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Jeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi's Journey, available in both print and eBook formats, launched Pondercentral.com in May 2007 as a web-based forum for "PONDER on THIS," a series of weekday inspirational email messages he began sending to subscribers in March 1999.
Selected from a vast library of spiritual growth books, the messages are currently received by hundreds of people all over the world. Please note that in addition to Pondercentral.com, Jeff occasionally posts to his Spirituality Simplified blog. To contact Jeff via email please click here.
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Category Archives: Power of Positive Thinking
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, March 27th, 2020 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED
“As this passage from Conversations with God, Book 1 relates, it is especially important that we not use the words “I AM” in front of anything that we don’t want to experience: “I AM is the strongest creative statement in … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“While each thought is a prayer of sorts, and will be acted on in some way; we can effectively manage our energy and direct more of it in the direction of those thoughts that would bring the most beneficial effects … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“Effective prayer begins with mindfulness and awareness that each word was first a thought and each thought is essentially a prayer. With this awareness, and the further understanding that we exist within that which always tries to accommodate us and … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“If you say that dreams don’t come true, I would have to ask you at what point you stopped dreaming and started doubting, and what made you choose that particular time frame as a completion date for your prayer? What … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“It is surprising how easy it is to become so self-involved and so wrapped-up in negativity. Negativity is insidious and contagious. It takes strong defenses to not succumb to the negativity of others, but you must resist the urge to … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, February 13th, 2020 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED
“According to Conversations with God, Book 1: “You will not have that for which you ask, nor can you have anything you want. This is because your very request is a statement of lack, and your saying you want a … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, January 10th, 2020 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“I hear that “living well is the best revenge” Well, life shouldn’t be about revenge, but if you are a “wall puncher,” you may want to consider this alternative. The fact is that living well is the only thing that … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, December 20th, 2019 by John Randolph Price in LIVING A LIFE OF JOY
“I like what Benjamin Franklin said: “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” And a couple of thousand years earlier, the Great Example told us not to be anxious about our lives … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 by Caroline Myss in WHY PEOPLE DON’T HEAL, AND HOW THEY CAN
“Keeping your focus in a positive direction takes discipline, and that level of discipline requires practice. Think of how easily you are distracted when you attempt to keep your mind and emotions aligned to a single thought. Unless you are … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, December 16th, 2019 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“You can choose to occupy your mind with harmonious thoughts, and you can choose to believe in any reality you wish, but the one you believe in is the one you get. If you are not choosing thoughts that serve … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, December 11th, 2019 by Neale Donald Walsch in WHAT GOD WANTS
“…Every thought affects the whole world — indeed, to some degree, the universe. How much? Probably not very significantly, given the lack of pure focus and consistency in the energy that most people emanate. Yet if that energy is focused … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, December 9th, 2019 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“We all have a story. We all want to love and be loved; though some were not taught, or cannot remember how. Each child loves its mother; and every mother loves her child. We all believe in different things; but … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, December 5th, 2019 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE
“The word is your power because you use the word for the creation of your virtual world. You use the word to create the main character of your story. Every self-opinion, every belief, is made by words: “I am smart, … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“The hormones released by the body during the stress response are great in times of emergency – when your life may really be at stake. But stress hormones are harmful to your body at other times – causing weight gain … Continue reading
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 14th, 2019 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“Why not try to believe that you are safe and everything is going to be the way it should be? We have been overwhelmed with paradoxical teachings that confuse us and make us doubt the reliability of anything we see … Continue reading
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