It is easy to be attracted to abstract ideals but difficult to challenge the realities of daily life. I hope that while upholding the magnificent ideal of kosen-rufu, you will spend your days in the actual practice of encouraging and motivating one person and then another and another to contribute to kosen-rufu.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 107
Daisaku Ikeda