Edgar Cayce Reading - Contentment

. . that contentment that can only come with the knowledge of His peace abiding ever with thee; for with His peace there comes contentment, no matter what may be the vicissitudes of life, whether in trials as of the mental surroundings, whether in the trials as of material conditions or positions, there can come--with that peace--that contentment of heart and mind, that He is in His holy temple and all is well with those who have made Him the ideal . . .

Edgar Cayce Reading 451-2

Edgar Cayce Reading 1402-1

Thus no wonder confusion comes, unless there is held to the one mighty
purpose--Love Divine that so overshadows all else as to be that alone
that makes an experience in the earth worth while . . .

Edgar Cayce Reading 1402-1

Edgar Cayce Reading 254-87

Be not overcome with those things that make for discouragements, for
He will supply the strength. Lean upon the arm of the Divine within
thee, giving not place to thoughts of vengeance or discouragements.
Give not vent to those things that create prejudice. And, most of all,
be unselfish! For selfishness is sin, before first thine self, then
thine neighbor and thy God.

Edgar Cayce Reading 254-87

Edgar Cayce Reading 3744-5

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.

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Edgar Cayce Reading 5563-1

Happiness, then, is not a thing set apart from self, but the
conditions with which one approaches that in hand to be done! for when
one considers that the position of self is hard to bear, is not as is
desired, the desire of the heart often maketh one afraid--unless that
desire is ever in that attitude of "Use me, O God, as I am," for the I
AM is ready, willing, to make my will one with Thy will--"Though He
slay me, though He bruise me in mine own selfish or unseen ways; yet
will I trust Him day by day," and He will not forsake thee; neither
will He allow thee to be afraid; for He will raise thee up, and He
understands all the hardships, the little things, the separations, the
variations in the surroundings--but trust Him!

Edgar Cayce Reading 5563-1

Edgar Cayce Reading 2995-3

Thus ye may find in thy mental and spiritual self, ye can make thyself
just as happy or just as miserable as ye like. How miserable do ye
want to be?

Edgar Cayce Reading 2995-3

Edgar Cayce Reading 1204-3

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

Edgar Cayce Reading 1204-3

Edgar Cayce Reading 1792-2

"Hence again might that injunction be given the entity not to be too
easily discouraged. Brace up! Know in what ye have believed and do
believe, but know who is also the author of such. For life is real,
life is earnest, and the grave is not the goal!" Edgar Cayce Reading
1792-2

Edgar Cayce Reading 2811-3

Know ye this, each of you: The law of the Lord is perfect, ye cannot
get around it. Ye may for the moment submerge it, but thy conscience
will smite thee.

Edgar Cayce Reading 2811-3

Edgar Cayce Reading 938-1

For Life and its expressions are one. Each soul or entity will and
does return, or cycle, as does nature in its manifestations about man;
thus leaving, making or presenting--as it were--those infallible,
indelible truths that it--Life--is continuous. And though there may be
a few short years in this or that experience, they are one; the soul,
the inner self being purified, being lifted up, that it may be one
with that first cause, that first purpose for its coming into
existence.

Edgar Cayce Reading 938-1

Edgar Cayce Reading 1224-1

If the experiences are ever used for self-indulgence,
self-aggrandizement, self-exaltation, each entity does so to its own
undoing, or creates for self that as has been termed or called
karma--and must be met. And in meeting every error, in meeting every
trial, in meeting every temptation--whether these be mental or really
physical experiences--the manner and purpose and approach to same
should be ever in that attitude, "Not my will but Thine, O God, be
done in and through me."

Edgar Cayce Reading 1224-1

Edgar Cayce Reading 2936-2

Learn the lesson well of the spiritual truth: Criticize not unless ye
wish to be criticized. For, with what measure ye mete it is measured
to thee again. It may not be in the same way, but ye cannot even think
bad of another without it affecting thee in a manner of a destructive
nature. Think well of others, and if ye cannot speak well of them
don't speak! but don't think it either!

Edgar Cayce Reading 2936-2

Edgar Cayce Reading 1728-2

To not know, but do the best as is known, felt, experienced in self,
to him it is counted as righteousness.

Edgar Cayce Reading 1728-2

Edgar Cayce Reading 1709-3

Count it rather as an opportunity, a gift of a merciful Father, that
there are the opportunities in the present for the sojourn in the
material influences; that the advantages may be taken of opportunities
that come into the experience, even through the hardships and
disappointments that have arisen.

Edgar Cayce Reading 1709-3

Edgar Cayce Reading 397-1

. . in thine own heart there comes those things that would make
afraid. But fear is of the earth. The spirit of truth and
righteousness casteth out fear.

Edgar Cayce Reading 397-1

Edgar Cayce Reading 5753-2

But to know that ye spoke unkindly and suffered for it, and in the
present may correct it by being righteous--that is worth while!

Edgar Cayce Reading 5753-2

Edgar Cayce Reading 826-8

(Q) If a soul fails to improve itself, what becomes of it?
(A) That's why the reincarnation, why it reincarnates; that it may
have the opportunity. Can the will of man continue to defy its Maker?

Edgar Cayce Reading 826-8

Edgar Cayce Reading 254-87

What ye find to do, with willing hands do ye.

Edgar Cayce Reading 254-87

Edgar Cayce Reading 1567-2

An experience, then, is not only a happening, but what is the reaction
in your own mind? What does it do to you to make your life, your
habits, your relationships to others of a more helpful nature, with a
more hopeful attitude?
These are the criterions for every individual's experience--sincerity
of purpose, of desire; putting the whole law into effect in the
activities--which is to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, thy
mind, thy body, and thy neighbor as thyself.
This is the whole law. All the other things given or written are only
the interpreting of same.
Then what does such a proclaiming preclude? From what basis is the
reasoning drawn? What is the purpose of an individual experience of an
entity or soul into the earth at any given period?
These answered then give a background for the interpreting of why.

Edgar Cayce Reading 1567-2

Edgar Cayce Reading 4047-2

The purpose in life, then, is not the gratifying of appetites nor of
any selfish desires, but it is that the entity, the soul, may make the
earth, where the entity finds its consciousness, a better place in
which to live.

Edgar Cayce Reading 4047-2