Top 200 Gary Zukav Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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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202. “When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.”

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203. “He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two.”

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204. “Rather than a soul in a body, become a body in a soul.”

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205. “Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you. Rather than serve the fake gods of your mind, serve your heart, the real God. You will not find God in your intellect. Divine Intelligence is in the heart.”

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206. “As you acquire a sense of reverence, you develop a capacity to think more deeply about the value of Life before you commit your energy to action.”

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

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

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209. “The remedy for an absence is a presence. Evil is an absence and, therefore, it cannot be healed with an absence. By hating evil, or one who is engaged in evil, you contribute to the absence of Light and not to its presence. Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.”

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210. “Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom.”

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211. “The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?”

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212. “Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire – intimacy and acceptance – that is launched before you can be rejected or refused.”

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213. “Non-judgmental justice is a perception that allows you to see everything in life, but does not engage your negative emotions.”

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214. “Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.”

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215. “When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.”

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216. “Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.”

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217. “I still encounter parts of my personality that are angry, frightened, jealous, superior, and inferior, but now I see them as opportunities to create authentic power, to choose anew.”

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218. “Karma is not a moral dynamic. Morality is a human creation. The Universe does not judge. The law of karma governs the balancing of energy within our system of morality and within those of our neighbors. It serves humanity as an impersonal and Universal teacher of responsibility.”

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219. “Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.”

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220. “Don’t be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.”

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221. “You cannot create a life of fulfillment, joy, and meaning while you are barricading yourself from others and from the opportunities Life offers you.”

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222. “The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.”

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223. “When you throw a tennis ball in the air, you can count on it coming down.”

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224. “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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225. “As the anger, or the fear, within a personality builds, the world in which it lives increasingly reflects the anger, or the fear, that it must heal, so that eventually, ultimately, the personality will see that it is creating its own experiences and perceptions, that its righteous anger or justifiable fear originates within itself, and therefore can be replaced by other perceptions and experiences only through the force of its own being.”

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226. “As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices.”

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227. “When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.”

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228. “We can be kind, generous, just, courteous, and merciful sporadically, but to display those virtues, consistently, calls for an enormous display of courage.”

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229. “All creative people – which is everyone – require commitment and time and courage to grow into their insights.”

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230. “If this is so, then the distinction between scientists, poets, painters, and writers is not clear. In fact, it is possible that scientists, poets, painters, and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call commonplace and to re-present them to us in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded. Those people in whom this gift is especially pronounced, we call geniuses.”

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231. “If you cannot love yourself, you cannot love others and you cannot stand to see others loved.”

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232. “This is a book about authentic empowerment – the alignment of the personality with the soul – what that involves, how it happens, and what it creates.”

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

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234. “You are a soul that is temporarily utilizing your body.”

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235. “The subjective experience of wonder is a message to the rational mind that the object of wonder is being perceived and understood in ways other than the rational.”

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236. “Being frightened is a part of the human experience. It lies beneath every impulse to grow spiritually – to find the roots of fear and pull them.”

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237. “When a question is asked that cannot be answered within the common frame of reference, it can be classified as nonsensical, or it can be dismissed as a question that is not appropriate, or the person who is asking the question can expand his or her consciousness to encompass a frame of reference from which the question can be answered.”

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238. “If what you offer to others is not sensitive, if it does not support and nourish, if it does not empower but disempowers them, it will be met with resistance at some level, and that resistance will be the counterpart of your energy that seeks to disempower, or to control.”

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239. “You become aware of the damage that you do to your own body when you feel and act without compassion.”

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