"It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life." -Daisaku Ikdea-

As I begin my 21st year of Buddhist practice with SGI-USA, I find great joy in sharing quotes, principles, guidances and poems from Daisaku Ikeda . Some are poems and thoughts of my own. I hope you will be encouraged.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Confidence

"As long as we pray earnestly and sincerely with all our being, if we have strong and genuine faith, even though results may not be immediately visible, they will definitely manifest without fail in generations of our children and our children's children. I would like all of you to have absolute confidence in this."

Daisaku Ikeda, "For Today and Tomorrow", pg 265

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ENCOURAGING MYSELF

Work a high rejection job for often
Big low money.
Opinions, judgement,
Scowls galore . . .
But let's keep it up, honey.

There are those moments -
In between
One someone comes-
Can see.

A little care, a hope, a green
How powerful that be!

-Bethany Wild-

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