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Posted on November 25, 2018 by jmaz479

Jeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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.

A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. It also benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, November 28th, 2025 by Michael Tamura in YOU ARE THE ANSWER

Posted on November 27, 2025 by jmaz479

“Whenever you lose your space to any degree, then in order to return to your spiritual nature, you must first realize that you HAVE a body but are NOT the body. You are a spiritual being incarnated into a physical body. The “gravitational” pull of the energies of your body is so great that it is easy to BECOME the body instead of HAVING it.

We have clothes, a house a computer and a car. To you as a soul, your body is actually all of those things and a whole lot more. Your body clothes you, houses you, provides a computer so you can analyze, compute, memorize and communicate; it transports you everywhere, and so much more. However, you are not the clothes you wear, the place you live in, or the car you drive; are you?”

Michael J. Tamura, in “You Are the Answer”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, November 27th, 2025 by Wayne W. Dyer in THERE’S A SPIRITUAL SOLUTION TO EVERY PROBLEM

Posted on November 26, 2025 by jmaz479

“There is a story concerning the Buddha, who is in the company of a fellow traveler who tests this great teacher with derogatory, insulting, disparaging, and bitter responses to anything the Buddha says. Every day, for three days when the Buddha spoke, the traveler responded by calling him a fool, and ridiculing the Buddha in some arrogant fashion. Finally, at the end of the third day, the traveler could stand it no more. He asked, “How is it that you are able to be so loving and kind when all I’ve done for the past three days is dishonor and offend you? Each time I am disobliging to you, you respond in a loving manner. How is this possible?”

The Buddha responded with a question of his own for the traveler, “If someone offers you a gift, and you do not accept that gift, to whom does the gift belong?” His question provided the traveler with a new insight.

When someone offers you a gift of their insults, and you refuse to accept them, they obviously still belong to the original giver. And why would you ever choose to be upset or angry over something that belonged to someone else?”

Wayne W. Dyer, in “There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 by Terry Cole-Whittaker in LIVE YOUR BLISS

Posted on November 25, 2025 by jmaz479

“Resolve now to stop criticizing anyone, including your children, as this is a painful and manipulative device that will only backfire on you in time. It encourages others to shut down, lie to you, and find other ways to be happy that don’t include you. God doesn’t criticize us, but loves and adores us forever and ever. Our work is to treat others with mercy and compassion, as God treats us. Jesus told his disciples: “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another” (John 13:34).

This scripture doesn’t mention retribution, an eye for an eye. Jesus came from the spiritual world to give us a glimpse into our superior, spiritual home and to tell us about who we really and what is possible for each of us to attain; a beautiful, sweet, and opulent life forever. Earth is out training ground, where we are practicing for our eternal future. Whatever we are doing now is creating what will happen in the future. This is manifesting 101, the basic teaching of metaphysics.”

Terry Cole-Whittaker, in “Live Your Bliss”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 by Dan Millman in EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT

Posted on November 24, 2025 by jmaz479

“One of the strangest delusions believed by many of us is that it is good to love other people but bad to love yourself. I suggest that the more you are able to see, love, and accept the one facet of Spirit gazing at you from the mirror, the more you will be able to love Spirit within others. If we are the same awareness shining through a billion separate forms, then all love begins with self-love. For the heart to awaken, it cannot exclude a single soul, including yourself. If you do not love yourself, now can you find the space to love others?

Self-love is a beginning practice of love. From self-love we learn to love another – a parent, a pet, a friend, a partner – from family to friends, to associates, to the larger world. There’s no place like home to begin the practice of love. Home is where the heart is, and home is generally where the hassles are, too. What better place to practice loving without reason than that place where we cannot always find a reason to love?”

Dan Millman, in “Everyday Enlightenment”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, November 24th, 2025 by Stuart Wilde in THE LITTLE MONEY BIBLE

Posted on November 23, 2025 by jmaz479

“The security you seek is within. It comes from seeing yourself as beautiful…it’s the act of self-love – the acceptance, detachment, and forgiveness of self. It’s where you wake up and remember that you are not the spotty-faced teenager who was ridiculed and shunned; you are a powerful, eternal spirit, imbued with the Christ consciousness, and here with a mission  to fulfill and lessons to learn – a spirit of infinite honor and integrity that has a connection to all the knowledge that exists.”

