Edgar Cayce Quotes & Sayings

In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships. — Edgar Cayce

For remember, ever, that Mind in its entirety is ever the Builder. For it is step by step, line by line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little, that the attaining is accomplished in the mental, the spiritual, the material applications of an entity in this material world. — Edgar Cayce

The soul seeks growth; as Truth, as Life, as Light, is in itself. God is, and so is life, light, truth, hope, love. And those that abide in same, grow. Those that abide in the shadow of the night, or the conditions that become or make for the fruits of these, do not grow. — Edgar Cayce

For all that ye may ever keep is just what you give away, and that you give away is advice, counsel, manner of life you live yourself. The manner in which you treat your fellow man, your patience, your brotherly love, your kindness, your gentleness. That you give away, that is all that ye may possess in those other realms of consciousness. — Edgar Cayce

There is today, every day, set before thee good and evil, life and death
choose thou. For only self can separate you from the love of the Father. For it should be manifested to thee that thou art conscious in a living world, aware of suffering, of sorrow, of joy, of pleasure. These, to be sure, are the price one pays for having will, knowledge. But let that knowledge be spent in a way and manner to help others. For as ye do to thy fellow man ye do to thy Maker. — Edgar Cayce

Well for everyone to make a study of astrology for, as indicated, while many individuals have set about to prove the astrological aspects and astrological survey enable one to determine future as well as the past conditions, these are well to the point where the individual understands that these act upon individuals because of their sojourn or correlation of their associations with the environs through which these are shown-see? Rather than the star directing the life, the life of the individual directs the courses of the stars, see? ... — Edgar Cayce

For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper, inner meanings, is a portion of the entity's desire; to know, to experience, to have the "feel" of, to have the surroundings of that implied by the word home! Is it any wonder then that in all of thy meditation, Ohm-O-h-m-mmmmm has ever been, is ever a portion of that which raises self to the highest influence and the highest vibrations throughout its whole being that may be experienced by the entity? — Edgar Cayce

The life must be a well-balanced life, not lopsided in any manner to bring contentment. — Edgar Cayce

The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity. — Edgar Cayce

Keep the body - or keep the mind, and it will keep the body! - in a constructive manner. That is, think the pleasant things, even when the outlook may be the darkest. Do not allow the little things that are hindrances make for irritating, or to hurt the feelings. For naturally the body is sensitive to feelings of others, through the overflow of those activities in the sympathetic system. But know that God is! Know that He protects those who put their trust in Him; that what is necessary will be supplied thee if ye will keep joyous, keep happy, keep in that way of constructive forces throughout! — Edgar Cayce

For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal. — Edgar Cayce

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else. — Edgar Cayce

For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given
in the breath of life
the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces
irrespective of other influences. — Edgar Cayce

For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds. — Edgar Cayce

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds. — Edgar Cayce

Be happy
be in the attitude of ever being helpful to others. This will bring that peace within that is the promise from Him. — Edgar Cayce

To express love in thine activities to thy neighbor is the greater service that a soul may give in this mundane sphere. — Edgar Cayce

Q- What is the highest possible psychic realization ... ?
A- That God, the Father, speaks directly to the sons of men-even as He has promised. 440-4 — Edgar Cayce

What we think and what we eat, combined together, make what we are, physically and mentally. — Edgar Cayce

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds. — Edgar Cayce

Learn to live with self and you will learn to live with others. — Edgar Cayce

Russia will become beacons of hope for the world. — Edgar Cayce

This may be set as a criterion to any-yes, 'to all: When such an experiment, such a trial, draws or tires, or makes the mind foggy or dull or become as a drain upon the physical energies, know you are attuning wrong-and static has entered, from some source! For the universal consciousness is constructive, not destructive in any manner-but ever constructive in its activity with the elements that make up an entity's experience in the physical consciousness. 792-2 — Edgar Cayce

For, none may tell another how to be beautiful. It must be the reflection of that entertained in the heart and mind of the individual. And as He is beauty, He is friendship, He is love, the more and the nearer individuals reflect that in their conversation, in their dealings with their fellow man, the greater the glory to Him. — Edgar Cayce

Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws. — Edgar Cayce

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults. — Edgar Cayce

Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration ... — Edgar Cayce

Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform. — Edgar Cayce

Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course,
So live today so it will be a memory without remorse. — Edgar Cayce

Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces. — Edgar Cayce

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us. — Edgar Cayce

You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life. — Edgar Cayce

All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self. — Edgar Cayce

Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God. — Edgar Cayce

What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon, and that with which it will be possessed, when it passes into the realm for which the other experiences of what it has gained here in the physical plane, must be used. — Edgar Cayce

Spirit is the life, the mind the builder the physical the result — Edgar Cayce

Keep an even, normal balance in diet of body, diet of mind, and the use and associations of same in every way; for as a man thinketh in his heart (not as he speaks, but as he thinketh in his heart) so is he. So, keep the body fit, keep the mind fit. Do not allow little antagonisms of body OR mind to undo that thou hast builded in thine experience. — Edgar Cayce

