Subscribe to this blog via e-mail
Click Here to subscribe to "Ponder on This" inspirational messages.
Preview | Powered by FeedBlitz
We respect your privacy and adhere to a strict SPAM Policy.
Subscribe via RSS
Keyword Search This Blog
About Pondercentral, PONDER on THIS, and me, author Jeff Maziarek
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.
Pondercentral.com Privacy
Thank you for being an email subscriber to “Ponder on This.” I appreciate your interest in this daily (weekday) message service, and hope that you find the inspirational and/or thought-provoking posts to be of value. Please note that in order to process your personal data (i.e., in this case email address) following the most current legislation, I am respecting the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) policies and practices that came into effect on May 25, 2018.
Under the GDPR, all businesses that hold your personal data must provide you with clear details and information as it pertains the ongoing processing of your personal data. You have been previously receiving the “Ponder on This” messages because you have subscribed and therefore agreed to receive these emails.
Since this service began in 1999 my policy has always been NOT to share, rent, or sell email addresses to anyone. The “Ponder on This” email messages, which are delivered for free by the company I use called Feedblitz, may use cookies that allow Feedblitz to track click-throughs and views of an email. I never see any such data nor do I have any interest in seeing it. Pondercentral.com is merely a free, informational website. You sign up to receive the messages in exchange for your email address, which I personally never share.
If you would prefer to not receive the “Ponder on This” emails from me now or in the future, you can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of EVERY email sent on behalf of Pondercentral.com by Feedblitz.
Spirituality Simplified by Jeff Maziarek
Category Archives
- About Jeff Maziarek (4)
- About Ponder Central (3)
- About Pondercentral (4)
- Abundance (130)
- Acceptance (158)
- Affirmations (8)
- Aging (8)
- Allowing (13)
- Alternative healing (4)
- Ambition (4)
- Angels (6)
- Anger (34)
- Approval from Others (76)
- Assumptions (6)
- Attachment (101)
- Attitude (1)
- Authenticity (48)
- Balance (10)
- Belief (140)
- Blame (63)
- Body and Health (32)
- Cause and Effect (20)
- Challenges and Obstacles (73)
- Change (61)
- Co-Creation (19)
- Compassion (26)
- Competition (6)
- Conflict (12)
- Control (1)
- Courage (3)
- Cravings (3)
- Creativity (6)
- Criticism (7)
- Death (29)
- Decision Making (9)
- Dedication (2)
- Denial (4)
- Deservedness (14)
- Desires (5)
- Despair (1)
- Detachment (102)
- Divine Timing (6)
- Doing What You Love (93)
- Doubt (13)
- Dreams and Dreaming (16)
- Ego (56)
- Emotions (83)
- Envy (4)
- Expectations (6)
- Failure (12)
- Faith (93)
- Fear (159)
- Feelings (66)
- Forgiveness (125)
- Freedom (11)
- Freewill choice (30)
- Friendship (6)
- Frustration (4)
- Future (4)
- Giving and Receiving (41)
- Goals (6)
- God (222)
- Going with the Flow (4)
- Gossiping (4)
- Gratitude (109)
- Grief (1)
- Guidance (7)
- Guilt (25)
- Habits (6)
- Happiness (49)
- Healing (161)
- Honesty (19)
- Hope (1)
- Humility (29)
- Humor and laughter (6)
- Illness related (7)
- Imagination (12)
- Impatience (2)
- Insecurity (2)
- Inspiring Song Quotes (6)
- Integrity (4)
- Intention (21)
- Intuition (75)
- Jealousy (7)
- Joy (16)
- Judgment (122)
- Karma (9)
- Kindness (10)
- Labeling (14)
- Laughter (12)
- Law of Attraction (136)
- Lessons (13)
- Letting go (23)
- Life After Death (2)
- Listening (9)
- Loss (4)
- Love (21)
- Manifesting (66)
- Meditation (24)
- Mind (13)
- Mirror concept (36)
- Mistakes and errors (8)
- Money (124)
- Nature of Existence (2)
- Neutrality (2)
- Nurturing Spirit (5)
- Obligation (2)
- Oneness (24)
- Openmindedness (26)
- Optimism (3)
- Pain (2)
- Passion (3)
- Path of Spiritual Growth (2)
- Patience (19)
- Persistence (35)
- Pleasure (2)
- Ponder on This Daily Inspiration (892)
- Pondercentral Special Messages (1)
- Pondercentral.com Privacy (1)
- Power of Positive Thinking (438)
- Power of the Spoken Word (6)
- Prayer (88)
- Present Moment Awareness (341)
- Problems (6)
- Programming (8)
- Projection (10)
- Purpose (44)
- Reframing (9)
- Reincarnation (2)
- Relationships (99)
- Relaxation (1)
- Religion (70)
- Resentment (3)
- Resistance (1)
- Sadness (4)
- Security (13)
- Self-acceptance (49)
- Self-awareness (6)
- Self-blame (9)
- Self-forgiveness (18)
- Self-love (123)
- Self-observation (16)
- Self-respect (18)
- Self-talk (4)
- Self-worth (106)
- Service to Others (2)
- Setbacks (3)
- Shadow Work (27)
- Shame (4)
- Silence (2)
- Solitude (1)
- Soul (13)
- Stress (8)
- Struggle (6)
- Subconscious mind (3)
- Success (35)
- Surrender (132)
- Synchronicity (2)
- Taking Responsibility (129)
- The past (5)
- Thoughts (29)
- Tithing (4)
- Trust (50)
- Trusting Yourself (30)
- Truth (2)
- Uncategorized (22)
- Uncertainty (24)
- Vibration (1)
- Visualization (32)
- Vulnerability (1)
- Wealth (1)
- Wisdom (7)
- Witnessing (45)
- Work (23)
- Worry (31)
Links to Other Useful Blogs & Sites
Coach Cafe – Stop by for a Cup of Inspiration
Need Help with Building A Blog About You and/or Your Business?
