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My mentor, Josei Toda, declared, “Smile amid the raging winds and fight on until your final day!” From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, p. 299
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Showing how you have grown as a human being is the best way to communicate the truth of Buddhism to those around you. From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 70
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The aim of Buddhism is the happiness of the individual. It is the same with our organization for kosen-rufu. People do not exist for the sake of the organization; the organization exists to benefit people. From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, p. 136
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To live is to be active, to be engaged in something. And a good life is the result of good actions. A wonderful life is realized through steady right action day after day. That’s why those who keep making effort, who always press on under any circumstances, are victors. From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness … …
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The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer is reported to have said: “I have no intention of dying so long as I can do things. And if I do things, there is no need to die. So, I will live a long, long time.” He in fact lived to the age of ninety. From The … …
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No matter how much wealth or power one may possess, such things vanish like a fleeting dream in the face of the unrelenting reality of old age and death. What is crucial, then, is the philosophy one upholds and the life one has lived. From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised … …
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We of the Soka Gakkai, however, are able to exert ourselves fully today, confident that our movement for kosen-rufu will show wonderful development thirty or fifty years from now. Why? Because we have successors, our future division members. From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, p. 408
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When we cannot say thank you, our personal growth has stopped. When we are growing, we can see how wonderful others are too. When we stop growing, all we see are other people’s faults. From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 67
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All of you who make your way together with the Soka Gakkai are naturally leading the most admirable and fulfilling of lives. The Daishonin assures Nichigen-nyo, the wife of Shijo Kingo, “You will grow younger, and your good fortune will accumulate” (WND-1, 464). From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, … …
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Life is an explosion and burning of the stored-up energy that had been in a resting state. Eventually that life brings its story to a close and it drifts back into death. It merges with the universe, is recharged by the power of the life of the universe as a whole, and awaits its next … …