Edgar Cayce Quotes

God defend me from myself.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

They build their own Hells.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

My fire is my gift and my curse. I harness it 95% of the time, but the 5% I don't, it works against me.

I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.