Gary Zukav Quotes

#1. It is impossible to have a prayer without power.

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#2. Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

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#3. The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

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#4. You are a soul that is temporarily utilizing your body.

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#5. I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.

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#6. A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

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#7. We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.

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#8. You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don't know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously.

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#9. What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

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#10. Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm.

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#11. Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

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#12. Until you can say what is most difficult for you to say, you cannot speak from your heart, live unafraid, create health, or receive support from others.

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#13. You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

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#14. The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

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#15. The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy.

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#16. Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

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#17. We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn.

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#18. Please ... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.

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#19. Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.

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#20. Your heart is your home, and all roads lead to home.

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#21. Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.

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#22. Here's a simple way you can engage your intuition. When you are about to say something and you're not sure if you want to say it, ask yourself, "What is my motivation?" When you check your motivation you engage non-physical guidance and you will not be alone in you assessment.

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#23. According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe.

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#24. When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.

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#25. No two people have the same reality

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#26. Practice moderation in all things except love.

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#27. Dreams as soul messages ... each nightly communication brings the latest-breaking news available in special edition just for you!

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#28. Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom.

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#29. With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.

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#30. As we become multi sensory,
we move beyond the limitations of the five senses
and we now are evolving to a different mechanism
in the exploration of physical reality.

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#31. According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself.

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#32. Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

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#33. Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?

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#34. If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

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#35. Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you.

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#36. A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.

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#37. Choice is the engine of our evolution.

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#38. Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess.

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#39. The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

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#40. There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.

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#41. Your personality is a tool of your soul.

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#42. Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.

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#43. Every decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or toward your soul. Each decision you make is an answer to the question, 'How do you choose to learn love?', 'How do you choose to learn authentic empowerment-through doubt and fear, or through wisdom?'

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#44. Creating authentic power means aligning your personality with your soul.

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#45. Authentic power is the energy that Is formed by the intentions of the Soul. It is the light shaped by the intentions of love and compassion guided by wisdom

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#46. Where your attention goes, you go.

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#47. If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.

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#48. We are evolving
from five-sensory humans into multisensory humans ...
The perceptions of the multi-sensory human
extend beyond physical reality
to the larger dynamical systems of which our physical reality is a part.

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#49. You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

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#50. The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

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#51. Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

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#52. The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

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#53. Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.

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#54. Relax into the present moment.

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#55. Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.

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#56. We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.

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#57. Emotional pain of any kind is a reminder to stop and look inside.

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#58. The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.

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#59. Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions.

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#60. The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.

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#61. Every intention sets energy into motion
Whether you are conscious of it or not.

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#62. Angry people attract angry people and live in an angry world and this validates their opinion that the world is angry.

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#63. What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

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#64. The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

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#65. One thing we can be certain: A person that is engaging in violence is hurting deeply, because a healthy and balanced soul is incapable of harming another.

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#66. Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

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#67. Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.

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#68. Intuition is like a radio station.. No, intuition is more like a radio receiver and it can receive different stations. This radio receiver serves different functions, it serves your spirituality which is the development of your soul. It serves your physical survival.

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#69. There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.

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#70. The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

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#71. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

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#72. An intention is a quality of consciousness
that you bring to an action.

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#73. The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life.

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#74. We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

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#75. Every choice that we makes creates consequences, consequences in the lives of others and we experience them in ourselves, those same consequences, every choice that we make. And by the way the choices that you might think are the most important are not always the most important.

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#76. The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

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#77. Commitment to love - to growth, to authentic power is an everyday application of your will.

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#78. If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.

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#79. When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

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#80. The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.

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#81. When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

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#82. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

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#83. Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

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#84. The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements:
fear and love.
Love is of the soul.
Fear is of the personality.

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#85. I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.

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#86. Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe.

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#87. Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

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#88. Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.

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#89. Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides.

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#90. The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?

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#91. If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.

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#92. Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

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#93. Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.

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#94. Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

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#95. Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?

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#96. It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

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#97. A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

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#98. If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

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#99. What is failure? We can't possibly know what failure is. Most people think they do, but that's because they're judging how their lives should be and what they need it to be: a success. Who is to say what's a success and what's a failure? Do your best. Trust. Relax. Do your best. Enjoy yourself.

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#100. A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

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