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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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Category Archives: Belief
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, September 8th, 2025 by Sara Chetkin in THE HEALING CURVE
“Become familiar with your beliefs about yourself and learn how it is that they influence you. What choices do you make as a result of them? How do they influence your well-being? How entangled are you by your fears, your … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025 by Karol K. Truman in FEELINGS BURIED ALIVE NEVER DIE
“The person who is made to feel that he is continually making mistakes, will then automatically embrace the feeling of guilt for being, as he sees it, so dumb and stupid. The feeling of guilt is then added to his … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 29th, 2025 by Neale Donald Walsch in THE NEW REVELATIONS
“The reasons humans have hung so tenaciously to their old beliefs is that they do not want to dishonor those beliefs by rejecting them completely, out of hand. They think that this is the choice they have: Reject the old … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
“We have got to challenge the agreements that we hold to be true. We must boldly ask, “Do I believe this because I really believe this, or because everyone else does?” I am amazed to find out how much of … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, July 21st, 2025 by Sara Chetkin in THE HEALING CURVE
“St. John of the Cross wrote about life as a chess game you play with God, who is teaching you how to play. The game is designed to suite your particular style of learning and to help you become a … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 16th, 2025 by Susan Shumsky in INSTANT HEALING
“Have you ever considered that what you believe to be truth is not really truth? Your perception of reality might be skewed by false beliefs, habits, conditions, and patterns. Voices of parents, teachers, family, friends, peers, coworkers, pastors, rabbis, priests, … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, June 13th, 2025 by Sanaya Roman in LIVING WITH JOY
“If you believe in what you see, then you are believing in the creations of the past. Everything you have right now in your life, you created from the past. Everything you have from here on out can be created … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, April 28th, 2025 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE FOUR AGREEMENTS COMPANION BOOK
“During all the education we receive, which means all the knowledge that is programmed in our mind, we create the concept of the I Am. Everything we believe we are, everything we know about how to be a human is … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, December 2nd, 2024 by Stuart Wilde in AFFIRMATIONS
“You are made up of billions of beliefs. Beliefs about your body, beliefs about your intellectual worth, beliefs about how attractive you are. Beliefs about God, sin, life after death, morality, beliefs about the tribe or society you live in, … 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 Monday, October 2nd, 2023 by Annemarie Greenwood and Marissa Campbell in LIFE: LIVING IN FULFILLMENT EVERY DAY
“Limiting beliefs create a mold, a fabrication, very much like creating a papier mache ball from a newspaper and a balloon…Labels and judgments, experiences and impressions accumulate over time. Layer by layer, we take these truths and plaster them over … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, August 14th, 2023 by Dr. Irina Koles in TASTE OF THOUGHTS
“When we are full of our old beliefs, there is no space for new ones. It does not mean that we need to discard all our previous experience and knowledge. It just means that we need to be open to … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 by Jeremy E. McDonald in PEACE BE STILL
“Most of us want to debate what we know, or believe. We continue to debate and defend with others about how we believe. This is because we have a struggle and a debate still going on inside of us. What … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 by Stuart Wilde in MIRACLES
“Universal Law is impartial and unemotional. It has no way of knowing what you want, nor does it discriminate between your hopes and aspirations, likes and dislikes – it is pure energy. It accepts whatever thoughts, feelings, and actions you … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 by Jeff Maziarek in SPIRITUALITY SIMPLIFIED
“Many traditional religionists might argue that having “faith” means we may not question established religious doctrine, for the sheer act of doubting what we have been taught to believe is to be considered blasphemous behavior. As this quotation from Fr. … Continue reading