Inherit God's True Love: Self-Love Leads to Destruction

Inherit God's Love
INTERNAL GUIDANCE - FOR REACHING PERFECTION

by Yulian UTS, Unification Family Therapy

"An ideal being does not live for his or her own sake. An ideal being lives for the sake of others, for the sake of the object partner. This is the core principle of the universe." Sun Myung Moon, CSG p.77

We are created to forget ourselves in loving others. That's when we become precious and full of joy. But immature people prefer loving themselves, and are preoccupied with 'self-love'. Which I think is the way to depression.

Is loving yourself actually possible? To give love, one needs an object. Only the give and take action produces energy. If no give and take, no energy can flow, no love can rise.

Can that be called love? Is it giving or taking? (Taking) So it's sucking, like a black whole. That leads only to self destruction. Wake up, this is against the universal principle.

"There is no one as foolish as the selfish person who lives only for his or her own sake. It may appear that a selfish life benefits the individual, but ultimately it is a life of self-destruction. The individual must live for the family, the family for the people, the people for the world, and the world for God." - Sun Myung Moon, Happiness Is a Life Lived for Others

As Father Moon explained: "Nothing exists for its own sake... All created beings in this world exist for the sake of their counterparts. It is an axiom of Heaven that every being lives for the sake of its partner." For "Happiness is possible only in a relationship with a partner," he says. And only when we "realize that we exist for the sake of others is the great achievement that changes our lives... we begin to follow a path different from the one we were on." 

"A love for others is the true love of God, but a selfish love is the love of Satan. If you want to get married only to receive love than you are manifesting the selfish love of Satan. The true love of the Kingdom of God will never exist if you are intent on only receiving love. The condition for the Kingdom of God is to exist to love and serve others. Satanic love is exactly the opposite. 

Although God is the origin of love, His love cannot be activated until a circuit is formed and to do that there must be an object to which energy can flow. Without an object God’s love and energy will remain dormant... Does that love manifest when you are all alone as an individual? It is a universal truth that love is activated when there is a circuit formed by having an object. No matter how almighty God is, unless He can find an object of give and take, He is lonely and very poor." Sun Myong Moon, The Way of Tradition: God's Love

The reason we could not fulfill our mission of restoring a homeland, Father explained is that we "still maintain the selfish desire for personal salvation." "This kind of selfish individualism is Satan’s strategy, purpose, and tool; the result can only be hell." Therefore, "you have to liquidate your past life of selfishness." (CSG)

"I do not spend time thinking about my own self-interests and selfish desires." 

Sun Myung Moon

How is our value determined? 

A person who lives only for himself, has value only for himself. But if you live and contribute for the Cosmos, you have a cosmic value. Only then you can reach God's love. The whole universe will love and protect you.

"If you are seeking the path of love while leading a self-centered life, you will come to a dead end." CBG p.64

Furthermore, searching to just feel loved leads only to depression and problems. That's because such self-centered love pulse inward, instead of giving (so it's not love - it's reversed, sucking black hole). You cannot create common base with Satan, in the realm of selfish love. Afterwords will be very difficult to get out of his control. 

"For this reason, those who live for themselves have nothing to do with God" CSG p.63

Only investing for others brings joy, meaning and true happiness. It's giving and giving again! That's why Rev. Sun Myung Moon says that God  "established the standard for our perfection based on love." 

"An ideal being does not live for his or her own sake. An ideal being lives for the sake of others, for the sake of the object partner. This is the core principle of the universe." 
CSG p. 77

As Rev. Moon explains, "If you want to have a relationship with Him (God).. in the realm of love, you too have to assert yourself through a life of loving and caring for others. Otherwise you are neglecting your relationship with God."

