Edgar Cayce Quotes

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

You can't run away from yourself

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.

Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.