Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

Daisaku Ikeda

• Life
• War
• Humanity
• Perspective

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• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

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• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

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• If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

  

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• I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.

  

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• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

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• Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • War
  • Humanity