If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are. Gary Zukav More Quotes by Gary Zukav More Quotes From 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 pain spiritual knowledge Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. Gary Zukav marriage love peace Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power. Gary Zukav dynamics foundation and-love The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life. Gary Zukav determined stress energy Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer. Gary Zukav simple life thinking When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. Gary Zukav you-choose forgiving sticks You cannot, and will not, encounter Gary Zukav single-mom encounters soul The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity. Gary Zukav creativity heal commitment What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them. Gary Zukav fronts behinds eye When you welcome your emotions as teachers, Gary Zukav welcome news teacher 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 yoga wisdom spiritual The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul. Gary Zukav pain loneliness opportunity The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower. Gary Zukav empowering personality love When you ask the Universe to bless you in your effort to align yourself with your soul, you open a passageway between yourself and your guides and Teachers. That is what a blessing is: the opening of a passageway between you and nonphysical guidance. Gary Zukav effort blessing teacher Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts of your personality that judge, react in fear, and cannot love into acceptance, fearlessness, and love is the journey you were born to make. Gary Zukav acceptance journey love-is When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose and meaning. Life is rich and full. We have no thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power Gary Zukav our-world purpose memories 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 our-actions empowerment spiritual 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 believe reality thinking 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. Gary Zukav present-time endless unlimited If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude. Gary Zukav very-deep gratitude earth
