Gary Zukav Quotes

“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.”

“A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.”

“Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.”

“An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.”

“Ask and you shall receive is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.”

“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

The journey may take many lifetimes, but you will complete it. It is impossible not to complete it. It is not a question of if but of when.

Every situation you create serves this purpose. Every experience you encounter serves this purpose.”

“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”

“Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.”

“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.”

“If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.”

“Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself.

Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance.”

“Love is the ability to live your life with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome, the ability within yourself to distinguish within yourself between love and fear and choose love regardless of what is going on inside yourself or outside.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.”

“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.”

“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!”

“The journey from love to love. This is the journey all of us are on – what happens between the beginning and end of the journey is your life.”

“The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do.

You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.”

“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.”

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

“There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.”

“This is self-mastery or authentic power that means you become clear, forgiving, humble and loving... You are grounded in harmony, cooperating, sharing and reverence for life.”

“Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life – judgment, limitation, and stinginess.”

“What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.”