"A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed."

-- Nichiren

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“We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.”
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.”
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”
“I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.”
“Itâ€™s one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhereâ€¦”
“In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.”
“Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.”
“Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.”

Source : Plotinus (1952). “The Six Enneads”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

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