Daily Wisdom - Drive and initiative of Nichiren Daishonin

From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, January 16, 2011:

It is the way of ordinary people that, even though they spur themselves on to arouse the aspiration for enlightenment and wish for happiness in the next life, they exert themselves no more than one or two out of all the hours of the day, and this only after reminding themselves to do so. As for myself, I read the Lotus Sutra without having to remember to, and practice it even when I do not read its words aloud.

The Four Debts of Gratitude
Written to Kudo Sakon-no-jo Yoshitaka on January 16, 1262