Quotes from Gary Zukav

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.

By experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.

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

You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of your soul to heal.

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

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

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

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

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.

Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.

There is no scientific way to validate anything that I or you can say about the soul because science cannot validate the existence of the soul any more that it can prove the existence of God.

Until you can say what is most difficult for you to say, you cannot speak from your heart, live unafraid, create health, or receive support from others.

When you die, you don't go to sleep. You go home to nonphysical reality, and you are very much awake.

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

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

When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

Choice is the engine of our evolution.

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.

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.

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.