In our relationship with things, how do we change those things into things that belong to Heaven? In other words, what should I do to stand as subject as if it is God who is subject toward those things? In the relationship with people as well, how should we relate to them together with God, not just as ourselves? In talking with people, how should we speak heavenly words? We should always accompany words with actions. That is the important content for us in our daily life. Our work life begins where we deal with things. Human relationships take place where we deal with other people. In other words, the relationship of morality expands, and in the relationship of dialogue, the issue of action takes place. Those are given conditions we are involved with in our life.

Therefore, we should not deviate from the Principle's law of politeness or courtesy in our relationships with things. We should not deviate from the laws of courtesy in our human relationships either. The relationship with things occurs also in the relationship with the people. Of course, the relationship with things takes place centered upon people. You should know that you have those relationships with those positions.

As a man or woman of faith, how should you deal with things? You have to do that publicly by all means. If a thing has a value of ten, then you should not regard the thing merely as such; you should increase the value. In other words, when God is involved in the relationship with the things you love, the value of the things will come to have limitless value.

If you deal with things with such a heart, you will come to have a truly loving feeling for those things. In your life and in the world of heart, you can have such a sentiment. If you do your work with such a heart, then as a result of that you will feel three-dimensional value rather than just seeing them yourself. The fact that in dealing with a thing you feel more value in that thing means that you are now in the position where you can occupy a higher sense of spiritual value. You have to feel that yourself. Then you can be grateful in doing your work. No matter how hard the work may be, if you do those works feeling heavenly value in doing that work, you can increase the value hundreds and thousands of times. No matter how difficult the work may be, that work will become an object of gratitude.

Therefore, when you deal with things, you should not deal with them without thinking or feeling. You have to think whether that thing becomes a plus or a minus for you; in other words, whether it brings good fortune or bad fortune for you. Therefore, when you deal with a thing in the position of the value of ten, then you have to think whether that thing will have the value of eleven or value of nine. If it brings a minus, then you should avoid the position which will become minus for you. You must think and make effort as to how to set up the position that will bring you more plus.

In this way, if you seek, your mind already knows about any thing. When you deal with a thing, you know instantly whether it is a plus or minus for you. \In doing a work, when my mind and ambition, or subject and object, have a giving and receiving relationship and become one, three points are decided. Then the realm of the four-position foundation which accords with God's Principle of Creation, or His original motive, expands. When a thing manifests its exact value in accord with the result of the relationship of subject and object, then the result of the purpose of God's creation is fulfilled. As an object of God, it will bring you a good result.

As you keep those results of goodness around you, you can have a higher and wider position in the process of your own re-creation. \The more you stay in that position and the more you live that kind of life, then no matter what kind of things you may deal with, the more you will receive waves from them. You can come to deal with things seriously with a heart of mind like a tuning fork. Then you will have the feeling about whether it is good or bad and whether it will bring you plus or minus. So you should always examine things.

If you don't feel such waves, then disregard the evil mind by standing in a public position and make your heart round and smooth and deal with works or things. \Then do the work through your first impressions or the first feelings you had with the absolute feeling that this will become a value. Do the work with that kind of feeling, instead of doing things in a senseless, meaningless way. \You should do work from a truthful position with the same heart God had in making the creation. Then you will necessarily know whether something is good or bad.

Also, you have to examine in your life what percentage of your evaluations were true and correct. You should always be careful in knowing how much of a percent of your first evaluation proved to be true. If you get accustomed to that kind of attitude of life, then your accuracy will increase from 5 or 6 out of 10. Your accuracy will get higher. \

Accordingly, when you deal with the things surrounding you, you should do them not in a meaningless way, but always centering upon principles.

You know how important it is to enlighten and promote your own feeling within yourself. The same can be said about your life of work in relationship to things. As a member of a company in which you work, you should deal with the property of the company as a public thing. If you deal with it rudely or carelessly, you will become a minus for that company. If you think of those things as the property of the nation, the property of God, then you cannot even use a sheet of paper wastefully.

In dealing with things, you should not treat them without due respect. Instead, you should seek after the value with the heart of not wasting them, from the smallest things to the largest. You should search for things as objects for the condition for expanding your heartistic value or virtue. Also, you have to make effort to connect them with the feelings in your life. Then you will never forget, no matter how much you try, that God is always with you in your life. The more you deal with those things, the more realistically you come to feel that God is with you. Those who live life in such a way cannot get tired or exhausted.

If you just work around without thinking, making a loss, you will get hurt and fall away. Therefore, in order to enlighten and develop this kind of attitude of faith, you should never deal with things carelessly, without due respect. You have to deal with them seriously. If you make mistakes, then the way of your faith will be caught, and you will not be able to pass. You will have established conditions for being caught along the way. (40-281)