We never know what's good for us. It's better to just try our best and accept whatever comes. But you always have to try your best. In that way you'll rest in peace and you'll know that you have tested your strength and wisdom.

Spoken by the Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Long Beach, California, U.S.A., December 28, 1996 (Originally in English)

We can live through anything, we can survive, because if our spirit is strong, we have a noble purpose and a higher ideal. We can just look into that ideal and forget everything else; it's truly like that.

 

Spoken by the Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Los Angeles, California, USA,
September 13, 1997 (Originally in English)

Don't forget the child inside you. Hes is always there, and whenever we call, Hes comes out. Hes peeps out. That is the God nature. That is the nature of purity. We shouldn't worry so much. We shouldn't calculate so much-"If we do this, what will we get in return?" A child doesn't do that. A child never worries about tomorrow.

Spoken by the Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Los Angeles, California, USA, September 13, 1997 (Originally in English)

Being childlike doesn't mean that we don't take responsibility or we don't do what we have to do. It means that we just do it with a very pure joy and without expectations, because knowing God as God is, we should not really worry.

 

Spoken by the Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Singapore, March 9, 1993 (Originally in English)

We don't need to know the past. We should take care of the present, and the future will come out beautifully.

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