(1) In wishing “peace” upon others, you are also wishing that they will be aware of the Divine’s presence around them or in them.
(2) There may be very many who are praying on bent knees, but how many can you find who are praying on the knees of their hearts?
(3) At the end of each sadhana, see yourself as you wish yourself to be. (STQ-2009-p37,2010-p23,21)

Your faith ends when you are in fear.
Your devotion ends when fear begins.
Your Practice ends when your fear takes hold of you!
Dharma is most precious to life because it is that which is able to bring fear and suffering of all types to an end. Appreciating this, seek refuge in it. (STQ-2013-p5,2012-p45)

Understanding the Practice of Self-Correction shall reward you with the Self-Changes that will bring forth the Good Character with the respecting and living in accord with The Law of Cause and Effect, with the working out of the karma of the past and with the repairing and improving of your relationships with others. (STQ-2013-p33)

Taking on the Practice of this year will win you the Good Character of one whose life shall always be a constant source of joy, hope, peace, love and inspiration for others. And of a life that is given to a dedicated cultivation of the Ten Goodnesses, which will have you experiencing the truth of Goodness and the joy of traversing this Path that wins the Light and Love of the Divine Mother. (STQ-2012-p12)

There will always be good and bad days in your practice, times when you experience deep peace and wisdom, and other days of spiritual hollowness. Accept this to be normal.
A good way to return to a happy practice is to take a few days off from your meditation cushion and spend some time on physical exercises or take long walks in the park. (STQ-2013-p27x2)

Let this Year be of Vowing to awaken your Great Loving Heart and to develop it fully as swiftly as possible! To be able to make a Pledge or Vow to practise the Path, this is indicative that your faith in it is complete, your love for it is full and your will to accomplish it is unquestionable. (STQ-2013-p3,2012-p9)

Indeed life is for learning so as to gather the much-needed experiences for self-growth. So is all life a lesson for you to learn by living in accord with the Heavenly Laws and to learn through observing how others live their lives. The winds of change will always come and if you will welcome them then the Lessons of Life can be learned! (STQ-2012-p40,2013-p4)

Life has so much to teach to those who are ready and willing to face the challenges and tests that it has to offer so that they may gain those learning experiences that will move them on in their evolution. Know then that it is life that teaches you the lessons that must be learned. Bear in mind that life is for learning and all life is a lesson. (STQ-2012-p40,37)

Let each Pledge of this year be born from an intentional desire to acquire the Good Character that is essential for the development of the lovely attributes of a Kuan Yin Contemplative, a Spiritual Warrior who will not abandon this Path of Virtue and Wisdom that Heaven has bequeathed to mankind so that your Warrior Spirit will not allow you to give up on anyone or anything whilst on the quest to develop The Great Loving Heart! (STQ-2012-p16)

It is good to remember that in striving to walk this Path of Selfless Service, the Five undertakings must be accepted with a knowing mind and they are:
1. Facing the Challenges of Life
2. Bearing the Crosses of Life
3. Enduring the Pains of Life
4. Overcoming the Obstacles of Life and
5. Fulfilling the Purposes of Life

For this is how
1. The Courageous you
2. The Patient you
3. The Persevering you
4. The Capable you and
5. The Developed you
may come to be! (STQ-2012-p17)

Each morning, during your hour of devotion offer bows of gratitude to the Divine Mother for having led you into this great year that is dedicated towards Self-Knowing, which has caused you to look at your faults, flaws, failing and other short-comings and set firm your mind to eradicate them instead of nurturing them, so that you may succeed in generating the good character that is required if you are to enter into the ranks of a practising Kuan Yin Contemplative whose character is noble, compassionate and selfless, and whose one thought is to help living beings to be free from suffering and to lead them into this Path that generates the Great Loving Heart of a Bodhisattva. (STQ-2011-p13)

The New Age has set in and greater changes to the world must be expected, and, more so, to your country. For the Family of the Kuan Yin Contemplatives to be birthed, the Teachings on how to take the Path to heart should now be shared, and more and more sharings on how the Divine Charts can be made used of, be imparted, so that the pursuance of the Path may be made more simple and less daunting. Be ready to begin sharing the Teachings of the early decade that have kept firm your faith in the Path! (STQ-2013-p5)

It should be very clear by now that until Self-Correction is undertaken the good character which has the moral discipline and other qualities to take on the practices that will give rise to the Heart that Loves Greatly to generate the Noble Mind of a Kuan Yin Contemplative will not come to be.
Comprehending how very important this requisite quality is, bring forth your will to attain it by responding to the Call to practise Self-Correction for this Year of Self-Change so as to enter “The Door of Practice” that will have you finally moving on in Self-Evolution. (STQ-2012-p7)

Rejoice and know that the Practise of Self-Correction shall at once effectively put an end to the performing of non-virtuous deeds. And through this learn to restrain yourself from the gathering of negative causes and in turn enable you to generate good causes through wholesome deeds of body, speech and mind. (STQ-2012-p8)

How does one practise Self-Correction? Simple.
What is good to you and others, do; what is not good for anyone, refrain from doing it.
When meeting a kind and helpful person, praise; when meeting an indifferent person, encourage! (STQ-2012-p8)

Let this be your year of making the great effort to practise Self-Correction so that the Good Character of a Kuan Yin Contemplative may arise to enable you to generate the Noble Character that will add colour and make meaningful your life that will expand your mind, soften your heart and perfect your morality that is bright with wisdom! (STQ-2012-p10)

Entering the ranks of a Kuan Yin Contemplative your life shall thenceforth be spent in gaining the Merit to cultivate all the Virtues of the Divine Mother, Chunti Kuan Yin, and the Wisdom to preach those Virtues to those around you and to praise Her glory unceasingly.
Eventually this Path is about attaining the Great Loving Heart so that Praying, Giving, Sitting, Caring, Serving, Practising, Purifying, Renouncing and Harmonising with Life is to be done with the Love that is absolute if the Kuan Yin being is to emerge! (STQ-2011-p36, 2012-p4)

Watch your thoughts and know that as you conceive so shall you receive. Thoughts of lack create lack. Thoughts of plenty create abundance. Unless you have lived an unsatisfied life you will not wish you were young again! (STQ-2012-p13x2, 2010-p29)