Top 200 Gary Zukav Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “When we judge, we create negative karma. Judgment is a function of the personality.”

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152. “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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153. “Physical reality is not a dead and empty stage on which Life evolves. Every physical form, as well as every nonphysical form, is Light that has been shaped by consciousness. No form exists apart from consciousness. There is not one planet in the Universe that does not have an active level of consciousness, although it may not be what we recognize.”

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154. “When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.”

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155. “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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156. “Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.”

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157. “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. Keep your power just in the day that you are living on the Earth, and not on how to maneuver tomorrow.”

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158. “If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.”

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159. “We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.”

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160. “Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.”

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161. “The number of teachers and guides that a soul has depends upon what it seeks to accomplish and its level of awareness. Souls that take upon themselves projects of more magnitude bring to themselves more assistance.”

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162. “The most important choices you make are the choices about how you see yourself, the Universe, and your relationship to the Universe.”

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163. “The experience of intuition cannot be explained in terms of the five senses, because it is the voice of the nonphysical world.”

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164. “Within a few generations, all humans will be multisensory. They will experience not only the domain of space, time, matter, and duality that has been the totality of experience for most humans since the origin of humanity, but also nonphysical domains and dynamics that affect us and that we affect.”

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165. “Open to others as you would like them to open to you.”

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166. “A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.”

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167. “Until you can say what is most difficult for you to say, you cannot speak from your heart, live unafraid, create health, or receive support from others.”

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168. “The soul is not physical, yet it is the force field of your being.”

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169. “Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to completion. It is an imbalance of energy that is in the process of becoming balanced.”

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170. “The illusion for each soul is created by its intentions.”

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

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172. “The challenge to each human is creation.”

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

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174. “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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175. “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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176. “Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.”

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177. “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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178. “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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179. “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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180. “When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.”

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

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182. “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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183. “When you make the connection between your choices and your experiences, you do not have to create the same experiences again.”

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184. “There is no scientific way to validate anything that I or you can say about the soul because science cannot validate the existence of the soul any more that it can prove the existence of God.”

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185. “The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.”

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

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187. “Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.”

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188. “Whenever there’s the experience of a broken heart, there’s the experience of fear.”

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189. “To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.”

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190. “Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.”

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191. “It is impossible to have a prayer without power.”

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192. “Passion or Addiction? Make a list of your daily.”

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193. “The illusion for each soul is created by it intentions. Therefore, the illusion is alive at each moment with the most appropriate experiences that you can have in order for your soul to heal.”

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194. “You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.”

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195. “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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196. “Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past.”

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

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198. “Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?”

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199. “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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200. “Your only choice is whether you wish to have the quest consciously or unconsciously. You can choose through your responses to life’s difficulties to engage the full power of your soul. This is the conscious path to authentic empowerment.”

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