Blog Development Consulting Provided by Michael Snell and Derrick Sorles ~ YourBusinessMD'sReturn to Home Page
Category Archives: Happiness
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, October 5th, 2018 by Neale Donald Walsch in COMMUNION WITH GOD
“You may think that you need a particular person to be happy, or a job to be successful, or some other emotional or physical gratification to be content. That is when you may wish to notice that you are here, … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 5th, 2017 by Alan Cohen in DARE TO BE YOURSELF
“So much of our life is spent trying to get somewhere, striving for the next reward, conquering the upcoming hurdles, protecting ourself from future danger. Happiness always seems to be just around the next bend, slightly beyond our reach. The … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Thursday, August 31st, 2017 by Alan Cohen in RELAX INTO WEALTH
“When your actions or happiness depend on external factors, you will bob up and down like a cork on the surface of a turbulent ocean. Your days and career will be an emotional roller coaster. You will feel stressed and … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017 by Esther and Jerry Hicks in ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
“The greatest gift you could ever give to another is your own happiness, for when you are in a state of joy, happiness, or appreciation, you are fully connected to the Stream of pure, positive Source Energy that is truly … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 21st, 2017 by Paul Ferrini in THE ECSTATIC MOMENT
“If you are not joyfully expressing yourself in this moment, when do you propose to do it? Tomorrow? Next week? Perhaps you feel you have to go back to school and get another degree to give yourself permission to be … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, March 14th, 2017 by Alan Cohen in DARE TO BE YOURSELF
“While happiness is criticized by skeptics as unreasonable, it is actually the most logical investment you can make in your life. It costs nothing to be happy, except the release of the pain and sorrow that you have been hypnotized … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 by Esther and Jerry Hicks in ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
“When I look at successful people – and by that I mean rich people, yes, and I mean happy people – sometimes they are rich and happy. When I’m talking about the successful ones, what I really mean is the … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 11th, 2016 by Chuang-Tzu
“I cannot tell if what the world considers “happiness” is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 by Alan Cohen in WHY YOUR LIFE SUCKS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
“You can keep happy those people who want to be happy, and you can’t keep happy those who don’t want to be happy. It’s as simple as that. The notion of you keeping someone happy is a myth, a dysfunctional … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 by Alan Cohen in THE DRAGON DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
“Contentment is an experience we can cultivate through practice. Abraham Lincoln said that “most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.” Like gratefulness and positivity, contentment is not usually handed to us as a … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, August 16th, 2016 by John Randolph Price in LIVING A LIFE OF JOY
“It’s my belief that we’re supposed to kick up our heels and laugh and play and not worry a whit about tomorrow. And that conviction comes from a deep pool of merriment on some coordinate in my energy field that … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 by Richard Carlson in DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF
“Unhappiness doesn’t and can’t exist on its own. Unhappiness is the feeling that accompanies negative thinking about your life. In the absence of that thinking, the unhappiness, or stress, or jealousy, can’t exist. There is nothing to hold your negative … Continue reading
PONDER on THIS for Thursday, February 18th, 2016 by Sara Chetkin in THE HEALING CURVE
“Your happiness will never come from arranging and controlling your external world. It can only come from your willingness to know yourself fully, and to express joyfully and freely from this knowing. Escape the illusion that control of your environment … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, November 6th, 2015 by Richard Carlson in DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF
“So many of us live our lives as if the secret purpose is to somehow get everything done. We stay up late, get up early, avoid having fun, and keep our loved ones waiting. Sadly, I’ve seen many people who … Continue reading