> Never for an instant forget the effort to renew your life, to build yourself anew. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway of life itself. This is not an easy task. Indeed, it may be the most severely challenging struggle there is. For opening the door to your own life is in…

>Yes yes yes, I did it, it’s finished. The END.

>I thought I published something yesterday that maybe I shouldn’t have.I worried about it. Now when I opened my blog I saw my posting was gone, it had never been there as it shouldn’t have.The mystic law is working in my life. The mystic law of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. I go with it.I chant. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.

>I took this picture from my desk. A mother is braiding her daughters hair, right in front of my window.

> document.write(kiji[today_date]); Life is best lived by being bold and daring. People tend to grow meek when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions. Another great quote by Daisaku Ikeda

> Over twenty years ago I spent a week in Stromboli, a small volcanic Island in the Mediterranean. We stayed in a house in Ginostra, one of the two villages of the island. Upon arrival I disembarked from the ship onto a fisherman’s rowing boat that took me to the shore.On Stromboli I was introduced…

>Daisaku Ikeda’s Words of Wisdom: True love should be transformative, a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Yet, in the end, we can only partner with those befitting ourselves. The same is true of…

> Memory of Holland Thinking of HollandI see wide-flowing riversslowly traversinginfinite plains,inconceivablyrarefied poplarslike lofty plumeson the skyline in lanes;and submerged in the vastnessof unbounded spacesthe farmhousesstrewn over the land,tree clumps, villages,truncated towers,churches and elm trees –all wondrously planned.the sky hangs lowand slowly the sun bymists of all coloursis stifled and greyedand in all the regionsthe…

>Do you ever feel sad? Or misunderstood? Do you ever feel that people are trying to put you down? When I feel this I just love to listen to Melanie as her songs give me strength. Today the song I want to here goes like this and I wish you could hear her sing. LITTLE…

>President Ikeda’s Words of Wisdom: Ultimately, we are responsible for our own destiny. It may seem to us that our fate is predetermined, whether by our genes or by our environment. What really matters, however, is how we can improve ourselves from this moment forward, how we can change the circumstances that we find ourselves…