Text: Where, then, may this be accomplished? First that determination must be found in self's own mind, heart and soul; for, as the body knows, it is not all of death to die, neither is it all of life just to live! but to be of a service to someone else is the only way that life is made to be such as to bring contentment, and to find the joy, the pleasure in living. Then, when such a determination has been reached, choose that surrounding (wherever it may be) which is most conducive to bring those conditions in the experience of the entity. There make the physical stand, that "Though the heavens may fall, though my body may be racked with pain, I will conquer it here and now!" Only with such determinations may the body find that peace, that hope, that place where shadows do not fall, where joy and pleasure in well-being is the lot of the mental and material body. Cayce (911-7) In the study of ideal and idealism, as it may be termed, well that the ideal be outside one's self rather than for the motives of same be as added, in any manner, to the pleasure, satisfaction, gratification, contentment, ease, or such. Rather in humbleness, drawing a comparison of self's own activities as related to the ideal as is set or held, then individualities and the application of the things of life may be gained or attained. Cayce (301-3) Then, in the mental-soul balance of the entity, there are abilities in many directions that in the application of same to self may make for influences that may bring into self contentment or joy, or may at times make for those very same influences in self where the pleasure may be in those of relationships to others rather than of looking too closely within self's own relation or activity. Cayce (491-1) Do these things; live these things, that contentment may come; not being satisfied, no - but grow in these things. For, as ye nourish and cherish these things in thy dealings with thy associates, thy fellow man, faint not because thou dost feel at times that thou art not appreciated for thine efforts among thy associates or friends; but rather let those things that would make doubts or misunderstandings give place to love. Then thou shalt find in thine experience in life that this world's goods, whether little or much, are replaced with that in self and with that which is said concerning thee that cannot be bought with money, fame, position, or with powers that make men afraid. Cayce (531-3)

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