"We
have to live in this world with all its temptations
and struggles, and yet we have to maintain our discipline
and purity like the lotus that is born from the mud,
but is very pure, very clean, and very fragrant. We
have to become saints in hell."
Spoken
by Supreme Master Ching Hai
San Jose, California, U.S.A. May 25, 1989
(Originally in English)