Top 200 Gary Zukav Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Authentic power is the real deal. You can’t inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can’t lose it. You don’t need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.”

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102. “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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103. “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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104. “The Universe backs the part of you that is of clearest intention.”

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105. “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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106. “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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107. “Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life.”

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.”

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

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

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113. “Clarity is the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world.”

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114. “Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.”

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115. “The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.”

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116. “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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117. “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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118. “You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.”

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

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

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122. “Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.”

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

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124. “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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125. “Your personality is a tool of your soul.”

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126. “Every experience that you have and will have upon the Earth encourages the alignment of your personality with your soul. Every circumstance and situation gives you the opportunity to choose this path, to allow your soul to shine through you, to bring into the physical world through you its unending and unfathomable reverence for and love of Life.”

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

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

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

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131. “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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132. “What we think of as physical reality is an intermingling of appropriate realities, a fluid massive consciousness in which each of us exists independently of each other and yet coexists interdependently with each other.”

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133. “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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134. “Your life is an opportunity to give the gifts that your soul wants to give.”

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135. “Choice is the engine of our evolution.”

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136. “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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137. “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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138. “The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the Earth are the means by which you evolve. At each moment you choose the intentions that will shape your experiences and those things upon which you will focus your attention. These choices affect your evolutionary process. This is so for each person.”

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

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “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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143. “The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.”

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

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

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

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

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

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