Daily Encouragement

Posted on March 6, 2018 by SGI-USA Austin

There is no need for you to be impatient. If you can achieve something very easily right from the start, you will find no sense of fulfillment or joy. It is in making tenacious, all-out efforts for construction that profound happiness lies.

Daily Quote

Posted on March 6, 2018 by SGI-USA Austin

I believe friendship is the most genuinely humane relationship of which we are capable. To be understood and appreciated for oneself is a vital experience in life.

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Daily Encouragement

Posted on March 5, 2018 by SGI-USA Austin

The efforts made by one individual can be immensely important. Nichiren repeatedly states that victory depends not on numbers but on a group or individual’s attitude or resolve. In one passage he writes: “Everyone in Japan, from the sovereign on down to the common people, all without exception tried to do me harm, but I have survived until this day. This is because, although I am alone, I have firm faith [in the Lotus Sutra]” (MW-3, 198). In other words, his strong faith enabled him to emerge triumphant. I find this passage deeply moving.

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