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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 Monday, August 11th, 2008 by Wayne W. Dyer in MANIFEST YOUR DESTINY
“Think of your own desires to manifest as having been placed there by spirit, and that those desires, which are housed in love and service, are precisely what God wants to give you, and that your desire is the direct … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 8th, 2008 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“Suffering comes from thinking about the future, the past, or the self – or from the attachment to ideas about how these things should be. We can worry about the future and ask our God to protect us; or we … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 7th, 2008 by Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla in THE QUEST
“While it’s true that every cause you have set into motion will eventuate in a corresponding effect, don’t start looking over your shoulder for your past to catch up with you! Know why? Because you can always put a new … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 by Eckhart Tolle in A NEW EARTH
“What is a negative emotion? An emotion that is toxic to the body and interferes with its balance and harmonious functioning. Fear, anxiety, anger, bearing a grudge, sadness, hatred or intense dislike, jealousy, envy – all disrupt the energy flow … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 by Stuart Wilde in THE LITTLE MONEY BIBLE
“Concentrate on the abundance you do have. Make it solid and real by acknowledging it. It’s easy to overlook the many things we are granted – oxygen, the blood rushing through our veins, the food we eat; the people we … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 4th, 2008 by Marianne Williamson in THE GIFT OF CHANGE
“Enlightenment is not a learning but an unlearning, a letting go of all the fears we’ve gathered as we’ve walked the path of life. As taught in A Course in Miracles, “miracles are everyone’s right, but purification is necessary first.” … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 1st, 2008 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“All physical, or formed, things come from the unformed, or non-physical, realm. What brings that energy here and assembles it for us is the overarching principle of the Universe in which we live. Our essence is desire, or the desire … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 31st, 2008 by Deepak Chopra in AGELESS BODY, TIMELESS MIND
“Know that the world “out there” reflects your reality “in here.” The people you react to most strongly, whether with love or hate, are projections of your inner world. What you most hate is what you most deny in yourself. … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 by Rhonda Byrne in THE SECRET
“In his book The Master Key System, Charles Haanel claims that there is an affirmation that incorporates every single thing any human being can want, and that this affirmation will bring about harmonious conditions to all things. He adds, “The … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 by Stuart Wilde in AFFIRMATIONS
“The mind gets bogged down by its expectations. It decides when or where something is to happen and then becomes frustrated if things do not work out. Yet all of life is guesswork. The mind extrapolates from past experience and … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 28th, 2008 by Sonia Choquette in TRUE BALANCE
“Living under the direction of Divine Power requires that we surrender all personal control and take a deliberate leap of faith, suspending our need for guarantees of any kind. This will be far easier if we are committed, honest, and … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 25th, 2008 by Pete Koerner in THE BELIEF FORMULA
“We often do things out of spite – sometimes just to spite ourselves. When we are feeling better about things, we usually come to regret those moments when we acted out of some negative feeling or patterning. What good comes … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Caroline Myss in WHY PEOPLE DON’T HEAL AND HOW THEY CAN
“When you experience an apparent act of betrayal, look closely to see if it may not actually be a ‘Divine invitation’ to let go of the old and discover the new. We will all have Judas experiences. But seen through … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE
“There isn’t a plant on Earth that can survive without taking in water in through its root system. Over millions of years, every type of grounded growing thing, from lichen to cactus to the mighty oak, has nourished itself from … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by John Randolph Price in LIVING A LIFE OF JOY
“The essence of the Emerson philosophy that influenced me was the idea that there are no limitations except the ones that we place on ourselves through the failure to know the Essential Self within – and that our vision to … Continue reading

