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Edgar Cayce answers…

On health, healing…
Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.
Remember, the body does gradually renew itself constantly. … Hold to that KNOWLEDGE- and don’t think of it as just therapy-that the body CAN, the body DOES, renew itself!

Which of [...]

Einstein’s practical wisdom

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly trustworthy physical and human [...]

Celebration and service — a message for the new year!

2008 is gone. And here comes one more year. New year wishes everywhere, messages for the new year, resolutions, celebrations everywhere. 2008 was as good as any other year, but it also had its woes. Terrorism rising its head, natural calamities, conflicts,… and it doesn’t feel good to see so much of hatred and hopelessness [...]

Mahatma Gandhi on selfless service

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”
~ M. K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, part II, ch. XXVI.

What is the best way to help and serve people?

A questioner asks J. Krishnamurti, “I want to help people, serve them. What is the best way?”
And Krishnamurti replies,

The best way is to begin to understand yourself and change yourself. In this desire to help another, to serve another, there is hidden pride, conceit. If you love, you serve. The clamour to help is born [...]