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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.

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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, December 8th, 2023 by Richard & Mary Alice Jafolla in THE QUEST

“Spirit can (and will) reveal to us the way if we sincerely ask, seek, and knock. Spirit can show us the path, but having been shown the path, it is WE who must take the steps and walk that path. Sometimes the best decision is no decision, merely to live in the now and do our very best to let Spirit express Itself through us, to be loving in every situation. It isn’t necessary to constantly search and strain for guidance, watching for “signs” and trying to interpret insignificant things as monumental fiats of the Almighty! This often results in confusion, instability, a scattering of mental powers, and a drain on the energy level.

So, what do we do? We live each moment, as best as we can, aware of the presence of God which is always with us. We also take at least one regular period each day to become still and listen to our inner guidance. But – and here’s the secret – once we feel nudged by that Spirit within to go in a certain direction, it is time to move into action, to set our hearts AND FEET in that direction and follow through!”

Richard and Mary Alice Jafolla, in “The Quest”

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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, December 7th, 2023 by Stuart Wilde in SIXTH SENSE

“Daydreams are pleasing to the ego; they bolster it up, for they don’t usually require any discipline or action. The faculty of imagination, when used correctly, is different. Imagination allows you to see a future for yourself, but for it to make any sense, and to be real, there has to be a path from here – today’s circumstances, where you find yourself right now – to whatever circumstances or vision you have for the future. Daydreaming is the brain in neutral, just ruminating, doing nothing. Imagination, however, is visualizing with pictures, it’s not passive, is it? Through imagination you place yourself in the picture, and in the feeling, of a future circumstance or condition that you want.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Sixth Sense”

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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, December 6th, 2023 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS

“As you become more conscious it will be increasingly evident that it’s your responsibility to choose empowering interpretations. It is sometimes easier to be a victim, but a negative perspective provides you with a guarantee of more of the same. The more aware you are of the gifts of life the faster you will choose your own perspective on everything that happens to you. Tragic events happen to many of us. It’s a part of life. It takes courage to empower yourself through these events. But when you use these times to grow they become blessings.”

Debbie Ford, in “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers”

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BEST of Bonus PONDER on THIS

“Oh, and it’s sweet to know, the wisdom that living brings,
Since I got a telegram, from the God of simple things.
She said, I don’t care what you do for a living.
I don’t care what kind of car you drive.
All I want to know right now is what do you believe in,
What it means to you to be alive.”

Don Henley, in the song, “Everything Is Different Now” from the CD “Inside Job”

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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, December 5th, 2023 by Dan Millman in LIVING ON PURPOSE

“Faith is founded upon the observation that the universe operates according to a higher intelligence, a master play, revealed as orderly laws. As Einstein said, “God does not play dice with the universe.” Neither does God play dice with you. If we are God’s creations, literally or figuratively, then we are perfect images of the Divine, here to realize our unity. So we need to ask not only “Do I believe or have faith in God,” but “Do I believe and have faith in myself?” If we are separate from God, cut off from the universe, then our faith is unfounded. But if we are, like a seashell or a star, an innate part of this mystery evolving into mystery, then our life is simply and always unfolding as it should.

So be gentle with yourself. Show yourself the same compassion, kindness, and respect you would show any of God’s amazing creations. Sometimes life is easy and sometimes difficult; sometimes filled with pleasure and other times with pain. But when we look with larger eyes, there is not a problem to be found. Only the Divine unfolding.”

Dan Millman, in “Living on Purpose”

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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, December 4th, 2023 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in YOU’LL SEE IT WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT

“Whatever you enjoy receiving in your life, remind yourself, “I deserve this.” It is okay to feel deserving. And you will if you believe the self that is receiving something is worthy and important. Abundance is related to how you feel about yourself. If you feel that you are important enough to ask, and divine enough to receive, receiving will be your reward. If, on the other hand, you feel unworthy, it will be almost impossible for abundance to flow into your life.

