Daisaku Ikeda Quotes On Life

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself. Creativity means to push open the heavy groaning doorway to life. Daisaku Ikeda is a Buddhist philosopher peacebuilder educator author and poet.

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Daisaku Ikeda Quotes On Life. Do not dwell in the past do not dream of the future concentrate the mind on the present moment. You write the story of your own life and you are its star player. The flower is yourself your humanity.

Creativity means to push open the heavy groaning doorway to life. There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. The scenario of your life is not written by some external power.

Indeed it may be the most difficult task in the world for opening the door to your own life is in the end more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe. It has thorns like the stem of a rose. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.

But we cling to that idea of someday expecting it to be far off in the future. It is not a result of coincidence nor predetermined by destiny. What Buddhism teaches us is that only you can write the script of your life.

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