Quotes from Gary Zukav

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

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.

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

He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two.

Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

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.

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.

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 opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

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.

You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.

The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.

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

We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.

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

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.

The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.

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

Practice moderation in all things except love.

When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

The hardest times to choose love become the very times that you can most grow spiritually.

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.

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.