Gary Zukav - The Heart of the Soul (2001)

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

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

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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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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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Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.

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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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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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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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Throughout your life, your inner landscape presents its contents to you again and again. When you are aware of all its elements, you are in continual communication with your soul.

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When you welcome your emotions as teachers,
every emotion brings good news,
even the ones that are painful.

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When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.

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