Daily Encouragement

Certainly there will be times when you wish you had more spending money, more time to sleep and more time for fun and recreation. You may feel restricted now, but you should consider your current situation as the perfect set of circumstances for your growth. Within the restrictions that define your present existence, the only thing to do is to discipline yourself and head in the direction of growth and self-improvement. In the process of exerting yourself in such endeavors, you will without a doubt build and strengthen your character.

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Daily Encouragement

The first thing is to pray. From the moment we begin to pray, things start moving. The darker the night, the closer the dawn. From the moment we chant daimoku with a deep and powerful resolve, the sun begins to rise in our hearts. Hope–prayer is the sun of hope. To chant daimoku each time we face a problem, overcoming it and elevating our life-condition as a result–this is the path of “changing earthly desires into enlightenment,” taught in Nichiren Buddhism.

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