I never surrendered to my parents when I regarded myself to be right. How terrible. When I cried I did not cry for nothing. You know that in country homes there is a carpet made of reeds. Do you know that? Those who have experienced living in the countryside can understand. So when I cried, I sat down on that carpet and cried. I remember those days.

When I cried, I cried all day until the person who made me cry came and apologized to me. I never stopped crying. Do you understand? I was such a terrible person. Also, when I cried I never cried quietly. I cried to the extent that blood came out of my nose and that my skin came out. Therefore in my home my parents concluded, "Let that child do what he wants." My mother, father, and elder brother surrendered to me. Are we right all the time in our life? \In my case, when I based myself on righteousness and when I followed heavenly law, my parents never opposed me, they never said anything. (105-237)

You who are born as people at the historic end of this century should try to settle all matters. In order to do that, you should not try to escape but should embrace all those things and put everything in order. In my case I have been doing that until now.

I needed limitless experience. So I went to a place where people were doing physical labor, and I became a first-class laborer. There is nothing I cannot do. Therefore I never worry about how to eat and how to live.

If I go to a work place and do physical labor, and people think that the Teacher of the Unification Church is doing this kind of work because he does not have enough money, this is a great mistake, a misunderstanding. Even now, wherever I go, I can do anything with this physical body. There is nothing I have not tried. There is nothing I did not complete once I had started it. Also, whatever I do, I can do it within at least the third-prize level, even if I do it half-heartedly. I suppose it's because God is wise, that He chose a person such as I.

Once you start doing something, you feel satisfied only by completing it. Even if you have to die on the way... If I had to leave the work undone, that ugly way, I would not start doing it. Once you start there are only two alternatives: either it collapses or I collapse.

When I started on this path, I searched to know whether God exists or not, and after I was sure that God exists, I started on this way. Next I asked God, "Do you desire anything?" Then I knew that God has a desire. Then I asked God, "Do you need me?" Then I knew that God needs me. Then I asked, "How much do you need me?" In this way, I always asked God and asked for His reply. Otherwise I did not start. (13-201)

What kind of person is Reverend Moon? He is a person with only one talent. He is a person who just goes straight ahead foolishly. Only straight. Quietly, with his mouth shut. He never takes a detour. Why does he always do things which are spoken ill of? By doing so he goes past the point where he receives opposition. By doing so he goes beyond all the opposition, even of those whom he loves. By the way, you're thinking of taking a detour, aren't you? Then, why do we have to go the way of cutting off from everything in the secular world? It is because we cannot go straight if we are pulled by our love for our physical parents.

Since God has been going straight to come to us, we also have to go straight. Do you understand what I mean? (97-257)