Daily Encouragement

Posted on May 1, 2019 by SGI-USA Austin

As you make your way home tonight, may you pause for a moment to gaze up at the night sky and let your heart communicate with the moon in wordless dialogue. Perhaps you might compose a poem and set it down in your journal entry for today. I would like you to possess such a poetic spirit.

Daily Quote

Posted on May 1, 2019 by SGI-USA Austin

The important thing is to take that first step. Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

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Daily Encouragement

Posted on April 30, 2019 by SGI-USA Austin

Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) of Chile was well respected as a humanistic educator. Indicative of the great spirit of compassion and caring with which she interacted with her students is her “Teacher’s Prayer”: “Let me be more mother than the mother herself in my love and defense of the child who is not flesh of my flesh. Help me to make one of my children my most perfect poem and leave within him or her my most melodious melody from that day when my own lips no longer sing.” With this same spirit, let us care for and nurture young people.

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