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Daisaku Ikeda

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Daisaku Ikeda

Nature

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The quotation suggests that although people aim to achieve happiness through their actions, they often create outcomes that lead to unhappiness instead. This contradiction may stem from a misunderstanding of what happiness really means and how it can be genuinely attained.

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