Ikeda quote

A society that has sacrificed so much to material wealth that it has forgotton the human heart and the better human aspirations degenerates into something compassionless , doctrinaire , ignorant and ultra conservative. When this happens fundammental solutions to calamiities become impossible. If we protect the truth and are resolute , we are capable of creating peace and prosperity. And, the truth we must pprotect ought to be high and great.

Our great truth --the thing that we must protect to the utmost---involves ethics and the best of human nature. But more basic than anything else is our duty to guard the truth that we and the universe are one , and that a single  ordinary human thought contains the entirety of universal life.