It is easy to be attracted to abstract ideals but difficult to challenge the realities of daily life. I hope that while upholding the magnificent ideal of kosen-rufu, you will spend your days in the actual practice of encouraging and motivating one person and then another and another to contribute to kosen-rufu. This is the practice, the hard work, of propagating the Mystic Law in the real world.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 107
Daisaku Ikeda
The key is to become happy right here and now, in your present situation and circumstances, just as you are. My young friends, be pioneers of life! Be great victors of happiness! Don’t lose yourself in idle, empty, mundane pleasures and amusements! Take your place at the head of the march to fundamental happiness!
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, pp. 354
Daisaku Ikeda
Wherever practitioners of the Lotus Sutra chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, just as an echo answers a sound and a shadow follows a form, their prayers will unfailingly produce positive results there. The Daishonin teaches that our lives are transformed—both spiritually and physically—by prayer, which in turn exerts a positive influence on our environment.
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, p. 118
Daisaku Ikeda