Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul (1989)

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

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It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

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When you assume responsibility for what you experience
and share what you experience in a spirit of companionship,
that is the same as forgiveness.
When you hold someone responsible for what you experience,
you lose power.

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You cannot, and will not, encounter
a circumstance, or a single moment,
that does not serve directly and immediately
the need of your soul to heal.

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Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

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If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself.

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Do not insist that the universe comply
with your understanding of it.

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When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose and meaning. Life is rich and full. We have no thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power

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There would be no accumulation of strength inside
if the choices that you make
did not require disipline and intention.

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Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.

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By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life.

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

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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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Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.

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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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When you ask the Universe to bless you in your effort to align yourself with your soul, you open a passageway between yourself and your guides and Teachers. That is what a blessing is: the opening of a passageway between you and nonphysical guidance.

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An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul.... It is the harmlessness of one who treasures, honours and reveres life in all its forms.

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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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Ask and you shall receive" is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive

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When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

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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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