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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.
Selected from a vast library of spiritual growth books, the messages are currently received by hundreds of people all over the world. Please note that in addition to Pondercentral.com, Jeff occasionally posts to his Spirituality Simplified blog. To contact Jeff via email please click here.
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Category Archives: Change
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, December 19th, 2023 by Ragini Elizabeth Michaels in UNFLAPPABLE
“Life is nothing but change–literally happening right before your eyes—moment to moment. When you disregard, overlook, deny, or refute the reality of change, you miss the flow of life. The problem arises when you try to control change—and that’s exactly … Continue reading
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Tagged Ragini Elizabeth Michaels, Unflappable
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, August 18th, 2023 by Ragini Elizabeth Michaels in UNFLAPPABLE
“Mystics embrace change. They embody a deep acceptance of life’s ongoing movement and the uncertainty that movement creates. Without this attitude, the reality of impermanence complicates everything, since you can’t really count on anything remaining the same. On the other … Continue reading
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Tagged Ragini Elizabeth Michaels, Unflappable
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, August 2nd 2023 by Ching Ning Chu in THICK FACE BLACK HEART
“Most of the things we want think we want come at the price of leaving behind our familiar life and venturing into the unknown. Every time we accomplish something and move ahead, we have to exchange the known conditions of … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Success
Tagged Chin-Ning Chu, Thick Face Black Heart
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 28th, 2023 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE FOUR AGREEMENTS COMPANION BOOK
“Many times there are things in our lives that we don’t like, that we want to change, but we make the same mistakes, the same choices, expecting that the result will be different. Well, it will not be different. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements Companion Book
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, June 19th, 2023 by Ching Ning Chu in THICK FACE BLACK HEART
“When drastic change and chaos occur in your life, a very effective antidote is inactivity. During the period of chaos, when everything you attempt to do to remedy a situation backfires, or you have to undo everything that has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Chin-Ning Chu, Thick Face Black Heart
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, June 2nd, 2023 by Alan Cohen in WHY YOUR LIFE SUCKS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
“If you are trying to undo a past behavior pattern, there are two ways you unintentionally keep it alive: The first way is by judging and resisting it. What you resist persists. If you keep bringing it up, it will … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Cohen, Why Your Life Sucks And What You Can Do About It
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, April 20th, 2023 by Fr. Anthony DeMello in THE WAY TO LOVE
“Here is something that you must understand: There are two sources for change within you. One is the cunningness of your ego that pushes you into making efforts to become something other than you are meant to be so that … Continue reading
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Tagged Fr. Anthony DeMello, The Way to Love
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PONDER on THIS for Monday, February 6th, 2023 by William Murtha in CREATE YOUR OWN LIFE Story
“Why are so many of us inherently resistant to change – whether material change, or an inner-world shift of our beliefs and attitudes? It could have something to do with our ancient, two-million year-old brain whose sole intention is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Create Your Own Life Story, William Murtha
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 1st, 2021 by Dan Millman in WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR
“If you don’t get what you want you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold onto it forever. Your mind is your … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Millman, Paramahansa Yogananda, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, February 2nd, 2020 by Amit Goswami in GOD IS NOT DEAD
“Spiritual traditions of the East understand the individual movements of consciousness very well, and that is what they emphasize. Living in the world produces an individual identity (ego) superimposed upon the cosmic God-consciousness. This is the ignorance that obscures the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amit Goswami, God is Not Dead
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 24th, 2020 by David Simon in THE TEN COMMITTMENTS
“Change is the only constant in life. It is the one thing we can count on. Most human suffering comes from resisting change. We either resist new things from entering or familiar things from leaving, and in this resistance we … Continue reading
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Tagged David Simon, The Ten Commitments
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 by Richard Blackstone in NUTS & BOLTS SPIRITUALITY
“You may be in a circumstance where you feel you have no control, but every circumstance is external, and every state of being is internal. No matter what is happening external to you, you still have ultimate choice over how … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Freewill choice
Tagged Nuts & Bolts Spirituality, Richard Blackstone, Todd Rundgren
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 by John St. Augustine in LIVING AN UNCOMMON LIFE
“The average American will go through seven career changes in a lifetime. The days of working 40 years at the same plant are pretty much gone. Transformation means change, and if there is one certainty it’s that we will live … Continue reading
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Tagged John St. Augustine, Living an Uncommon Life
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BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, October 8th, 2019 by Neale Donald Walsch in CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOOK 3
“The problem is that so many of you insist on thinking that the values you now have are the right and perfect ones, and that everyone else should adhere to them. Some of you have become self-justified and self-righteous. Stick … Continue reading
Posted in Belief, Change
Tagged Conversations with God Book 3, Neale Donald Walsch
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