Stuart Wilde, in “The Little Money Bible”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, November 21st, 2025 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION

Posted on November 20, 2025 by jmaz479

“As you may have noticed, it often takes a personal crisis of some kind to catalyze real change and growth in our lives. Upon reflection, you can probably remember how a period of great upheaval, filled with confusion and pain, perhaps triggered by an event such as the death of a loved one, the ending of a relationship, a financial setback or loss of a job, or an accident or illness, has ultimately led to greater understanding, awareness and new opportunities in your life.

If you look at the lives of people you know, you may very well see the same pattern. Times of chaos and uncertainty can lead to new doors opening, especially when we are willing and able to look for the growth opportunities in a situation rather than simply being overwhelmed by outside circumstances.”

Shakti Gawain, in “The Path of Transformation”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, November 20th, 2025 by Neale Donald Walsch in THE NEW REVELATIONS

Posted on November 19, 2025 by jmaz479

“The basic message of all the sacred scriptures is the same. What is different is how human beings have been interpreting them. There is nothing “wrong” with having different interpretations. What may not benefit you, however, is separating yourself over these differences, making each other wrong because of these differences, and killing each other as a result of these differences.

The point is there are MANY holy writings and sacred scriptures, and you act as if there is only ONE. It is YOUR sacred scripture that is REALLY sacred. All the rest are poor substitutes at best, and blasphemies at worst. Not only is there one Sacred Scripture, there is also only one way to INTERPRET that Scripture: your way.

This spiritual arrogance is what has caused you your greatest sorrow as a species. You have suffered more – and caused OTHER people to suffer more – over your ideas about God than over your ideas about anything else in the human experience. You have turned the source of the greatest joy into the source of your greatest pain.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, in “The New Revelations”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOUR SACRED SELF

Posted on November 18, 2025 by jmaz479

“You have the choice to take on the witness posture in terms of how you view everything going on around you. This includes evens in your neighborhood as well as globally significant events. As the witness, you are refusing to identify with what you see taking place. You are instead being a detached, passive, but noticing observer. You are not the event, you that which is noticing it.

When you become the witness to events in the world around you, you remove your self-importance from what you are observing. You do not see it in terms of how it affects you. You simply notice. You are not attached to the rightness or wrongness of it. You have an inner knowing that, in some mysterious way, it is all in order. You are not questioning God in any of it. You simply notice.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Your Sacred Self”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

Posted on November 17, 2025 by jmaz479

“If I could boil down what I believe is the key to healing in relationships, it would be FORGIVENESS. As I see more and more how forgiveness works, it is clear to me that the power of forgiveness is far greater than any tool or weapon known to man. Forgiveness is letting go of ideas of sin, guilt, and evil.

When we forgive another, we free not only them, but ourselves as well. Anger, bitterness, and resentment take their toll on he or she who would hold on to such negation. When we let go of judgments and bitterness, we remove from our shoulders and hearts a heavy load of pain.”

Alan Cohen in, “The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, November 17th, 2025 by Sara Chetkin in THE HEALING CURVE

Posted on November 16, 2025 by jmaz479

“We all have subconscious dynamics playing within us, and the fears and misconceptions that arise from these dynamics deeply affect our conscious state of mind. These thoughts and feelings are there for us to uncover, but it takes tremendous work to bring them to the surface for healing. That is, it takes tremendous work unless your mind is quiet enough, still enough, to recognize a sign when it is receiving one. Your subconscious is always sending you messages, clues to help you unravel the mystery of who you are; but we rarely recognize these signs through the cluttered distractions and compulsive behavior of modern society.

An important step in achieving a more intimate relationship with the self is allowing for more quiet time in your life. In other words, less TV/movies, fewer trips to the mail, fewer trips to the bar or club, more meditation, or at least, more time simply sitting quietly. For many of us, trying to pay attention to the communications coming from within is like trying to hear a whisper in the middle of a rock concert – not working! Do anything you can think of to help quiet your environment.”

