You have nothing to fear

"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.

Karma is not a debt

'... even individuals who are familiar with the term "karma" are often mistaken as to what it actually means. Karma is not a debt, it is not a punishment, it is not an inescapable fate, it is not really something that exists "between" people, and ultimately it is not even "good" or "bad" in character. Karma is simply an interactive, energetic force that is set in motion through our intent, desire, thought, deed, and word, and as a result molds and shapes the resulting consequence of all our actions. It is a universally applicable and dynamic constant that is interwoven with everything associated with being human.'

Kevin Todeschi (2011). Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation and Family Karma. p. xvi.


In the end, it is we ourselves who decide whatever karmic lessons to learn in our earthly existence. 

Dreams

"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."

Kevin Todeschi (1998).

Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records: The Book of Life. p. 164.

Cheerful giver

"Remember that the Lord loveth the cheerful giver, as well as those who seek His face."

Edgar Cayce's Story of Karma.  p. 104.

Nothing is the end of the world

"Relax. Nothing is the end of the world. There is a solution to everything. We must never, ever, take ourselves too seriously."

Ted Waitt (a co-founder of Gateway)

It was nearly ten years ago that I came across these words. I cannot remember where I found them but I do remember they did help me cope with difficulties I was facing in those days.

Your soul needs the tears

"Your soul needs the tears. Think of a flower; it cannot bloom and it cannot survive without rain. It cannot bloom out into its full beauty without the sun. So think, if you can, of that divine part of you in your earthly body and when you have tragedy and tears, think of them as the rain falling to feed it, and then when the joyous times come, when something beautiful happens and your heart is full of joy, then that is the sun that is nurturing that fragile flower."

Doris Stokes. Voices. p. 221.

Doris Stokes is one of the most famous mediums in England.

She received this message in one of her dreams where a wise spirit person was teaching relatively new comers to Heaven.

His brother's sorrows

"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.