Autobiography: As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen

Table of Contents

Foreword

Chapter One: Food is Love

What I Learned about Peace While Being Carried on My Father’s Back
The Joy of Giving Food to Others
Being a Friend to All
A Definite Compass for My Life
A Stubborn Child Who Never Gives Up
Loving Nature to Learn from It
Talking about the Universe with the Insects
Ardent Student

Chapter Two: A River of Heart Flows with Tears

Between Fear and Inspiration
The More It Hurts, the More You Should Love
A Knife Not Sharpened Grows Dull
A Key to Unlock a Great Secret
Like a Fireball Burning Hot
Befriending Laborers by Sharing Their Suffering
The Calm Sea of the Heart
“Please Don’t Die”
A Command That Must Be Obeyed
A Grain of Rice Is Greater Than the Earth
Heungnam Prison in the Snow
U.N. Forces Open the Prison Gate

Chapter Three: The Man with the Fullest Stomach

“You Are My Spiritual Teacher”
The Crazy, Handsome Man by the Well
A Church with No Denomination
Two Universities Expel Students and Professors
New Buds Grow on Scorched Branches
We Are Trained by Our Wounds
A Sincere Heart Is Most Important

Chapter Four: Why We Work Globally

Paying the Ultimate Price to Follow God’s Path
Money Earned Honorably, Used Prayerfully
Power of Dance Moves the World
Angels Open a Path through a Dark Forest
World Tour
Last Plane to America
Our Future Lies with the Ocean
Reverend Moon, Seed for a New American Revolution
Washington Monument, 1976
Cry Not for Me but for the World
“Why Does My Father Have to Go to Jail?”

Chapter Five: True Families Create True People

My Wife, Hak Ja Han Moon
An Incomparable Inner Beauty
Promises That Must Never Be Broken
To Love Is to Give and Forget
The Peaceful Family Is the Building Block of Heaven
Ten Years of Tears Melt a Father-in-Law’s Heart
The True Meaning of Marriage
True Love Is Found in True Families
Leaving Behind a Legacy of Love

Chapter Six: Love Will Bring Unification

The Power of Religion to Turn People to Goodness
The River Does Not Reject the Waters That Flow into It
“Allow Freedom of Religion in the Soviet Union”
Korea’s Unification Will Bring World Unification
My Meeting with President Kim Il Sung
The Land May Be Divided, but Not Its People
Not by Guns or Swords, but by True Love

Chapter Seven: Future of Korea, Future of the World

World Harmony and the Korean Peninsula
From Suffering and Tears to Peace and Love
The Ultimate Purpose of Twenty-first-Century Religion
Cultural Projects Express God’s Creativity
Master of the Seas and the Future of the World
Great Opportunity in the Oceanic Era
A Single Dandelion Is More Precious Than Gold
Solution to Poverty and Hunger
More Than Giving Bread, Teaching How to Make Bread

Chapter Eight: Message for Young People

Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life
Embrace the World
Everything We Have Is Borrowed from Heaven
Happiness Is a Life Lived for Others
Dreaming of a Peaceful World