“We are stepping into the Golden Age, so we have to change. We have to leave behind all these old, useless conceptions of how a saint should be; or we should leave behind the dark thinking, the negative expectations of the world and ourselves. Do something! We should start with ourselves; we should clean our house. If there’s anything we don’t like about ourselves, we should change it! Replace it with more positive, more virtuous qualities.”

From “Start with Ourselves”
News 90, Pearls Of Wisdom
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Portland, Oregon, USA • December 4, 1993
(Originally in English)

“If we enter the new enlightened age or not, it’s up to you to decide. It’s not up to me or anyone to say. If we are all enlightened or many of us are enlightened, we will enter a new enlightened age. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter who predicts what and who decides what age we are in, what is the use? We are still living in darkness.”

From “A New Enlightened Age”
News 96, Pearls of Wisdom
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA • March 28, 1993
(Originally in English)