Daily Encouragement

Posted on January 31, 2017 by SGI-USA Austin

Youth should not seek an easy comfortable path. No one develops in a pampered environment. Youth should instead actively seek out challenges and hardships, transforming them all into valuable assets as they strive to become individuals of outstanding character and ability.

Daily Quote

Posted on January 31, 2017 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 January 30, 2017 by SGI-USA Austin

Buddhism teaches that “all phenomena in the universe are manifestations of the Law” (Gosho Zenshu, p. 564). I hope you will, with this understanding, engage in broad-ranging studies with vigor and determination. The brain has a potential as vast and boundless as the universe. How then do we manifest the brain’s full creative powers? There is only one way to bring out our full intellectual capacity: by constantly putting our minds to work.

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