Cayce
"Contentment, peace, harmony, glory, love, beauty, is from WITHIN; and is as a growth that makes for that activity, that expression, that which will bring the growth, the understanding, the environments, the necessary influences." [Cayce 165-21]
". . . that contentment that can only come with the knowledge of His peace abiding ever with thee; for with His peace there comes contentment, no matter what may be the vicissitudes of life, whether in trials as of the mental surroundings, whether in the trials as of material conditions or positions, there can come - with that peace - that contentment of heart and mind, that He is in His holy temple and all is well with those who have made Him the ideal . . ." [Cayce (451-2)]
"Contentment is the greatest boon in man’s whole experience." [Cayce)) (1925-1)]
"Only in contentment does GROWTH make manifest." [Cayce 699-1]
René Descartes
"My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power; and this single principle seemed to me sufficient to prevent me from desiring for the future anything which I could not obtain, and thus render me contented." [René Descartes]
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