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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.
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PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 by Tess Whitehurst in HOLISTIC ENERGY MAGIC
“You’ve heard it a million times, but it bears repeating: we all make mistakes – all of us. And while guilt can sometimes be a natural side effect of a mistake, especially when we perceive that mistake to have negatively … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, November 2nd, 2015 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in REAL MAGIC
“Spiritual beings do not order their lives to be “against’ anything. They are not against starvation, they are for feeding the people and seeing that everyone in the world is nutritionally satisfied. They work on what they are for, rather … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 30th, 2015 by Neale Donald Walsch in THE NEW REVELATIONS
“There is not a country and there is not a group of people on Earth that imagines itself to be an aggressor. Everyone who enters into war does so saying that they are defending something. Do you see this now? … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 29th, 2015 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
“Thoughts are, most assuredly, things. They are conceived in the mind and they travel through time and space like ripples in a pond, affecting all that they touch. Thoughts are the building blocks of our experience; the world that we … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW
“As there are no problems in the NOW, there is no illness either. The belief in a label that someone attaches to your condition keeps the condition in place, empowers it, and makes it a seemingly solid reality out of … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY
“When you contemplate the purpose of your life in the material plane, you will discover that the only thing you can do with this life is to give it away. You cannot hang on to anything in a constantly changing … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 26th, 2015 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in AWARENESS
“Do you know one sign that you’ve woken up? It’s when you are asking yourself, “Am I crazy, or are all of them crazy?” It really is. Because we are crazy. The whole world is crazy. Certifiable lunatics! The only … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 23rd, 2015 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE
“Look at everything that you think and feel and say and do that you do not like in yourself. Your negative emotions, your defects, your handicaps, your errors, your attachments and neuroses and hang-ups and yes, even your sins. Can … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH
“Whenever you are in a negative state, there is something in you that wants the negativity, that perceives it as pleasurable, or that believes it will get you what you want. Otherwise, who would want to hang on to negativity, … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
“As some persons begin to discover the relationship between thoughts and events, they begin to be afraid of thinking negative thoughts, worrying, “Oh, no! I just had a thought of something bad happening to me – that means I will … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 by Lynn Grabhorn in EXCUSE ME, YOUR LIFE IS WAITING
“No matter where you are, you can always turn on with some kind of warm feeling if you really want to. Turn on as you look out the kitchen window. Turn on as you walk out the door in the … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 19th, 2015 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY
“When we “depreciate” something, we devalue or diminish its worth. We depreciate things or people by expressing disapproval or dislike. When we appreciate something or someone, we give value with approval and praise. When we appreciate things, we mean to … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 16th, 2015 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH
“Many of you spend more time and energy worrying about doing things than doing them. How often have you put off doing something, thinking it might take too much work, only to find that once you were in the mood … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 15th, 2015 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“If you use your awareness, you will see everything you believe, and this is how you live your life. Your life is totally dominated by the system of beliefs that you learned. Whatever you believe is creating the story that … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 by Eckhart Tolle in PRACTICING THE POWER OF NOW
“Are you worried? Do you have many “what if” thoughts? You are identified with your mind, which is projecting itself into an imaginary future situation and creating fear. There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, … Continue reading

