"A person of wisdom is one who, understanding the time, spreads the teachings of the Lotus Sutra accordingly, this is his most important task. If a person's throat is dry, what he needs is water; he has no use for bows and arrows, weapons and sticks. If a person is naked, he wants suit of clothes but has no need for water. From one or two examples you can guess the principle that applies in general. (WND, 518)
"Rosa Parks wrote in her book Quiet Strength: "I find that if I am thinking too much of my own problems and the fact that at times things are not just like I want them to be, I do not make any progress at all. But if I look around and see what I can do, and then I do it, I move on." Youth, and indeed life itself, flashes by in the link of an eye. That is why it is important for you young people to ask yourselves what you can do for those who are suffering, what you can do to resolve the contradictions that plague society and to boldly take on these great challenges." (For Today & Tomorrow, Daisaku Ikeda)
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