Highlighted in Eileen Barker’s The Path of Forgiveness newsletter, a beautiful essay from, Hope is a Decision: Selected Essays, by Daisaku Ikeda:
Looking at the world today, it is easy to feel despair. A kind of powerlessness seems to be the prevailing mood in the world.
Decisions about important issues all seem to be made somewhere beyond our reach. What can one person accomplish in the face of the vast forces that run our world?
The current of the times can seem so fast flowing and complex as to be overwhelming.
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