The Words of the Klotz Family
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The Words of the Klotz Family |
Anyonghaseyo, dear brothers and sisters!
Here again some inspiration based on the words of True Family:
True Father: "Give love and forget that you gave it." [1]
True Father wants us to be unconditional when it comes to investing love into people. That means we need to forget what we have given, and invest again and again, never remembering what we invested already. As soon as we start calculating what we have invested, we might start to expect a return. And then we are not in line with the way God loves.
True Father: "If you are ready to receive nothing in return then you become like God, because God is always giving out love with His whole being, getting nothing in return. That's the point where godliness starts." [2]
As long as we love the way God does, we attract God's blessings, and we become more and more godly people.
True Father: "The one who invests everything for the sake of others and forgets about it, repeating the same action over and over, will become the central being, a standard bearer for the sake of the whole, and the greatest among all people of filial piety." [3]
By loving the way God does, we also become people of the greatest filial piety.
To become more and more divine is our first responsibility:
True Father: "To become God's children, our first responsibility is to resemble Him. We need to embody true love." [4]
No wonder that Father is putting so much emphasis on unconditional giving:
True Father: ""What is the mainstream concept? You must invest and forget. You must forget. I really, really ask you! So you must do it because of God and True Parents." [5]
Unconditional giving is the main stream concept. It is the basic attitude we should have.
Heung Jin Nim: "Being unconditional means not to expect any reward. You can only grow when you demonstrate unconditional sacrifice and thus fulfill your portion of responsibility......Do you love one another unconditionally or do you seek some kind of payment in return? Some people think, "I loved you, why don't you love me?" or "I gave you a present, why don't you give me one too?" or "You do not talk to me, I won't talk to you either." This is almost a formula of how people think, yet it is one of the main problems in man. Do you give yourself to other people absolutely, unconditionally and willingly?" [6]
It is easy to imagine that we cannot really grow in heart if our love is not unconditional. And of course, loving unconditionally means also to love the ENEMY unconditionally. It also means to ignore people's mistakes. It means to keep loving even if people hurt us. Then our hearts can really grow fast. And then God can work in mighty ways.
True Mother: "You must be humble to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You must be humble in terms of embracing brothers and sisters. You should embrace them even if they have some flaw." [7]
Indeed, the way people behave should not stop us loving them. If it does, our love is not God-like, it is rather changing and certainly not unconditional. If we are truly unconditional, nothing can stop our love.
True Father: "I give and forget. That is how I live. It's that simple. My life seems very hectic and complicated, but it always comes back to being simple. Nothing is complicated. Wherever I am, everything just fits right. Perfectly right!"[8]
Unconditional giving makes life simple, in a way. Because of the power of unconditional love:
True Father: "Once you come to know how great the power of true love is, you would go this way even if someone told you not to." [9]
The power of love really comes into play, if our love is unconditional, if our love is genuine, divine, God- like. On the foundation of such a love God can really change things around. We just have to love in the right way, the way God does. Then things will fall into place, things will work out, and the providence will advance.
True Father knows this all too well:
Heung Jin Nim: "Open up your hearts and really embrace each person and don't let anything hold you back from loving the people.
That's how my Father lives. He just loves everybody, even the people that hate him, even the people that attack him, even the people who hurt him. My Father just keeps loving them..." [10]
That kind of love is so powerful. It makes us into God-like people. And not only that. It is the source of our true happiness:
True Father: "Therefore the true measure of your happiness is whether you are close to the central standard of true love. Happiness or unhappiness cannot be determined by how much money you have, but only by the purity with which you exercise true love." [11]
If our love is not unconditional, then it is not pure either. Because then it is based on calculation. Then it is rather false.
True Father: "The king of happiness is the one who is living with the love of God. At that point, he couldn't care less about worldly knowledge, power and authority or money. The only thing that matters is the omnipotent love of God. Truly the only knowledge we need is knowledge about love." [11]
If our love is unconditional towards everyone, then we are living with the love of God, because that is the way God loves. Then we become Kings and Queens of happiness. The knowledge about divine love is indeed the most important knowledge.
Love from Bruno
1. The way of God's will. Heart: www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/wogw/wogw2-03.htm
2. Cain Abel relationships: www.tparents.org/moon-talks/sunmyungmoon75/SM750315.htm
3. The cosmos is my hometown and fatherland: www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon00/UM000202.htm
4. Peace Message 1: www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/SunMyungMoon-15PM/SunMyungMoon-15PM-01.pdf
5. Uruguay, 31.5.2001: www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon01/UM010531.htm
6. The victory of love: www.tparents.org/library/unification/books/vol/VOL57.htm
7. Pg 127 in "The heart of a True Mother"
8. What should our families do?: www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon01/SunMyungMoon-010129.htm
9. Pg. 565, CSG: www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/SunMyungMoon-CSG/CSG-05.pdf
10. Heung Jin Nim in South America 1987
11. The restoration of true love. Chapter 8: www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/sm-tl1/TL1-08.htm