Daily Encouragement: Quotes From my Buddhist Mentor
A daily dose of wisdom
It is important to keep the promises made to friends. This is the true meaning of friendship. To become people who can do so, however, we must first learn to keep the promises we have made to ourselves.
— Daisaku Ikeda (from Quotations by Daisaku Ikeda)
I think I’ve often been loath to promise things because I never wanted to default, which makes me appear reliable, but possibly also non-committal, I think, maybe.
I have quite a few friends, so over the years I may have demonstrated myself to be at least f-a-i-r-l-y reliable. Incidentally, that’s the moniker of a fishing guide service our family used to hire for our fishing trips in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota — Woody’s Fairly Reliable Guide Service. Now there is a good sales campaign. He claims on his website: “Over 90% of the people who fish with Woody’s Fairly Reliable® Guide Service make it back the dock safely, and that’s a conservative estimate.” No guarantees, but there’s a strong likelihood of some fun and fish to eat. If not, there was always a shore lunch of onion and bacon sandwiches he prepared for his clients.
My family and I were filmed by Harry Smith several years ago with Woody for a CBS news show.
Keep the faith.
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(BTW we always caught fish.)
Keep the faith.
