Gary Zukav Quotes

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The Universe backs the part of you that is of clearest intention

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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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A glorious life is filled with companions who have open hearts.

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You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.

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When you die, you don't go to sleep. You go home to nonphysical reality, and you are very much awake.

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The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

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The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose.

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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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Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.

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Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.

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Your impact on the world is significant whether or not you are aware of it, and even whether or not you desire it.

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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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Emotions are classes in the Earth school. Some classes are about fear, and some are about love. The Universe is your tutor, and your classroom is your life. The main course in the Earth school, Authentic Power, is the same for everyone, but different students need different courses in order to complete it.

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When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself.

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When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.

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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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A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system.

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What we think of as physical reality is an intermingling of appropriate realities, a fluid massive consciousness in which each of us exists independently of each other and yet coexists interdependently with each other.

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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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Clarity is the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world.

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You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

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The frequency of anger attracts the frequency of anger, the frequency of greed attracts the frequency of greed, and so on. This is the law of attraction.

Negativity attracts negativity, just as love attracts love.

Therefore, the world of an angry person is filled with angry people, the world of a greedy person is filled with greedy people, and a loving person lives in a world of loving people.

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If you are not conscious of all of the different parts of yourself, the part of yourself that is the strongest will win out over the other parts. Its intention will be the one that the personality uses to create its reality.

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What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.

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Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.

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

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Ponder the depth and the power of loyalty-the ability to serve and support a cause greater than yourself.

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

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Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can be rejected or refused.

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