Daily Encouragement

Posted on by SGI-USA Austin

What is success in life? Who are the truly successful? There are famous and powerful people who become pitiful figures in their old age. There are people who die alone, feeling empty and desolate inside. Just what is success? The English thinker Walter Pater (1839-94) wrote: “To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.” The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.

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Daily Quote

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The problems confronting humankind are daunting in their depth and complexity. While it may be hard to see where to begin—or how—we must never give in to cynicism or paralysis. We must each initiate action in the direction we believe to be right. We must refuse the temptation to passively accommodate ourselves to present realities and embark upon the challenge of creating a new reality.

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Daily Encouragement

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Age is not an excuse for giving up. If you allow yourself to grow passive and draw back, it’s a sign of personal defeat. There may be a retirement age at work, but there is no retirement age in life. How then could there be any “going into retirement” in the world of faith? The Buddhist Law is eternal, extending across the three existences of past, present and future, and one of the benefits of faith is perennial youth and eternal life.

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