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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 Monday, August 11th, 2025 by Tony Burroughs in THE LAW OF AGREEMENT
“When you really stop to think about it, one of the humanity’s strangest predilections is that we look for confirmation for our ailments. We look to see what happened to everybody else who has experienced similar symptoms to ours, and … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 7th, 2025 by Neale Donald Walsch in THE NEW REVELATIONS
“Listen to no human who declares himself or herself to be more special than anyone else. If a man or a woman seeks to set himself or herself separate and apart from the rest of humanity, or claims to be … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 6th, 2025 by Shakti Gawain in LIVING IN THE LIGHT
“The spirit always tends toward expansiveness, depth, greater energy, and aliveness. The form (ego/personality) always tends toward what it perceives to be safety, security, and the status quo, which is usually a deadening experience. If you are able to observe … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 5th, 2025 by Eckhart Tolle in THE POWER OF NOW
“Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 4th, 2025 by Donald Altman in THE MINDFULNESS CODE
“When we lost our connection to the body, we lose one of our most important capacities for mindfulness. Right now, raise both of your arms out to your side. Close your eyes, and bring your arms slowly together until your … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 1st, 2025 by Eric Butterworth in DISCOVER THE POWER WITHIN YOU
“We may have a perfect justification for our bitterness and anger. We may be completely righteous in our indignation. But we will have to pay the price of the broken connection of the divine circuits. The power that goes with … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 31st 2025 by Sanaya Roman in SPIRITUAL GROWTH
“When people tell you of their problems, stop and decide if you want to tackle their problems with them. Listen to them closely and decide if they are willing to find solutions, or if they simply want to complain about … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE
“Being caught in anger, judgment, and blame is disempowering; it throws us out of our center; it puts us at the effect of the lovelessness of someone else. To be there for a while is one thing; to stay there … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 29th, 2025 by Jack Kornfield in A PATH WITH HEART
“The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the whole process of making war, within ourselves and without, how it begins and how it ends. War’s roots … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 28th, 2025 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE
“Every time we judge ourselves, find ourselves guilty, and punish ourselves, it’s because the voice in our head is telling us lies. Every time we have a conflict with our father, our mother, our children, or our beloved, it’s because … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 25th, 2025 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE
“The final disappearance of insecurity feelings will only come when you have attained that blessed ability of the birds of the air and the flowers of the field to live fully in the present, one moment at a time. The … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 24th, 2025 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
“We must release the old to make room for the new. A friend of mine was praying and praying for a bigger and better apartment which she needed for herself and her family. But she was not doing anything about … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025 by Tama Kieves in A YEAR WITHOUT FEAR
“Here’s how to take a risk. Decide it doesn’t have to “work out” immediately. It doesn’t have to lead to a preordained outcome. It doesn’t have to end up making a million dollars. It doesn’t even have to be “worth” … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY
“To be willing to accept total responsibility for yourself puts you in a position of being worthy of receiving and attracting the object of your desires. If someone else is responsible for your perceived shortcomings, and you are blaming them … Continue reading