Gary Zukav is an American spiritual teacher and the author of four consecutive New York Times Best Sellers. Beginning in 1998, he appeared more than 30 times on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss transformation in human consciousness concepts presented in his book The Seat of the Soul. These Gary Zukav Quotes will motivate you.
Best Gary Zukav Quotes
- “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.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “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.” ~ Gary Zukav
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“What we call evil is the absence of light, of love, in all cases.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “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.” ~ Gary Zukav -
“No two people have the same reality.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift. As you begin to create authentic power with tools such as emotional awareness, responsible choice, and intuition, you begin to draw to yourself others who are doing the same thing.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Where your attention goes, you go.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity, and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.” ~ Gary Zukav
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“You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have the most leverage, where I know I can make a difference. Instead of being upset that this world is not populated the way I want it to be populated, I have decided to become the citizen that I want the world to be populated with. That’s how I create the vision.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Please… tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.” ~ Gary Zukav
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“Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Change in yourself what you want to change in the world.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorway to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Your dragons are the frightened parts of your personality, and you alone can experience and heal them.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.” ~ Gary Zukav
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“You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “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.” ~ Gary Zukav Quotes
- “The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “When you welcome your emotions as teachers,
every emotion brings good news,
even the ones that are painful.” ~ Gary Zukav - “Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.” ~ Gary Zukav
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“The road to your soul is through your heart.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past” ~ Gary Zukav
- “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.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Practice moderation in all things except love.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Your life is an opportunity to give the gifts that your soul wants to give.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality…Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “An intention is a quality of consciousness
that you bring to an action.” ~ Gary Zukav - “When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.” ~ Gary Zukav
- “Angry people attract angry people and live in an angry world and this validates their opinion that the world is angry.” ~ Gary Zukav
