Gary Zukav Quotes

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

I think I surprise myself.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.