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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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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, November 1st, 2024 by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in REAL MAGIC
“To befriend and cultivate your intuition, treat those inner proddings that crop up in your mind as welcome guests instead of labeling them as nothing but random hunches. Try stopping yourself during your next intuitive episode, whatever it is about, … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 31st, 2024 by John Van Auken in BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN
“We need to keep a very special tool with us throughout the journey – PATIENCE. Without it I don’t think any of us can make it. With patience we can continue to live in the physical world while becoming more … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 30th, 2024 by Deepak Chopra in AGELESS BODY, TIMELESS MIND
“Someone who experiences time as a scarce commodity that is constantly slipping away is creating a completely different personal reality from someone who perceives that he has all the time in the world. Is your day full of time pressure? … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH
“If in the midst of negativity you are able to realize “At this moment I am creating suffering for myself” it will be enough to raise you above the limitations of conditioned egoic states and reactions. It will open up … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 28th, 2024 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in AWARENESS
“We are so mechanical, so controlled. We write books about being controlled and how wonderful it is to be controlled and how necessary it is that people tell you you’re O.K. Then you’ll have a good feeling about yourself. How … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 25th, 2024 by Eliza Mada Dalian in IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
“Each time a thought comes into your consciousness, look at it with a welcoming attitude, accept it, and let it go. Don’t judge or analyze the thought, just accept it and let it go. When you try to analyze or … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 24th, 2024 by Neale Donald Walsch in CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD BOOK
“Keep in mind that what you are looking at, you are not really “seeing.” Your brain is not the source of your intelligence. It is simply a data processor. It takes in data through receptors called your senses. It interprets … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 by Lynn Grabhorn in EXCUSE ME, YOUR LIFE IS WAITING
“It’s hard for us to swallow the concept that what has been in life has absolutely nothing to do with what can be. That’s diametrically opposed to how we think things work. Yet what has been – or whatever is … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET
“The Universe is the Universal supply and supplier of everything. Everything comes from the Universe, and is delivered to you through people, circumstances, and events, by the law of attraction. Think of the law of attraction as the law of … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 21st, 2024 by Stuart Wilde in INFINITE SELF
“Detachment isn’t callousness. It’s not that you’re going to say, “Hey, I don’t give a damn about these people.” It’s just that you have to understand that their evolution is important; it’s sacrosanct. Just because a person is in the … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 18th, 2024 by Eugenia Oganova in MISSION ALPHA
“There is no right and wrong, only choices. The Soul learns with every action and non-action. It is our ego that wants to be right, basing what is right on what matches its expectations. From the Soul level, reality is … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 17th, 2024 by Debbie Ford in THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS
“Many people have decided that they WILL NOT be like their parents. But we all must acknowledge that we’ve spent years absorbing our parents’ positive and negative qualities. Our parents did the best they could given their own pasts. We … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 by Dan Millman in EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is. If … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 by Danielle Rama Hoffman in THE COUNCIL OF LIGHT
“We invite you to relax into and trust the process of the cycles of your life. There may be days where you are very busy and other days where you are less busy and less is happening. However, there is … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, October 14th, 2024 by Neale Donald Walsch in FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD
“If your mind keeps filling with thoughts, just watch that, make that okay. As the thoughts pop in, just step back and observe that this is happening. Do not think about it, just notice it. Do not think about what … Continue reading

