Aphorisms
～Spoken By Supreme Master Ching Hai
(Originally In English)

★ Every time you pay attention a lot to one thing --
one pointedly and wholeheartedly, that is meditation.
Now, I pay attention only to the inner power,
to the compassion, to the love, to the merciful quality of God,
and that is my meditation.

★ We make ourselves suffer because we identify ourselves with our mistakes, our successes, our failures, our this, that and the other, and the circumstances that affect us.

★ Only when you are satisfied, then you can satisfy others.

★ We have to be careful of how we act in everyday life,
because it's not we, alone, that get the full scale of responsibility of what we do, what we say, or what we think;
but we might affect other people.

★ Actually, our thinking is very important.
We should take care that our thinking is always good,
because thinking is the material for the physical appearance of all things in this universe.
If it is too strong, it will materialize right away.
If it is not strong enough, it will take some time to materialize.

★ The more we are steeped in these material surroundings, the less we know ourselves.