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Path to Global Peace and Unity

To build peace requires effort from everyone through investing in sweat, tears and sometimes blood. True peace comes from practicing true love without expectation of reward and resolving current conflicts between religions, races and nations. While awards focus on present problems, the future must also be considered by expanding vocations that promote peaceful societies. The author has traveled to almost 200 countries and saw many places with civil war and weapons, rather than peace. Their sole objective has been for the world to live in peace as one, by tearing down dividing walls and filling gaps to create a unified world without hunger or tears, going back to the pure hearts of children.

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Path to Global Peace and Unity

To build peace requires effort from everyone through investing in sweat, tears and sometimes blood. True peace comes from practicing true love without expectation of reward and resolving current conflicts between religions, races and nations. While awards focus on present problems, the future must also be considered by expanding vocations that promote peaceful societies. The author has traveled to almost 200 countries and saw many places with civil war and weapons, rather than peace. Their sole objective has been for the world to live in peace as one, by tearing down dividing walls and filling gaps to create a unified world without hunger or tears, going back to the pure hearts of children.

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Building Peace

Everyone desires peace, but peace does not come easily. If it were as commonplace as stones on the
side of a country road or trees on a mountain side, we would never have experienced the terrible wars and
conflicts that plague the human world. But bringing peace demands that everyone invest sweat, tears and
sometimes blood. That is why, even though we long for peace, we seldom achieve it. To experience true
peace, we must first practice true love without expectation of reward.
True peace certainly requires that we resolve the current conflicts between religions, races, and
nations. The even greater challenges that we face, however, include the destruction of the environment
and demographic trends.
The world’s leading peace awards focus on solving the problems of the present generation. Yet we
must solve the problems of the present in a way that is integrated with a practical vision for a happy
future.
To embrace the future, we must expand the scope of vocations that can herald the coming of peace.
Even though we may never meet our descendants, we must make sure that all their activities will
harmonize in peaceful societies and nations.
I have been to almost two hundred countries. There were not many countries where I would land at
the airport and think to myself, “This really is a peaceful and contented place.” There were many places
where, because of civil war, soldiers held their weapons high, guarding the airports and blocking the
streets.
I did not do these things for money or fame. From the time I was old enough to know what was
going on in the world, there has been only one objective for my life: that is for the world to live in peace, as
one. I never wanted anything else. It has not been easy to live day and night for the purpose of peace, but
that is the work that makes me most happy.
What I want is to wipe away completely the walls and fences that divide the world in myriad ways
and to create a world of unity. I want to tear down the walls between religions and between races and fill
in the gap between the rich and the poor. Once that is done, we can re-establish the world of peace that
God created in the beginning. I am talking about a world where no one goes hungry, and no one sheds
tears. To heal a world where there is no hope, and which is lacking in love, we need to go back to the
pure hearts that we had as children. To shed our desire to possess ever-increasing amounts of material
wealth and restore our beautiful essence as human beings.
And again, today I set out on my path with renewed determination to achieve that goal. My prayer is
that every person on earth will be reborn as a peace-loving global citizen, transcending barriers of religion,
ideology, and race.
(As a peace-loving global citizen- Sun Myung Moon)

Questions for discussion:


1) What inspired you from the text?
2) How do you build peace in your life?

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