"The purpose of our journey on this
precious Earth is now to align our personalities with our
souls. 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.
It now produces only violence and destruction.
"
~ Gary Zukav ~
"The decisions that you make and the actions
that you take upon the earth are the means by which you
evolve."
~ Gary Zukav ~
"We are evolving from five-sensory
humans into multisensory humans.... The perceptions of the
multi-sensory human extend beyond physical reality to
the larger dynamical systems of which our physical reality is
a part. "
~ Gary Zukav ~
"As we become multi sensory, we move
beyond the limitations of the five senses and we now are
evolving to a different mechanism in the exploration of
physical reality."
~ Gary Zukav
~
"You cannot find your soul with your mind,
you must use your heart. You must know what you are
feeling. If you don't know what you are feeling, you
will create unconsciously."
~ 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
~
"The soul of an individual; your soul and my
soul, is that part of us that is immortal."
~
Gary Zukav ~
Gary Zukav on Authentic Power
"We
are evolving form a species that pursues external power
into a species that pursues Authentic Power...
Authentic power has its roots in the deepest source of our
being. An authentically empowered person is incapable
of making anyone or anything a victim. An authentically
empowered person is one who is so strong, so empowered,
that the idea of using force against another is not a
part of his or her consciousness."
~ Gary Zukav
~
"An
authentically empowered person is humble. This does not
mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those
who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one
who responds to the beauty of each soul. ...It is the
harmlessness of one who treasures, honors, and reveres life
in all its forms."
~ Gary Zukav
~
"Illusion holds power over you when you
are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit
that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose
of learning. It has power over you when you are compelled
by wants and impulses and values of your personality.
It holds power over you when you fear and hate and sorrow
and fester in anger or strike out in rage. It has NO
power over you when you LOVE, when compassion opens your
heart to others, when your creativity flows unimpeded
joyously into the present moment. In other words, the
illusion had no power over a personality that is fully
aligned with the soul."
~ Gary Zukav
~
Gary Zukav on Fear, Courage "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."
~ Gary Zukav - from "Seat Of
The Soul" ~
"I
have come to the conclusion that until I find and heal the
fears in me that I do not know about, and those that I do
know about, I will not be able to contribute much that
will not be part of the many challenges we face � such as
brutality, poverty, drug abuse, child abuse, abuse of the
environment, and abuse of women, to name a few."
~
Gary Zukav ~
Gary Zukav on Relationships, Love, Self-Worth,
Spiritual Partnership "Spiritual
Partnership......... ... The new female and the new
male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth.
They want to make the journey. Their love and trust
keep them together. Their intuition guides them. They
consult with each other. They are friends. They laugh a
lot. They are equals.
That is what a spiritual
partnership is: a partnership between equals for the
purpose of spiritual growth. "
~ from "Soul Stories"
by Gary Zukav ~
"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."
~ Gary Zukav & Linda Francis -
"from"The Heart of the Soul" ~
"Lack of self-worth is the fundamental
source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity,
unworthiness and lack of value is the core experience of
powerlessness."
~ Gary Zukav & Linda Francis -
from "The Heart Of The Soul" ~
"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."
~ Gary Zukav
~
"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."
~
Gary Zukav ~
"When our actions create discord in another
person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will
feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony
and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that
harmony and empowerment."
~ Gary Zukav
~
"When you interact with another, an
illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows
each soul to perceive what it needs to understand in order
to heal."
~ Gary Zukav ~
Gary Zukav on Creating Consciously, Law Of
Attraction, Intention "By choosing your thoughts,
and by selecting which emotional currents you will release
and which you will reinforce, you determine the
quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you
will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of
your life."
~ Gary Zukav - from "Seat Of The Soul"
~
"You cannot find your soul with your mind,
you must use your heart. You must know what you are
feeling. If you don't know what you are feeling, you will
create unconsciously. If you are unconscious of an aspect
of yourself; if it operates outside your field of
awareness, that aspect has power over you."
~
Gary Zukav ~
"Every intention sets energy into
motion Whether you are conscious of it or not."
~
Gary Zukav ~
"An
intention is a quality of consciousness that you bring to
an action."
~ From 'The Seat Of The Soul' by Gary
Zukav ~
"Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore,
awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions.
Every discrepancy between a conscious intention and the
emotions that accompany it, points directly to a splintered
aspect of the self that requires healing."
