Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul (1989)

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Pain by itself is merely pain,
but the experience of pain couples with an understanding
that the pain serves a worthy purpose as suffering.
Suffering can be endured because
there is a reason for it that is worth the effort.
What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul?

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Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe.

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The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the earth
are the means by which you evolve.

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Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time.

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An intention is a quality of consciousness
that you bring to an action.

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Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm.

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When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.

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Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

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The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements:
fear and love.
Love is of the soul.
Fear is of the personality.

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The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

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Every intention sets energy into motion
Whether you are conscious of it or not.

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You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.

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Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.

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In a spiritual partnership you learn that wanting what you want is not enough, but that you must both want it deeply and create it every day, that you must bring it into being and hold it in being with your intentions.

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There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

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What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

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Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

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