"But human beings, ever since the Fall, are inclined to sacrifice others for their own sake. That's why this fallen world promotes selfish individualism. It brings about destruction, and a hell on earth that has spread worldwide." CBG p.64

Now is the time, centered on the cosmic True Parents to establish the world of love. This is a world based on true loving families, where love transcends race, nation and religion. Read, The Model for the Ideal PEACEFUL WORLD

If you are self-centered God cannot come to you

How love comes to you? "God's love comes to you in proportion to how much you love others", Rev. Moon explained. "If you are self-centered God cannot come to you", he said. But selfish, humanistic people insist they have to first love themselves. Really! How is that possible? As Rev. Moon clarified, you cannot generate love by yourself. You need object to love. That is true even for God Himself:

"Even though He is absolute, even God cannot have love by Himself. This is because love can be had only in a mutual relationship. No matter how all-knowing and powerful God is, He cannot possess love on His own. .. love's stimulation can come only from another person, not from within oneself." CSG p.62

What means to love ourselves? Love is to have an object to invest into. How can you be the subject and the object at the same time. I guess this makes big sense for the selfish people. But it's time to understand that joy comes when we live for others, not for ourselves. Only than God will be moved to come to us.

Growth is to extend yourself beyond, to a higher and higher level of  living for the sake of others

"People in this world shout out for individualism as though they came into this world on their own. Only a person who receives no help whatsoever from anyone at all would have the right to speak of individualism. There is nothing in this world that comes into being for its own sake alone. All created beings are created for one another." - Sun Myung Moon, Happiness Is a Life Lived for Others

Humanists and selfish people often talk of loving themselves. But love requires give and take with an object. As Dr. Moon explains repeatedly, "love's stimulation can come only from another person, not from within oneself." Love requires give and take with an object. In addition, growth is to extend yourself beyond to higher and higher level, starting from family, tribe, to society, the nation, the world and the Cosmos. 

            Satanism                                   Godism
           FOR SELF   <--- Love --->      FOR OTHERS 

            (taking)                                       (giving)
            (selfish)                                    (altruistic)

If we are self-centered we will disappear. Rev. Moon makes comparison with electricity; "No matter how perfect a positive charge is, without a negative charge it will disappear. There is no exceptions to this. If a plus wants to survive, it has to align with the principle that sustains its life.. existence depends upon the interaction between the two." (CSG p.75)

Living for higher purpose and sacrificing for others is not that simple. Here is example of how strict is this law in the spirit world:

"When you go to the spirit world, you will find that some great figure in the New Testament, who was martyred, respected, and supposed to be in a lofty place, is actually in the most miserable place. Those who die with a thought that their death will bring them to the Kingdom of Heaven cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven. The attitude of such people is like a madman who killed himself for the Kingdom of Heaven. But those who suffered and sacrificed, even if not martyred, in order to send others to the Kingdom of Heaven, turn out to be the ones in the Kingdom 

of Heaven." Father Moon, Earthly Life and Spirit World

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Words of Dr. Sun Myung Moon

"Nothing exists for its own sake. That is not how God created the world. Man exists for the sake of woman, and woman exists for the sake of man. Nature exists for the sake of humanity, and humanity exists for the sake of nature. All created beings in this world exist for the sake of their counterparts. It is an axiom of Heaven that every being lives for the sake of its partner.

Happiness is possible only in a relationship with a partner. Imagine that some fellow who has lived his life as a singer goes to an uninhabited island and sings as loudly as possible. If there is no one there to hear him, he will not be happy. To realize that we exist for the sake of others is the great achievement that changes our lives. When we realize that our life is not ours alone but is meant to be for the sake of the other, we begin to follow a path different from the one we were on.

Just as singing to yourself will not make you happy, there is no joy without a partner. Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another." As a peace-loving global citizen, p. 342

"Love Your Enemy" True Parents' 1980

"Having created people, God's intention was to.. elevate them -- as individuals who possess love on behalf of God.. to a place higher than Him, and to make them owners. (204-221, 1990.7.11)

"Who is the center of all creation? Human beings.. having the value of being God's partners... A human being is a symbol of the love of all creation, a being who has appeared as a central point and who can beam light like a lighthouse. (115-182, 1981.11.15)

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