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Gary Zukav Quotes
Gary Zukav Quotes
Gary Zukav
American
Author
Born:
Oct 17
,
1942
Change
Life
Love
Power
You
Yourself
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.
Gary Zukav
Life
Winter
Will
Spring
Fall
Universe
Other
Summer
We Cannot
Gifts
Make
Coming
Than
Contribute
Stop
Refuse
Cannot
Them
Choose
Each
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
Future
Time
Me
Winter
Darkness
Pain
Imagination
Birth
Something
Gives
Like
Beyond
Joyfully
Withdrawal
Glory
Always
Been
Itself
Unexpected
Confines
Bursting
Forth
Produces
Special
Barren
Monarch
Cocoon
Butterfly
Inconceivable
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
Gary Zukav
Humble
People
World
Perception
Power
Important
Walks
Meets
Everywhere
Characteristic
Sees
He
He Or She
Beyond
Most
She
Looks
Shell
Overlook
His
Friendly
Friends
Authentic
Person
Goes
Essence
Wherever
Reasons
Many
Appearance
Whomever
Her
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
Jealousy
Anger
Inferiority
World
Long
Power
Pain
Changing
Changing The World
Our
Futility
See
Able
Superiority
Pursuit
Outward
Look
Powerlessness
Inward
Parts
Becoming
Escape
Trying
Controlled
Personalities
Dismantle
Us
Vindictiveness
External
Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
Gary Zukav
Love
You
Matter
Will
Thought
Feeling
Unlovable
Outsider
Idea
Always
How
How Much
Frightening
Fixed
Want
Wanting
Loved
Cannot
Loving
To Love
Capable
Flawed
Much
Inmost
Belong
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.
Gary Zukav
You
Power
Year
Prisoner
Spring
Once
Once A Year
Come
Calendar
Frequently
Does
How
Wakes
Very
Authentic
Often
Us
Creating
Your
No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
Gary Zukav
Life
Thoughts
You
Patience
Matter
Judgment
Live
Think
About
Impatience
Except
Through
No-One
Generosity
Judgmental
Occupy
How
Intend
Act
Your
Choose
Yours
Who
Lives
The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.
Gary Zukav
Joy
Pain
Our
Summers
Our Lives
Circumstances
Give
Faces
More
Winters
Like
Surface
Coming
Reflects
Than
Going
Pond
Us
Radiant
Shows
Lives
Seasons
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
Life
Soul
Survival
Values
Become
Changed
Harmony
Our
Align
Evolution
Ourselves
Responsible
Spiritually
Develop
Emotionally
Sharing
Longer
Make
Reverence
Us
Choices
Requirements
Requires
Cooperation
Now
Aware
Sufficient
The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
Gary Zukav
Love
Time
You
Yourself
Humble
Remember
Perception
Nothing
More
Only
Only Love
Higher
Individual
Individuals
Feel
Another
Souls
Unworthy
Than
Inferior
Person
Any
Experiences
Inadequate
Lower
Next
Lowering
Next Time
Connect
The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.
Gary Zukav
Love
Forgiveness
Personality
Characteristics
Clarity
Empowered
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.
Gary Zukav
You
Wise
Creative
Matters
Only
Except
No-One
Generosity
Between
Occupy
Person
Want
Choice
Your
Standing
Creative Person
Compassionate
Things
Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
Gary Zukav
Love
Winter
Dark
Light
School
Our
Summer
Earth
Our Lives
Recognize
Characterize
Both
Through
Opposition
Contraction
Expansion
Options
Move
Experiences
Us
Show
Expressions
Lives
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
Gary Zukav
Experience
Emotions
Will
Control
We Cannot
Circumstances
Respond
How
Cannot
Them
Next
Choose
Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. 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
Winter
Experience
Stillness
Wind
Awareness
Cold
Trees
Beneath
Summer
Lies
Miracle
Potential
Blankets
Unto
Coming
Domain
Itself
Green
Snow
Being
Manifestation
Canvas
Bare
Painted
Large
Each
Growing
The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
Gary Zukav
Love
You
Only
Fact
Spiritually
Most
Very
Times
In Fact
Choose
Choose Love
Grow
Hardest
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
Gary Zukav
Change
Yourself
World
Valuable
Power
Pain
Every
Change The World
Ourselves
Distraction
Worthy
Pursuit
Attempt
Feel
Safe
Powerlessness
Make
Person
Order
Anything
Flight
External
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
Life
Love
Love Life
Giving
Community
Live
Caretakers
Caring
Constant
See
Attract
Return
Misused
Victims
Themselves
Fulfilled
Who
Company
Resentful
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
Love
Joy
Care
Giving
Expectation
Strings
Hidden
Given
Attached
Without
Motives
Agendas
Second
When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
Gary Zukav
You
Yourself
Will
Consequences
Willing
Responsible
Know
Intention
Which
Create
Choice
Creates
Your
Choose
Position
A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
Gary Zukav
You
Responsibility
Consequences
Assume
Willing
Responsible
Choice
Creates
Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.
Gary Zukav
Love
Angry
You
Anger
Fear
Intention
Requires
Acting
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
Angry
You
Change
Will
Become
Christian
Righteous
Muslim
Religions
Hindu
Cannot
Jew
Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
Gary Zukav
Same Thing
Everyone
Learn
How
Repeating
Same
Situations
Wants
Them
Painful
Avoid
Thing
Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.
Gary Zukav
Life
You
Yourself
Important
Important Things
Energy
See
Determine
Something
True
Know
Most
Also
Motion
Causes
Effects
Intentions
The Most Important
Experiences
Create
Your
Therefore
Multitude
Things
Set
The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
Gary Zukav
You
Law
Cause
Free
Control
On The Contrary
Physical
Entirely
Also
Does
How
Causes
Provided
Effect
Effects
Contrary
Want
Mean
Create
Means
Use
Works
Aware
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