Cayce Quotations

What Is Meditation? . . . [A]s y[ou] find your 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

Much easier to refrain from error - in speech or in activity - than to seek forgiveness for the word quickly spoken. - Edgar Cayce

Anyone with great imagination . . . is intuitive. - Edgar Cayce

A life is a way of developing, a preparation for the cleansing of the soul. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 39)

In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. - Edgar Cayce

Granting . . . that souls once occupied such an environ as Atlantis, and that these are now entering the earth's sphere - if they made such alterations in the earth's affairs in their day as to bring destruction on themselves - can there be any wonder that they might make such like changes in the affairs of peoples and individuals today? - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 137-38)

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

The wise person . . . finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day. - Edgar Cayce

in giving a helpful influence, the magnifying of virtues in others and the minimizing of faults is the beginning of wisdom in dealing with others. - Edgar Cayce

You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! - Edgar Cayce

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

Through Russia comes the hope of the world . . . freedom - freedom! . . . It will take years for it to be crystallized; yet out of Russia comes again the hope of the world. - Edgar Cayce

Hide not skeletons in your own closet, for they will rattle when you least expect them. - Edgar Cayce (Reading 3246-1)

Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual. . . . Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to magnify the virtues in self. - Edgar Cayce

Karma is a reaction which may be compared to the reaction within the body when a piece of food is taken into the system. The food is translated into a part of the body itself, penetrating to every cell, and influencing the health of the body and mind.

All time is one time. - Edgar Cayce (Reading 294-45, in Thurston 2004, 25)

Thus it is with a soul, when it enters the body for an experience in the earth. The person's thoughts, along with the actions which result from these thoughts, are the food upon which the soul feeds. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 39)

Soul mates are brought together for a reason. All their lives they have been preparing for each other. - Edgar Cayce

A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level . . . because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves. - Edgar Cayce

Meditate, oft. . . . Get close to nature and learn from . . . that which manifests in nature, in the earth; in the birds, in the trees, in the grass, in the flowers, in the bees . . . - Edgar Cayce

All human beings have much greater powers than they are ever aware of - provided they are willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest which is required to develop those powers or abilities. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 144)

Arcturus is the highest civilization in our galaxy. - Edgar Cayce

The loneliest person, the loneliest individual . . . is the one who has lost hold upon his own self! - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 99)

It isn't always the individual that plans to accomplish some great deed that does the most. It is the one who meets the opportunities and privileges which are accorded it day by day. As such opportunities are used, there are better ways opened. - Edgar Cayce

The purpose for each soul's entrance is to complete a cycle . . . cycle means, as is seen, in the beginning is the end. - Edgar Cayce, Readings 3131-1; 256-2

An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them. - Edgar Cayce

Anyone can act the fool by appearing to be important! - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 85)

The soul also has its attributes, and its various ways of gaining, maintaining or manifesting itself among men. The psychic force is a manifestation of the soul mind. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 146)

Ever since I can remember, I have seen colors in connection with people. I do not remember a time when the human beings I encountered did not register on my retina with blues and greens and reds gently pouring from their heads and shoulders. It was a long time before I . . . learned to apply it . . .

How far is tomorrow to any soul? How far is yesterday from thy consciousness? You are . . . becoming gradually aware of it; passing through . . . - Edgar Cayce, Reading 5755-1

"Develop' means going toward the higher forces, or Creator. - Edgar Cayce, Reading 3744-4

"I never think of people except in connection with their auras; I see them change in my friends and loved ones as time goes by - by sickness, dejection, love, fulfillment. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 263-64)

For me, the aura is the weathervane of the soul. It shows which way the winds of destiny are blowing. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 264)

Only that which is good, that which is constructive, that which is true, that which is spiritual, can live – does live on an On! - Edgar Cayce, Reading 1691-1

A knowledge of [I AM] certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships. - Edgar Cayce

At any time, in any world, a soul will radiate its history through its vibrations. If another consciousness can apprehend those vibrations and understand them, it will know the state of its fellow-soul, the plight he is in, or the progress he has made. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 264)

In the self one may find the answer to all the problems that may confront you. - Edgar Cayce

Man, the crowning of all manifestations in a material world – a causation world, finds self as the cause and the product of that he, with those abilities given, has been able to produce, or demonstrate, or manifest from that he has gained, [gains] going toward that (and being of that) from which he came . . . Hence, in man's analysis and understanding of himself, it is as well to know from whence he came as to know whither he is going. - Edgar Cayce, Reading 5753-1

The inclinations of man are ruled by the planet under which he is born, for the destiny of man lies within the sphere or scope of the planets. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 130)

Atlantis . . . such forces as mental telepathy were highly developed there. Numbers of people were able to think with such concentration that they could bring material things into existence by the very power of their will: To use such forces for selfish purposes, as they used them, can result only in destruction. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 268-69)

The just people in the world keep it going. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 123)

Begin with what you are! – Consider . . . making the world a better place . . . Pecuniary gains should come as a result of the entity's using his abilities in the direction of being helpful. - Edgar Cayce

What part may mental telepathy play in our lives? For anything good can also be dangerous . . . have its misapplication, its misuse. How, then, may we use mind reading, or mental telepathy, constructively?

"The best rule I can give is this: don't ask another person to do anything you would not do yourself. - Edgar Cayce (in Langley 1967, 267)

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