True Parents Legacy

What did God most long to see when He created a man and a woman? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon describes the love of man and woman as it was meant to be in the original creation — a love in which each is born for the other's sake, in which God Himself comes to dwell, and which is realized not by force or by ease but naturally, like a deep and acquired taste. From the harmony of the...

If God is truly all-powerful, why has He never simply destroyed Satan? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon takes up one of theology's hardest questions and gives an unexpected answer: that God, bound by the very principles of love He established, cannot strike His fallen archangel by force — and that Satan accuses God using God's own law. The way out, he teaches, is not power but love...

Why is it that even a president, with a nation at his command, still needs to go home? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon describes the family as the training ground of the heart — the one place where the heart's joy is truly fulfilled, for a president and even for God. From the family to the school to the nation, he traces how the love cultivated at home becomes the affection we carry i...

What would it mean to be born, not for yourself, but for another? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon describes the ideal marriage: a husband and wife each born for the other's sake, living and dying for each other rather than themselves, and united not by money, power, or honor but by God's original love. He closes with a plain picture of true love — a purse held open, given without...

Why is it, exactly, that we call a childless person lonely? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon reflects on filial love: how in loving our own children we come to feel how God loves us, why a true child repays the debt of parental love, and how the path of the filial child runs in one straight line to the patriot and the saint. What God wanted of His children, he says, was never wealth or pow...

What makes a person truly happy — a fortune in diamonds, or a whisper from the one they love? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon speaks of the love that men and women long for: youth as the most precious, once-only season; man and woman created for one another; and the embrace of two hearts as the point where, he says, the universe becomes one. Fidelity, purity, and a love that first belongs...

Why would a fish that lives in the river ever need to taste the sea? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon calls earthly life a short but precious season — a training ground where, through family and the love of parents, spouse, children, and siblings, we develop the loving character we will carry into the spirit world. Like a fish that must know both fresh water and salt, he says, we must beco...

Could a dandelion by the roadside be worth more than a gold crown in a museum? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon presents the whole of nature as a textbook and museum of love — a world God made by investing everything He had, where insects sing for their mates, birds and flowers harmonize in pairs, and even the mountains seem to dance. To love creation, he says, and to weep for it, is to le...

Where is it that all of us — you, this nation, even heaven and earth — are quietly headed? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon turns to the one destination no one escapes: the spirit world beyond this brief earthly life. He asks what a body, a mind, and a life are ultimately for, why only a life lived for something higher leaves a lasting legacy, and why true love alone moves at a speed beyon...

Around what does a human life turn — and what in us never ages? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon describes the human mind circling God as an electron circles its nucleus, and asks what truly makes us "lords of all creation." He weighs flesh against spirit, the fleeting body against the mind that cannot age, and finds the essence of life not in money, knowledge, or power, but in G...

What is it that God, the Parent of all, most deeply hopes for? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon describes a God who longs not for worship alone but for children — filial sons and daughters, patriots, and saints who can comfort Him, share His burden, and one day inherit His creation without shame. It is a portrait of the narrow path such love requires, and of the single heart God has waited...

How could a human being ever come to stand on equal footing with God? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon holds that neither effort nor force can raise us to that place — only love. He unfolds the rights that love confers — equality, mutual participation, and inheritance — and shows why the one who serves others most becomes, in the end, the master and heir of all. Cheon Seong Gyeong⁠ The Rig...

What is it that makes the whole universe turn in harmony? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon describes love as the motion at the center of all things — the force that gives the cosmos its round shape, makes even God breathe, and alone has the power to unite. He follows love from the geometry of the universe to the taste of a berry, and out past every border a human being can draw. Cheon Seon...

We are told that human beings come and go — but where, exactly, are we going? In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon weighs the shortness of earthly life against the reality of the spirit world, likening our passage to a river flowing inevitably into the sea — and asking how we might prepare, while there is still time, for the homeland that awaits. Cheon Seong Gyeong Our Path of Life True Parent...

Two creatures can share every bone, every organ, every feature but the color of their feathers — and still never become one another. In this address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon sets the strict boundaries between species against the theory of evolution — arguing that life ascends not by chance, but through what he calls the gates of love, where no third party may ever enter. Evolution or Creation? Tru...

If nothing in nature exists for its own sake — not the eye, not the hand, not even the self — then what, exactly, is the self for ? In this brief and searching address, Reverend Sun Myung Moon dismantles the idea of the isolated individual, arguing that every faculty of the body is shaped for the sake of another — and that absolute love, and God, come to dwell only where two become one. Nothing Wa...

If an artist leaves his nature in everything he makes, what does the universe reveal about the One who made it? A reading of the Divine Principle's foundational meditation on how creation discloses the dual characteristics of God — yang and yin, internal nature and external form — and why the Principle calls the First Cause "Our Father." Source: Exposition of the Divine Principle, Th...

A complete, expressive reading of the Introduction to the Exposition of the Divine Principle: the human search for happiness, the two minds at war within us, and the promise of a new truth that reconciles faith and reason. Source: Exposition of the Divine Principle , Introduction (1996) . True Parents Legacy — independent, non-commercial archive.

What is the central axis of the whole universe and spirit world? It is love. Love is the origin of life and lineage. As they came into existence through love, their motion conforms to the axis of love. Motion cannot be carried out haphazardly. Love Is the Root of the Universe ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sun Myung Moon ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ True Parents Legacy ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://tplegacy.net/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

The speech was delivered on behalf of Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon in 14,400 cities throughout 120 nations from October 22 to December 20, 2006, during the “120 Ambassadors for Peace Speaking Tour for World Peace.” God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World - III ⁠⁠⁠ Sun Myung Moon ⁠⁠⁠⁠ True Parents Legacy ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://tplegacy.net/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

The keynote address Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave on April 10, 2006, during the Third Assembly of the Mongolian People’s Federation for World Peace, in the Republic of Korea. The True Owners in Establishing the Kingdom of Peace and Unity in Heaven and on Earth I ⁠⁠ Sun Myung Moon ⁠⁠⁠ True Parents Legacy ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://tplegacy.net/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

God exists in the dual characteristics of plus and minus. When this is manifested as a plus, it is Adam, and when it is manifested as a minus, it is Eve. The Original Relationship of Husband and Wife ⁠ Sun Myung Moon ⁠⁠ True Parents Legacy ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://tplegacy.net/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Historical Timeline⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Heavenly...

Our family and God’s Kingdom have the same form. Our family comprises parents, spouses, children, and siblings. It can be unified through love. Here, unity can be attained, life transmitted, and the ideal substantiated. Thus, you must be able to honor  conjugal love  and  parental love  to qualify to go to heaven. The Family Is the Basic Unit to Realize God's Kingdom ⁠ Sun Myung Moon ⁠⁠ True P...

When considering the fundamentals of the universe, God created the universe through the concept of male and female, based on the ideal of reciprocity. Until now, people have not known this. ⁠ Sun Myung Moon ⁠ The Absolute Value of Love True Parents Legacy ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://tplegacy.net/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Historical Timeline⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Giving Love requires one hundred percent devotion. When God was creating the universe, He invested Himself one hundred percent through His love. That is why true love begins with living for the sake of others.  Sun Myung Moon Love Is Boundless True Parents Legacy ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://tplegacy.net/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Historical Timeline⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...