Gary Zukav Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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When you make the connection between your choices and your experiences, you do not have to create the same experiences again.

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Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance of creation and annihilation, of mass changing into energy and energy changing into mass. Transient forms sparkle in and out of existence, creating a never-ending, forever newly created reality.

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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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The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.

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

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The great soul is the person who has taken on the task of change. If he or she is able to transcend fear, to act out of courage, the whole group will benefit and each one, in his or her own life, will be suddenly more courageous, though they may not see how or why.

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To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

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