Gary Zukav Quotes & Sayings

The new female is competent in all that she chooses. She chooses whatever her heart tells her. She can create a business, lead a country, drive a truck, hammer nails, deliver mail, or raise a family. She is at home in every social and physical environment. She can be a housewife, if she chooses. She can be anything else, too. She is intuitive and heart centered. She is all that a female has been, and more. — Gary Zukav

When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. — Gary Zukav

You cannot create a life of fulfillment, joy, and meaning while you are barricading yourself from others and from the opportunities Life offers you. — Gary Zukav

We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

If your intention is to give, you will not be concerned with how your actions are perceived. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

Soul is that part of you that longs for harmony and cooperation and sharing and reverence for life. When you make decisions that align you with those values, you align your personality with your soul. It's that simple to understand. Now to do it, in my experience, is hard. — Gary Zukav

What is failure? We can't possibly know what failure is. Most people think they do, but that's because they're judging how their lives should be and what they need it to be: a success. Who is to say what's a success and what's a failure? Do your best. Trust. Relax. Do your best. Enjoy yourself. — Gary Zukav

When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. — Gary Zukav

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome. — Gary Zukav

The only permanent and constructive changes you can make in the world are the changes that you make in yourself. — Gary Zukav

If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible. — Gary Zukav

There would be no accumulation of strength inside
if the choices that you make
did not require disipline and intention. — 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

A temptation is the universe's gracious way of allowing a soul to evolve without creating negative karma. In other words, a temptation is like a magnet that draws to awareness, negativity, that would otherwise create negative karma if it remained unconscious. A temptation is a dress rehearsal for a negative karmic act. — Gary Zukav

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics. — Gary Zukav

Our ability to understand ourselves is now expanding beyond the information that we can receive from our five senses. We're becoming aware of ourselves as more than minds and bodies. We are becoming aware of ourselves as souls while we simultaneously have personalities and walk upon the earth. That is the huge transformation that is reshaping the human experience - the expansion of our perceptual capability beyond the five senses. We're becoming multisensory. — Gary Zukav

Ponder the depth and the power of loyalty-the ability to serve and support a cause greater than yourself. — Gary Zukav

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective. — Gary Zukav

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it. — Gary Zukav

When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself. — Gary Zukav

The purpose of our journey on this precious Earth is now to align our personalities with our souls and the souls of others. It is to create harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is to grow spiritually. This is our new evolutionary pathway. The old pathway - pursuing the ability to manipulate and control - no longer works. — Gary Zukav

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. — Gary Zukav

At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. — Gary Zukav

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. — 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

If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude. — 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

You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you. — Gary Zukav

Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness. — Gary Zukav

Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own? — Gary Zukav

Do not insist that the universe comply
with your understanding of it. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

Clarity is the perception of wisdom and the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world. It turns pain into suffering and evaporates fear. Clarity allows you to see the world of physical matter for what it is, a learning experience that is created jointly by the intentions of the souls that share it. — Gary Zukav

It is impossible to have a prayer without power. — Gary Zukav

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value. — Gary Zukav

Morality is a human creation.
The Universe does not judge. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues. — Gary Zukav

Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. — Gary Zukav

Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm. — Gary Zukav

As people become multisensory, they begin to realize that their lives are meaningful, that there's a purpose to all of their experiences - to the people that they meet, to the challenges that they have, that nothing is random. — Gary Zukav

Your personality is a tool of your soul. — Gary Zukav

Authentic power is the energy that Is formed by the intentions of the Soul. It is the light shaped by the intentions of love and compassion guided by wisdom — Gary Zukav

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect. — Gary Zukav

Your life is an opportunity to give the gifts that your soul wants to give. — Gary Zukav

The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy. — Gary Zukav

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory. — Gary Zukav

Passion or Addiction? Make a list of your daily — Gary Zukav

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged. — Gary Zukav

Reverence is an attitude of honoring life.
Reverence automatically brings forth patience.
Reverence permits non-judgemental justice.
Reverence is a perception of the soul. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

When you welcome your emotions as teachers,
every emotion brings good news,
even the ones that are painful. — Gary Zukav

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases. — Gary Zukav

The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you. — Gary Zukav

A glorious life is filled with companions who have open hearts. — Gary Zukav

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling. — Gary Zukav

What you don't see and don't acknowledge in yourself, you project onto someone else. — Gary Zukav

I know for sure, that the universe is wise and compassionate. The question then becomes: How can there be such brutality and pain and such suffering in the world if the universe is compassionate and wise. The reason is we put it there. We create it. And it is up to us to stop creating it. — Gary Zukav

Reverence is a perception of the soul. Reverence is a natural aspect of authentic empowerment because the soul reveres all of Life. When the personality is aligned with the soul, it cannot perceive life except with reverence. Approaching life with reverence is a step toward moving the personality into alignment with the soul because it brings an aspect of the soul directly into the physical environment. — Gary Zukav

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained. — Gary Zukav

Commitment to love - to growth, to authentic power is an everyday application of your will. — Gary Zukav

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. — 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

Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health. — Gary Zukav

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own. — Gary Zukav

You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart. — Gary Zukav

Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you. — Gary Zukav

Your heart is your home, and all roads lead to home. — Gary Zukav

Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

When the personality comes fully to serve the energy of its soul, that is authentic empowerment — Gary Zukav

If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life. You will not be torn. — Gary Zukav

Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity. — Gary Zukav

The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life. — Gary Zukav

Pain by itself is merely pain,
but the experience of pain couples with an understanding
that the pain serves a worthy purpose as suffering.
Suffering can be endured because
there is a reason for it that is worth the effort.
What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul? — Gary Zukav

Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to. — Gary Zukav

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority. — Gary Zukav

Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

Every intention sets energy into motion
Whether you are conscious of it or not. — Gary Zukav

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. — Gary Zukav

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership. — Gary Zukav

According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe. — Gary Zukav

Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it. — Gary Zukav

Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return. — Gary Zukav

The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually. — Gary Zukav

When you make the connection between your choices and your experiences, you do not have to create the same experiences again. — Gary Zukav

You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them. — Gary Zukav