1) Our Basic Posture toward Work

You must not deal with your daily work absently. Through those works, Heaven draws you closer, centering upon practical life in Heaven. For that reason, you have to make efforts for the purpose of discovering your subjective self who can digest those works and bring good results. In order to find that, you must become a being of resonance by always consulting Heavenly Father about the feelings you first had or your intuition. If you have the standard to relate to Heaven day or night with an open heart, then you can necessarily receive spiritual waves. (40-296)

When you do your work, it will be bad if you cannot have your mind and body united and deal with the work as one being. If your mind and body become truly united, that will form the four-position foundation. \The same can be said about work. The four-position foundation is the goal. Unless my mind and body are united, and unless I am united with that work, the goal of the four-position foundation cannot be fulfilled. Then the work will not be useful. Do you do the work just because someone is supervising you or watching you? Heaven and hell do not expand in space. \They expand in accordance with the Principle of Creation, centering upon the purpose for three objects, when your mind and body are united. (40-300)

That is how you should work. For example, when women sew they may do it for the sake of their husbands, or for the sake of those whom they love, or they may do it for the sake of people they don't like. Still, they must do their best and put all their sincerity into all those things. The same can be said of those who sew to make money. If they do the work only for the purpose of making money or only to make a profit, without much sincerity, then they will necessarily decline. But if instead, they do the work as if they were doing it for themselves with all sincerity, as if they were making clothes for the ones they love, then those who wear the clothes would say, "This is a good product." If there are some persons who have deep faith, then they can easily know if you did it with all your heart, if you invested all your heart and sincerity into the work. You must observe all things in that way. (40-285)

We must be grateful while we are engaged in a task. Also, while we are doing the work, we should feel the heart of God, who is trying to develop our world of searching for the truth. The more we expand that kind of life, the greater it will naturally become. If you say, "Oh! I don't like it," in whatever you are doing, that is resentful. You have to discard the idea, "I cannot do this." (73-78)

Do you love your spouse? Mutually? Those people blessed as husband and wife, do you love each other? Those people who love their spouse, when they go to work, their working place is in the same position as their second life. It is like the clothing of women.

Therefore, when you go to work, you must have the feeling, "Oh! I want to go to my work place as soon as possible." Then, as you get to your work place early, you should say, "Oh! I want to go home quickly, as soon as I finish this work." You must be like that. When you return home, you should feel like going back to your work again, and then, when you arrive at your work place, you should feel like going home. Go back and forth in this way. People who do that will never perish. They are destined to prosper without fail. Wait and see if this proves to be true.

Father has been going back and forth, to and from the factory in Soo-Tek Li with that kind of heart. We are destined to prosper. It will naturally happen that way. You must feel like going to your work place even at night, and if you are going to your work place, you must feel like going home.

Those of you who are present here may have gone sometime to the Soo-Tek Li factory, but Father has visited the factory three times a day.

People say, "Oh, I don't understand Father. He came here yesterday. He came here just one hour ago, and he has come again. For what purpose?" If you build up a heart like Father's, that is the Principle. (67-157)

2) Father's Posture toward Work

Father never gets tired of whatever work he does. What about you? Do you get tired after one year? After how long do you get tired? Do you get tired in 10 years? 20 years? After how many years do you get tired? You never get tired? Truly? I cannot believe you. You complain.

You must regard it as interesting. You should think, "Since I was born for this purpose, this is my destiny. I cannot live without digesting this." You should think this is interesting work. All we have to do is to find fun and happiness and joy in the work. You have to find those things.

Father started this work even before you were born. You are around 30 years of age. I have been doing many works. I think I have many more works to do even now than in those days. Therefore, I am not the kind of person who likes to be proud. I think of how to invest myself in the fight for tomorrow. I am busy in going and doing this way. Do you find me tired of my mission? I am not tired yet. The more places I go, the more stimulation I feel. The more power I receive, the more wonderful I become. I want to feel those things. So, I am far from being tired. Therefore, you will be successful if you try. You will be successful even if you don't want to succeed. God will have sympathy with those He loves more. He says, "That person may die in a short while, so I have to make that person successful." Before God makes that person successful, if the person dies and goes to the spiritual world, God will feel bad, won't He? Parents are like that. Parents want to do what their children want and fulfill their needs. Otherwise, the parents will feel unhappy.

God is your Father; you are His child. Yet you do terrible things which make you die. If a child does something things at the risk of his or her life, without knowing that he or she may die, saying, "I do this for the sake of my father and mother," the parents will feel like saving the child with all their power, won't they? Parents want to go ahead of their children and to take all the responsibility, don't they? It is not good for children to do things for their own sake, but if they do it for the sake of the parents, then parents cannot sleep at night and want work to help their children because their children are doing those things for the sake of God, for the sake of parents. Parents are weak in love, especially in their love for their children. \

In my case, I start doing a thing, forgetting to eat, forgetting to sleep. I get intoxicated in doing the work. I do the work, forgetting day or night. God also thinks that in case I die, He will come to help me. God Himself has made this calculation-He cannot but offer help.

(66-318)