most difficult one.

Every time you follow the path of suffering, of crucifixion, your self tries to escape. In that case you have to control yourself.

The eyes of this self wants to see what is good and let go where it is bad. You must ask yourself: "How come?" The mouth of the self wants to eat delicious things. At that time you should say, "No, you should not." Also this self wants to hear everything that is good to hear.

This self always puts priority on itself. This is no good. So as a man this self always thinks about women, about making love. You should say, "No good, this is being a bad guy." So regarding the matter of love, I have always said, "Unless I can control myself, all the control of heaven and earth will collapse and disappear."

What is the most difficult thing? It is the problem of sleep. The problem of sleep is the most difficult. The next is the problem of hunger, and the next is the problem of sexual desire. These are the three great enemies. So I have prayed all through the night and established goals in the process of my self-discipline. Even if I was hungry I set up those goals for my discipline. While living, I established those goals as the process of self-training. You may think that I am a saint. I am different from ordinary people. You must know that since I am sensitive, I am more sensitive in those problems as well. So because of that I had more difficulty than ordinary people.

You have to know those facts. Before you can control yourself you cannot control heaven and earth. Only by controlling yourself can you control heaven and earth. By controlling yourself, you can see God and you can meet God. This is the Principle's view. Adam fell because he was not able to control himself.

What do the hands, the legs of a person do? Only by having a physical body which can think, see, hear, be seen by God, and be felt by God, and only as God's representative for the providence can one become a person whose conscience is not accused, or who does not feel conscience-stricken. That person is the one who passes in the test of the Principle's view. I think that way. The same thing can be said of you. Unless you can control all these things, you cannot come closer to me. You cannot become sons and daughters of God.

You have to know how terrible it is to control yourself before you wish to control heaven and earth. You have to know that here lies the root of the Satanic world, and here the nucleus of the Satanic world still remains. This is not to say that evil exists in front of you. Nor is it to say that the environment is bad. The world is bad. But evil and badness exist within yourself, within your heart. (131-137)