Sara Chetkin, in “The Healing Curve”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, November 14th, 2025 by Dr. Stephen Russell in BAREFOOT DOCTOR’S GUIDE TO THE TAO

Posted on November 13, 2025 by jmaz479

“When you look at your life in terms of success and failure, you must remember that these terms are relative and not absolute. The criteria you judge by are spurious, subjective, and based on limited perspective. If you judge success in terms of longevity, then death becomes the ultimate failure. This is a most pessimistic view of your journey down the Great Thoroughfare; it means you are born to fail.

If, on the other hand, you judge success in terms of monetary wealth or status, you too are destined for ultimate failure, as you will lose both money and status at the final crossing. If, however, you judge success in terms of the quality of time spent in full conscious awareness in present-moment reality (the eternal moment), which can also include material wealth and longevity as by-products, you lose nothing at the moment of death and achieve the ultimate success of achieving an unbroken, silken thread of consciousness as you make the grand crossing.”

Stephen Russell, in “Barefoot Doctor’s Guide to the TAO”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, November 13th, 2025 by Sanaya Roman in LIVING WITH JOY

Posted on November 12, 2025 by jmaz479

“Being open to accept new things, ideas, and people into your life creates an ever expanding capacity for joy. There is a mass thoughtform that the future might be worse than the present. This creates the need to hang on to what you have, freeze things s they are, and keep them from changing. It leads to much pain.

Opening to new things means trusting and having faith in yourself and others. It means believing that the future holds joy and promise. It means believing in your growth and direction. The heart is the center of faith, trust, and belief. Opening to the new means opening your heart. Be willing to step outside of your normal limits and viewpoints and see the world in different ways. Trust that the world is safe and know that you are the director and the producer of what occurs in your life.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Living with Joy”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 by Jonathan Parker in THE SOUL SOLUTION

Posted on November 11, 2025 by jmaz479

“People set themselves up for difficulties through their memories of pain. For instance, in the past, you or someone you know may have lost money, a job, a house, or a relationship. These issues, rife with fear and other negative emotions, establish a deep pattern in memory and the subconscious. Then, when you hear something on the news or when someone you know tells you a similar story, the pattern triggers the memory, reminding you of the past pain and struggles. At such times, inner voices are activated, saying things like, “Remember when you suffered something similar? Well, watch out. It could happen again! It could be coming your way right now, so be very careful!”

In this way, people tend to use their own history to validate an imagined threat even when a real threat doesn’t exist. Ironically, by imagining the possibility of a threatening situation, people set themselves up to manifest it, since the nature of the mirror universe reflects back whatever we hold in consciousness.”

Jonathan Parker, in “The Soul Solution”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 by Florence Scovel Shinn in THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD

Posted on November 10, 2025 by jmaz479

“Be strong! Fear not; Fear is man’s only adversary. You face defeat whenever you are fearful! Fear of lack! Fear of failure! Fear of loss! Fear of criticism! Fear robs you of all power, for you have lost your contact with the Universal Power House. “Why are ye fearful, Oh ye of little faith?” Fear is inverted faith. It is faith turned upside down. When you are fearful you begin to attract the thing you fear: YOU are magnetizing it.”

Florence Scovel Shinn, in “Power of the Spoken Word”‘

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, November 10th, 2025 by Eugenia Oganova in AWAKENING THE HARMONY WITHIN

Posted on November 9, 2025 by jmaz479

“Vigilance about our habitual thinking is also an essential component of self-care. Remember that everything we are feeling is always based on a particular thought process which comes out of a particular belief. If one is unhappy, it is one’s responsibility to disengage from the external trigger for that unhappiness and search for the thoughts/beliefs which created it. I often hear people, overwhelmed with emotional reaction, say “but I am not thinking anything!” – that is just not true. The only reason one does not notice one’s thoughts in that moment is because these thoughts are so habitual that one sees them as an “unquestionable reality.”

Eugenia Oganova, in “Awakening the Harmony Within”

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Jeff MJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified and Codi’s Journey, launched Pondercentral.com in April 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. A FREE service since its inception, “PONDER on THIS” provides subscribers with meaningful content to assist them on their individual paths of spiritual growth. In addition, it benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including links to Amazon.com where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it.

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