~ Gary
Zukav ~
"You may seek companionship and warmth, for
example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep
people at a distance, the experiences of separation and
pain will surface again and again until you come to
understand that you, yourself, are creating
them. Eventually, you will choose to create harmony and
love. You will choose to draw to you the highest frequency
currents that each situation has to offer. Eventually,
you will come to understanding 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 that you create serves this
purpose. Every experience that you encounter serves this
purpose."
~ From 'The Seat Of The Soul' by Gary
Zukav ~
"When you interact with another, an illusion
is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to
perceive what it needs to understand in order to
heal."
~ Gary Zukav ~
Gary Zukav on Forgiveness &
Self-Responsibility "Forgiveness is not a moral
issue. It is an energy dynamic... Forgiveness means
that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When
you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not
forgive sticks with you. When you choose not to
forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome
sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are
forced every day to look at life through those
contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep
them."
~ Gary Zukav from 'Theh Seat Of The Soul'
~
"When you assume responsibility for what you
experience and share what you experience in a spirit of
companionship, that is the same as forgiveness. When
you hold someone responsible for what you experience, you
lose power."
~ From 'The Seat Of The Soul' by Gary
Zukav ~
"If
you wish the world to become loving and
compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself.
If you wish to diminish fear in the world, diminish
your own. These are the gifts that you can
give."
~ Gary Zukav ~
Gary Zukav on Belief,
Perception "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 - from
"Seat Of The Soul" ~
"Morality is a human creation. The
Universe does not judge."
~ Gary Zukav ~ Author of
'Seat Of The Soul' ~
"Reality is what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is what we believe. What we
believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive
depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends
upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we
perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe.
What we believe determines what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is our reality."
~ Gary
Zukav ~
"Do
not insist that the universe comply with your understanding
of it."
~ Gary Zukav ~
Gary Zukav on Religion, God,
Spirituality "We have always been involved in
spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have
always been spiritual beings and we will always be
spiritual beings."
~ 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 - from "Seat Of The
Soul" ~
"The place to begin the task of eliminating
evil is within yourself."
~ Gary Zukav - from
"Seat Of The Soul" ~
"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."
~ Gary Zukav ~
Gary Zukav on Faith,
Trust "Acceptance without proof is the
fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection
without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western
science."
~ Gary Zukav ~
"Trust allows you to give, Giving is
abundant. Trust allows the experience of bliss. Bliss is
awakefulness. Trust allows you to laugh. Laugh at the
richness, the beauty and the playfulness of the
universe. Apply consciousness to this process and all roads
will lead to home."
~ Gary Zukav ~
Gary Zukav on Difficulties "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?"
~ From 'The Seat of the Soul' by Gary
Zukav ~
"When you welcome your emotions as teachers,
every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are
painful."
~ Gary Zukav & Linda Francis - from
"The Heart Of The Soul" ~
"When you feel an emotion such as despair or
in a depression, that is a low frequency current of energy.
It has very little energy. And someone who is in despair or
in a depression soaks up energy."
~ Gary Zukav
~
"There would be no accumulation of strength
inside if the choices that you make did not require
disipline and intention."
~ Gary Zukav
~
"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."
~ 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 ~
About Gary Zukav
Gary Zukav is a
best-selling spiritual author and teacher. From the point of view
that humans are immortal souls first and physical beings second,
Gary teaches how to create "authentic power" and how to grow
spiritually by becoming emotionally aware, how to make responsible
choices and how to create a meaningful and joyful life.
He
is a Harvard University graduate, a former Vietnam Green Beret
officer who had anger issues for most of the early part of his
life and whose founding of spirituality led him to writing and
teaching. In the 90's he was a regular guest the Oprah Winfrey
Show offering guidance and spiritual insights, and also appeared
again in 2007 with the focus on creating spiritual
partnership.
Gary Zukav is a member of numerous
organizations and activities including Native American Earth
Ambassadors, CoCreate with the Earth Foundation, EarthSave, and
the World Business Academy.
Gary and his partner, Linda
Francis, founded the Seat of the Soul Foundation whose vision is a
world of Universal Humans who are beyond nation, race, sex,
religion, culture, and economic circumstance; who are citizens of
the Universe; and whose allegiance is to Life. Through its various
programs and products, the Institute assists individuals in
creating meaning and purpose, creativity and health, joy and
love.... or Authentic Power - the alignment of the personality
with the soul.
Gary's books include: - The Mind of the
Soul: Responsible Choice (co-auther Linda Francis) - The Heart
of the Soul: Emotional Awareness (co-auther Linda Francis) -
Soul Stories - The Seat of the Soul - The Dancing Wu Li
Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
