Developing our heart and character

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The Essentials of Unification Principle and World
Peace

• Part 2
• Developing our heart and character
• The principles of spiritual growth
• We are both spiritual and physical beings
• The Spiritual World

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Development of Heart and Character Individual
Peace.
God True Parents True Teachers True Leaders
Heart motivates true love. Seeks the joy of
living for the sake of others. Conscience
guides true love. My innate sense of truth. The
god in myself, which directs me towards the
higher purpose.
Love and truth
Heart Conscience
Whole purpose
Subject
Mind
Ideas Plans
Actions
Mind
Body
Individual purpose
Body
Object
My life of love and truth living for the sake of
others
True Person
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The Principles of Spiritual Growth
God
Mind
Body
Mind and Body united in a life of love for God
and others
True Person
Maturity of heart and character resembling God

• Growth requires purposeful give and take
• action over a time period
• We need love, guidance and example
• from true parents, teachers, leaders, elders
• We must add our own responsibility to act
• in love and truth live for the sake of others
• Our heart and conscience centred on God
• guide our body
• Our freedom exercised with responsibility
• enables us to participate in our own creation

Completion stage Adolescence Will
Growth stage Childhood Intellect
Formation stage Infancy Emotion
Birth
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Spiritual Growth
God
Air Sunlight
Life Elements Love and Truth
Spiritual Self
Physical Self
Physical World
Spiritual World
Food Water -
Vitality Elements From my acts of love and truth -
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Three Stages of Life
Mother
Mind Spirit self
Spirit Mind
Like dying
Like dying
Unborn child
Spirit Body
Body Physical self
40 weeks
80 years
Eternity
Physical life is the precious time to grow to
maturity by a life lived for God and others
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The tree and the fruit
Harvest
Fruit
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The tree and the fruit
Harvest
Fruit Heart and Character
Our deeds during earthly life
The quality of our life and our destination in
the spirit world depends on the quality of our
life in the physical world
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God
Spiritual World eternal
Religious founders Saints and sages Ancestors Ange
ls
Spiritual Self 5 spiritual senses
Physical Self 5 physical senses
Matter, energy, Minerals, plants and animals
Physical World temporal
A true person is a microcosm of the two worlds,
a medium of harmony and exercises a dominion of
love