Gary Zukav Quotes

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

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

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

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Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

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The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires.

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Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life.

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

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You cannot create a life of fulfillment, joy, and meaning while you are barricading yourself from others and from the opportunities Life offers you.

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

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Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.

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Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

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The new female is not limited in any way. She yearns to give the gifts she was born to give, and she does what is necessary to give them. Where her heart leads, she goes. No one defines her role for her. She is on a spiritual journey. Authentic Power is her destination.

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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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We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.

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As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices.

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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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Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

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You are a dynamic being of Light that at each moment informs the energy that flows through you. You do this with each thought, with each intention.

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As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

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

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With each choice that you make to align yourself with the energy of your soul, you empower yourself. Authentic power is built up step by step, choice by choice. It cannot be meditated or prayed into being. It must be earned.

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

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Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts of your personality that judge, react in fear, and cannot love into acceptance, fearlessness, and love is the journey you were born to make.

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How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe is alive and compassionate and that with it and with other souls of great power and Light you learn through the process of co-creating the reality that you experience?

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