The Secret of Total Success
by Rev. Sun Myung Moon
December 19, 1982. Belvedere (USA)
Translator – Bo Hi Pak
Edited by esgd
7 minutes
God is looking at His children and telling them, “I want you to be the very best child.” What is the standard by which God determines who are the better children? It is true love. What is true love? What is the difference between true love and any other kind? The simplest criterion of true love is that it is a giving love more than a receiving love.
God loves and enjoys true love, the kind of love which gives to others. Who initiated that love-man or God? It was God, because He was the parent and as the parent, He is the cause of love.
How should we return to our origin, our cause? Since that cause initiated giving love, we can return to that cause by returning or reciprocating that love. Commonly in our world today, people think of themselves from an independent and selfish point of view. Yet no one is just “myself,’ but is the result of a cause.
You received life from your cause: therefore, when you return you should return with the most brilliant life. You received love; therefore when you go back you should bring your most brilliant love. You must realize that your life is precious because that first cause of your life is most precious. It is your duty, therefore, to cherish your life.
The primary problem of the world is lack of awareness that man is a resultant being; he is an objective being rather than a subjective one. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be independent, since you have your own direction and goal to return to that first cause. As long as that is the motivation of your desire for independence, it is justifiable. It is all right to seek to be left alone in order to go back to your cause.
The beauty of universal law is that when you make an offering to God, you are not losing anything. The more you present to God, the more you increase yourself. The more God consumes, the greater amount He returns. Whoever gives to God will always be replenished by God. This leads us to the clear understanding of why we, as resultant beings, need a relationship with the original, causal being. That is the only way we can grow to maturity and prosperity.
Leaves on the very top of a tree cannot grow unless they have an interaction with the lowest part of the root, which is their origin and cause. Likewise when men have give and take of true love with God, their cause, they grow and prosper without end.
Only through your spouse and the love of your children can you return to your origin, God. Universal truth is based on this. The essentiality of God is based upon true love. This is why He can require of the world that we love Him. Loving Him is like loving yourself because it is the only way you can prosper and continue for eternity. God requires us to love Him so that we can receive love, too. Once we understand this fact, we can have bubbling enthusiasm.
The ultimate reason for love is to return to God and become one with Him; there is no other reason. That principle should work the same in the human world. For the sake of a higher cause you say to God, “Yes, Father, I can give my very life as a sacrifice for your purpose.” That is a natural tendency. All creations of God have the same goal and purpose: to journey toward their ultimate center, which is the true love of God. Once they reach that goal, they are reaching a relationship with the entire universe.
The mysterious secret of total success is to become men and women able to communicate true love with all things. By give and take between the vertical cause and the horizontal effect, you shall achieve everything in total success.
Don’t ever forget this teaching today. Use your five senses with this point of view. Every action of your body, every day, should be done with the purpose of returning to the first cause. You can only return to that first cause with true love. Once you undertake this journey of true love, the universe will cooperate and help you. Nothing will hamper you, even national boundaries, cultural and racial differences.
When men and women are truly in love, they occupy each other. The man is completely occupied by the woman and vice-versa. By the same token, we could say the same thing about God. When you have a true love relationship with God, He will be occupied by you. You will find your resting place right in the center of God.
Where can you find the love of God? You have that longing feeling for the love of your husband or wife which you cannot forget at any time; such a feeling of longing describes God’s love. For this reason, you are precious and unique in this universe; you have total dignity and authority to represent God.
