"Each of us is given a lifetime of opportunities to become a better person for having had the experience of all of our relationships. Whether or not those opportunities are fulfilled remains a matter of free will, but the potential is ever present."
"The issues she [Diana] was addressing--Aids, battered women, drug addiction, alienation and loneliness--were challenging ones, not only for herself but also for society. She was learning the hard way that this was a school of hard knocks."
'In Cayce's cosmology, it is through an ongoing process of personal spiritual growth and development that each individual learns, grows and constantly meets self--self's past experiences, relationships, inclinations, talents, and faults in the form of karmic memory. With this in mind, when a twenty-two-year-old man asked Edgar Cayce, "From which side do I inherit most?" The reply came: "You have inherited most from yourself, not from the family! The family is only a river through which it (the entity, soul) flows!" (1233-1)'K Todeschil. (2011). Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation and Family Karma. p. 8.
"As stated previously, it's not that individuals come together as a means of forcing one another to deal with the karma that exists between them, instead that memory essentially resides within each individual alone. It is the relationship interaction that often causes each person to eventually face the karmic memory he or she possesses."
"Do not condemn self. Condemning of self is as much an error as condemning others. Live thine own self. Leave the results with God ... do not feel that ye have failed. Do not judge self. You have not failed, yet. You only fail if you quit trying."K. Todeschi (2011). Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation and Family Karma. p. 46.
Keep the heart singing!
Keep the mind clear!
Keep the face toward the light!
The shadows then are behind.
Edgar Cayce
"Her public image is one of beauty, grace and caring. Her private life is one of simplicity and humility. She has time for everyone, the old, the sick and the deprived."
"Most often, the readings did not recommend divorce, as it was seen as simply a postponement of a lesson or a situation that would eventually need to be faced. However, there were occasions when divorce or separation was recommended. Individuals were advised to end their relationship if one of the following was occurring in their marriage: (1) if the individual was in physical, mental or spiritual danger by remaining with the other person; (2) when two people had come together and each had overcome what required to be worked out together; and, (3) when one individual had overcome the lesson and the other refused to. For example, on one occasion a fifty-three-year-old woman was encouraged to follow-through on a divorce and told: "thy usefulness one to another has passed. (3179-1)"K. Todeschi (2011). Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation and Family Karma. p. 29.
"A burden has been placed upon your shoulders; how you bear it you will decide. If you square your shoulders and say, "This is my burden, I will carry it", it will become lighter because your soul will grow and in growing allow some of that inner strength to heal you. There is none spiritually impoverished for using honesty and courage in facing difficulties. You have nothing to fear."Kazuo Kondo trans. and ed. Silver Birch: Kyo no Kotoba (Silver Birch: Words for Today). p. 61.
"In fact, from Cayce's perspective nothing of significance ever happens without it first being foreshadowed in a dream. However, one's personal will remains an important factor even in the face of a 'foreshadowed' future."
"We must spread not indifference, not disregard, not callousness to the well-being of others, but tenderness, mercy, compassion, sympathy and service. He whose soul is awakened cannot be indifferent to the sufferings of others. His brother's pains are his pains and his brother's sorrows are his sorrows."K. Kondo trans. and ed. Silver Birch: Kyo no Kotoba. (Silver Birch: Words for Today) p. 56.
"I have hope, but I do not have any expectations.
Hope is fine, but expectations can lead to disappointment."
"Love is stronger than blood. Love is stronger than death. Love is the permanent force because love rules the universe. Those whom the Great Spirit has joined in the bond of love cannot be separated in life or what you call death. The grave has no power to curtail love. Love is triumphant because it is part of the Great Spirit. And what belongs integrally to the Great Spirit is indestructible."
"The Great Spirit can talk to you many ways, not only in churches and temples, through inspired prophets and mediums, through sacred books with their countless revelation, but also through the voice of nature."K. Kondo trans. and ed. (2008). Silver Birch: Kyo no Kotoba (Silver Birch: Words for Today). p. 153.
'In reading 254-67, Cayce said that the Akashic Records could be read by a psychic, but they could also be deduced by the individual who had written the record to begin with. Asked how this was possible, the reading confirmed that the records were everywhere and were manifested through one’s consciousness by means of the five senses. In other words, our patterns and our abilities become evident through what we say, what we write, what we choose to see, and what we choose to hear. According to Cayce, each of these things, as well as our thoughts, are [sic] affected by the “shadows” of what is written upon the records themselves. Clarity of obtaining specific information is dependent upon why the information is being sought in the first place.'
"May you all realize that you are never alone, but always encompassed around and about by a host of those who love you, who seek to guard and guide you and to help and inspire you. And may you, as you unfold your own spirits, realize that you are being drawn closer to the greatest Spirit of all, becoming more in unison with his law."
"Hold your head high: look forward, not backward. The pages of the past have been turned; they cannot be turned again. There are always fresh pages in the book of life waiting for you to turn them. Live for the day, not yesterday. It is today that you will sow the seeds of a harvest that you will reap on the morrow."
