When we cannot say thank you, our personal growth has stopped. When we are growing, we can see how wonderful others are too. When we stop growing, all we see are other people’s faults. From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 67

Daisaku Ikeda

All of you who make your way together with the Soka Gakkai are naturally leading the most admirable and fulfilling of lives. The Daishonin assures Nichigen-nyo, the wife of Shijo Kingo, “You will grow younger, and your good fortune will accumulate” (WND-1, 464).
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, p. 296

Daisaku Ikeda

Life is an explosion and burning of the stored-up energy that had been in a resting state. Eventually that life brings its story to a close and it drifts back into death. It merges with the universe, is recharged by the power of the life of the universe as a whole, and awaits its next emergence into active life. This is the nature of life and death inherent in all things, and Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the foundation of this intrinsic rhythm of the universe.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, p. 326

Daisaku Ikeda