Smile always - and live the smile! — Edgar Cayce

It doesn't matter, because it just doesn't matter. — Edgar Cayce

Meditation is listening to the divine within — Edgar Cayce

Life - God - in its essence is vibration. — Edgar Cayce

For, know all power, all influence that is of a creative nature is of the Father-God a manifestation. Not as an individual, not as a personality, but as good, as love, as law, as longsuffering, as patience, as brotherly love, as kindness, as gentleness; yet in all the beauties of nature
in the blush of the rose, in the baby's smile, in the song of the bird, in the ripple of the brook, in the wind, in the wave, in all of those influences or forces that bring to His creatures a consciousness of Life itself and its awareness and its activity in a material plane. — Edgar Cayce

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure. — Edgar Cayce

Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara and in Syria, through the straits about those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. — Edgar Cayce

For, know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. Meet it now! — Edgar Cayce

But the less one thinks of self's opinions, and the better listener one becomes, greater may be the opportunities for being of help or benefit to those about the entity. — Edgar Cayce

The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability. — Edgar Cayce

What Is Meditation? It is not musing, not daydreaming; but as ye find you bodies made up of the physical, mental and spiritual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source. — Edgar Cayce

Make the world a better place because you have lived in it. — Edgar Cayce

The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result. — Edgar Cayce

All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came. — Edgar Cayce

As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what emotions are aroused and what character of music. — Edgar Cayce

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues. — Edgar Cayce

For resentments of any nature bring their fruit in the physical. — Edgar Cayce

First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy. — Edgar Cayce

The way of the Cross is not easy, yet it is the tuneful, the rhythmic, the beautiful, the lovely way. — Edgar Cayce

It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means. — Edgar Cayce

In every person of whatever station look not for things to criticize, but for something you adore in your Creator. — Edgar Cayce

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away.
And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience. — Edgar Cayce

Mind is indeed the Builder ... what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being. — Edgar Cayce

For what we think upon, that we become. — Edgar Cayce

Know that whatever experience ye have in the material sojourns for a purpose. Know that it is not by chance that ye are in a material or earthly consciousness in the present. For know that all activities of the mind, of the body, must be based upon spiritual things. — Edgar Cayce

It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden ... — Edgar Cayce

To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer
knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear ... — Edgar Cayce

This is harder than it first appears: Try in thine own experience, each; that ye speak not for one whole day unkindly of any; that ye say not a harsh word to any, about any; and see what [such] a day would bring to you ... — Edgar Cayce

When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are. — Edgar Cayce

Soul development should take precedence over all things. — Edgar Cayce

When you get to the place where you would worry, Stop and pray. — Edgar Cayce

Those who understand nature walk with God. — Edgar Cayce

Know that the fault ye find in others is a reflection of a fault in thyself. Be to others just as you would have others be to thee, and ye will remove much of that. — Edgar Cayce

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,
it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us
— Edgar Cayce

There is no love without sacrifices. — Edgar Cayce

Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health. — Edgar Cayce

The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God. — Edgar Cayce

You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows. — Edgar Cayce

Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord! — Edgar Cayce

As there has been given, dreams are of different natures, and have their inception from influences either in the body, in the mind, or from the realm of activity without the body through the desires and purposes of the soul itself. — Edgar Cayce

Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually. — Edgar Cayce

Each and every soul will become consciously aware of the ability to communicate with the divine. — Edgar Cayce

For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it. Make thy wants known to Him. Live as if ye expected them to be answered. For He has given, What ye ask in my name, believing, that will my Father in heaven give to thee. — Edgar Cayce

Smile often. Speak gently. Be kind. — Edgar Cayce

The signs of the zodiac are karmic patterns; the planets are the looms; the will is the weaver. — Edgar Cayce

You get to heaven on the arms of people you have helped. — Edgar Cayce

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance. — Edgar Cayce

Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. — Edgar Cayce

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death. — Edgar Cayce

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. — Edgar Cayce

Life is continuous, and is Infinite. — Edgar Cayce

We grow to heaven. We don't go to heaven. — Edgar Cayce

Of mornings the body should rise early. First take the full setting-up exercises of the body, upper and lower, circling the body from hips up, bending from hips, stooping from hips, circling arms, head and neck. Then be rubbed down well over the spine, with very cold cloth (wet) and then rubbed until the body glows from the blood and circulation being brought to these portions. Do this each morning. — Edgar Cayce

First, know thine own ideal - spiritual, mental and material; not as to what ye would have others do, but what ye would do for others. — Edgar Cayce

Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner. — Edgar Cayce

Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker our karma or problem is within self. — Edgar Cayce

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires. — Edgar Cayce

If the entity allows [the relationships with individuals] to produce a hardening of the heart, or of a determination to get even, or of those conditions that hold for discontent, malice, or otherwise, these must surely bring the destructive forces that build that which the entity must meet; for, in truth, that builded in the mental forces of a body is as active in the experiences as must come to the entity as were done in the very material act ... — Edgar Cayce

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is birth in the spiritual. — Edgar Cayce

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped. — Edgar Cayce

For this - the ideal, as it is set - should be not as to what others should do to make the ideal situation for self, but as to how self may apply itself in its ideal to bring the ideal relationships with others. — Edgar Cayce

This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development. — Edgar Cayce

Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest of that which manifests in nature, in the earth; in the birds, in the trees, in the grass, in the flowers, in the bees; that the life of each is a manifesting, is a song of glory to its Maker. And do thou likewise! — Edgar Cayce