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Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

Gary Zukav

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Gary Zukav
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 17
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Non-Fiction Writer
Soldier
Port Arthur
Texas
Pursuit
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Human
Growth
Insecurity
Humans
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