Gary Zukav Quotes
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101. “Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.”

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102. “Love is not emotion, it’s a way of being.”

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103. “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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104. “I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.”

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

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

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107. “The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.”

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

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109. “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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110. “A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system.”

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111. “Be aware of emotional toxins as well as physical toxins. Be aware of what you are thinking. Clear yourself at the end of every day. Try not to go to bed angry or distressed or anxious or jealous or envious.”

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112. “The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.”

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113. “The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board – it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.”

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114. “If you are not conscious of all of the different parts of yourself, the part of yourself that is the strongest will win out over the other parts. Its intention will be the one that the personality uses to create its reality.”

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115. “Intimacy is trusting that the Universe will provide what you need, when you need it, and in the manner most appropriate for you.”

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116. “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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117. “The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.”

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118. “Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.”

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

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120. “Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.”

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121. “Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.”

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122. “What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.”

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

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124. “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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125. “With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.”

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126. “Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.”

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127. “The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.”

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128. “You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don’t know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously.”

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129. “You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.”

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130. “You are only as powerful as that which you stand.”

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131. “We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.”

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132. “Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.”

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133. “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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134. “If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can’t depend on somebody else creating it for you.”

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135. “It is emotionally, spiritually impossible to have a sexual connection with a human being and not ignite certain emotional patterns, but they are a continual dead-end street when there is no relationship or true emotional feelings to go with the act. Therefore, there is a level of brutality, frustration, and eventually emotional disease which results in physical illness and breakdown because a significant pattern is being tremendously abused. Remember, you do get what you ask for.”

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136. “When you become completely loving and kind without fear and without thought of harming others, you graudate from the Earth school. That is when reincarnation ends.”

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137. “The body is the instrument of the soul.”

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138. “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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139. “The journey from love to love. This is the journey all of us are on- what happens between teh beginning and end of the journey is your life.”

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140. “When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.”

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141. “Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.”

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142. “The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.”

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143. “Your personality is a tool of your soul.”

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144. “Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.”

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145. “The power of the heart is the power of Life.”

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

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

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148. “You must experience everything that you are feeling. This is what will lead you to the splintered parts of your personality.”

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149. “Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity.”

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

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