Think of how a tree unfolds to all of its magnificent potential, always reaching for the sunshine and growing and flourishing. Would you ever suggest to a tree, “You should be ashamed of yourself for having that disgusting moss on your bark, and for letting your limbs grow crooked?” Of course not. A tree allows the life force to work through it. You have the power within your thoughts to be as natural as that tree.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “You’ll See It When You Believe It”

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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, December 1st, 2023 by Shakti Gawain in THE PATH OF TRANSFORMATION

“To me, living consciously means accepting our human weaknesses and imperfections without judging ourselves harshly, and being willing to learn from our unconscious patterns of behavior once we become aware of them. It means looking at our experiences as gifts that can help us grow, recognizing everyone and everything we encounter as a potential teacher.

It means taking responsibility (not blame) for our thoughts, feelings, and actions, recognizing that they do have an effect on others. It means listening and reaching deeply inside ourselves to find our inner sense of truth, then doing our best to speak and live that truth moment to moment and day by day. And it means generously sharing the gift of our being, as well as our special talents and abilities, with others.”

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 30th, 2023 by Jonathan Parker in THE SOUL SOLUTION

“Treat the Ego as an Injured Child: An effective technique in working with the ego is to treat it as a person you love who’s experiencing painful struggles. Suppose that person is your child. How would you be inclined to treat the child? Think of the ego as that injured little child who keeps hurting him- or herself over and over. If you regard the ego as a sentient being, you’ll find you’re able to have compassion for it the way you would for an injured child.

Feel compassion for the part of your ego that needs to defend itself. Approach the ego with the intention of wanting to help and heal it. It is much more skillful to view the ego this way that to treat it as an enemy to be overcome with force. A combative approach won’t succeed very easily. The ego is well practiced at defending itself against such attacks, and it will dig its heels in deeper to find a way to survive.”

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 Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 by Neale Donald Walsch in BRINGERS OF THE LIGHT

“If you’re like most people, you may not have given Life Purpose much thought in your earlier years. As a result, you may have spent a great deal of time doing things which at the end of your life will not matter; will mean nothing. Not to you, not to anyone. What you really have to do if you want to get on the fast track of evolution is to put each golden moment of Life to its highest and best use. You cannot know what that is unless and until you decide on a Purpose. That is, you cannot decide HOW to get where you are going until you decide WHERE you are going.

If your life is directionless, it is because you have not SET a direction. If your life is without accomplishment, it is because you do not know what you are seeking to accomplish. If your life has seemed pointless, it is because you have not sought to use it as a tool with which to MAKE a point.”

Neale Donald Walsch, in “Bringers of the Light”

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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 28th, 2023 by Neale Donald Walsch in FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

“YOU determine what something means! YOU give it its meaning. Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. Remember that. Nothing means anything at all. It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy. Or choosing to be sad. Or choosing to be angry, or mollified, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing. YOU. Not something outside yourself. And you are choosing quite arbitrarily.

You are in fact, doing this right now. In every moment. Yet you may be doing it unconsciously. You may be as someone sleep-walking. If so, it is now time to WAKE UP.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, “Friendship with God”

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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 27th, 2023 by Alan Cohen in RELAX INTO WEALTH

“Do not pay a lot of attention or give energy to the situation from which you are trying to remove yourself. The more you think and talk about what you don’t want, the more real it seems, the more evidence you will find to keep you there, and the more public opinion you will garner to uphold that condition. Instead, talk about where you would like to be, why you want to be there, why you deserve it, and how it would feel to be there. Your point of attention is your point of attraction. When you invest your thoughts and feelings in an upward direction, your point of attraction becomes your dream, not your nightmare.

You are not poor unless you think you are. And if you feel poor, you can find ways to feel rich. And if you feel rich, you are rich. And if you are rich, the universe will find ways to prove you correct.”

