You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them. Gary Zukav More Quotes by Gary Zukav More Quotes From Gary Zukav Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life. Gary Zukav love-life attitude inspirational I don’t have a definition of God, because I’ve never really understood that word. People have different understandings of it and it’s caused a great deal of conflict. If I had to say what would my definition of God be, if I were going to use that word, I would say that this universe has layers upon layers upon layers of compassion and wisdom beyond ours. Gary Zukav understanding compassion people Emotional pain of any kind is a reminder to stop and look inside. Gary Zukav emotional pain looks Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides. Gary Zukav self-confidence self-esteem teacher It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded. Gary Zukav self people world Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. Gary Zukav soul justice attitude 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. Gary Zukav caretaking intention acting 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. Gary Zukav generosity choices wise You are a soul that is temporarily utilizing your body. Gary Zukav your-body body soul When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them. Gary Zukav lenses generosity forgiving The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, Gary Zukav immortal individual soul It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide the five senses with evidence of non-physical reality. It cannot be done. The five senses; sight,hearing, taste and smell together form a single sensory system whose object of detection is physical reality. This cannot detect non-physical reality. Humankind is beginning to be able to access data the 5 senses cannot provide. Gary Zukav data sight reality 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 existence soul way If your intention is to give, you will not be concerned with how your actions are perceived. Gary Zukav intention action giving Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself. Gary Zukav learning pain opportunity As people become multisensory, they begin to realize that their lives are meaningful, that there's a purpose to all of their experiences - to the people that they meet, to the challenges that they have, that nothing is random. Gary Zukav challenges meaningful people This is my experience of Oprah Winfrey - she makes decisions as frequently as she can to contribute with consciousness, with awareness, with love. I know - this is the source of her joy, her vitality, her unending creativity and her connection to people. Gary Zukav creativity decision people You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in the intimacy of your own experience for exactly what it is, and then it comes. In other words, by experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you. Gary Zukav grief loss men The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually. Romantic relationships can do this because they are interactions in which you come to see those parts of yourself that are constructive, healthy and creative. You see them because you project them onto someone else. Gary Zukav healthy creative purpose A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Nothing like this archetype has existed before because nothing like this was required before in the human experience. And spiritual partnerships can be created in a biological family, they can be created among friends, they can be created in the workplace, they can be created anywhere that two or more individuals are committed to their own spiritual evolution and are striving to relate to each other as equals. Gary Zukav growth spiritual two