Alan Cohen, in “Relax Into Wealth”

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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 24th, 2023 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH

“When you have unhappy emotions, don’t think another person caused them. If you are angry, stop blaming another person for making you angry. Instead, work directly with you feelings of anger. Learning about why you are feeling angry will do more to take you higher than trying to figure out how to get the other person to change.

Waiting for others to act in certain ways to be happy is making your happiness dependent upon something outside of yourself. It is turning your power over to other people and allowing them to determine how you feel. Calm emotions come from knowing that what you feel is YOUR choice.”

 Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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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 23rd, 2023 by David Simon in THE TEN COMMITMENTS

“Forgiveness is a prerequisite for inner peace. Holding on to grievances, regrets and resentments is a certain recipe for perpetual suffering. Each of us needs to consciously decide if we are willing to relinquish our need to be right in the service of peace, harmony and love. Whenever two people disagree, both are convinced they are right and the other is wrong, justifying their antagonism and legitimizing their hostile actions.

Transforming judgment into understanding allows peace to replace hostility. Understanding fosters forgiveness, which dissolves anger and fertilizes hope. This is the foundation of emotional freedom. Forgiveness brings divinity to humanity. More than a mere mood or sentiment, it radiates from a heart that has released pain, resentment, regret, disappointment and guilt. Forgiveness is a practice. It has the power to release constrictions in your heart that inhibit your ability to love.”

David Simon, in “The Ten Commitments”

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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 22nd, 2023 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE

“Think of some of the painful events in your life. For how many of them are you grateful today, because thanks to them you changed and grew? Here is a simple truth of life that most people never discover. Happy events make life delightful but they do not lead to self-discovery and growth and freedom. That privilege is reserved to the things and persons and situations that cause us pain.

Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation. In the light of this truth return to your life now and take a look at one or another of the events that you are not grateful for, and see if you can discover the potential for growth that they contain which you were unaware of and therefore failed to benefit from.

Now think of some recent event that caused you pain, that produced negative feelings in you. Whoever or whatever caused those feelings was your teacher, because they revealed so much to you about yourself that you probably did not know. And they offered you an invitation and a challenge to self-understanding, self-discovery, and therefore to growth and life and freedom.”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, in “The Way to Love”

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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 21st, 2023 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF

“Whatever you concentrate on, you empower. So if you’ve been concentrating on negative or adverse things, if you feel overwhelmed by difficulties and dysfunction, you can be sure that they will all be in your “hall of fame,” so to speak. Here’s a statue to dysfunction. Here’s another to frustration. And over there is one that honors struggle. Let’s bow down to the god of struggle and give that 15 minutes of your reality.

The first point of awareness is to discipline your mind, police your dialogue, and cut out and any deprecating statements – especially ones that destroy your energy and make you sick. If someone asks you how you feel, don’t answer, “Horrible, grim, life’s a nightmare.” Instead, answer, “Fantastic!’ It doesn’t matter if your life isn’t fantastic; that’s only the ego’s viewpoint. Spiritually, your life IS fantastic, it’s a great PRIVILEGE to be here. I think it’s important to remind yourself of that constantly.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite 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 Monday, November 20th, 2023 by Catherine Ponder in OPEN YOUR MIND TO PROSPERITY

“A powerful way to overcome the thought of loss and its consequences, is to remind yourself of this great truth: There is no loss in Spirit. You cannot lose your good. When it seems you have lost your good, it is because your good has changed form! Remember that there can be no loss in any phase of nature. The elements of nature merely change their form. When your good seems to leave you – to fly out the window – let it go. That is good you have outgrown. Then watch for new good to come in the door.

If a flower is cut from a rosebush, you do not have to say, “There will be no more roses.” Instead, you know the bush will grown and roses will bloom again, because the roots have not been destroyed. God gives the increase. The word restore means “to make beautiful again,” and through the right attitude about periods of apparent loss, you can restore or make your life beautiful again.”

Catherine Ponder, in “Open Your Mind to Prosperity”

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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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